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2024 Chandi Kumar Annual Lecture Ft. Wei Ming Dariotis, Ph.D

  • Asian American Studies Program, University of Maryland 4200 Lehigh Road College Park, MD, 20740 United States (map)
 

"Love + Data = Action"

Wei Ming Dariotis has been a typical Gemini; a cis-gender Bisexual woman, mixed-race Asian American, arts activist in academia, working through collaboration and community to achieve transgressive transformation.

Thursday, February 15, 2024
5:30–7pm with reception to follow
Susquehanna Hall 1120

Lecturer Bio:
Wei Ming Dariotis, PhD, is Assistant Vice President of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. With Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas, she coordinated the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference (DePaul University, 2010), co-defined the discipline of Critical Mixed Race Studies, and co-founded the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies. She serves on the editorial board of Asian American Literatures: Discourses and Pedagogies, and co-founded Kearny Street Workshop’s legendary APAture: A Window on the Art of Asian Pacific Americans, which helped launch the career of Ali Wong, among others. She is a poet and an artist. Publications include two co-edited anthologies: Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers, 2020) and War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (UW Press, 2013). At San Francisco State University, Dr. Dariotis was formerly Professor of Asian American Studies (1999-2022), affiliate faculty of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program (2017-2022), and Faculty Director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2019-2022).

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