Diane C. Fujino is a Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Asian American Studies. She teaches courses on Race and Resistance, the Asian American Movement, US Third World social movements, Japanese American history, and Community and Social Justice Studies.  Her research examines Japanese and Asian American activist history within an Asian American Radical Tradition, influenced by Black Power and Third World decolonization. She is author or editor of several books including Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama; Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake; Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party; and Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation. Her current book project examines Japanese American activism in the early Cold War, arguing that alternative pathways existed to the rise of the model minority trope that disciplined Black militancy and decolonial movements abroad—activist struggles that created possibilities for “deep solidarities” and radical democracy. As Director of the Center for Black Studies Research (2013-18), she established an engaged scholarship program working within the Black Radical Tradition. As Chair of Asian American Studies (2008-13), she initiated the department’s Community Studies and Peer Advising programs. She works with Ethnic Studies Now! Santa Barbara Coalition, which won ethnic studies as a SBUSD high school graduation requirement; an Asian American Studies digital textbook project with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center; and the EXITO ethnic studies teacher training project at UCSB.  At UCSB, she has co-initiated a project on faculty and staff health and wellness.  She serves on advisory committees of the MultiCultural Center, the Intersectional Justice Facilitator Program, the Blum Center, and the Food Security and Basic Needs Task Force, as well as with the Fund for Santa Barbara.