Wei Ming (慧明) Dariotis, Ph.D.
Wei Ming (慧明) Dariotis began teaching in Asian American Studies at SFSU in 1999. At SFSU, Wei Ming Dariotis served as Faculty Director of the SFSU Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL), professor of Asian American Studies, affiliate faculty of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program, Vice Chair of the Academic Senate, and President of the California Faculty Association (the faculty union).
After retiring from SFSU, she served as Assistant Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and launched Ming Pierre Villegas &Daughters, a strategic values alignment consulting firm.
Wei Ming Dariotis holds a PhD in English Literature from UCSB, and her research interests include race, gender, and science fiction; Asian American literature and poetry; Critical Mixed Race Studies; pedagogy studies; teaching effectiveness assessment; and equity and excellence in educational leadership.
With Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas, she co-coordinated the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference (DePaul University, 2010), and co-authored the definition of Critical Mixed Race Studies.
Her co-edited volume, Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in Academia, was published by Rutgers (2019). She co-edited and co-curated, with Laura Kina, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, two art exhibits and a book of the same name (University of Washington Press, 2013).
She serves on the editorial board of Asian American Literatures: Discourses and Pedagogies, for which she guest edited/co-edited special issues on mixed heritage Asian American literature and the 45th anniversary of the publication of the seminal Asian American literature anthology, Aiiieeeee!
In the community, Dr. Dariotis is a co-founder of Kearny Street Workshop's APAture: A Window on the Art of Asian Pacific Americans, which launched the careers of Ali Wong, Hasan Minaj, and Steven Universe artist Helen Jo. She also served as a member of the Advisory Board of Eth-Noh-Tec, and is a past board member of the Asian American Theater Company. She also co-organized the Quesada Neighborfest, and hosted and taught writing activism for GirlFly in the Gardens.