Dawn Wing
Election
Position
Name
Dawn Wing
Candidate statement
Dawn Wing is a reference and instruction librarian at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. She earned her Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at City University of New York- Hunter College. She has taught courses/workshops in information literacy, zine-making and sequential arts. Her most recent publication, “Tye Leung Schulze: Translator for Justice” is a research-based, non-fiction graphic narrative depicting the life and legacy of the first Chinese American woman who voted in an US election. Dawn also received the 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board’s Creative Support for Individual Artists grant to complete her second graphic narrative publication based on her research of Tien Fu Wu, a contemporary of Tye Leung Schulze and fellow advocate for victims of human trafficking during the Chinese Exclusion Act era. The Minnesota Library Association’s Academic and Research Libraries Division (ARLD) selected Dawn for the 2021 Academic Innovator Award “for her work amplifying marginalized and diverse voices in the library and in the local community.”
If elected as archivist and board member, Dawn is eager to collect artifacts and interviews of AAAS scholars and community members, highlighting the origins and evolution of the organization. With her background in researching Asian American herstories at various institutional archives, she deeply appreciates and is committed to furthering the preservation of stories that chronicle the impactful developments of AAAS in the intellectual and activist communities. She looks forward to continuing the important tasks of organizing and processing archival documents, and implementing metadata that will make them discoverable. Dawn hopes to launch project-based initiatives that provide students and scholars opportunities to engage in archival practices. For more information about Dawn’s professional endeavors, visithttp://dawnwing.weebly.com
If elected as archivist and board member, Dawn is eager to collect artifacts and interviews of AAAS scholars and community members, highlighting the origins and evolution of the organization. With her background in researching Asian American herstories at various institutional archives, she deeply appreciates and is committed to furthering the preservation of stories that chronicle the impactful developments of AAAS in the intellectual and activist communities. She looks forward to continuing the important tasks of organizing and processing archival documents, and implementing metadata that will make them discoverable. Dawn hopes to launch project-based initiatives that provide students and scholars opportunities to engage in archival practices. For more information about Dawn’s professional endeavors, visithttp://dawnwing.weebly.com