About

Welcome! As of January 6, 2020, I am the Assistant Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University. In my new role, I support faculty and graduate students through consultations, class observations, and workshops. I work with our Director and team to plan the Center’s programming for the academic year and support our team with custom workshop requests from across the university on inclusive teaching, teaching and diversity statements, preparing for and managing challenging discussions, our Provost Teaching Academy, and our Teaching for Equity Institute. My primary focus is on inclusive teaching and I serve on a university wide collaborative on diversity and inclusion and participate in a community of practice for supporting our first generation students at Temple. In 2021, I founded the first AAPI Faculty & Staff Group at Temple University.

In my discipline of political science, I served as a mentor to minority women doctoral students and junior scholars for the American Political Science Association (APSA). In 2021 and 2022, I presented on a roundtable on the Inclusive Syllabus, collaborated in a Symposium on Teaching Race, Ethnicity & Politics where I contributed resources for a more AAPI inclusive syllabus, and served on the Presidential Task Force on Rethinking Political Science Education for the American Political Science Association. At previous institutions, I founded groups for minority and first generation students and faculty, and I have dedicated my career to promoting equity, representation, and inclusion in higher education. Until December, 2019, I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and served as the Program Chair for Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.

I have taught political science at UCLA, Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), Franklin & Marshall College, and the University of Bridgeport. I earned both my B.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. My scholarship on gender politics was published in the following peer-reviewed journals: Politics, Groups, and Identities; Journal of Women, Politics & Policy; US-Japan Women’s Journal; Representation; Women’s Studies International Forum; and the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. My commentary has appeared in The Economist, The BBC World Service, WBEZ Chicago/NPR, The Japan Times, and other media outlets. I have been an invited speaker at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan University, the University of Zurich, Ochanomizu University, and Haverford College. Service to the profession includes co-organizing the 2018 Japan-America Women Political Scientists Symposium (JAWS) for the American Political Science Association.

• Temple’s Teaching for Equity Institute which I helped to develop with my Director and colleagues at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching.

• Blog post from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching’s EdVice Exchange Blog Series on preparing for difficult discussions.

• Recent Webinar on Inclusive Teaching for the American Political Science Association: Building an Inclusive Syllabus.

• Story on our new AAPI Faculty & Staff Affinity Group at Temple University.

• My role as a facilitator for a 4-day workshop for the American Political Science Association’s Asia Programs.