In episode 6, we talk with Dr. OiYan-Poon, Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Director of the Center for Race and Intersectional Studies in Educational Equity, the RISE Center, at Colorado State University. Dr. Poon also served as President of the University of California Student Association, is an advocate for the establishment of the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) designation, and is a cofounder of the Chinese Americans Reimaging Leadership Summit in Boston. Topics discussed include Dr. Poon’s coauthored bookDifficult Subjects, how to teach in a world of precarity, scholarly activism, knowing your audience in the STEM fields, intersectionality, expectations from the RISE Center, and equity and the university business model.
