Editorial Staff

Unlike other publications which have individual editors that specialize in specific issues or fields, CRS Online's editing structure is organized around editing teams.  Each content editor leads an editing team comprised of assistant editors.  Teams are not specialized by issue or field.  Consequently, each team will get a taste of different topics, enabling individual editors to lend fresh insights and ideas to topics that may not be their specialties.

Editors' Bios:

Jerry Kang

Prof. Kang, elected Professor of the Year in 1998 and winner of the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007, writes on race, communications and their intersection.  On race, he has focused on the Asian American community and on the legal implications of recent discoveries in social cognition.  He is a co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: The Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen 2001).  On communications, he has published interdisciplinary articles on information privacy, pervasive computing, and mass media policy.  He is also the author of Communications Law & Policy (2d ed. Foundation 2005).  At the nexus of these fields, he has published two groundbreaking articles in the Harvard Law Review about how race is constructed in cyberspace (Cyber-race 2000) and how FCC media policy inadvertently exacerbates implicit bias (Trojan Horses of Race 2005).  He teaches Asian American Jurisprudence in the CRS curriculum.

Aziz Ahmad

Aziz received his Bachelors degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.  While there, he served as a research assistant at the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, studying corruption and human trafficking.  After graduating, he spent nearly three years as a legislative assistant for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington DC, lobbying on federal civil rights and criminal justice legislation. While at the ACLU, Aziz focused on racial profiling, mandatory minimum sentencing, and voting rights. His most lasting contribution was his work in the recent reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, helping guarantee the right to vote for millions of minority Americans. He continues to be engaged on issues of racial justice and intends to pursue a career in public interest law. Aziz is currently a third year student at the UCLA School of Law.

Jacqueline Dan

Jacqueline Dan graduated with a B.A. in history and political science from Rice University in May 2007.  She is currently a second-year student at UCLA School of Law, where she is part of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy and the Critical Race Studies Program.  As a law student, Jacqueline has volunteered as a litigation intern for the National Immigration Law Center and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, both in Los Angeles.  She has also interned with the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project to assess possibilities of relief from deportation for children and men in immigration detention.  Prior to law school, Jacqueline interned at Boat People S.O.S. in Houston, Texas, to obtain public benefits for Katrina evacuees, torture survivors, and trafficking survivors.  Jacqueline also interned at the National Education Association and advocated on Capitol Hill to improve language access for Southeast Asian families in public schools.