OUR STORY

The initiative for a Critical Diasporic Studies major at Johns Hopkins University began with a coalition of undergraduates and grad students responding to the Atlanta spa shootings in March 2021 that killed eight individuals, six of whom were Asian women. From this tragedy arose the political energy and demand for Johns Hopkins University to create academic spaces that would reflect the diversity of its student body and address the lived realities of diaspora, race, indigeneity, colonialism, imperialism, and solidarity.