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Jigna Desai, UC Santa Barbara

Professor,
Asian American Studies and Feminist Studies
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Jigna Desai is Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies and the Department of Asian American Studies at UC — Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on issues of gender, race, sexuality, and media. She has served as a board member of the Association for Asian American Studies and serves as a co-editor of the Asian American Experience book series for the Univ. of Illinois Press. For two decades, her teaching and service have worked to strengthen institutional support for undergraduate and graduate students of color. She is the co-founder with Dr. Kari Smalkoski of MN Youth Story Squad (a K-12 University partnership) and former PI for Minnesota Transform, a $5 million higher education initiative funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to address decolonial and racial justice at the University of Minnesota, in the Twin Cities, and throughout the state through public humanities projects. They are a dedicated mentor and adviser who has mentored with over 100 graduate students and junior faculty. For almost three decades, her scholarship, teaching, and service have worked to strengthen institutional support for racial justice, international students, LGBTQ students, students of color within higher education.

Email: jignadesai@ucsb.edu
Website: https://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/people/jigna-desai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jigna-desai-661241bb

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