About
Zach Anderson (he/him) is a CHamoru/Pinoy educator, writer, and journalist who was born on ‘Amuwu land (Lompoc, CA) and raised on Nisenan land (Sacramento, CA). Before joining the Helen Zell Writers' Program, he was a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach where he taught courses in Ethnic Studies and Asian American Pacific Islander Studies. He also designed courses in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander studies for both CSU Long Beach and Sacramento State University.
Before getting his MA in Asian American Studies at UCLA, he was a contributor to AsAm News where he covered Pacific Islander communities both on the islands and on the continental United States. He was also the managing editor of the BIPOC literary collective Think in Ink and briefly served as a communications consultant for the 2022 Kylie Taitano congressional campaign. Zach’s research and writing focus on the permanance and influence on memory and indigenous storytelling as archive.
When he is not reading or writing, he enjoys gardening, birding and outdoor grilling. His writing can be found in Eclectica magazine as well as an anthology of new CHamoru literature which was published by the University of Hawaii.
