GROW is comprised of faculty, librarians, staff, undergraduate, and graduate students at UC San Diego. As part of our commitment to community building and collective learning, we also bring together alumni, students, faculty, and staff from UC San Diego and beyond as contributors to GROW.
Project Members
| Winter 2025 |
| Students: Aya Bernal, Thomas Hong, Abby Johnson, Maddie Menor, Crow Nuyen, Catherine Potmesil,* Christie Yamasaki* * Graduate students Speakers: Heather Smedberg, Reference & Instruction Coordinator, Special Collections & Archives Fran Bautista, UCSD & GROW alum Jason Magapo Perez, UCSD alumnus Teaching team: Dr. Amanda Solomon, Windi Sasaki, Cristela Garcia-Spitz, Samantha Pagdilao |
| Winter 2024 |
| Students: Erika Capuyon, Mira Gupta, Daniella Laher, Samantha Pagdilao, Malea Van-Brocklin Speakers: Alanna Aiko Moore, Head of Community Engagement and Inclusion and Ethnic Studies Librarian Heather Smedberg, Reference & Instruction Coordinator, Special Collections & Archives Thomas Thao, Executive Director at New Millennium Academy, UCSD alumnus Donald Donaire, Program Director at Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities, UCSD alum Moe Abugan, UCSD alum Carmela Capinpin, UCSD alumna Johnny Nguyen, UCSD & GROW alumnus Teaching team: Dr. Amanda Solomon, Dr. Christen Sasaki, Windi Sasaki, Cristela Garcia-Spitz, Dephny Duan |
| Spring 2022 |
| Students: Cecilia Adame, Teanna Bautista-Leung, Josie Douglass-Lafer, Dephny Duan, Johnny Nguyen, Jake Noren, Violet Yang Speakers: Dr. Angela Kong, UCSD alumna Irving Ling, UCSD alumnus Jonathan Burgos, UCSD alumnus, First Gen Scholars non-profit founder Melany De La Cruz-Viesa, UCSD alumna Jin Chang, PhD student at University of Iowa, University of Iowa Asian American Oral History Archive Intern Dr. Thuy Vo Dang, Curator for the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive and research librarian for Asian American Studies, co-founder of The Beginnings of Activism for the Department of Asian American Studies (BADAAS) at UCI Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Professor of Asian American Studies, co-founder of The Beginnings of Activism for the Department of Asian American Studies (BADAAS) at UCI Teaching team: Dr. Simeon Man, Windi Sasaki, Cristela Garcia-Spitz, Dephny Duan, Violet Yang |
| Spring 2021 |
| Students: Fran Bautista, Kelly Callejo, Josie Douglass-Lafer, Dephny Duan, Vanessa Na,* Emily Nguyen, Johnny Nguyen, Amira Noeuv,* Kyeling Ong, Victoria Pham, Ada Tong,* Amy Wang* * Graduate students Teaching team: Dr. Simeon Man, Windi Sasaki, Cristela Garcia-Spitz |
| Winter 2021 |
| Students: Fran Bautista, Yuzu Chin, Josie Douglass-Lafer, Dephny Duan, Vanessa Na,* Emily Nguyen, Amira Noeuv,* Kyeling Ong, Victoria Pham, Ada Tong* * Graduate students Speakers: Heather Smedberg, Reference & Instruction Coordinator, Special Collections & Archives Alanna Aiko Moore, Librarian, Specialist for Ethnic Studies, Critical Gender Studies, and Sociology Professor Jim Lin, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Yuzu Chin, UCSD student Ed Nadurata, UCSD alumnus (Class of 2017) Chris Datiles, UCSD alumnus Professor Rick Bonus, Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, UCSD alumnus Alex Tom, UCSD alumnus Linda Sok Tang, Cambodian Student Association at UCSD alumna Sovanny Yun, Cambodian Student Association at UCSD alumna Julia Ha, Project Yellow Dress, UCSD alumna Teaching team: Dr. Simeon Man, Windi Sasaki, Cristela Garcia-Spitz |