Taituuga Samoa Anesi Koria studied at UC San Diego from 1978 to 1988. He was an student leader from Third College involved in Asian and Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APSA) and the Asian American Studies Committee (AASC). During and after UCSD, he is strongly committed to education and community service, especially to educate and celebrate Pacific Islander culture and identity.Read More →
In Fall 2020. the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies minor program officially launched with Professor Simeon Man as its inagural Program Director. In addition to course offerings, the program held student-faculty-staff mixers and community events. To learn more aboutRead More →
Dr. Wayne Yang is a Professor of Ethnic Studies and the Provost of Muir College at UC San Diego. In this interview, Yang discusses the activism of students of color during the 2010s, the experiences of faculty involved in and/or connected to student efforts and demands, and the politics of power and relationships within the university (in the institutional sense).Read More →
Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez (he/they) was the former Access Programs Advisor for UC San Diego’s Student Promoted Access Center for Education and Service (SPACES), who held that position at the time of this interview. This interview covers topics including the Coalition for Critical Asian American Studies (CCAAS), Critical Asian American Studies, student advocacy for Asian American Studies at UCSD, staff and community center support for student activists, and the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies minor. Read More →
Matthew (Matt) Vu studied from 2007 to 2012 at UC San Diego, majoring in General Biology and Ethnic Studies. He was also actively involved in Summer Bridge, the Cross Cultural Center, Student Affirmative Action Committee, Kalbigang Pilipino, Asian and Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APSA), and the Coalition for Critical Asian American Studies (CCAAS). This interview also covers topics regarding the 2010 Compton Cookout incident, student activism at and beyond UCSD, and the advocacy efforts for and excitement surrounding the establishment of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program at UCSD in 2020.Read More →
Jonathan Burgos studied from 1993 to 1998 at UC San Diego, majoring in Sociology. During his time at UCSD, he was a student leader in Asian and Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APSA) and member of Kaibigang Pilipin@. This interview covers topics including his transformative experiences being involved in APSA, Ethnic Studies, and community activism during his time at UCSD. He also discusses how those experiences motivated him to establish his non-profit, First Gen Scholars.Read More →
GROW is a collaboration of students, faculty, staff, and librarians at UC San Diego working to document the untold stories - going back to the 1980s and prior - behind the creation of the new Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies Program at UC San Diego, just one part of a broader demand for social transformation in the university and beyond.
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