Join us for our Wednesday Lunch Series, featuring guest speakers from Cornell's faculty and staff as well as the surrounding community. Enjoy an informal discussion where you can learn more about the speaker’s work or research, how they ended up doing what they are doing, current issues in higher education, or even their thoughts on living in Ithaca. A free lunch will be served.

Mika Kennedy is Assistant Professor Asian American Studies at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College, where she teaches courses that focus on Asian American and Pacific Islander histories, activisms, and cultural productions. Her current book project examines narratives of Japanese American incarceration, and the ways these narratives are in conversation with questions about the environment, the seductions of the “frontier,” and Indigenous sovereignty. Outside of work, she is a co-curator of the JACL Detroit Chapter’s grassroots exhibit of Japanese American community in metro Detroit, Exiled to Motown. She also works within the Tsuru for Solidarity campaign against child & family migrant detention.