Mia Nakano is an American photographer, filmmaker, educator, printer, activist, a founding editor of Hyphen magazine, and Project Director of the Visibility Project.
[3] In 2007, Nakano travelled to Nepal for a photojournalism internship with the Kathmandu Post.
Mia continued documenting LGBT communities once she returned to the United States through the Visibility Project.
[6] The Visibility Project has been exhibited at Ohio State University,[7] the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia,[8] the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's Asian-Latino Festival in 2013.
[9] Nakano was a panelist at Leeway Foundation's REVOLVE: An Art for Social Change Symposium.