A4 Welcomes Adid Rahman
A4 is pleased to welcome Adid Rahman as our 2026–27 Anjeli Jana Memorial Intern.
Rahman (he/him) is a Hunter College student studying economics and Asian American studies, with a passion for exploring Asian American identity, history, and culture. As the founder of Hunter’s Asian Student Union, he built community through cultural events, student collaboration, and a pageant celebrating diasporic experiences. His academic interests center on urban economic development and how stories are often (mis)represented or overlooked in media and historical narratives. He believes in taking up space and making space for artists, creating opportunities for others to tell their stories. In his free time, Adid is building projects in film, graphic arts, or painting Pokémon card art.
This internship is funded by the Jana-MacAdam family to honor Anjeli Jana’s life. It provides a college/university student of Asian-American descent to work with A4 for an entire school year, so that the student may help support, and learn from, AAPI artists like Anjeli who courageously pursue their creative passion and build a life devoted to the arts.
Anjeli Jana, the daughter of two immigrant physicians from India and the Philippines, lived the dream of many AAPI artists within the A4 community: pursuing the arts full time. She did so in a variety of fields: acting, music, and documentary film. A graduate of San Francisco State University and the American Conservatory Theater, Anjeli was the lead of an all-girl band that played numerous venues in the Bay Area. After relocating to Los Angeles she wrote about culture for LA Splash Magazine, and entered in and won numerous beauty pageants. While living in LA, Anjeli was accepted to Santa Monica College, from which she graduated with honors with an Associate’s Degree in Computer Business Applications.
She wrote, produced, directed, scored, and starred in a short film, “My Marina,” about her neighborhood, Marina del Rey. The film won numerous international awards not only for the writing, but also for the original song, “Stranger Star.”
