Ryan Horio

Ryan is a 4th year at UCLA dual majoring in Asian American Studies and Human Biology & Society. He is passionate about the intersections of racial health equity, health policy, and social justice activism. His research primarily focuses on using a retrospective and critical ethnic studies lens to contextualize the effects of anti-Asian hate in the United States on East and Southeast Asian youth. With his research project, he hopes to inform policymakers, community leaders, and peers about the positionalities of racialized Asian youth in the United States as a means to support this population in their pandemic afterlives. In the future, Horio will become a physician-activist and will use his research as a means to promote systemic change through policy.