- She is Chinese, Malaysian, and Danish and she grew up on the East Coast. She majored in history and now lives in the Bay Area. She is the Asian American studies librarian at the UC Berkeley ethnic studies library.
- The collections focus on the Asian diasporas in the Americas, Europe, and Australia. There is a focus on Pan Asians, which means all Asian American identities and cultures are highlighted.
- Ethnic studies and gender women studies are the only departments that were created through protest.
- Our communities have been historically oppressed by the law and every aspect of society has been fundamentally affected by racism. We need to have the ethnic studies department to study it better, but also to solve it and take action. It is important in connection to our current political administration today that has certain oppressive beliefs.
- If you do not study the history of communities of color, you are not really studying American history. You cannot say you know the history of America if you do not know the history of Asian Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, and Latin Americans.
- Asian Americans united under a commonality in the face of diversity in the many Asian American communities. It is difficult because different Asian cultures face racism differently, but people joined together for the same reasons. It is never easy because people had to work hard to find common ground.
- Communities have faced different struggles through settler colonization, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, or mixes of these things.
- Ethnic studies has to do with proving that the struggle is happening. How are we gonna solve these issues?
- These movements and experiences have helped her find her identity and connection to the Asian American studies movement.
- Racism makes people feel small. When looking at the word minority, we are highly focused on the United States. When looking at the world scope, there are more people of color around the world. China and India have some of the biggest populations in the world.