Simi Kang

Simi Kang is a mixed Sikh American community advocate, educator, artist, and scholar. Their work focuses on Asian American collaborative resistance and environmental and economic justice in southeast Louisiana. They were a 2022-2023 resident at A Studio in the Woods, where they developed Mapping Shrimping Futures with Vietnamese and Cambodian American shrimpers. They hold an assistant professorship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Asian American Studies department, per the directory profile. The pages list them with a Canadian base and a University of Victoria appointment in Gender Studies, so their current affiliation is unclear from the sources.