Anacortes-based group, Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble, are a regular act at Folklife. Here, they perform at the annual Spring Festa in Skagit County, another one of their regular annual gigs. (Photo from www.goskagit.com)

Christina Twu is an editor at The Seattle Globalist who has received regional recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting on race and education. Off editing duty, she karaokes and studies the future of content strategy as a master's degree candidate for the University of Washington's Communications Leadership program (CommLead). She enjoys speaking Chinglish and supports revolutionary work, including that of Got Green, an environmental justice organization for which she now serves on the board.