Hi! I’m Samyu (she/her). I’m a writer, organizer, and PhD student based in Los Angeles, CA. I specialize in the study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics and Quantitative Methods in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. I primarily study anti-abortion direct action and clinic escort counter-organizing tactics in the American South, with a focus on social movement tactical choice and epistemologies of organizing. You may also know me from:

the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars program, led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Kitchen Committee, a food-based mutual aid collective that arose from the 2022 UC Academic Workers strike at UCLA. Read more about us here, here, or here.

Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid, an abolitionist network of care supporting our unhoused neighbors through food distribution and harm reduction. Read more about us here, and please donate here if you are able.

my work as a Research Associate on various projects such as

research for the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS).

research for the forthcoming edition of Uneven Roads: An Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Politics.

communications and planning for the 2024 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Vancouver, BC.

teaching for the UC-HBCU Initiative's Sawyer Summer Institute and UCLA Academic Advancement Program’s McNair Summer Research Institute.

South Carolina, a place I am proud to call home.

You can reach me via email at comandur@ucla.edu, or find me on Twitter at @SamyuComandur. You can also find my complete CV here.