Nancy Wang Yuen, Ph.D.

Nancy Wang Yuen is a sociologist and expert on race and racism in Hollywood. Presently, Nancy is a consultant at Peoplism. Previously, she was an award-winning professor and Chair of the Sociology department at Biola University. Nancy is the author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (2016) and co-editor of Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy (2021). She is the host of The Disrupters podcast. She has co-authored multiple media reports including, “Tokens on the Small Screen: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Prime Time and Streaming Television” (2017), “Terrorists and Tyrants: Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Actors in Prime Time & Streaming Television,” (2018), and “The Prevalence and Portrayal of Asian and Pacific Islanders Across 1,300 Popular Films” (2021). Her work has been featured in CNN, Elle, Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times, NBC, Newsweek, and Vanity Fair. Nancy gives talks on representations of Asians in Hollywood, anti-Asian racism, and how to thrive on Twitter as an academic. She has appeared on PBS, NPR, MSNBC, CBS News, NBC News, BBC World, Turner Classic Movies and Dr. Phil. Nancy is currently writing a book about her life through the films and television shows she grew up watching.