OiYan Poon is a visiting faculty member at the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a program officer with the Spencer Foundation. At the Spencer Foundation, Poon provides mentorship and oversees all of the foundation’s grant programs. She also serves as the program lead for the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship programs and the Large Grant Program. Poon’s research agenda brings together organizational theories and race and ethnic studies to study selective admissions processes, affirmative action policies, and the racial politics of Asian Americans and education. In her research, she has utilized a range of methods and approaches, including critical discourse analysis, narrative inquiry, constructivist grounded theory, community-based participatory research methods, and geographic information system spatial analysis. As a public scholar, she is a lead co-author of amicus briefs submitted on behalf of social scientists supporting race-conscious admissions in SFFA v. Harvard. She is also an associate professor affiliate in the School of Education at Colorado State University.