CSW Welcomes New Personnel

Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Tonawanda Band of Seneca, is Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty in Community Engagements and Critical Race Studies in the Law School at UCLA. She is also the inaugural Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs. She was a 2020–2021 Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Center for Diversity Innovation at the University of Buffalo located in her home Seneca territories.

Dr. Jasmine Nadua Trice is Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. Incorporating critical perspectives grounded in dynamics culture and power, she has taught classes on histories of exhibition and moviegoing, media studies approaches to space and place, transnational media industry studies, Southeast Asian film and video cultures, and Asian urbanism on screen.

The CSW Advisory Committee, chaired by Dr. Jasmine Trice, also welcomes Dr. Hannah Appel, Dr. Jessica Cattelino, Dr. Timu Gallien, and Dr. Kimberly Narain to the Executive Board, along with CSW Director Dr. Grace Hong and Associate Director Dr. Mishuana Goeman.

Colby Lenz joins CSW with over 20 years of leadership experience in community-engaged research, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy addressing the intersections of criminalization, incarceration, and gender-based violence. Colby is a co-founder of Survived & Punished, a national organizing project to end the criminalization of survivors of sexual and domestic violence, and a long-term advocate with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), and the Transgender Advocacy Group (TAG).