Mark Tseng-Putterman (@tsengputterman) is a writer, activist, and scholar interested in Asian American social movements vis-à-vis the carceral state. He is an American Studies Ph.D. student at Brown University and was a visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. For the past three years, he served as a co-advisor to BRIDGE, an undergraduate student leadership program organized by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.