Join the Asian American Education Projector for our workshop series, APIDA Hip Hop Scholars Webinars.

In this webinar, we will be joined by Dr. grace shinhae jun who will share her expertise on Asian American history, representation, and activism through hip hop and movement. Dr. grace will discuss the importance of building solidarity through dance and hip hop.

grace shinhae jun Ph.D., MFA. is a mother, wife, artist, scholar, organizer, and mover who creates and educates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation. A child of a South Korean immigrant, a North Korean refugee, and Hip Hop culture, she values a movement practice that is infused with historical and contextual education to enrich the corporeal experience in her classes. grace also directs bkSOUL, an award-winning performance company that merges together movement, poetry, and live music. She is a founding core member of Asian Solidarity Collective, a grassroots organization committed to expanding Asian American social justice consciousness, condemning anti-Blackness, and building solidarity for collective liberation and co-conspires with the artists and healers of Street Dance Activism. grace received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her PhD in Drama and Theatre through the joint doctoral program at UCSD/UCI. Her scholarship includes publications in the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Journal, and she is the co-editor for Dance Studies Association’s 2022 ​​Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies “Cyber-Rock: A Virtual Hip Hop Listening Cypher.” grace is an Assistant Professor of Dance at San Diego City College where she also serves on the Sankofa Social Justice & Education Conference committee, is an educator with transcenDANCE Youth Arts, and a lecturer at UC San Diego where she was the recipient of the 2022/2023 Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award.