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Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, UC Los Angeles

Deputy Director,
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
She/Her/Hers

Melany De La Cruz-Viesca is the Deputy Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (AASC) and the Managing Editor of AAPI Nexus, a nationwide journal focusing on Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) policy, practice, and community issues. She also serves as the Director of the AAPI Community Development Census Information Center, a joint partnership between AASC and the U.S. Census Bureau. Her research focuses on racial stratification, demographics, and public policy issues in the United States. She specializes in examining the experiences of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders in relation to wealth inequities, housing, community economic development, and education. She has over twenty years of experience in providing training and technical expertise on using census data, developing articles, fact sheets and reports on AAPI communities, to support programs, services, and advocacy efforts by community-based organizations serving vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.

Email: melanyd@ucla.edu
Website: https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/people/mdelacruz.aspx
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/melany-dela-cruz-viesca-1a665b5

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