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.
Windi Sasaki (she/they)
Teaching Team
Associate Director, Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American (APIMEDA) Programs and Services
Cristela Garcia-Spitz (she/her)
Teaching Team
Digital Initiatives Librarian & Curator of the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology, UC San Diego Library
Dr. Amanda Solomon Amorao (she/her)
Teaching Team
Dimensions of Culture Director, Assistant Teaching Professor
Director of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program
Sam Pagdilao (she/her)
Digital Productions Assistant
Undergraduate student in Business Psychology, minor in AAPI Studies
Brian Crie (he/they)
Former Teaching Team
Programs and Operations Coordinator, Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American (APIMEDA) Programs and Services
Dr. Christen Sasaki (she/they)
Former Teaching Team
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
Simeon Man (he/him)
Former Teaching Team
Associate Professor, History
Inaugural Director of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program
Dephny Duan (she/they)
Former Digital Productions Assistant
Bachelor/Master of International Affairs, minors in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies and Human Rights and Migration Studies
Violet Yang (she/her)
Former Digital Productions Assistant
Undergraduate student in History
Vanessa Na (she/her)
Former Digital Productions Assistant
PhD student in Education Studies