BIO Born in Tinsel Town and raised in a multiethnic community just north of it, I am currently a Ph.D. student in the US field of the Department of History at UCLA where I also earned an M.A. in Asian American Studies. My research broadly focuses on immigration, questions of urbanization and suburbanization, and the history of Los Angeles. Specifically, I am captivated by the relationships between marketing, migration, mobilization, and popular culture in the making of multiethnic communities in the Southern California's San Fernando Valley. In a not-too-distant past lifetime, my research encompassed Asian American education, Asian American youth culture, and theories of resistance. I'm a member of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and maintain academic and political interests in the contemporary labor movement and immigrant rights issues such as the DREAM Act.  May Day, 2008, Downtown Los Angeles |