Staff

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. 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.

As Principal Investigator of the Hunter College AANAPISI Project, Professor Chin coordinates all assessment activities and oversees the administration of HCAP’s grant.

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.

Paul McPherron, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he is also Director of the Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT). He teaches classes on English linguistics, sociolinguistics, ESL, and the structure of English. He is a socio/applied linguist whose research interests involve questions about English language learning in relation to identity, globalization, and teaching policies, particularly in China and the United States.

He has most recently written a book published by Palgrave McMillan entitled, Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning: An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China. In earlier work, he co-authored a book on teaching idioms published by TESOL Press and co-edited a book on discourses of health and bodies published by Mouton de Gruyter. He has published articles and reviews in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, the Asia Pacific Journal of Education, CATESOL Journal, and the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.

Paul 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 a Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania where he taught English at two high schools in Sibiu, Transylvania.

As Co-PI of the Hunter College ANNAPISI Project, Paul coordinates the programs and courses focused on English language learners (ELL) and multilingual students at Hunter College. In particular, he helps to run the immersion courses offered during the winter and summer breaks, and he works with the ELL Specialist to create tutoring and writing resources for ELL background students at Hunter College.

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 9 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).

Linh An earned her Ph.D. from the UCLA Anthropology Department. Her dissertation research is on immigrant Chinese women who provide care to a family member diagnosed with a mental illness. Linh has worked with the New York State Psychiatric Institute on research that aims to develop culturally competent treatment models for limited English proficient (LEP) patients. She has served as a teaching assistant for various introductory anthropology courses, and has taught upper-division cultural anthropology courses at UCLA.

Currently, Linh is a consultant at the Columbia University Writing Center where she helps clients with their writing projects. She is also the Multilingual Learner Specialist (MLS) for the Hunter College AANAPISI Project (HCAP). As the MLS Specialist, she collaborates with various Hunter departments and student services programs to enhance the linguistic and cultural support available to underserved Asian American Pacific Islander students.

Linh serves on the board of the Chinese-American Family Alliance for Mental Health (CAFAMH), a volunteer-run organization for immigrant Chinese caregivers of mental health consumers. Her training as an ethnographer has informed her approach to community-based research projects that address health inequities. In partnership with NYU’s Center for the Study of Asian American Health and Department of Population Health, Linh is developing a psycho-education program for LEP Chinese caregivers in New York City.

Marcia Liu, Ph.D. is a Licensed Counseling Psychologist. She was born in New York before moving to Maryland. She received her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her MA from NYU, and her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. As part of her clinical training she practiced at the South Boston Behavioral Health Center and the Brookline Community Mental Health Center, working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. She completed her psychology internship at the Brooklyn Campus of the Veterans’ Affairs Hospital working on the Hepatitis-C/Chronic Pain and Primary Care/Women’s Health rotations. After graduating, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. She also previously worked as a staff psychologist at The New School’s Student Health Services.

Currently, Dr. Liu works as the HCAP Mental Health Coordinator, where she develops and implements HCAP’s mental health programs. She is also a Compensation and Pension Psychologist at The Brooklyn VA Hospital, and had a small private practice. Her research and clinical interests focus on mental health policy, acculturative stress, gender, race-related stress, multicultural supervision, Asian American/Pacific Islander health, racial identity, and trauma. She is an alumni member of the Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, under the direction of Janet E. Helms.

Maryam Mian is the Program Assistant for HCAP.

Maryam Mian is an undergraduate student at Hunter and is in her third year as a Psychology major and Asian American Studies minor. As the program assistant, Maryam helps her coworkers organize events and also runs HCAP’s social media. Maryam is also a member of HCAP’s Leadership Program where she gives aid to students as well as her fellow Leaders.