Dr. Caroline Kyungah Hong (she/her) is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). She received her PhD and MA in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her BA in English and Theology from the University of San Francisco. Her research interests are primarily in 20th- and 21st-century Asian American literatures and cultures, and she teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses on Asian American literatures and cultures, as well as on introductions to literary study, comics and graphic narratives, comedy and satire, and the arts in New York City. She has published articles on Asian American fiction, comics, and pop culture and is currently finishing a book on Asian American comedy. In addition to her academic work, she has done interviews with WNYC’s The Takeaway and NBC News and given public talks at venues such as the New York Public Library, San Diego Comic-Con, and BroadwayCon. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of CUNY’s Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI), the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS), and the Asian American Literary Review (AALR), and recently served as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS). 

Dr. Amy Wan (she/her) is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She also currently serves as the Special Assistant to the Provost for Writing at Queens College. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MA from Binghamton University. Her research interests include composition and rhetoric, language policy, multilingualism, literacy, and public education, and she teaches courses about writing and the teaching of writing. She is the author of Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014) and was awarded the Richard Ohmann Outstanding Article Award in 2012 for her College English article “In the Name of Citizenship.” Her writing has been published in College Composition and Communication, College English, Journal of College Literacy and Learning, Rhetoric Review, and Literacy in Composition Studies, among others.

Soniya Munshi (she/they) is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College where she serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Asian American Community Studies minor. She is also the current Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership at QC and an Affiliate Faculty in the Critical Psychology program at the Graduate Center. Soniya earned her Ph.D. in Sociology with an Advanced Women’s Studies Certificate from the CUNY Graduate Center, and her B.A. in Women’s Studies and in Psychology from Macalester College. Their research and teaching interests include gender, reproductive, and disability justice movements in Asian America, with a particular focus on anti-carceral and transformative justice approaches to violence and harm, as well as autoethnography, memoir, creative non-fiction, and community-based and participatory research methodologies. Her work has been supported by the NEH, ACLS/Mellon, NYS Council for the Humanities, Lambda Literary, the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, Monson Arts, and Blue Mountain Center. Her writing has been published in Scholar and Feminist Online, Ethnic Studies Review, and Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women, among others. Soniya served as the Interim Executive Director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI) at CUNY (2022-2023) and is a member of AAARI’s Advisory Board.

Annabelle Park (she/her) is the Program Coordinator for QCAP. She oversees QCAP’s programs and partnerships, including the day-to-day logistics and operation of the QCAP Community Center. She also manages QCAP student workers, does outreach and promotes QCAP activities and resources, and supervises the QCAP Internship Program.

Annabelle has worked for the past five years as part of many minority-serving and education-based community organizations, ranging from the Irvine Public School Foundation to the Smithsonian Institute’s Asian Pacific American Center. She received her BA in Media, Culture, and Communications with a concentration on Visual Culture from New York University.

Sal S. (he/they) is a student assistant at QCAP. They have worked as a QCAP multilingual peer tutor at the Writing Center in the past. They contribute to the QCAP monthly newsletter, as well as assist with logistics and operations of the Community Center and QCAP activities and programs. An undergraduate student, Sal's research interests include social movements, resistance and liberation, inflammation, and activist risk-taking. Currently, he is researching what activists are risking for liberation, and what makes liberation worth risking for? As a research assistant to Dr. Karen Strassler at Queens College's Anthropology department, he is also researching the links between breast cancer image-making/frameworks with attention to systematic racial and social disparities in healthcare and environmental regulations that contribute to breast cancer. He is part of the class of '25 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship cohort.

Rifa Mahzabin (she/her) is a student assistant at QCAP, where she assists with the social media page and contributes to the monthly newsletter. She loves connecting with the community and sharing information about programs and initiatives that help support AAPI students. She is passionate about further educating herself about the AAPI community and believes that representation and cultural understanding are really important. Committed to continuous learning and growth, she appreciates the opportunity to develop both personally and professionally through her work. During her time at QCAP, she hopes to make meaningful contributions that help create a welcoming environment for Queen’s College’s AAPI community.

Ray Liu (he/him) is a New York City-based cultural critic and managing editor in Asian and Asian American media. His career began in the architectural design industry. After graduating from a five-year, accredited architecture program at City College (City University of New York) in 2014, he worked for various architecture firms that specialize in residential and public facility designs and asset management. In 2023, he received his Master's degree in English at Queens College (CUNY) and have since been teaching college writing levels one and two at Queens College as an adjunct lecturer.