Author

Diane Fujino

Diane C. Fujino is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the former coeditor of the Journal of Asian American Studies. She is the author of several books including Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation (2022), Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party (2020), and Heartbeat of Struggle: the Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama (2005). She has been featured in the New York Times, Rafu Shimpo, Democracy Now!, Discover Nikkei, and on NBC, CBS, and NPR. In the community, she works with ÉXITO, the Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson Archival Project, the Organizing Knowledge Project, and the Santa Barbara Tenants Union. Her work largely works to create and support transformative, sustainable, and emancipatory change.