Steve Chiu, University of California-Berkeley

Steve Chiu is an undergraduate pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic interests span modern Western and Asian history, intellectual history, philosophy, and public policy. His senior thesis focuses on modern Vietnamese American history in Southern California, which was inspired by his own personal heritage and ethnic history. He has previously worked as a research assistant at the Governance Insights Initiative, a UC Berkeley public policy research team, and the Institute of European Studies, where he focused on academic research in public policy, international relations, and colonial law. He is also an editor at the Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal and helped to curate the student film festival at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He is a Labor Policy Fellow at the Alliance for Civic Engagement. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, movies, gaming, literature, trying new cafes, and traveling. LinkedIn.