Reckoning with Redress with Full Spectrum Features

A panel of representatives of the National Coalition for Redress / Reparations San Diego chapter speak at the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings in August 1981 at the State Building in Los Angeles. photo by Roy Nakano

Professor Lien Tran joins Full Spectrum Features (FSF) as the game design lead for their “Reckoning with Redress” project, an educational program (film + interactive site) to learn about the justice and reparation movement for Japanese Americans wrongfully incarcerated during World War II. This is FSF’s final project as part of a trilogy on Japanese… Continue reading Reckoning with Redress with Full Spectrum Features

Toma el Paso is featured as one of “50 Games for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice”

Book cover for "Learning, Education, and Games - Volume 4: 50 Games to Use for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice"

Lien Tran and Dr. Katherine Moran (St. Louis University) co-authored a double-blind, peer-reviewed chapter for the 4th edition of Learning, Education, & Games: 50 GAMES TO USE FOR INCLUSION, EQUITY, AND JUSTICE, published on January 23, 2024, by Carnegie Mellon University Press. The chapter features Tran’s game Toma el Paso as an educational resource on… Continue reading Toma el Paso is featured as one of “50 Games for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice”

Emerging technology’s role for telling critical Asian American history

Photo by Red Morley Hewitt

Professor Lien Tran is part of DePaul University’s 2022-23 The OpEd Project’s Public Voices fellowship. Professor Tran’s first op ed entitled “Lunar New Year Offers a Chance to Reflect on Asian American History“, was published in VISIBLE magazine ahead of Lunar New Year on January 22, 2023. In this op ed, Tran shares examples for how… Continue reading Emerging technology’s role for telling critical Asian American history