Rachel Kuo

Rachel Kuo (she/her/hers) writes, teaches, and researches race, feminist politics, social movements, and digital technology. Bringing together archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, her current monograph, Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity, demonstrates how technologies enhance and foreclose possibilities for political organization across uneven racial and class difference. She works closely with community partners in developing her research, and her longer-term research goals and questions center and engage emergent questions and practices from grassroots social movements. Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Social Science Research Council. She is a founding member and current affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and also a co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective, where she is co-editing the anthology Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities. Her writing has been published in Media, Culture, and Society, Political Communication, Social Media and Society, New Media and Society, Journal of Communication, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. She has also co-edited the World Without Cages and Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities projects with the Asian American Writer’s Workshop.  She has a PhD and MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri.