Joanna Yeh is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science, and minoring in Chinese Studies. In the classroom, Joanna is working to co-develop a one-of-a-kind queer Asian American Studies syllabus and lesson plan to teach in the Spring 2024 semester. Outside of the classroom, Joanna is pursuing conversations and academic discourse around Asian American Studies which she hopes to bring to the campus. Most recently, she began working with fellow undergraduate students to advocate for an Asian American studies program and additional resources at UNC-CH. Additionally, as a student executive member of the UNC Asian American Center (AAC), she is working within and beyond the university to explore her research and advocacy prowess. In fact, as the 2023 UNC AAC’s June Yom Student Award recipient, Joanna researched queer Asian America through the lens of art analyses as well as queer and Asian American contextualization. to culminate in her conference paper for AAAS 2024.