Elaine Kathryn Andres is a researcher, educator, and cultural worker whose research and teaching interests bridge comparative ethnic studies and the study of popular music and performance. Her research explores the interconnected transatlantic, transpacific, and translocal movements of popular music through a focus on mixed-race Filipino American artists from the 1960s to the present. She has presented her research and facilitated workshops and roundtables for the American Studies Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, the Music of Asian American Research Center, and the Pop Conference. Her writing has been published in AAPI Nexus, the Journal for Asian American Studies, Smithsonian Magazine, PBS American Experience: Songs of the Summer Series, the SAGE Encyclopedia for Filipinx American Studies, and Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies (forthcoming). She is currently an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow at Destiny Arts Center and lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Cal State University East Bay.