Victoria (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and a recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. Her dissertation centers on Southeast Asian refugee communities and their fight against California’s prison to deportation pipeline. She volunteers with the Asian Prisoner Support Committee and helps teach ROOTS, an Ethnic Studies course in San Quentin State Prison.
Beyond her U.S.-based work, Victoria is also interested in Vietnamese anti-colonial history, literary translation, and spiritual practice. She previously received a B.A. in Ethnic Studies at Brown University, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
critical refugee studies, prison abolition, feminist social movements, southeast asian diaspora, trauma and ancestral memory
