Pei-hsuan Wu, Ed.D.
INNOVATE! Founding Co-Director and EQW Treasurer
Pei-hsuan Wu (she/her) is an independent scholar, social justice advocate and technology worker. Dr. Wu’s work in the United States has addressed diverse issues from a critical and intersectional perspective. These issues include diasporic nationalism and education, historical revisionism and social sciences curricula, homelessness/poverty, environmental issues and public policy, students’ rights, workers’ rights, equitable access to technology, and cooperative economic organization. She has assisted on research and advocacy related to projects in Asia, including political and gendered violence, routinized oppression and resistance, alliance-building with civil society groups, human rights movements, and maldevelopment.
Since 2013, Pei-hsuan has been an Extern, Research Assistant, and is currently Research Associate with the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender, University of California at Berkeley. She was a Research and Communications Assistant with the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir from 2008-2012. She is also a full-time telecommunications technician with a firm serving nonprofits and small businesses in California.
Pei-hsuan has an Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education with a concentration in Human Rights Education, from the University of San Francisco, an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation at CIIS, and a B.A. in Environmental Sciences, U.C. Berkeley.
Pei-hsuan was born in Taiwan, grew up in the U.S., and has traveled for social justice work to Colombia, India, Mexico, Nepal, South Africa, and other countries. She is multilingual, speaking English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. Particularly fond of cats, Pei values the intelligence and beauty of the diverse flora and fauna of earth.