Dr. Peter Nien-chu Kiang (江念祖) is Professor and Director of the Asian American Studies Program in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) and the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he has taught since 1987.  Peter’s research, teaching, and advocacy in both K-12 and higher education with Asian American immigrant/refugee students and communities have been supported by the National Academy of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the Massachusetts Association for Bilingual Education, and others.  Since 2010, he has been co-principal investigator and lead proposal writer for five five-year grants totaling $9.1M from the US Department of Education for UMass Boston’s Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) program.  Within the university, he has received both the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and Distinguished Service Award. Nationally, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group: Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans in 2013 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for Asian American Studies in 2014.  Peter served for six years as chair of the Massachusetts Advisory Committee for the US Commission on Civil Rights and eight years as co-president of the Chinese Historical Society of New England.  He holds a B.A., Ed.M., and Ed.D. from Harvard University and is a former Community Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.