Wei Ming Dariotis
Election
Position
Name
Wei Ming Dariotis
Candidate statement
Dr. Dariotis co-founded the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference and co-defined the field. She co-edited War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (UW Press, 2013) and Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers, 2019). Dariotis is former president of the California Faculty Association (SFSU chapter) and is Professor of Asian American Studies and Faculty Director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL) at SFSU. Dariotis leads faculty development around justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) and is hosting a faculty retreat: “How to Be an Anti-Racist University.”
As an active participant at AAAS conferences since the early 1990s, I am honored to be nominated to serve. I stand for centering teaching in Asian American studies and fighting for recognition of Asian Americans as leaders in academia. I encourage professional development, particularly spotlighting teaching and leadership, inclusive of colleagues at community colleges and teaching universities.
Recent events demonstrate how critical it is for AAAS to be resilient and responsive to evolving educational, cultural and socio-political landscapes while staying connected to our activist roots. As we labor in academe, we face intersectional racism in our working lives. How we teach and research anti-Asian racism and Asian American alliances for Black liberation, as well as collusion in white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and Indigenous subjugation, will frame the future of our field. AAAS can be our collective voice.
As an active participant at AAAS conferences since the early 1990s, I am honored to be nominated to serve. I stand for centering teaching in Asian American studies and fighting for recognition of Asian Americans as leaders in academia. I encourage professional development, particularly spotlighting teaching and leadership, inclusive of colleagues at community colleges and teaching universities.
Recent events demonstrate how critical it is for AAAS to be resilient and responsive to evolving educational, cultural and socio-political landscapes while staying connected to our activist roots. As we labor in academe, we face intersectional racism in our working lives. How we teach and research anti-Asian racism and Asian American alliances for Black liberation, as well as collusion in white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and Indigenous subjugation, will frame the future of our field. AAAS can be our collective voice.