Education

MFA in Photo/Media (Expected) - California Institute of the Arts

MA in Latin American Studies - University of California, Los Angeles

BA in Communications, Music Industry - University of California, Los Angeles

Professional Experience

Communications Manager, Housing Now California

Digital Organizer, California Immigrant Policy Center

Union Organizer, United Auto Workers (UAW) 2865, 2103 & Student Researchers United (SRU)

Social Media Coordinator, Nacional Records

Many Years in the Food/Beverage Industry

Awards and Fellowships

2024 Davis Putter Scholarship, Jessie Lloyd O’Connor Scholar

2023 The Forge, Creative Writing for Organizers Certificate

2023 Greenpeace, Arts for Liberation Training

2023 National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), Universal Representation, Galvanizing, Empowering, Networking, and Training (URGENT) Fellowship

2022 PolicyLink and USC Equity Research Institute, National Equity Atlas Fellow

2022 Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice (CUNY), Emerging Leaders Fellow

2020 UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy, Organizing Mutual Aid Award

2020 UCLA, Monica Salinas Research Fellowship

Invited Speaking Engagements

2023 United Auto Workers (UAW), “Region 6 Civil Rights Conference on Immigrant Rights”

2021 Open Borders Conference, "Abolitionist Alternatives to Legalization"

2021 Lausan Collective, ”We Connect: Hongkongers and Migrant Rights Activists in Conversation”

Publications

Cheung, Nathan. Lives in transit: Violence and intimacy on the migrant journey. Latino Studies 18, 143–145 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-019-00237-4

Cheung, Nathan. Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes. The AAG Review of Books 8:3, 138-139 (2020). DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2020.1760059

Cheung, Nathan. On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in América Latina. Antipode. (2019).