SHORT VERSION: Kathy Yep is a tenured Full Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College (of the Claremont Colleges). She is fascinated by how people with limited resources create empowerment and change. With a focus on feminist pedagogies, community-based learning, and cultural politics, her writing has appeared through Harper Collins and Temple University Press, in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and in public outlets like the Los Angeles Times. A certified mindfulness facilitator through UCLA MARC, a visiting teacher through insightLA, and a practitioner of Dayan Qì Gōng since the 1990s, Dr. Yep examines culturally relevant and embodied approaches to liberatory education. Awarded the Claremont Colleges 2020 Diversity Mentor Award and as the Associate Dean of Faculty in Academic Affairs , Dr. Yep Dr. Yep designed curriculum and trained faculty, staff and students for a pilot Bias Education Support Team. As co-architect of the Claremont Faculty Leadership Program, she integrated anti-racist pedagogies and contemplative practices in the professional development curriculum. Most recently, she was a visiting scholar at UCLA in 2021 and a faculty fellow at Naropa University in 2020. Raised in Northern California, Professor Yep received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
LONG VERSION: Kathy Yep is a tenured Full Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College (of the Claremont Colleges). She is fascinated by how people with limited resources create empowerment and change. With a focus on feminist pedagogies, community-based learning, and cultural politics, her writing has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and public outlets like the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground (Temple University Press) and co-author of Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island with Dr. Laurence Yep (Harper Collins). A certified mindfulness facilitator through UCLA MARC, a visiting teacher through insightLA, and a practitioner of Dayan Qì Gōng since the 1990s, Dr. Yep examines culturally relevant and embodied approaches to liberatory education. As a visiting scholar at the UCLA Semel Institute, the Lenz Foundation Faculty Fellow at Naropa University, and community partner of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, she co-developed a train the trainer curriculum of mindful movement (qi gong) to nourish community cultural wealth and to mediate historical trauma. A member of an advisory group for the “Your Path to Our Health” grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she has spoken at institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare and AARP. As the inaugural Associate Dean of Faculty in Academic Affairs addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness, Dr. Yep designed curriculum and trained faculty, staff and students for a pilot Bias Education Support Team. As co-architect of the Claremont Faculty Leadership Program, she integrated anti-racist pedagogies and contemplative practices in the professional development curriculum. Dr. Yep received the Claremont Colleges 2020 Diversity Mentor Award, which “honors faculty members who provide consistent and meaningful support and encouragement to historically underrepresented students, staff or colleagues.” From the Bonner Foundation to the Project Pericles Mellon Faculty Fellowship, she has received funding to teach liberatory education to and with immigrant and refugee elders and has published extensively on community-based-learning. Raised in Northern California, Professor Yep received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a University of California President’s Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is living beyond thyroid cancer (27 years). She loves dancing, playing tennis with her husband/partner, and sharing a household with a very large cat who thinks he is a dog.
Hi Kathy, thank you so much for today’s session… it was wonderfully relaxing. This is the headband I mentioned… I was at a conference many years ago and herd a talk from the researchers still developing it at the time. https://choosemuse.com/
If you office any other online sessions, please let me know.
Warm regards
Silvia
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Hi Kathy, sorry for the typos!!
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So glad to meet you Silvia and to practice together. Thanks for the resource. Hope our paths cross again soon.
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Dear Dr Yep
I’ve just explored your website, hoping to learn more about your work after appreciating so much your article on teaching in Monterey Park. (I too was a “liberatory” teacher for many years.) It felt good to learn that you practice with the Plum Village tradition (I do too!) and that you also studied with Dr, Bingkun Hu (as did I!) and teach Wild Goose qi gong. So grateful to see that you design your qigong classes for the people that need them the most. Thank you for your work.
Louise Dunlap
http://www.louisedunlap.net
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Hello Louise, I hope you are well. I appreciated hearing you give a zoom talk about your book Inherited Silence (https://nyupress.org/9781613321706/inherited-silence). I marvel that cross over in our practices in Plum Village and with Dr. Hu! We have much to talk about! I have much to learn from you. My secret-not-so-secret hope is that we will dialogue, practice, and share space in the near future. Sending and receiving loving kindness.
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