Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Michelle Kuo
- Chinese: 郭怡慧
- Era: —
- Geography: Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Core roles: professor, lawyer, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Accomplishment
- Won the Board of Trustees Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2016
Education
- Harvard College — 2003 — B.A., Social Studies and Gender Studies
- Univ. of Cambridge — 2004 — M.A., Development Studies
- Harvard Law School — 2009 — J.D.
Employment
- Centro Legal de la Raza, Oakland, California — Lawyer — Prison University Project at San Quentin — Teacher — American University of Paris — Associate Professor in the History, Law, and Society program
Family
- Husband: Albert Wu
Role in the Community
- Author of Reading with Patrick (2017), discussed in the Taiwanese American community record as a work on class, race, and mentorship: A Canon of Our Own: Q&A with Michelle Kuo (2017-07-19) and 763. Michelle Kuo and Her “Reading with Patrick” (2020-10-30).
- Co-author (with Albert Wang) of the Substack newsletter A Broad and Ample Road, listed in community resources as being about history, politics, justice, and law, with an ambition to build a Mandarin-language section serving as the “Village Voice of Taipei” and to bridge local and diasporic peoples: Community Resources for Taiwanese American Parents & Families.
- Her writing on memory, justice, and detention is cited approvingly in the TAHS Jing-Mei memorial essay as a voice on “moral imagination” and what repair is possible without cages: Taiwanese American Jing-Mei Memorial Park.
- Interviewed in the community conversation on anti-Blackness in the Taiwanese American community: Addressing Anti-Blackness within the Taiwanese American Community.
- Profiled in the TAH encyclopedia: 2031. Michelle Kuo 郭怡慧 (2018-02-14).
- Husband Albert Wu co-authors the newsletter above; the couple appear together in community records.
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