Biography

Quyen is a queer Vietnamese-American who grew up in San Gabriel and just graduated from Pomona College. Academically, she is interested in diving deeper into a critique of surveillance, policing, and the carceral logics that sustain the settler state. They believe wholeheartedly (though are still navigating and forever figuring out) what models of genuine solidarity and reciprocity looks like in and beyond organizing spaces, and they hope to continue to study the legacies of resistance in Asian/American communities in fighting the pervasive and insidious logics of the state.

Quyen will be pursuing a joint masters in social welfare and Asian American Studies, and hopes to learn skills so they can be informed in the care they provide, and learn ways to encourage and foster a larger community and ethic of care that aligns with the radical nature of Asian American studies, and ethnic studies at large.