Richie Neil Hao is Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at Antelope Valley Collge, USA. He has published scholarship in the areas of critical intercultural communication, pedagogy, and performance studies. He is also the author of (Trans)national Tsina/oys: Hybrid Performances of Chinese and Filipina/o Identities (Peter Lang, 2023), which won the 2025 Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association.