Aya S. Murata serves as a dean and as the advisor to Asian and Asian-American students at Phillips Academy (Massachusetts). She thanks Jean Wu, professor of American Studies and educational director of the Office of Diversity at Tufts University and co-editor of Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader (2010), for her role as reader and advisor to this article, and Linda Griffith, dean of community and multicultural development at Phillips Academy, for her continued support and encouragement of her work.