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Renee Tajima-Peña, UC Los Angeles

Professor,
Asian American Studies
She/Her/Hers

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña has chronicled Asian America as showrunner/series producer of Asian Americans, co-founder of the May 19th Project and through her films/digital projects such as Who Killed Vincent Chin, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha, Labor Women, Nikkei Democracy Project and Building History 3.0. Her other work includes Calavera Highway, No Más Bebés and the Best Hotel on Skid row.

Her films premiered at venues such as Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and Whitney Biennial. She was awarded two Peabody’s, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the USA Broad Fellowship, Alpert Award in the Arts for Film/Video, and the Dupont-Columbia Award.

As a student activist, Tajima-Peña founded and directed the Harvard Asian American Admissions and Recruitment Program and co-chaired of the United Front Against Apartheid. As a media activist she was director of Asian Cine-Vision, a part of the Third World Newsreel collective and the founding of the Center for Asian American Media and A-Doc. As a writer, she was a cultural commentator for NPR and managing editor of Bridge: Asian American Perspectives. At the time she was a contributor to The Village Voice, she was the only Asian American woman film critic writing for a nationally-read publication.

In 2005 she launched the Graduate Program in Social Documentation at the UC Santa Cruz. At UCLA she is currently Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Asian American Studies Department, Graduate Advisor, Director of the Center for EthnoCommunications, and holds an endowed chair in Japanese American studies.

Email: renee.tajima@ucla.edu
Website: reneetajimapena.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/renee-tajima-pena

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