Kai Nham (he/they)

As a queer and trans Chinese-Vietnamese son of a refugee from Vietnam and immigrant from Hong Kong, Kai Nham (he/they) is deeply interested and committed to how our communities can imagine and build new worlds for ourselves. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA’s Department of Information Studies, where he is advised by Professor Michelle Caswell. Their current research interests include how information infrastructures help build and maintain trans of color care, as well as the development of grassroots and community-based interventions and technologies to resist violence and build new futures. He received his Master of Information and Data Science from University of California – Berkeley’s School of Information and his B.A. in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies from University of California – Berkeley.