Board Member

Amy Sueyoshi is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at San Francisco State University. They are a historian by training with an undergraduate degree from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from University of California at Los Angeles. Their research area lies at the intersection of Asian American Studies and Sexuality Studies. Amy has authored two monographs, Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi and Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental.” Their essay “Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History” was a part of the award-winning National Park Service LGBT Theme Study published in 2017. Amy also seeded the intergenerational Dragon Fruit Oral History Project at LavNix, served as founding co-curator of the GLBT History Museum, and co-founded and co-chaired the biennial Queer History Conference hosted by the Committee on LGBT History. They live in Daly City with their partner and two cats, Jax and Chibi.

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