Dr. Kathy Yep is a tenured Full Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College (of the Claremont Colleges). She is fascinated by how people with limited resources create empowerment and change. With a focus on feminist pedagogies, community-based learning, and cultural politics, her writing has appeared as books through Harper Collins and Temple University Press, in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and in public outlets like the Los Angeles Times. A certified mindfulness facilitator through UCLA MARC, a visiting teacher through insightLA, and a practitioner of Dayan Qì Gōng since the 1990s, Dr. Yep examines culturally relevant and embodied approaches to liberatory education. Awarded the Claremont Colleges 2020 Diversity Mentor Award and as the Associate Dean of Faculty in Academic Affairs , Dr. Yep designed curriculum and trained faculty, staff and students for a pilot Bias Education Support Team. As co-architect of the Claremont Faculty Leadership Program, she integrated anti-racist pedagogies and contemplative practices in the professional development curriculum. Most recently, she was a visiting scholar at UCLA in 2021 and a faculty fellow at Naropa University in 2020. Raised in Northern California, Professor Yep received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. FMI: www.kathyyep.com