Carmen Wong is an artist-researcher, a curiously hungry migrant, and a recovering academic with student debt. Her practice often experiments with deep listening, food for convivial collectivism. She is a co-animator of JarSquad, a project growing a solidarity economy of communally made jam and preserves that cannot be transacted with money. She also grounds-keep the currently fallowing Care-as-Commons reading/doing group comprising artists, researchers, and carers. Carmen is an ever-beginner in qi-going, and growing a practice in healing justice via circle way, and nonviolent communication.