Board Member
Keith L. Camacho is a Chamorro scholar from the islands of Guam and Saipan. Raised by his parents and grandparents, he also learned to appreciate Chamorro forms of community-building and storytelling at an early age. After high school, Keith then studied education at the University of Guam and played on the university’s football team. Afterward, he received his academic training in anthropology, history, and literature at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Presently, he is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the author, editor, and co-editor of five books. His research has also been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Program, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership.
In his twenty-five years of teaching, Keith has advised many incredibly talented Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Pacific Islander students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in the United States and internationally. His current and former mentees now hold leadership positions at the American Civil Liberties Union, Brown University, Harvey Mudd College, the National University of Singapore, Oxford University Press, the Sosaiete of Faafafine i Amerika Samoa, the University of British Columbia, and the University of the Ryukyus, to name a few.
As a resident of South Los Angeles, Keith gladly endorses the social justice mission of Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC). His partner, Juliann Anesi, similarly finds much joy in serving EPIC and the many publics of Tovaangar and greater California.