Grad Student - AARC

Sunnie Liu

UC Berkeley Law, UC Berkleey

Sunnie Liu is an artist, organizer, and Public Interest Scholar at Berkeley Law. Born in rural China but raised in Houston, Texas as the child of Chinatown workers, Sunnie is committed to movements at the intersection of racial and economic justice. Sunnie graduated with degrees in Studio Art and History from Yale University.

Before law school, Sunnie advocated to end solitary confinement, reform bail, and improve public defense from Mississippi to Chicago. Sunnie also organized against the displacement of Manhattan’s Chinatown and co-founded Xin Sheng | 心声 Project, a nonprofit...

Arianna Lunow-Luke

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Arianna Lunow-Luke (she/her) is a PhD student in the department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, where she is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. She is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Food Systems through the Berkeley Food Institute. Born and raised in Kailua, Oʻahu, Ari is a fourth generation Chinese settler of Kanaka Maoli lands in Hawaiʻi. She received her BA in Biology and Ethnic Studies from Brown University.

Ari’s research is centered on Asian settler colonialism and multiculturalism in Hawaiʻi. She is particularly...

Sun Moon

Sociology & Demography, UC Berkeley

Lisa Ng

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Lisa Ng is a PhD candidate in the Ethnic Studies Department with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She interrogates the relationships between the racialized histories of waste and technology and their potential roles in social movements. Her current research examines how grassroots urban beautification projects in Asian (American) communities in Oakland, California, can represent new imaginations of relationality, resistance, and futurity. Beyond academia, she is an experienced multilingual community educator and...

Ally Pardo

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Ally Pardo (she/her) is a master's student at the School of Public Health (Health and Social Behavior program). Born and raised in San Francisco, Ally's research is grounded in her organizing work with Filipino communities in the Bay Area. She examines health outcomes among Filipinos in the East Bay through a novel conceptualization of empire and colonialism as distal social determinants of health. With a background in Ethnic Studies (B.A. in Asian American Studies) and current training in public health, Ally leverages her interdisciplinary lens to further her research.

Deborah Qu

Psychology, UC Berkeley

Deborah Qu is a graduate student in the Social and Personality Psychology program at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses broadly on emotions and emotion regulation, explored through multiple lenses. Her research investigates the automatization of cognitive change strategies, the role of psychological distancing in emotion regulation, and how individual traits like Agreeableness interact with situational factors to shape emotional responses. Deborah also studies bicultural experiences among American immigrants, such as the way Chinese Americans regulate their emotions when shifting between...

Kieren Rudge

Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley

Kieren Rudge is a PhD candidate in the Society and Environment Division of the Environmental Science, Policy, & Management Department at UC Berkeley. Their work is grounded in critical race theory, political ecology, and critical Pacific islands studies. Their dissertation focuses on how racialized social-political structures differently impact Pacific communities facing climate injustice. This project uses a collective case study examining marginalization and coalitional climate activism in the state of California and the U.S. territory of Guåhan. This research examines how the...

Evan James Tadashi Sakuma

Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Miguel Samano

English, UC Berkeley

Miguel Samano is a Ph.D. candidate in English with research interests in Relational Ethnic Studies, Chicanx and Latinx studies, Asian American Studies, Social Science History, and Sociocultural Linguistics. Their dissertation, "Talk's Stories: Sociocultural Linguistics and Latinx and Asian American Narrative Forms," historicizes post-1965 Latinx and Asian American literary narrative's interest in the formal patterning of stranger-to-stranger talk over and against that of sociocultural linguistics, an interdisciplinary formation in the social sciences. They previously co-coordinated the...

Crystal Song

Performance Studies, UC Berkeley