Upcoming Presentations
I’m am taking a hiatus from ECP presentations while I work on my Masters thesis project, which will be posted here. Please reach out to HAPI Humboldt for more information related to the Eureka Chinatown Project.
Past Presentations
Tour lead for “Sacramento’s Chinatown: The Lasting Impact of Redevelopment” walking tour as part of Preservation Sacramento’s Jane Jacobs Walks. May 17, 2025, 2-4 pm.
Tour lead for “Sacramento’s Chinatown: The Lasting Impact of Redevelopment” walking tour for the 2025 California Preservation Foundation Conference in Sacramento, CA. May 8, 2025.
Presenter on panel hosted by Sacramento State “History Essay Writing for History and Public History Majors.” February 24, 2025
“Chinese Labor Days: Contributions of Local ‘Chinese Pioneers’ to Nineteenth-Century Humboldt County.” September 7, 2024, 4-5:30 PM at the Clarke Historical Museum. Video recording available here.
Panel Discussion with Eureka Chinatown Historians, Humboldt County Historical Society, Clarke Historical Museum, and Humboldt County Library Local History Speaker Series, September 9, 2023. Recording here. (2hrs, 20 minutes)
Historic Chinese Immigration to Humboldt County Panel Discussion with Dr. Alex Service, Dr. Rob Cliver and Katie Buesch for OLLI Humboldt. July 29, 1-3 pm via Zoom.
“Stories of Eureka’s Chinatown: The Saga of the Clay Pot” Osher Lifelong Living Institute course via Cal Poly Humboldt, April 1, 2023
Eureka’s Chinatown and the Case of Wing Hing v. City of Eureka at the San Diego Chinese History Museum and San Diego State University Chinese Cultural Center Chinese Experience in America Speaker Series, December 17, 2022 (via Zoom)
“The Eureka Plan” Osher Lifelong Living Institute course at Cal Poly Humboldt. October 1, 2022.
A Public History of the Eureka Chinatown Project at the 44th Annual State of Jefferson Conference, April 23-24, 2022
Eureka’s Historic Chinatown at the Humboldt County Historical Society Saturday Speaker Series, April 2, 2022
Eureka Chinatown Walking Tours with the Clarke Historical Museum and Eureka Chinatown Project. May 2021-October 2021 (total 160 attendees) and March 2022-May 2022 including:
- Private tour for members of the Moon Family, descendants of the one of the few Chinese residents who remained in Humboldt County following the 1885 Chinese Expulsion from Eureka and subsequent expulsions.
- Tour for teachers interested in teaching about the important contributions of the Chinese to Humboldt County sponsored by the California Retired Teachers Association.
- Tours for Humboldt State Environmental Education and Interpretation majors, local history classes, and Asian, Desi, and Pacific Islander (ADPIC) club.
- These tours are still happening. Please visit HAPI Humboldt for more information on how to schedule a tour: hapi.humboldt@gmail.com
From Seeing to Doing: The Clarke Museum at 61, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Brown Bag Lunch Series, November 15, 2021
Eureka’s Chinatown Virtual Walking Tour: Remembrance, Resistance, Resilience at the Humboldt State University Campus and Community Dialogue on Race, October 25, 2021
Eureka’s Chinatown: Past, Present, and Future at L4HSU Summer Session, Humboldt State University Library, July 7, 2021
Just Passing Through: (In)Famous folks Who Have Traveled Through Humboldt County Part of the Humboldt County Historical Society Saturday Speaker Series, March 6, 2021
Project Lead Planner for the Humboldt History Symposium, November 2019. Recordings viewable here.
Publications
Online Publications
Eureka Chinese Expulsion StoryMap
Forthcoming Print Publications
Just Passing Through, Humboldt Historian, Forthcoming.
Past Print Publications
New Opera Echoes of Eureka: Personal Reflections. Humboldt Historian, Winter 2025. Co-authored with Alex Service.
The “Fowl” Mural: A Backdrop for Healing” Humboldt Historian, Autumn 2024
The Curious Case of Wing Hing: A Case for Chinese Reparations. Humboldt Historian, Fall 2022
History Meets Art at the Clarke Humboldt Historian Winter 2021
The Chandelier Saga. Humboldt Historian, Spring 2020
The Eureka Plan: Humboldt County’s Chinese Expulsions Humboldt Historian, Spring 2020
Digital Publications
Walking (Virtually) Within the Past: A Video Tour of Eureka’s Historic Chinatown. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, September 2025. Co-authored with Anne Howard, Sarah Godlin, Tim Miller, Vicki Ozaki, and Sheri Woo.
Macy’s closure is an opportunity to consider the future of downtown Sacramento – Opinion, Sacramento Bee. February 1, 2025.
Interpretive Signage
Content creator for “The Sun Set Twice on the People that Day” Mural Sign (forthcoming)
Contributor to “Eureka’s Chinatown” and “The Chinese Expulsion” wayfinding signs. Intersections of 4th and E and 4th and F Streets, Eureka, CA, 2021
Interviews/Mentions
“Jimmy Carter and the sad saga of a 9-ton Northern California peanut” by Hailey Branson-Potts, LA Times. Quoted, photo credit.
Chee Loue of Rohnerville: Community, Conflict, and Murder by Dr. Alex Service – Humboldt Historian Autumn 2023 – Citation credit
This California town ran its Chinese residents out. Now the story is finally being told. LA Times, November 12, 2022
Chinese Immigrants Were Forced Out of Eureka in 1885 — Here’s How Locals Are Making That History Known. October 15, 2021 KQED
The Eureka Chinatown Bringing Attention to a Forgotten Past. El Llenador, Cal Poly Humboldt, September 2021
Project Contributor
Contributor to the African American Experience in Sacramento Project – wrote the DPR 523 Primary Record for the Willie Cooke House.
Eureka Chinatown Project Research Aid Role: Intern supervisor, 360 degree virtual tour author and narrator
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