Performing with Rita Liu and Zinc Tong in a play called I have something to say… at Selfhelp Community Services - Maspeth Older Adult Center with Pink Fang's Creative Aging Program 

As a narrative strategist, urban planner, and theatre-maker, Meranda Flachs-Surmanek works with people to share stories that must get told. Meranda leads WhyWOW Studio, a creative consulting practice developing environments for people and organizations to exercise our civic imagination.

With Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, Meranda works with grassroots organizers across nine communities to develop creative projects that bring neighbors together to dream, to democratize their history, and to uplift, commemorate, or rehabilitate cultural practices and stories targeted by policies of erasure.