The Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP) aims to support the academic success, mental health, and community engagement of Queens College’s diverse and underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students, who make up 32.5% of our undergraduates (as of Spring 2023). Funded by a 5-year, Title III, Part A grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program, QCAP addresses the specific needs of our AAPI students by strengthening and expanding on existing student services at Queens College via a range of programs and activities.
The Three Pillars of QCAP
Academic
Support
QCAP Multilingual
Tutoring
QCAP’s multilingual AAPI peer tutors, housed in the QC Writing Center, are available to work with students throughout their First Year Writing and writing-intensive courses.
QCAP Faculty
Development Workshops
QCAP offers summer workshops for QC faculty across disciplines to strengthen understanding of local AAPI histories and issues and to support the development of AAPI-focused course content and antiracist pedagogies.
QCAP-sponsored
Translations
QCAP will be sponsoring translations of important college information and documents into the top 3 languages spoken by QC’s AAPI students—Chinese, Korean, and Bengali.
Mental Health
Resources
QCAP Mental Health
Workshops
QCAP holds regular workshops and events focused on a wide range of issues related to mental health in AAPI communities, led by AAPI experts and mental health professionals.
Outreach to
AAPI Students
QCAP engages in outreach to QC’s AAPI students and student organizations with significant AAPI leadership and members, to learn about their experiences at QC, their needs, and how we can better serve, support, and collaborate with them.
Community
Engagement
QCAP
Internships
QCAP provides experiential learning, leadership, and mentoring opportunities by placing AAPI students as interns with local community-based organizations. Students are paid stipends for onsite work and have the option to earn credits in service-learning/internship courses.
QCAP
Community Space
The QCAP Community Space will serve as a hub for support services and resources for AAPI students. It will also provide space for AAPI students to study, gather, and foster a sense of community and solidarity.
Our Team
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.
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.
Ray Liu (he/him) is a New York City-based cultural critic and managing editor on 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). As a cultural critic, his written works have been published on JoySauce, EnVi Media, Pendulum Magazine, and ComicsBeat.
