about me
Hi, my name is Eunice. My Mandarin name is 思愉, which means happy/joyful thoughts/longings/hope/desire.
As a a former public K-12 Ethnic Studies classroom teacher and current teacher educator, I practice humanizing, healing-centered, praxis-driven, and place-based critical pedagogy. I care deeply about transformative justice, abolition, and politicized embodiment/somatics. Are we in right relationship with each other as we imagine, build towards, and enact—in the present—the grammar of otherwise worlds? How might we heal our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our more-than-human kin of the lands and waters?
I also work as a freelance graphic designer to visualize quantitative research around inequity to strengthen grassroots labor organizing and educate policymakers. Additionally, I serve as one of the leaders in the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, where we work to advance the discipline of Ethnic Studies in K-12 and beyond. Things that give me life include reading, movement, and watching thought-provoking TV shows.
Black Studies was meant to "save people's lives... the one thing we didn't want to happen is for ethnic studies to become part of the ivory tower experience... Damn academic worthiness. If the community could see your worthiness, that's what we should have been concerned about, that the people in Fillmore, in Mission, Ingleside, that even the people in the Sunset and Richmond, if they could see our academic worthiness, the hell with what the ivory tower intelligency of thought. We were never out to impress them. All they knew was we were the ones who disrupted their classes." Arnold Townsend oral history interview ~48:06-53:23, SFSU Archive
Design programs I use extensively:
Programs I use occasionally as needed:
• B.A. Ethnic Studies, UCSD 🧜♂️
• M.Ed with emphasis in Ethnic Studies, UCLA 🐻
Single subject credentials in Social Science and English
• PhD in Education with Designated Emphasis in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UCSC in progress 🐌
• M.Ed with emphasis in Ethnic Studies, UCLA 🐻
Single subject credentials in Social Science and English
• PhD in Education with Designated Emphasis in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UCSC in progress 🐌