Kathleen Escarcha
Election
Position
Name
Kathleen Escarcha
Candidate statement
Hello! My name is Kathleen Escarcha and I am a PhD candidate in English at the University of Washington where I research transpacific representations of the Filipina in the Marcos era.
I’m running to be an AAAS student representative to foster student communities that cross disciplinary and institutional boundaries. As a graduate student, I’ve built formal and informal groups around Asian American Studies. In 2022, I collaborated with peers in the Education and Geography Department to establish UW’s first funded graduate research cluster dedicated to studying the global dispersal of Filipinx subjects. As a co-founder of this research group, I have engaged students across disciplines to organize events that ranged from faculty talks to trips to the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Similarly, as a panel organizer, I have worked with students and faculty from different institutions to plan a generative conversation at the upcoming AAAS annual conference.
As an AAAS student representative, I hope to organize events that offer undergraduate and graduate students low-stakes ways to engage with mentors and to build community with each other. I hope to design programming that helps students practice skills, such as writing elevator pitches, and supports student-led conversations on pedagogy.
I’m running to be an AAAS student representative to foster student communities that cross disciplinary and institutional boundaries. As a graduate student, I’ve built formal and informal groups around Asian American Studies. In 2022, I collaborated with peers in the Education and Geography Department to establish UW’s first funded graduate research cluster dedicated to studying the global dispersal of Filipinx subjects. As a co-founder of this research group, I have engaged students across disciplines to organize events that ranged from faculty talks to trips to the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Similarly, as a panel organizer, I have worked with students and faculty from different institutions to plan a generative conversation at the upcoming AAAS annual conference.
As an AAAS student representative, I hope to organize events that offer undergraduate and graduate students low-stakes ways to engage with mentors and to build community with each other. I hope to design programming that helps students practice skills, such as writing elevator pitches, and supports student-led conversations on pedagogy.