Chi Yen "ichi" Ha is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California Riverside (UCR). She holds an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from UCR (2022) and a BA in International Studies/Cultural Psychology from Trinity College, Connecticut (2016).



With a focus on Southeast Asia and Vietnam in particular, her research interests include indigeneity and ethnicity, materiality and politics of textiles and fashion, creative economy, posthumanism, new materialisms, political ecology, political ontology, and indigenous people/ethnic minority movements. She has also been working as a consultant for NGOs and civil organizations related to ethnic minority issues in Vietnam.