Leland Tabares (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies at Colorado College. His book project, Professionalizing Asian America: Race and Labor in the Twenty-First Century, examines how Asian Americans’ increasing representation in a diverse range of contemporary industry professions—from the university and the modern restaurant industry to the Silicon Valley tech industry and digital media platforms like YouTube and TikTok—enculturates new meanings of race, generationality, and solidarity. His work is published in Profession, Journal of Asian American Studies, Arizona Quarterly, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, ASAP/J, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, Hyphen, and The Recipes Project. His book chapter on automation, generative AI, and the future of work in techno-Orientalist science fiction is forthcoming in Techno-Orientalism, Vol. II (Rutgers UP). Professor Tabares has also made contributions to his field through his editorial and service work. He was the Managing Editor for Verge: Studies in Global Asias (University of Minnesota Press), an award-winning journal in Asian and Asian American Studies. Verge won the 2020 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers and the 2016 award for Best New Journal from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. He served on the Executive Board for the Association for Asian American Studies, co-leading the mentorship and membership committees and coordinating professional development workshops for junior faculty. Currently, he serves as Co-Chair for the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies. Prior to coming to Colorado College, Professor Tabares taught at Washington University in St. Louis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Pennsylvania State University, and Loyola University New Orleans. His teaching has been funded by the Mellon Foundation's Humanities For All Times Initiative.