Joyce Nguy (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at UCLA, with concentrations in Race, Ethnicity and Politics, American Politics, and Methods. She has broad interests in Asian American political behavior, campaigns and candidates, and descriptive representation. Her dissertation research examines the use and acceptance of racial rhetoric in congressional campaigns. Her scholarship has been published or accepted in Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, The Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, with public-facing work published on The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage.