Andrew Do

Andrew H. Do, MPH, is a summer lecturer in the Asian American Studies department, where he teaches Asian American Healthcare Issues.  Andrew is also a regular guest lecturer at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, lecturing on accounting, financial management, and information technology in healthcare.  An active alumni, he currently serves on the Board of Directors for the UCLA Health Policy and Management Alumni Association (HPMAA) and is a faculty advisor for The Liver Project at UCLA, a student initiative to fight liver disease and liver cancer by collaborating with nonprofits, schools, and other community organizations to perform para-medical outreach including education, fundraising, and clinical volunteering.

Andrew earned his Masters in Public Health (MPH), Healthcare Management, from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is a double Bruin, also completing his undergraduate degree at UCLA in Political Science (BA) with double minors in Public Health and Asian American Studies.

Andrew works full time as the Executive Consultant for Kaiser Permanente’s Medical Group Operations in Southern California.  In this role, he acts as an advisor by structuring operational issues for resolution and leading the planning, management, and execution of key business processes associated with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group executive team, including performance management, strategic planning, communications, and tactical initiatives.

Lily Anne Welty Tamai

Lily Anne Welty Tamai earned her doctorate in History from the University of California Santa Barbara. She conducted research in Japan and in Okinawa as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow and was also a Ford Foundation Fellow. Her forthcoming book titled, Military Industrial Intimacy: Mixed-race American Japanese, Eugenics and Transnational Identities, documents the history of mixed-race American Japanese and American Okinawans born after World War II and raised during the post-war period. Dr. Tamai was formerly the Curator of History at the Japanese American National Museum and currently serves on the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations. At UCLA she teaches Asian American Studies 20, 20W, 30W, 115, 170, and 187C (Multiracial and Multiethnic Asian Americans).

Dr. Tamai has done service for the UCLA Mixed Student Union and the UCLA Southeast Asian Admit Program. She also serves on the Japanese American Citizens League Ventura County chapter board, and as a consultant for the Ventura County Maternal Mental Health Coalition. She has previously been a consultant for Wowow Network, NHK, Fuji TV, Yumiuri Shinbun, and Madama Butterfly, by Puccini for the The Norwegian Opera (Den Norske Operaen). She is currently working on articles about the historic preservation of a segregated Japanese cemetery in Ventura County, California and another on race in the Harry Potter series.

Kelly Fong

Kelly N. Fong is a fifth-generation Chinese American, historical archaeologist, and Asian American Studies scholar.  Her work bridges her passion for Asian American social histories, family histories, and historical archaeology to examine everyday life through materials and memories left behind.  Her past research examined the 20th-century Chinese American community in Isleton Chinatown, a rural, agricultural and multiracial community in the Sacramento Delta. Her next project explores the creation of a Chinese America through foodways, particularly focusing on home-style cooking through the lens of community cookbooks.  She is currently a contingent faculty member in Asian American Studies who has taught at UCLA, California State University, Northridge and Claremont Graduate University.