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Imana Gunawan is a Texas-born Indonesian multidisciplinary creative with experience across fashion, international journalism, tech operations, risk intelligence, data analysis, creative production, and dance. She holds a Master of Professional Studies degree in Global Fashion Management from the Fashion Institute of Technology, with a capstone project focusing on sustainable supply chain solutions. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and dance from the University of Washington. While her fashion studies and experience range from luxury fashion show production to market research to digital product operations, her interests in the industry lie in emerging markets, independent designers, artisanal traditions, and ethical production.

Imana currently works as an editor at Factal and previously managed the platform’s Asia-Pacific breaking news coverage. She also freelances as Production Coordinator for Bureau Betak, helping produce fashion shows, galas, and brand activations for clients including Carolina Herrera, Alaïa, Hermès, and Dior, among others.

As a journalist, Imana specializes in breaking news reporting and digital journalism, but has a soft spot for community-centered journalism and audio production. She was previously a manager at Dataminr, where she worked at the intersection of breaking news, AI, data analysis, and risk intelligence. Prior, she was an editor at Breaking News (NBC News Digital) and producer at Humanosphere, where she produced weekly podcasts on community-based solutions to global poverty and inequity. Imana is passionate about facilitating community conversations and has hosted panels for artists of color at events including the Artist of Color Expo and Symposium and the Womxn's Creative Industries Meetup. She was also part of the 2017-18 On the Boards Ambassador Writer’s Corps.

In her art, she creates scenic, surreal dance-based worlds that center the stories of marginalized peoples, their ancestry, and their futures.






works




book

CREATIVE PRODUCTION COORDINATION
fashion shows | live events | photoshoots

COMMUNICATIONS
decks | press releases | branding | writing | editing

DANCE
movement consulting | choreography | performance

CONVERSATION
panel curation | talk-back moderation

MODEL
visual art | fashion

COLLABORATIONS
multi-disciplinary works




fashion. experiential. multi-disciplinary.


Carolina Herrera SS2025 at 28 Liberty
lead production coordination - operations + backstage logistics
// sep 2024 
Alaïa WS2025 at Guggenheim Museum
production coordination support - invitations
// sep 2024
Dior x Brooklyn Museum Artists Ball
youth talent coordination // april 2024
Indonesia Fashion Night Royal Gala at Indonesian Embassy in Washington, DC
backstage coordination // sep 2023
Buttonscarves at Times Square
runway show choreography + model coordination
// feb 2023
untuk ibu, untuk sri
performance + installation // aug 2017
ColorBloc Magazine
video feature // march 2021
softcore
installation + performance // 2018 



visuals




 

journalism


report |podcast | interview | review






























Humanosphere
Menstruation can hinder girls’ education, but it’s more complicated than that // January 2017

Fred Bauma: On the front lines of Congo’s fight for democracy // November 2016

In India, systemic forces lead scores of indebted farmers to commit suicide // September 2016

Members of Louisiana tribe become first climate refugees in the U.S. // February 2016

A chat with Liberia’s ‘Iron Lady’ about ebola, health, women’s empowerment //  October 2015





dance



vestiges, to those who couldn’t hold on

stage
premiere at On the Boards // june 2019
moonshine

cabaret + live music
premiere at Seattle Theater Group’s Nights at the Neptune // august 2018
untuk ibu, untuk sri

stage + installation
premiere at Au Collective’s from SEA // may 2017
spun sugar

stage + installation
premiere at Relay Dance Collective’s PASSAGE // march 2017
diamonds (in two parts)

stage
premiere at BOOST Dance Festival // april 2016
these streets are paved with glitter

stage
premiere at Full Tilt // april 2016
effigies of girlhoodstage
premiere at UW Dance Major’s Concert // march 2016
wali pancastage
premiere at Velocity Dance Center’s Next Fest NW // december 2015
vestiges, and other things that keep onstage
premiere at UW Dance Major’s Concert // march 2015