Community

No historian is an island. 

My scholarship is only possible because of the generosity and advice of colleagues, mentors, friends, and family. Community-focused work -- service, public history, and paying it forward -- is core to my practice.

Some of the communities and community-focused experiences I've had on my journey as a historian:

• Founder and co-organizer, Queer@EH, an interdisciplinary network building visibility of and solidarity among LGBTQIA+ scholars across the environmental humanities

• Digital content advisor: the American Yawp (a massively collaborative open U.S. history textbook)

• Contributor and member, Environmental Historians Action Collaborative (shared Creative Commons licensed teaching materials on the politics of climate change and global justice)

• Co-founder and co-lead, Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop

• Department of History, Stanford University, past graduate admissions committee, United States field

• Undergraduate Thesis Mentor, Department of History, Stanford University

• United States History Workshop, Stanford University, past graduate co-facilitator

• Presentations of community-based research at community museums in the Bay Area: the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and the San Mateo County History Museum

• Invited to provide historical expertise for Redwood City, California area memorialization and public art projects on Japanese American community history