President: Dr. Chandra D.L. Waring

Dr. Chandra D. L. Waring (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where she teaches race-oriented courses, including Introduction to Multiracial Studies. She joined CMRSA in 2010 at the inaugural conference. Chandra is Black/white biracial and her research on biracial/multiracial people has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race among other journals. Her recent work explores advice on navigating monoracism, how multiracial people envision the future, and the white privilege of multiracial people with white ancestry. Chandra previously served as a faculty advisor for mXd, a multiracial student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Connecticut and is honored to serve as president of CMRSA.

Secretary: Dr. Kevin Wong 黃浩文博士

Dr. Kevin Wong 黃浩文博士 is an Associate Professor and Chair of the MA in TESOL program at Pepperdine University. He received his Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning at New York University, specializing in literacy education for multilingual learners. Kevin’s research is informed by his biracial, trilingual upbringing in Hong Kong where he was a public elementary/primary school teacher. Now at Pepperdine, he directs the Multilingual, Multiracial, Multicultural Education Research Group, examining raciolinguistic ideologies and identity among students (with a particular interest in Multiracial individuals); language learning in ESL/EFL, dual language immersion, and digital contexts; and humanizing pedagogies and methodologies in applied linguistics research.

Treasurer: Jacob P. Wong Campbell

Jacob P. Wong-Campbell (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education and Student Affairs at The Ohio State University with research interests in multiracial college students, monoracism in policy and popular culture, and the quantification of race in higher education.

Caucus Coordinator: Dr. Aeriel A. Ashlee

Aeriel A. Ashlee, PhD (she/her) is a proud Asian American transracial transnational adoptee mamascholar. She is co-founder of Ashlee Consulting where she has worked with organizations from around the globe to foster diversity, inclusion, and belonging by facilitating brave space for bold conversations. She is also associate professor of College Counseling and Student Development at St. Cloud State University. Aeriel’s current research interests include collaborative autoethnography as transformative methodology, Asian American transracial adoptees’ racialized experiences, and integrating contemplative and liberatory pedagogies to cultivate belonging and healing in higher education. Aeriel first attended and presented at the 2018 CMRS conference hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park. In addition to serving as the 2023-2024 Scholar-in-Residence for the ACPA Multiracial Transracial Adoptee Network Aeriel is elated to extend her commitment to intentional coalition building between transracial adoptee and multiracial communities by serving as the 2024-2026 CMRS Caucus Coordinator.

Graduate Student Representative: Deja Goodwin

Deja Goodwin is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UCLA. Her research interests include Race & Ethnicity, Identities, and Families. She is currently working on her qualitative dissertation, which investigates how multiracial individuals form their racial identities within families. Inspired by her own lived experience with her multiracial identity—a combination of Black, white, and Mexican—Deja entered graduate school seeking to understand how multiracial people with two or more races in their mix understand their racial identities in different contexts. She is eager to connect with other graduate students interested in CMRS through her role as a Graduate Student Representative.

Community Art Liaison: Nina Cataldo

Nina Cataldo is an Intercultural Communications Specialist and DEI advocate/educator based in Japan, with a deep commitment to fostering inclusive and diverse communities. She is the founder of Hafu Ladies, a global community for mixed-race and mixed-heritage women with Japanese roots. Inspired by her first CMRS conference at Ohio State, Nina brings her passion for amplifying underrepresented voices and bridging cultures to her role as the Community Art Liaison. With a background in writing and storytelling, cultural consultancy, and creative arts, her goal is to expand CMRS from a heavily academic conference to one that embraces a wider range of topics and communities. She aims to bring in more creative partnerships and provide diverse ways for community members to express and understand their lived experiences.

Global Representative: Rhianna Garrett

Rhianna is a mixed methods doctoral researcher at Loughborough University in the UK. Her thesis investigates the underrepresented of racialised minority academic staff in UK higher education, with a focus on the career trajectories and imagined futures of racialised minority PhDs and early career researchers. She identifies as a Chinese British mixed-race woman, and has published on the topic entitled I’m not white”: counter-stories of mixed-race women navigating PhDs. Additionally, she has written about how racism shapes academic careers in the UK. Currently, she specialises in global mixed-race and intersectional identities across locational and temporal space in the fields of sociology and geography. Rhianna’s other roles include being a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University on intersectional mixedness in employment, an anti-racism/decolonisation consultant, and community organiser. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Master of Arts in Technology, Creativity, and Thinking in Education at the University of Exeter, and founded the anti-racism in sport project Active Together Exeter. She aims to push for CMRS to enter mainstream anti-racism discourse in the UK and beyond. 

Social Media Coordinator: Amanda Lee Adams

Amanda Lee Adams (they/them) is an undergraduate student at Mount Holyoke College, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in English and Sociology, with an expected graduation in May 2025. Their commitment to activism and Multiracial research began in their freshman year when they founded the Mixed Identity Student Collective. This initiative was motivated by a desire to cultivate community and critical dialogue in ways that Amanda had not encountered growing up in Tennessee. The collective has become a vital space for Multiracial students to connect, share experiences, and engage in meaningful conversations. Amanda has led various film, poetry, and artistic projects, which allows them to explore and express the complexities of Multiracial identity. Specializing in intergroup dialogue, Amanda is adept at facilitating conversations that bridge diverse perspectives and foster understanding. Their research at Purdue University’s ARISE Lab focuses on the socialization of Multiracial identity within families, further enriching their engagement with these themes. In their free time, Amanda enjoys cooking new recipes and traveling to new places, seeking out adventures and opportunities to connect with new people.

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