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The UC Consortium on AAPI Policy & Community Priorities consists of an advisory board and campus leads of research faculty across the UC campuses. Supported by AAPI Data from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy, there is also a team of staff and advisors that support the development and execution of programs and resources available for members of the UC Consortium.
Campus Leads
Eui Kyung Kim
UC Riverside
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Karthick Ramakrishnan
Consortium Lead
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Natalie Masuoka
UC Los Angeles Lead
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Tiara Na’puti
UC Irvine
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Yến Lê Espiritu
UC San Diego
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Fontane Lo
Deputy Director, AAPI Data
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Richard Pan
Senior Policy Advisor, AAPI Data
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Whitney Hadiwono Ibarra
Staff Coordinator
Read MoreMember Directory
We have over 70 members across the UC system! You can click on any of the categories below to find expertise across the UC system by topic, or across topics within a UC campus.
- All Members
- and Performance Studies
- Anthropology
- Asian American Studies
- Asian American Studies & History
- Asian American Studies and Feminist Studies
- Berkeley
- Berkeley School of Education
- Biostatistics
- Community Health Sciences
- Community Health Systems
- Dance
- Dance Theater and Performance Studies
- Davis
- Education
- English
- Epidemiology
- Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Ethnic Studies
- Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies
- Feminist Studies
- Gender Studies
- Health
- History
- History and Asian American Studies
- Irvine
- Labor
- Legal studies
- Los Angeles
- Medicine
- Merced
- Performance Studies
- Political Science
- Political Science and Public Policy
- Professor of Research
- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Psychology
- Psychology and Asian American Studies
- Public Health
- Public Policy
- Research
- Riverside
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Santa Barbara
- Santa Cruz
- School of Education
- School of Humanities
- School of Social Welfare
- Social & Behavioral Science
- Social & Behavioral Science/Institute for Health & Aging
- Social Welfare
- Sociology
- sociology and legal studies
- Surgery
- Theater
- UCLA Asian American Studies Center
- UCLA Labor Center
- Urban Planning
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Gender Studies She/Her/Hers Juliann Anesi is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include disability and...
Assistant Professor of Education, School of Education She/Her/Hers Kinnari Atit is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. She received her Ph.D. in...
Professor, Asian American Studies He/Him/His Keith L. Camacho is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Email: kcamacho@ucla.edu Website: https://asianam.ucla.edu/person/keith-l-camacho/ LinkedIn: N/A
Professor and director, Ethnic Studies He/Him/His Professor of Ethnic Studies and founding Director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at the University of California at Riverside....
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies He/Him/His Michael is a 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Public Scholar Faculty Fellow. He is a practicing government civil rights attorney where he enforces federal laws...
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics She/Her/Hers Dr. Iona Cheng is an epidemiologist with research interests focused on the role of genetic and molecular factors, health behaviors, environmental exposures, and neighborhood factors...
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies He/Him/His Alexander Cho is a media and cultural studies scholar, digital design researcher, and critical theorist. He teaches classes at UCSB on Asian Americans in...
Associate Professor, Social & Behavioral Science/Institute for Health & Aging She/Her/Hers Dr. JiWon Choi is a nursing researcher and Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco....
Professor, School of Social Welfare He/Him/His Julian Chun-Chung Chow is Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation Professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. A first-generation immigrant from...
Professor, Ethnic Studies She/Her/Hers Catherine Ceniza Choy is an Asian American historian and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Asian American...
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies She/Her/Hers Ga Young Chung is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies affiliated with the Cultural Studies, Human Rights Studies, and the School of Education....
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...
Professor, Asian American Studies and Feminist Studies she/they Jigna Desai is Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies and the Department of Asian American Studies at UC — Santa Barbara....
Professor, sociology and legal studies He/Him/His Professor of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz & former President of the Asian Law & Society Association (2018-2019),...
Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics She/Her/Hers Scarlett Gomez, PhD is a Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Co-Leader of the Cancer Control...
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies He/Him/His Harvey Dong is a second generation Chinese American who was involved with the TWLF strike at UC Berkeley that led to the establishment of Asian American...
Associate Professor, History He/Him/His I am a social and legal historian of the United States specializing in immigration. My major areas of research are the history of US immigration law...
Project Coordinator, Community Health Sciences She/Her/Hers Hello! I am currently the Project Coordinator of the BRAVE Study at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. The BRAVE study is a 5-year...
Professor of Medicine, Medicine She/Her/Hers Dr. Alka Kanaya is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics and a practicing general internist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received...
Professor of Medicine, Medicine She/Her/Hers Mandana Khalili is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and Chief of Clinical Hepatology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). She...
Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, Anthropology He/they Andrew Wooyoung Kim is a biological anthropologist interested in the lifecourse and intergenerational health consequences of historical trauma and the contributions of such...
Assistant Professor/Program Director, School of Education She/Her/Hers Eui Kyung Kim, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Kim’s research focuses...
Assistant Professor, Medicine She/Her/Hers Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Kim received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at...
Associate Professor, School of Education She/Her/Hers Rita Kohli is an Associate Professor of Race, Teaching, and Teacher Education, coordinator of the K-12 Ethnic Studies Pathway program in the School of...
Professor and Chair, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies She/Her/Hers SanSan Kwan is professor and chair in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research interests...
Professor, Education She/Her/Hers Jin Sook Lee is currently a professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara with faculty affiliations in the Departments of Linguistics and Asian American...
Distinguished Professor, Sociology He/Him/His John Lie teaches social theory at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on comparative race, ethnicity, nation, and diaspora and contemporary Northeast Asian...
Assistant Professor, English He/Him/His I am a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. My research focuses on the literature of Japanese...
Professor, Asian American Studies She/Her/Hers Julia H. Lee is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to that appointment, Julia is core...
Professor , Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences He/Him/His I identify as a gay Korean American cis-gender male. Professionally, I am a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at...
Professor of Political Science and faculty affiliate of Asian American Studies, Feminist Studies, and Black Studies, Political Science She/Her/Hers Pei-te Lien is a professor of Political Science affiliated with Asian...
Associate Clinical Professor, Psychology She/Her/Hers Nancy Liu is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Clinical Science Program of UC Berkeley where she also directs the UC Berkeley Psychology Clinic and...
Associate Professor, English She/Her/Hers Colleen Lye teaches in the Department of English at UC Berkeley is affiliated with the Department of Rhetoric and the Designated Emphasis on Critical Theory. She...
Associate Professor, Epidemiology She/Her/Hers Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda’s research focuses on...
Professor, Theater He/Him/His Sean Metzger is a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He is the author of Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (Indiana UP, 2014)...
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Asian American Studies She/Her/Hers Susette Min is an Associate Professor at UC Davis where she teaches Asian American studies, cultural studies and art history. She...
Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Policy She/Her/Hers Dr. Cecilia Hyunjung Mo is the Judith E.Gruber Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley. Professor...
Professor, Urban Planning He/Him/His Vinit Mukhija is a Professor of Urban Planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses...
Professor & Vice Chair, Psychology She/Her/Hers Dr. Natsuaki is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. In 2006, she received her PhD in Human Development from University...
Professor Emeritus, Ethnic Studies He/Him/His Michael Omi (he/him/his) is Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author, with Howard Winant, of Racial Formation...
Associate Professer, Community Health Systems She/Her/Hers Dr. Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Systems in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Her program of research...
Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis and Palo Alto University, Psychology and Asian American Studies He/Him/His Stanley Sue is a clinical psychologist whose work has been devoted to race,...
Professor, Education He/Him/His Robert Teranishi is Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education, the Morgan and Helen Chu Endowed Chair in Asian American Studies, and director for the Institute for...
Associate Professor, Medicine She/Her/Hers Prevention scientist Email: Judy.tan@ucsf.edu Website: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/judy.tan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judy-tan-ph-d-1652285
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...
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies She/Her/Hers Elizabeth Hanna Rubio is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She is an ethnographer of social movements, immigrant life,...
Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies, Ethnic Studies She/Her/Hers Shaista Aziz Patel identifies as a caste-oppressed Shi’i Muslim Pakistani scholar. Patel works as an Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies...
Assistant Professor, Berkeley School of Education He/Him/His Jose Eos Trinidad is Assistant Professor of Education Policy at the University of California Berkeley and is a sociologist with expertise in the...
Associate Professor, Surgery She/Her/Hers Dr. Joyce Trompeta is an Associate Professor who conducts outcomes research in the Depart of Surgery in the School of Medicine at UCSF. Her program of...
Professor of Research, Professor of Research He/Him/His Winston Tseng, PhD, is Professor of Research in the School of Public Health Division of Community Health Sciences and Lecturer in the Department...
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences She/Her/Hers Dr. Janice Tsoh is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine....
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies She/Her/Hers Khatharya Um is Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Social Sciences Division and Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies...
Professor , Asian American Studies She/Her/Hers Dr. Linda Trinh Vo is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She...
Research Director, UCLA Labor Center She/Her/Hers Saba Waheed is Research Director at the UCLA Labor Center. She has over twenty years of research experience developing projects with strong community participation....
Professor and Associate Dean, History and Asian American Studies, School of Humanities She/Her/Hers Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California,...
Distinguished Professor, History She/Her/Hers I am a historian of late imperial and modern China and the Chinese maritime. My current project, on maritime China, explores the following: a) Chinese constructions...
Professor, Public Health She/Her/Hers I am a Professor of Public Health at UC Merced, with an affiliated appointment in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco. My...
Professor, Asian American Studies & History He/Him/His David K. Yoo, Ph.D., is Vice Provost and Professor of Asian American Studies and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He...
Professor, Psychology She/Her/Hers Dr. Zhou is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of Culture and Family Study Lab at UC-Berkeley. Her research focuses on cultural, family, and temperament influences...