Today, a discussion of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and COVID-19 with Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park.
Vivian Shaw (Lead Researcher, Co-Principal Investigator) is a researcher, and educator, from New York. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She teaches on Asian American culture and society, environmental inequality, social movements, and qualitative methods. She is completing a book about how the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster laid the political groundwork for the emergence of anti-discrimination social movement networks.
Susanna Park is a PhD candidate in global health at Oregon State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher interested in areas of global health policy, ethics, disparities, and community-based research. Outside of academia, she is co-founder/host of a global health science communication podcast, Global Caveat, and has written about traveling while Asian. You can find out more about her involvements on her website.