Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee is a feminist poet, new media artist, and scholar. Her research focuses on technology, and intersections with feminist, queer, and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and pedagogy. Her scholarship has been published at Amerasia Journal, Information Society, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy. As a digital activist and new media artist she is co-lead and conceptualist of From the Center a feminist HIV/AIDS digital storytelling education project implemented in the San Francisco Jail.^[1][2] For this project, she was awarded the Chancellor’s Award in Public Service from UC Berkeley and the Yamashita Prize Honorable Mention for young activists by the Center for Social Change.^[3] She currently serves on the board of directors for social justice organizations, DataCenter ^[4] and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.^[5]

As a feminist experimental poet, her chapbook Yellow was published by Tinfish Press/University of Hawaii.^[6][7][8] She currently serves as managing editor of Mixed Blood, a literary journal on race and experimental poetry published out of the University of California, Berkeley.^[9] She co-edited the collections Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press) ^[10] and online anthology Glitter Tongue: queer and trans love poems.^[11] Her poetry has been published at the Berkeley Poetry Review, Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry, and Mission At Tenth.

She is the Institute of American Cultures Visiting Researcher in Asian American Studies at UCLA for 2014 - 2015. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in Ethnic Studies with a designated emphasis in New Media Studies.^[12] She received her B.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. From 2004 - 2006, she worked as an editor for publications YOLK Magazine, Chopblock.com, and Backstage.^[13]

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