Mariam Ohan is a UC Merced doctoral candidate and visual practitioner working with diasporic communities. Her research focuses on community and women’s experiences. She uses photography as a central and artistic practice for storytelling and exploring everyday life, memory, and belonging shaped by migration, and to bring attention to lives and histories often overlooked. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center (MAC), and she has collaborated with university faculty on research-based projects, including Fire, Water, Poison, Hope: An Environmental Theater Project, published on Calisphere.
