Kathy Min

Kathy Min is in her last semester at Yale College, where she will graduate with a B.A. in History with an emphasis in empires and colonialism. Her studies at Yale have focused on Asian American history and the interplay between race, gender, and migration. Her senior thesis, supported by the Branford College Mellon Senior Research Fund, is centered on a collection of oral histories from Asian Americans across her home state of Idaho. Kathy previously spent a semester at the University of Sydney, where she studied Australian history, politics, and society, with a particular interest towards the Asian diaspora, refugees, and Indigenous communities in Australia. Kathy is the Deputy Director of the Asian American Studies Collective, a youth-led organization invested in cultivating Asian American Studies in the American South. Through the Collective, she has planned the conference, “The Need for Asian American Studies: Solidarity, Community, and Justice for All.” (The conference, originally meant to take place at Emory University in the spring of 2020, would have been the first Asian American Studies conference in the state of Georgia; instead, the conference took place virtually in February 2021.)