Angela Dy

Ethnicity (REACH background)
Filipina, Chinese, Spanish  

Job Title & Department/School
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship  

Year started at the University
2016

Responses to questions regarding the Network:

When did you join the REACH staff network?
2019

What is your favourite thing about the REACH staff network?
Being a member of the network has empowered me at work, because a staff network has the ability to set our own agendas, establish priorities, choose our own leadership, and make decisions. We use this formula to create a supportive community that can effect positive change at the University.  

Why should people join the REACH staff network?
It is an in-built pool of 125+ knowledgeable, supportive, and friendly folks who, on the whole, seek to understand, champion, celebrate and show up for each other. I can count on REACH Network colleagues to listen, care, and help me to gain perspective on any workplace situation, as well as offer encouragement through challenges and praise for jobs well done.

Regarding your role at the University:

What is your favourite thing about your role?
As an RTE academic, it is an absolute privilege to develop your own intellectual agenda, and focus on research, scholarship and teaching that matters to you. This is what I love most about my role.

Who is an inspiration for you and why? (It can be anyone!)
The late, great Professor Bell Hooks is a massive inspiration to me - she was a pathbreaking, queer, Buddhist, Black feminist thinker and prolific author who accomplished the challenging task of critically interrogating the social structures that have long divided us and kept us unequal, while placing love, beloved community and possibility at the heart of her work. I’m grateful to her as a leading light and intellectual ancestor.

Tell us an interesting fact about yourself!
I am a poet and spoken word artist who spent my teenage years being nurtured in artistic community, then co-founded and led a youth arts education organisation for young people in my hometown of Seattle. This experience has fundamentally shaped my identity as an educator and scholar-activist. More about me here: www.phdy.work