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Kevin Wu (吳凱文)

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Kevin Wu (吳凱文)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Kevin Wu
  • Chinese: 吳凱文
  • Era: 1990
  • Geography: Houston/TX
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. “I Have to Deal With Stereotypes” video was featured on YouTube’s home page, 2007

Education

  • Univ. of California, Davis — Film Studies
  • Univ. of Houston — 2019 — B.S., Psychology

Employment

  • KevJumba YouTube — YouTuber — (2007-) — YOMYOMF YouTube — YouTuber — (2012-2012)

Family

  • Father: Michael Wu

Role in the Community

  • 2007– — YouTube 世代 : Under the handle KevJumba he became one of YouTube’s most-subscribed comedians at age 19, posting 60+ videos on high school, racism, and stereotypes — a touchpoint the Taiwanese American community explicitly claimed as one of its own.
  • 2009-10 — B HERE 肝病運動 : Interviewed by TaiwaneseAmerican.org staff at the B HERE Hepatitis B campaign stop at UC Davis, where he talked about his parents’ support and his JumbaFund giving-back project — an example of the community steering its young online celebrities toward Asian-American health advocacy.
  • 2010-10 — 主流能見度 : Covered by TaiwaneseAmerican.org when he and his father Michael Wu appeared on CBS’s Amazing Race.
  • 2010 — Kollaboration SF : Kevin Wu’s orbit appears in the community’s own event record at Kollaboration SF alongside John Hi-Fi’s Eric Hsu and NBA player Jeremy Lin — John Hi-Fi’s Eric Hsu and NBA player Jeremy Lin at Kollaboration SF (the community’s Blacklava-anniversary essay likewise cheers “Go KevJumba!”).
  • 2012 — 「other」論述中的台美人 : Cited alongside Jeremy Lin and Justin Lin in the TaiwaneseAmerican.org Blacklava-20th-anniversary essay as visible Taiwanese Americans who counter the model-minority stereotype.
  • Later legacy in the community’s creative pipeline : In the community’s oral record of the Taipei Music Academy & Festival, filmmaker Jordan Hwang names Wong Fu Productions and KevJumba as the YouTube-era Asian American creators who showed her “I had the ability to go out and create” and pushed her into filmmaking — Kevin Wu as a reference point for the next generation — Between the Notes: Jordan Hwang (Taipei Music Academy & Festival)

Corpus: We B HERE with KevJumba! He’s Taiwanese! (2009) · Kevin Wu (aka KevJumba) and Dad on Amazing Race (2010) · On Two Decades of Blacklava and Celebrating the “Other” (2012) · 1775. Kevin Wu 吳凱文

  • 2026-09-23 (slice 09221100-19) corpus re-check: fresh grep「Kevin Wu／吳凱文／KevJumba」in works+articles returns only the records already absorbed above (TAH whos-who-1775, Amazing Race with dad, B HERE interview at UC Davis, Blacklava-20th essay, Kollaboration SF, Jordan Hwang oral history) plus works/index. First-party corpus saturated; no new absorbable facts, no conflicts to HOLD.
  • 2026-09-24 (slice 09230600-7) corpus re-check: identical hit set re-confirmed (whos-who-1775, Amazing Race, B HERE, Blacklava-20th essay, Kollaboration SF, Jordan Hwang oral history, index). Verified saturated.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • 2026-09-25 (slice 09250900-6) corpus re-check: fresh grep（吳凱文／Kevin Wu／KevJumba）— hit set identical to records already absorbed (whos-who-1775, Amazing Race, B HERE, Blacklava-20th, Kollaboration SF, Jordan Hwang oral history); SKIP: verified-saturated.
  • 2026-09-25 deepen-x slice 09240600-10: fresh grep (吳凱文 / Kevin Wu / KevJumba) — hit set identical to records already absorbed (whos-who-1775, Amazing Race, B HERE, Blacklava-20th essay, Kollaboration SF, Jordan Hwang oral history). SKIP: verified saturated, no conflicts.
  • 2026-09-26 (slice 09260317-10) corpus re-check: fresh grep（吳凱文／Kevin Wu／KevJumba）— hit set identical to records already absorbed; SKIP: verified-saturated.
  • 2026-09-27 (slice 09260700-1) corpus re-check: fresh grep（吳凱文／Kevin Wu／KevJumba）— hit set identical to records already absorbed (whos-who-1775, Amazing Race, B HERE, Blacklava-20th, Kollaboration SF, Jordan Hwang oral history, index); SKIP: verified-saturated.

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