Christine Pak

I am insatiably curious with a love for research. I will never claim to be an expert in any field, but I can guarantee that I will not lay a question to rest until I have exhausted every available resource trying to answer it. This tendency towards knowledge-hoarding has left me feeling inadequate on more than one occasion, but never hopeless. I believe in my future as a product largely of hard work, with a dash of fate. I want to change and improve the things I can, while letting the universe work its magic on those that I cannot. I pride myself on my ability to relate to others and make them feel comfortable, while learning their stories and allowing them to shape my own.

Always wanting to explore the bigger picture, I have been influenced by the passion that drives academia, but self-actualized in the spaces in between courses. I fell in love with my sorority — an organization that fosters constant character improvement and strides towards representing the highest ideals of womanhood. Having established relationships with empowered women all over the world, my interests lie in the constructions of identities and the roles that race play in contemporary narratives. The academic sphere taught me to think critically; while my own constructions of identity as a social being, a feminist and a visible minority, provide me with multiple lenses through which I am constantly examining the world, and falling in love with every new discovery along the way.