Support Asian Dance by Joining Forces with the Gold Standard Arts Foundation - Profiles in Diversity Journal, Q2 2023

What should you do when people look to you for help in times of danger? Amidst the shock and grieving of another mass shooting, this time involving Asian women, Phil Chan didn’t shrink.

Gold Standard Arts Foundation Seeks to Foster Community and Collaboration for Asian Creatives - Dance Magazine, May 2, 2022

But after the March 2021 shootings in Atlanta that claimed the lives of eight people, six of them Asian women, founders Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin realized more needed to be done to organize as a community. “There isn’t a space for us like a Ballet Hispánico or Dance Theatre of Harlem,” says Chan, an arts administrator, educator and choreographer and the author of Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing Between Intention and Impact. “That was the impetus of deciding that we really need a service organization, a home, for supporting Asian creatives who want to collaborate in dance.”