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Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Ph.D. is an anthropologist from Nepal, currently based in Seattle. Her research topics include the Sherpa diaspora, climate change, and Indigeneity. She will join the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor in January of 2022. She was a visiting assistant professor at Pacific Lutheran University, a postdoctoral fellow at the New School’s India China Institute, and a lecturer at the Pennsylvania State University. She also served as the co-director of Nepal Studies Initiative at the University of Washington’s South Asia Center. www.pasangysherpa.com