Lee Ann S. Wang

Lee Ann S. Wang is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan’s Program in American Culture and Asian Pacific Islander American Studies and her B.A. from Scripps College. Her writings examine the making of legal personhood at the intersections of immigration law, criminal enforcement, and a critical reading of the humanitarian rescue of the feminine through an ethnographic engagement of anti-violence and immigrant rights strategies. Lee Ann is the past co-coordinator of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and previously worked as a community organizer, youth mentor, campaign organizer, and legislative advocate with organizations and non-profits across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Detroit.