Shania Khoo was born in Singapore and raised on occupied and stolen Catawba and Shakori land. She is a 1.5 generation immigrant and daughter of immigrants from Penang, Malaysia. Much of her politics and understandings of migration, imperialism, and capitalism are grounded and rooted in her identity as a Malaysian immigrant and Asian/American. She is currently pursuing an individualized Program II major at Duke University in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.