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Ph.D., Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)  June 2025

• Dissertation Title:  Quietly Pressing: The Racial and Gender Politics of Asian Massage Work 

• Dissertation Committee: Dr. Ju Hui Judy Han (Chair), Dr. Grace Hong, Dr. Jessica Cattelino, Dr. Sarah Haley

MA, Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto 2015

• Thesis Title: Mobilizing the Public - Understanding Filipina Foreign Domestic Worker’s Spatial Practices in Hong Kong Public Spaces 

BA with Distinction, Women and Gender Studies, Minor: Sociology, University of Toronto, Mississauga 2014

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• Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2024

• Rose Eng Chin & Helen Wong Eng Fellowship, Asian American Studies Center, UCLA, 2024

• Center for Korean Studies Summer Fellowship, The Center for Korean Studies, UCLA, 2024

• Jean Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, 2024

• IAC Graduate Fellowship in Asian American Studies, Institute of American Culture, UCLA, 2024

• Constance Coiner Graduate Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, 2023

• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2019

• Irving and Jean Stone Recruitment Fellowship, Centre for the Study of Women, UCLA, 2018

• University of Toronto Fellowship, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, 2016

• University of Toronto Masters of Art Admissions Fellowship, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, 2014

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Conferences

• “Care, Work, and the Body: Exploring the Intersection of Sex Work, Massage, and Care Practices,” Care Work Network Summit, Duke University, NC. Panel Organizer, June 2025

• “Work Smart, Not Hard: Chinese Massage Workers’ Quotidian Practice of Resistance and Quiet Refusal,” Care Work Network Summit 2025, Duke University, NC. Panelist, June 2025

• Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies II, National Women's Studies Association Program Administration and Development (PAD) Pre-Conference: Detroit, MI., November 2024

• “Queer as a Praxis of Disrupting Sex and Gender” in the panel of Sex Workers are Researchers/Organizers, International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco. 2024

• “Untamed Intimacies: Rethinking Self-Care through Filipina Migrant Workers’ Fleeting Encounters in Hong Kong,” in the panel of Affective Archives: Emotion, Intimacy, and the Work of Redress, Crossroads for Cultural Studies Conference: Shanghai, China, 2018

• “Invisible La La Land: Rethinking Migrant Domestic Workers' Gathering Spaces as Homoerotic Grounds,” Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference, Munk School of Global Affairs: Toronto, Canada, 2018

• “‘Not Just Friends, Not Quite a Lover’ — A Spatial Analysis of Filipina Domestic Workers’ Untamed Intimacies in Gathering Space(s),” Association of Asian American Studies, AAAS Annual Conference: Portland, Oregon, 2017

• “Death Economies in Hong Kong — Understanding Spatiality and Disposability Through an Intersectional Analysis of Hong Kong Cemetery Policies,” Women's and Gender Studies Association, Congress: University of Ottawa, Canada, 2015

Guest Lectures and Invited Talks 

• "Quietness as Alternative Labor Strategy: Chinese Massage Workers' Sonic Articulations," Global Asias Interdisciplinary Conference: UC Irvine, 2024

• Deliberately Quiet: Chinese Women Massage Workers’ Strategies of Quietness, Transnational Gender and Labor Group, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, November 2024

• Listening to Quietness: Chinese Massage Workers’ Expressive Culture in Los Angeles, Guest Lecture for Feminist Epistemologies, California State Polytechnic University. 2024

• "Canary Survivorhood: The Calculus of Disclosure and Self-Advocacy," Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium: UCLA, CA, 2023

• “Dance as Neoliberal Critique: Notes on Migrant Women’s Intimate Practice of Dance in Hong Kong,” Gender Studies Seminar: Toronto, ON, 2022

• “Ethical Remembering - Remembering and Detaching from Stories of Sex Work in My Daily Life,” Sex Salon Speaker Series: University of Toronto, Canada, 2016

Presentations and Others

• “Teaching with Empathy in Times of Crises” HumTech, EPIC (Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms) Program, 2024

• “Building a Database of Recorded Music Data for Analysis, Research, and Access” UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA Institute for Digital Research & Education, 2024

• “Black Feminists Methods of Care: On Micro/Macrogeographies of Care” in the Panel “Afro-Asian Resonances: History and Methodology,” UCHRI Syncopating East Asia, 2021

2024-2025

• Social Media Coordinator, Journal for the Anthropology of North America

• Graduate Student Representative and Social Media Coordinator, Society for the Anthropology of North America, 

• Planning Committee Member, Black Feminist Initiative, Center for the Study of Women

• Graduate Research Assistant, Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice, University of California’s Multicampus Research Program, 

• Academic Editor, Critical Gender Studies Journal (Aesthetix Media)

• Massage Workers Outreach Translator and Facilitator, Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles (SWOPLA), 2022-2025

• Reviewer, Gender, Place and Culture (Taylor and Francis), 2018 - 2025

• Grant Writer, ProjectQ Los Angeles, 2018 - 2025

2023-2024 

• Grant Writer, Kindred Space Los Angeles, 2024

• Research & Instructional Technology Consultant, Digital Humanities Center, University of California, Los Angeles

• Research Consultant, Digital Research Consortium For Dr. Kelly Nguyen’s Project “Refugee Material Culture”

2014-2023

• Facilitator, Gender Studies Writing Lab, UCLA, 2022 - 2023

• Oral History Interviewer/ Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Women, For Dr. Rachel Lee’s project ‘Chemical Entanglements,' 2019 - 2021

• Research Assistant, Department of English, McMaster University, For Nadine Attewell's project 'Archives of Intimacy,' 2018 - 2019

• Simultaneous Interpreter/ Translator, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California Los Angeles, April 2018

• Committee Member, Equity and Diversity Committee, University of Toronto, 2017 – 2018

• Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, For Dr. Ju Hui Judy Han’s SSHRC Insight funded project “Protesting Publics in South Korea.” 2016 -2018

• Senior Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, City University of Hong Kong, For Dr. Eileen Tsang’s project ‘Un-demonizing the ‘Dirty Girl’: Sex Work and Intimate Relationships in Urban China, 2016 - 2017

• Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto For Dr. Hae Yeon Choo’s project ‘Cartographies of Gender: Global Stratification in Gender- Related Refugee,' 2014 - 2015

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