Hello! I am an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University. My interdisciplinary research focuses on transnational adoption for South Korea to the United States and representations of Asian Americans in popular culture. I am the author of Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood (The Ohio State University Press, 2023) and Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2019). I also am co-editor of Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School (University of Illinois Press, 2020).