JOYCE JANG (she/they)
Co-President, At-Large Team Leader
HOMETOWN: San Jose, CA 🗼
MAJORS: Psychology and East Asian Languages & Cultures 🧠
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: letter writing ✉️, painting 🎨, playing smash on my brother's switch 🎮
FUN FACT: I play the traditional Korean drums in Haneulsori! 🥁
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: I love how SCAPE has given me the opportunity to get plugged into the Asian American community at USC through our General Meetings, where we talk about issues that pertain to the APIDA community. 🌏
MELISSA TUNGARE
(she/they)
Co-President, API Equality and CCED Team Leader
HOMETOWN: Morristown, New Jersey 🥯
MAJOR: Linguistics and Chinese 👄
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: singing and writing music 🎵, cooking👩🏽🍳, playing old video games 🎮
FUN FACT: Last year I went to Italy on a language documentation and revitalization trip through USC. 🇮🇹✌🏽
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: I love SCAPE because it provides a platform for me to get involved with grassroots activism in the LA area 🕬, and is an incredibly supportive community. 🤗
ANTONIA LE
(she/her)
Communications Director
HOMETOWN: San Diego, CA 🏖️
MAJOR: Applied Mathematics
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: Playing D&D 🎲, rewatching old shows 📺, messing around on Photoshop 🖥️
FUN FACT: I took a Python coding class! 🐍
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: I love SCAPE because of the wonderful community it creates of people willing to work and grow together. 🤗
EXECUTIVE BOARD
JOAN LEE
(she/her)
External Director, KIWA Team Leader
HOMETOWN: Los Alamitos, CA 🏠
MAJOR: Urban Studies and Planning🌆
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: baking 🍞, biking 🚴♀️, playing video games 🎮
FUN FACT:
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: I like SCAPE because it provides opportunities to make positive change in LA, and I'm excited to be textbanking for APIE-LA's campaign to empower households to fill out the census! 📋
ALEXANDER YEH
(he/him)
Internal Director, General Meeting Team Leader
HOMETOWN: San Francisco, CA 🌉
MAJORS: Art, Animation and Computer Programming (minors) 💻
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: Chloe Ting 🧘, biking 🚴, baking 🍞, drawing ✏️, and a lot of Animal Crossing and Catan 🎮
FUN FACT: I can recite a three-minute animated short about soy milk from memory. Yeah, that includes sound effects. 🥛
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: It’s a great way to get involved with APIDA issues and make a positive difference in the LA community! Plus, the team is so so awesome. 🤗
JOSEPH CHO
(he/him)
Recruitment and Development Coordinator, API Equality and Social Media Team Leader
HOMETOWN: Buena Park, CA 🎢
MAJOR: History 📚, Video Game Programming (minor) 🎮, Education and Society (minor) 🎓
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: blogging 💻, stop-motion animation 📷, running 🏃🏼
FUN FACT: I have a skin graft on my stomach: when I was two, someone spilled coffee all over me. 🤕
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: SCAPE gives me a platform to do justice in the LA community--I’m excited to partner with API Equality to launch a phone tree connecting the Asian queer community to the resources they need to survive and thrive! ⚖️
INTERN CLASS OF 2020-2021
ALBRIGHT BATDORJ
(she/her)
At-Large, CCED
HOMETOWN: Orem, UT
MAJOR: Pharmacology and Drug Development
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: wiping groceries with Clorox wipes :(
MOST LIKELY TO: pine after supernatural beings from the Twilight saga
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: It's great to be around kind, open-minded people who are very passionate about the issues affecting the APIDA community at USC and around LA.
BYRLIM CHUNG
(she/her)
At-Large
HOMETOWN: Salinas, CA
MAJOR: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: binge watching shows, baking/cooking, cleaning
MOST LIKELY TO: sleep through an earthquake
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: SCAPE is a great opportunity for me to be with a team that is excited to be involved and learn more about APIDA issues within the Los Angeles community!
EUJEAN
DOO
(she/her)
CCED, KIWA
HOMETOWN: San Francisco and Daly City, CA
MAJOR: Sociology
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: Watching cooking shows, taking naps, and gardening
MOST LIKELY TO: Slip on a banana peel like a cartoon character
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: SCAPE is a super tight-knit community and everyone is really open-minded, supportive, and passionate about API issues.
PIYA
GARG
(she/her)
General Meetings, Social Media
HOMETOWN: London, UK
MAJOR: International Relations (Global Business)
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: Sleeping in, playing Among Us, spending way too much time on TikTok and Depop
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: I love SCAPE because the people are so friendly and open to new ideas, and because it creates a really meaningful platform to connect with and make an impact on the Asian American community at USC and in LA!
EYCKIE
LIU
(he/him)
Social Media
HOMETOWN: Beijing, China
MAJOR: Cinema and Media Studies
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: taking naps
MOST LIKELY TO: Daydream about marrying Marilyn Monroe
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: the people!
ANSHUMAN
PATNAIK
(he/him)
API Equality, General Meetings, Social Media
HOMETOWN: Fremont, CA
MAJOR: Biochemistry
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: cooking, re-learning piano, reading
MOST LIKELY TO: dissociate to the world of Avatar at the slightest inconvenience
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: SCAPE is everything an advocacy-related club should be. It allows for healthy discussion and education regarding APIDA issues, activism within such issues, and more.
MICHELLE
SUNG
(she/hers)
General Meetings, Social Media
HOMETOWN: Vancouver, Canada
MAJOR: Psychology
QUARANTINE HOBBIES: Learning the ukelele, painting, and curating my TikTok FYP
MOST LIKELY TO: Ask you what song is playing
WHY I LOVE SCAPE: Every week, I look forward to learning about social justice and APIDA issues with all the lovely people in SCAPE. It's a wonderful space to grow as a student as an activist.