WRITER
EDUCATION
Literature and Culture minor at Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Chair of the Library Student Advisory Council (2023-2024)
PROJECTS
Dragon Ladies and Desi Dorks: Combatting AAPI Stereotypes in Pop Culture
FINAL CONTRIBUTION PROJECT IN ASIAN AMERICAN ACTIVISM COURSE (2023)
Created a zine containing guidelines on how to spot stereotypes and analyze underdeveloped Asian-American characters drawing from Critical Race Media Literacy tenets. It also included a glossary of Asian-American stereotypes, both from scholarly sources and surveys of AAPI students at Carnegie Mellon University. 350 copies were distributed around campus, in addition to it being featured by @jadedpgh on Instagram and displayed in Hunt Library and San Lorenzo Library. It was funded by a $100 grant from Carnegie Mellon's English Department.
"an inviting, yet uncompromising manual to responsibly consume and create work with AAPI characters"
Booked in the Big House: Access to Literature in Correctional Facilities
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH STUDY (2019)
Answered the questions "To what extent would access to literature benefit inmates during and after imprisonment? How can activists and librarians support inmates’ rehabilitation process by establishing and maintaining prison libraries?" through a year-long research experience culminating in a 30 page paper
AWARDS
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of English Grant for Dragon Ladies and Desi Dorks (2023)
Miami Herald
Silver Knight Award in English and Literature (2019)
Scholastic Arts and Writing
Regional Gold Key (2019)
Regional American Voices Nomination (2019)
National Gold Key (2019)
National One Earth Award (2019)
