Ryan Ikeda
Born and raised in the Bay, Ryan Ikeda lives in Oakland and has spent the last seven years teaching new media, poetry, and ethnic studies courses at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. in Rhetoric with a designated emphasis in New Media. Ryan has also taught at the University of Wyoming, where he received an MFA in Poetry. As a poet, Ryan has worked with many community-based organizations, including the Kearny Street Workshop, and co-facilitated the Arts, Technology, Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley. Before returning to higher education, Ryan worked in secondary education, teaching high school English and AVID courses across the Bay Area and Monterey Peninsula. His research explores two trajectories – a) the intersections of Asia diasporic poetry, theories of comparative racialization, and philosophy of technology and, more recently, b) institutional life, or the role of higher education in producing/racializing different genres of people. His work has been featured at SFMOMA and the Asian Art Museum and can be read in the Journal of Applied Instructional Design, ebr, Media Fields Journal, among other publications. In addition to his scholarship, Ryan was co-founder of the High School Ethnic Studies Initiative at UC Berkeley and lead researcher and designer for the Berkeley Anti-Racism Hub, an online repository of equity-based teaching tools. Off-campus, Ryan enjoys running and exploring remote beaches with his daughter.