Amee Chew

Amee Chew is a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at PolicyLink and has a PhD in American Studies & Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. Amee served as lead researcher and co-author of the report, “Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities,” co-produced by the Center for Popular Democracy, PolicyLink, and the Right to the City Alliance. Her dissertation explores how urban poor women in Metro Manila have organized community-based responses to domestic abuse, while fighting evictions. Besidesurban political economy, her research interests include social movements, militarization and empire, feminisms of color, and queer of color politics