Diane is a multimedia artist, educator, and curator born and raised in Flushing, Queens. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark and an affiliate faculty of Global Urban Studies, American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. As a queer Chinese American and daughter of immigrants, her work is intimately tied to the Asian diaspora and urban immigrant experience. Her artistic practice and scholarship is fundamentally about the intersectionalities of how race and racialization processes are articulated in the production of everyday life and entangled with other structures including class, sexuality, empire, and colonialism. As a scholar whose work traverses traditional divides between the social sciences and humanities, her work complicates how we understand the racialization of Asian Americans over space, across scale, and through time. Her current book project, You Can’t Evict A Movement: Intergenerational Activism and Housing Justice in New York City, combines ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, augmented reality, and oral history interviews to examine intergenerational resistance to gentrification in Manhattan Chinatown. She is co-editing a special issue on Asian American Abolition Feminisms for Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies which explores community models of safety, mutual aid, and collective care, bringing together a range of scholars, sex worker advocates, oral historians and archivists, organizers, and formerly incarcerated writers. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, a variety of anthologies, media outlets, podcasts, and exhibitions. As a socially engaged artist, Diane is a member of the Chinatown Art Brigade and co-founder of The W.O.W. Project, a queer, non- binary, trans and youth-led initiative that uses arts activism to combat displacement in Manhattan Chinatown.