Angel Trazo is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. Her dissertation explores the origins and implications of Asian Baby Girl (ABG) subculture – as both a youth culture and viral “ABG aesthetic” on social media – on Asian American young adults.

Angel is currently a 2024-25 UC Davis Professors for the Future Fellow. In 2024, Angel received the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for Indonesian. She formerly worked as the Communications Lead at the Feminist Research Institute (UC Davis) and Communications Student Manager at the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies (UC Davis) (now the Amado Khaya Foundation).

Selected Academic Publications

• Salinas, Stacey Anne Baterinas and Trazo, Talitha Angelica Acaylar. 2023. “The Asian Baby Girl (ABG) Through a Filipina American Lens.” Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies 3(1): 76-86.  https://doi.org/10.5070/LN43161825
• Trazo, Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo. 2023. “Visual Notetaking as Asian American Art Practice.” Amerasia Journal (Special Issue): Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature. 49(1): 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2023.2294758
• Trazo, Talitha Angelica Acaylar and Kim, Woohee. 2019. “‘Where Are You From?’: Using Critical Race Theory and Graphic Novel Counter-stories to Illustrate the Microaggressions Experienced by Two Angry Asian Girls.” Intersections: Critical Issues in Education 3(2): 112-133 doi: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/intersections/vol3/iss2/6

Children's Literature & Comics

• Trazo, Angel.  2019. We Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Asian American Women (book).
• Yogi, Stan, Byun-Kitayama, Chiae, Trazo, Angel, Luong, Joanne, and Umemoto, Karen. Vanessa Unmuted. 2021. UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Los Angeles Unified School District (e-book).

• Johnson, Katrina and Angel Trazo. 2023. A Father’s Love. Melanin Origins (book).

• Trazo, Angel. 2022. “NeMLA Sketch Notes.” Modern Language Studies. https://www.mlsjrnl.com/sketchnotes