Biography

Paige Yuen is a first year graduate student born and raised on the island of Oʻahu. She recently received her Bachelors at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Political Science and Sociology. Utilizing settler colonial, critical race, and Indigenous theoretical frameworks, her honors thesis focused on East Asian settler colonialism in the illegally occupied state of Hawaiʻi and its impact on legislation regarding housing, public and private lands, and statehood. During her time at UCLA, she hopes to continue her research on East Asian settler colonialism, U.S. military occupation, and narratives of liberal multiculturalism employed in Hawaiʻi. Outside of the academic world, Paige loves to go to the beach and read, hike, make lei, check out all the hottest matcha cafes, and play with her three dogs.