Prof. Kimiko Kelly
Professor Kelly comes from a background in community organizing and nonprofit community work. As a Lecturer in the Asian American Studies Department at CSUN, she brings to her classrooms a broad spectrum of real world applications that she can utilize to examine the diverse and confounding issues that arise in ethnic studies.
After receiving her Master’s in Public Policy from UCLA, she began working at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center as a research analyst where she focused on compiling demographic profiles using U.S. Census 2000 data. In 2009, she joined the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) as their Research Manager to assist in developing, coordinating, and evaluating a program focused on breast and cervical cancer disparities among Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Her prior work included working for the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica as a field interviewer where she participated in a variety of projects that included studies of neighborhood effects on child well-being, high risk HIV behaviors of low-income women, and the effects of television watching on teen sexual behavior.
Since she joined CSUN in 2007, she has taught AAS 345 Contemporary Asian American Issues, 201 Race, Racism, and Critical Thinking, and 155 Freshman Composition.
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