Hi! I'm Samyu (she/her), a writer, organizer, and Political Science PhD Candidate.

I primarily write about social movements, mutual aid, and reproductive justice. I specialize in the study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics and Quantitative Methods at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). My dissertation focuses on evaluating interventions aiming to mitigate the impacts of anti-abortion direct action, such as policing, clinic escorting, and clinic defense, based on the preferences of women of color, a subgroup of abortion seekers that is multiply marginalized. I am also a proud alumna of the University of South Carolina's departments of Computer Science and Statistics.

You may also know me from...

the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars program, led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid, an abolitionist network of care supporting unhoused neighbors through food distribution and harm reduction. Please consider donating here if you are interested.

Kitchen Committee, a food-based mutual aid collective that arose from the 2022 UC Academic Workers strike at UCLA.

my work at UCLA, including

research and project management for the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS).

communications, graphic design, and planning for the 2024 and 2025 annual meetings of the Western Political Science Association in Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA, respectively.

research, editorial assistance, and project management for the third edition of Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics.

teaching for the Department of Political Science at UCLA, the UC-HBCU Initiative's Sawyer Summer Institute, and UCLA Academic Advancement Program’s McNair Summer Research Institute.

South Carolina, a place I am proud to call home.