Kundiman is excited to welcome two new members to the Board of Trustees. Noah Arhm Choi and Kavita Das, who were appointed to the Kundiman Board in March 2026, join current Board members Andy Chen, Ching-In Chen, and Rana Tahir.
Learn more about Noah Arhm Choi and Kavita Das below:
Noah Arhm Choi is the author of Cut to Bloom, winner of the 2019 Jack McCarthy Book Prize. A Lambda Literary Poet-In-Residence and Valentines Editor for Honey Literary, they received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and their work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Split this Rock, The Rumpus, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Noah was shortlisted for the Poetry International Prize and received the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize, alongside fellowships from Kundiman, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. A K-12 educator of fifteen years, they work to embolden the intersection of education, activism, and the arts. They currently work at NYU Metro Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools.
As a writer, Kavita Das explores culture, race, gender, and their intersections, writ large and small. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Kavita is currently a Masters in Fine Arts candidate in creative nonfiction and screenwriting at Antioch University where she is the Eloise Klein Healy Scholar. Her work has been published in Salon, WIRED, CNN, Teen Vogue, Catapult, Fast Company, Tin House, Longreads, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, NBC News Asian America, Guernica, Electric Literature, Colorlines, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Kavita’s second book Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues (Beacon Press, October 2022) is inspired by the Writing with Conscience class she created and teaches. Her first book, Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar, was published by Harper Collins India in 2019. Kavita lives in her hometown of New York City and tries to keep up with the city that doesn’t sleep and her six-year-old. She can be found virtually at Instagram: @kavitadas, X: @kavitamix, and at kavitadas.com.
Kundiman is actively recruiting Board members who are interested in stewarding the organization and helping us carry out our mission of nurturing writers and readers of Asian American literature. For more information about joining the Kundiman Board of Trustees, please visit our website.