Staff

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John J. Chin, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Urban Policy and Planning Department and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Planning at Hunter College. As Principal Investigator of the Hunter College AANAPISI Project, Professor Chin coordinates all assessment activities and oversees the administration of HCAP’s grant. Prof. Chin does research on urban health, immigrant communities and the role of community institutions in community planning and in the delivery of social and health services. He is also interested in how key community institutions in immigrant and minority communities shape community values and norms, particularly in relation to controversial or sensitive topics, such as HIV.

Prior to coming to Hunter College, Prof. Chin was a Senior Research Associate at the New York Academy of Medicine, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University (Mailman School of Public Health), and a Visiting Assistant Research Scientist at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a co-founder and Deputy Executive Director of the Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (now known as APICHA Community Health Center, a NYC-based Federally Qualified Health Center). He has also worked for the NYC Commission on Human Rights and the NYC Comptroller’s Office.

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Paul McPherron, Ph.D., is the Co-Principal Investigator of HCAP and the BMCC-Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative (ABI), and is responsible for overall management for these projects. He also supports the faculty and staff development seminars and the research skills curriculum for HCAP and ABI. He is a professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) where he teaches classes on English linguistics, sociolinguistics, ESL, and the structure of English. He is a socio/applied linguist whose research interests and publications have examined questions about English language learning in relation to identity, globalization, neo-nationalism, and teaching policies, particularly in China and the United States. He also recently published a textbook with Palgrave McMillan entitled Thinking Sociolinguistically: How to Plan, Conduct, and Present your Research Project. Paul has a Ph.D in Linguistics from UC Davis, an MA in TESOL from UC Davis, and a B.A. in English Education from the University of Illinois. He has held academic and teaching positions around the world including at Southern Illinois University, Stanford University, Shantou University (Guangdong, China), and UC Davis. He was also a Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania where he taught English at two high schools in Sibiu, Transylvania.

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Caitlin Ho is the Program Director for the Hunter College AANAPISI Project (HCAP). She oversees HCAP’s programs and partnerships, manages reporting, and coordinates HCAP’s student leadership programs.

Caitlin has worked for the past 10 years supporting community organizations to advance social justice. Prior to joining HCAP, Caitlin was the Grant and Loan Program Manager at the Hopewell Fund, where she provided resources to women’s health clinics, and served as Senior Associate at NoVo Foundation, where she supported organizations focused on ending gender-based violence, advancing economic justice, and building the leadership of young women of color. Caitlin has also worked for the Center for Students of Color at Brown University and served as the Pan-Asian Student Coordinator.

Caitlin received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies and Political Science from Brown University, and her M.S. in Urban Policy and Leadership from Hunter College CUNY. Caitlin was also a CUNY Women’s Public Service Policy Fellow, and served as a local chapter leader of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF).

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Linh An, Ph.D., is the Multilingual Learner Specialist (MLL) for the Hunter College AANAPISI Project. As the MLL, she helps develop academic and research skills seminars and is currently leading HCAP and the BMCC-Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative’s (ABI’s) financial literacy program and co-directs the undergraduate research program. Linh is a first-generation college graduate with a long history of working with underserved AAPI students in NYC. Outside of Hunter, Linh is leading the development of a psychoeducation program in partnership with NYU School of Medicine- Dept of Population Health for limited English proficient (LEP) Chinese caregivers. Additionally, she is building a holistic wellness intervention for Asian American college students that integrates psychoeducation, professional development, and racial identity exploration with NYU’s Dept of Applied Psychology. She is currently on the Board of Charles B. Wang Community Health Center. Linh received her bachelor’s degree from Queens College and her PhD in Anthropology from UCLA.

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Marcia Liu, Ph.D. is the Mental Health Specialist for HCAP. In this role she co-lead the semi-annual BMCC-Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative (ABI) Faculty Seminar Series, focusing on the needs of AAPI students at Hunter and BMCC. This program focuses on pedagogical interventions, cultivating cultural humility and reflective instructor identities, and understanding the mental health needs of students at both institutions. Additionally, she has developed a mental health outreach program for students. Here she hosts student outreach events, develops relationships with NYC AAPI-serving community mental health centers, and engages with faculty and staff. She also leads an undergraduate research team. She has taught in the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter for the past seven years. Outside of ABI, Marcia has a private psychotherapy and consulting practice, and she serves as national advisor to the Steve Fund. Her research and clinical interests include AAPI racial identity development, racial trauma, immigration stress and intergenerational conflict, AAPI gender and sexuality, and mental health stigma within the AAPI community. Prior to Hunter she worked as a psychologist at The Brooklyn Veterans Affairs Hospital, The New School, and Columbia University. She has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College, an M.A. in Psychology from New York University, and a B.A. in both Economics and Psychology from the University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill.

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Gabriela “Biba” Fullon is a Filipina American Licensed Mental Health Counselor, educator, and organizer who was born and raised in New York. As the HCAP Mental Health Outreach Coordinator, Biba assists with developing and facilitating programming about Asian American communities and mental health for our students.
She currently works in private practice with adults experiencing PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other mood and anxiety disorders. Her clinical interests include racial and ethnic identity, family systems and acculturative stress, somatization, intergenerational trauma, Indigenous healing practices, and psychoeducation. In addition to her mental health work, Fullon organizes nationally with the Education for Liberation Network and the Free Minds Free People Conference.

Prior to coming to Hunter, Fullon was a classroom teacher in Boston Public Schools and directed programs for young women in the Bronx. Fullon studied Human Development, American Heritages, and Black Studies and earned her MS.Ed. in Secondary Education and History from Boston College. She is also a graduate of the Mental Health Counseling program at Hunter College.

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Jade Yeung is a queer writer, artist, and survivor from Brooklyn, NY. As the Administrative Assistant for Hunter College AANAPISI Project they support HCAP’s administrative, programmatic, and communications needs.

Jade is also the author of ANTI, a chapbook from Black Warrior Review. Jade has received support from Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, and Fine Arts Work Center. They have appeared in Honey Literary, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and Kissing Dynamite. Jade received a BA in English from Hunter College, and a MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Newark where she was a Trustee Fellow. Currently Jade is working on a hybrid poetry collection that explores the relationship between familial and state systems. You can learn more about their work at jadeyeung.com/publications.