Hannah Hyun White

Hannah Hyun White (she/her) is a REEDS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the STEM Learning Center and Department of Educational Policy Studies and Practice at the University of Arizona. Dr. Hyun White also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), the Chair for NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education’s Transracial Adoptee and Multiracial Knowledge Community (TAMKC), and the Past Chair for the American College Personnel Association’s (ACPA) Asian Pacific American Network (APAN).

As a Korean American adoptee her research focuses largely on amplifying the voices of transracial/transnational adoptee communities and understanding how neoliberal systems shape the experiences of student activists in higher education. Her research and praxis are largely influenced by Asian American feminist theories, Critical Adoption Studies, and decolonial frameworks/methodology in co-creating knowledge that centers truth telling, collectivism, and care in working to dismantle systemic racism and violence in educational spaces.