CRJ Team
Christine Hong
principal investigator | professor of Critical race and ethnic studies (CRES) and literature
Christine Hong specializes in transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, U.S. war and empire, and comparative ethnic studies. Hong’s current book project titled “The Price of Inclusion: Race, Militarism, and the Pax Americana in Cold War Asia and the Pacific,” which examines the double-fronted nature of U.S. Cold War counterrevolutionary violence and emergent, anti-militarist human rights politics in the Asia-Pacific region following Japan’s Pacific War defeat. She is currently the co-editor of the journal Critical Ethnic Studies.
Domingo Canizales
Undergraduate advisor and administrator to the center for racial justice
Domingo Canizales is a Chicanx writer and educator from Nuevo, CA. He earned his BA in Literature from UCSC and his MFA in Writing and Poetics from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Prior to joining the CRES team, Domingo taught various subjects as a public-school teacher in Portland, OR where he prioritized working with diverse communities in underrepresented areas. Domingo is currently working on a book length creative project centered on his father’s experiences within the prison industrial complex.
Boyeong Kim
CRJ Graduate Student Researcher
CRJ Interns
Riley Alinsug (Winter 2024-Present)
Riley Alinsug is currently enrolled at UC Santa Cruz as a third-year undergraduate student, double majoring in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and Education. They bring experience organizing with Pilipinx diaspora communities of Santa Cruz as a member of Anakbayan and Co-Coordinator of UCSC’s longest standing peer-led ethnic studies course, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue. As a Pilipinx youth who understands the need for Third World youth to be critically conscious of systems of oppression which uphold ideological whiteness, they are inspired by their studies and the communities of color residing in Santa Cruz County to advocate for ethnic studies and accessible political education for all.
Aamir Asadi (Winter-Summer 2024)
Bio Pending
Lucy Liu (Winter 2024-Present)
Lucy is a third-year undergraduate pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. With a background in student organizing related to anti-imperialist national liberation, Lucy is passionate about education as a means of advancing justice, improving people's lives, and transforming society into an equal one for all oppressed people. Lucy conducts community-centered research and documents local community organizing with the Center for Racial Justice.
Rafael Revolorio (Winter 2024-Present)
Rafael Revolorio is a third-year double major in Latin American & Latino Studies (LALS) and Global & Community Health (GCH), he also plans to minor in Science & Justice. He grew up in the East Bay and has worked at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation on projects involving harm reduction related to substance use, aimed at Latino and Maya communities in the Mission district. His goal is to work on increasing access to culturally concordant public health resources for underserved and marginalized ethnic communities. Currently he works for the Center for Racial Justice at UC Santa Cruz as he completes his bachelor's degree.
Keiko Utsumi (Fall 2024-Present)
Keiko Utsumi is a fourth-year undergraduate obtaining their Bachelor of Arts in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies (CRES) from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Keiko’s home in Southern California fuels their love for education, art, and writing. With experience working as a harm reduction peer educator and a researcher for the Humanities Institute of Japanese American Postwar Resettlement, Keiko has found a home at the Center for Racial Justice pursuing community-based research and archival curation. Interrogating their position here as a UCSC student, an educational consumer in an institution that has gentrified the local area, has motivated Keiko’s contribution to the CRJ’s Santa Cruz in Color archive.