Giles Li is a spoken word performer based in Boston. He is affiliated with community groups both locally and nationally to work for social change.

His experience and leadership within Asian American communities has led to his having been quoted as an expert on Asian American community issues in many publications, including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Oakland Tribune. Most recently, he appears in a social justice curriculum developed by Facing the Future and in the book The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power.

He serves as sometimes instructor at University of Massachusetts, Boston in the Asian American Studies Program and currently stars in the short comedy film The HUmberville Poetry Slam. In 2007, he was one of three featured artists in the documentary film Art Beyond Borders, produced by TSI at Harvard University.

He has shared stages with Pharoahe Monch, Willie Perdomo, Helen Zia, Yuri Kochiyama, Louis Reyes Rivera, Giancarlo Esposito, Beau Sia, Bruce George, and a bunch of other people you've never heard of.