Education

University of California, Berkeley, B.A. – Sociology and Ethnic Studies

High Honors in Sociology and High Distinction in General Scholarship

      Thesis: Making Asian American: Youth Identity Formations and the Politics of Asian Suburban Placemaking

Research

primary methodologies: Black Geographies, Black Study

primary method: archival data collection + thematic analysis

phenomena of interest: 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, Black-Asian spatial entanglement, interracial political mobilization, Black South Central LA cultural production, conflictual placemaking, displacement, emplacement

subdisciplines: Marxist, humanistic, political, cultural, urban, historical geography

disciplines: Geography, Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Studies, History, Sociology, Urban Planning, Performance Studies, Sound Studies

Advisors

Juan Herrera, Kaily Heitz, Kelly Kay