Hi! I'm Samyu (she/her), a writer, organizer, and Political Science PhD Candidate.
I primarily write about social movements, mutual aid, and reproductive justice. I specialize in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics and Quantitative Methods at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I am also a proud alumna of the University of South Carolina's departments of
Computer Science and
Statistics.
You may also know me from...
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- the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars program, led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid, an abolitionist network of care supporting unhoused neighbors through food distribution and harm reduction. Please consider donating here if you are interested.
- Kitchen Committee, a food-based mutual aid collective that arose from the 2022 UC Academic Workers strike at UCLA.
- my work at UCLA, including
- research and project management for the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS).
- communications and planning for the 2024 and 2025 annual meetings of the Western Political Science Association in Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA, respectively.
- research, editorial assistance, and project management for the third edition of Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics.
- teaching for the Department of Political Science at UCLA, 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.