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The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica,ÌýJennifer Ho is the director of the Center for the Humanities and the Arts at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, where she also holds an appointment as Professor in the Ethnic Studies department.ÌýHo is the author of one co-edited (along with Jim Donahue and Shaun Morgan) collection of essays,ÌýNarrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United StatesÌý(Ohio State University Press 2017) and three scholarly monographs,ÌýConsumption and IdentityinÌýAsian American Coming-of-Age NovelsÌý(Routledge 2005),ÌýRacial Ambiguity in Asian American CultureÌý(Rutgers University Press 2015), which won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association award for best monograph, andÌýUnderstanding Gish JenÌý(University of South Carolina Press 2015).ÌýShe has published in journals such asÌýModern Fiction Studies,ÌýJournal for Asian American Studies,ÌýAmerasia Journal, The Global South, Southern Cultures,ÌýandÌýOxford American. Her next two academic projects are a breast cancer memoir and a monograph that will consider Asian Americans in the global south through the narrative of her maternal family’s immigration from Hong Kong to Jamaica to North America. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate.