I am a third year doctoral candidate in the Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy Program (Student Affairs Concentration) at the University of Maryland, College Park. I use she/her/hers pronouns. I currently serve as an instructor and graduate coordinator in the Leadership Studies Program. As a higher education and student affairs scholar-practitioner, I am committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion work that interrogates systemic injustices and advocates equity-minded policies, practices, and research that center the lived experiences and voices of communities at the margins of the society.
In my scholarship, I am particularly interested in exploring international students' leadership identity development, leadership self-efficacy, and leadership capacity, international students' engagements with activism, and international Students of Colors' racialized experiences and their experiences with race, racism, and neo-racism at predominantly white institutions through a critical lens.
Prior to my current role at the Leadership Studies Program, I held the positions of the Graduate Assistant at the Office of Studnt Conduct at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Senior Residence Life Officer for Residential Education and Programs at Duke Kunshan University in China. I completed my undergraduate studies in Secondary School English Education at the Education University of Hong Kong and my master's in Educational Policy (K-12) at the University of Washington, Seattle.
