L. Ayu Saraswati

Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati is an award-winning author and professor in women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Hawai`i. She is the author of Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie (Nautilus book award winner) and Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia (National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa book award winner). She serves as board member at Women’s Studies Quarterly, consultant at EVERYBODY Consulting, and acquisition editor at Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal. She received her PhD in women’s studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. She divides her time between Honolulu and wherever scrumptious foods can be found.