O'Hashi, Alan: - Alan O'Hashi and Boulder Community Media (BCM) work with community-based media producers, organizations, and socially-responsible businesses to develop their content in a culturally competent manner. His work through BCM seeks to capture the nuance and complexity of self-identity and expand the wider community's understanding of our pluralistic world.Alan creates films and writes books that are not only important and meaningful but also entertaining and inspiring.Through his books and movies, Alan wants audiences to experience the world from multiple angles, challenge their assumptions through stories, and gain a deeper understanding of their own identities and those different from their own.His writing and movie-making explore the complexities of identity through his personal experiences with other people. Alan's works are powerful explorations of the intersections of race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, and gender, and how these facets of identity shape our lives.He complicates the notion of what it means to be a non-white person living in the modern world and challenges the assumptions of others by sharing his experiences and perspectives. By telling his stories on silver screens and the written page, Alan invites readers and viewers toreflect on their lives and grapple with the complexities of self-identity, not only in the present but also in the past. "My hope is to create a more equitable and just society in which people from all backgrounds can be seen and heard."