I am a professor of English at Crafton Hills College (CHC), where I teach first-year writing and noncredit multilingual literacies courses. I also serve as the ZTC Multilingual Faculty Lead, and part of my charge is growing CHC’s Multilingual Noncredit Program as well as developing Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) resources for our students.
Although I originally wanted to earn a degree in the food industry, I found myself drawn to English classes during my time at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). After receiving my Bachelor’s degree in English Literature, I entered CSUSB’s M.A. in English Composition Program. That program, along with my work as a writing tutor and an international exchange tutor in Germany, allowed me to connect my interests in writing with my personal experiences as a multilingual individual.
Upon receiving my M.A., I taught as an adjunct across several departments at CSUSB, including the First-Year Writing Program, International Extension Programs, and the Educational Opportunity Program. I also briefly taught in the University of La Verne’s writing program. All of these spaces allowed me to work with students who share similar backgrounds to my own, which remains one of my core commitments. In Fall 2019, I started a full-time, tenure-track position at Crafton Hills College.
My scholarly interests include academic hierarchies, multilingual literacies, linguistic justice, language teacher identities, faculty learning cultures, feminist care ethics, and critical pedagogies. Lately, I have been exploring my role as a tenured faculty of color at a two-year college, particularly how my identity as an Asian American intersects with my scholarship and reform efforts. My work appears in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and I am a coauthor of the chapter, “Writing to be Seen and Needing to be Heard: Writing as Emergency from the Perspective of the SBCCD Asian and Pacific Islander Association,” in Writing Emergencies: Composing (Ourselves) in Times of Crisis edited by Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides.
In my downtime, you will likely find me testing new recipes in my kitchen or hanging out in my garden with my dogs.