Amber Szymczyk is the Publication Specialist for the Department of Transnational Asian Studies and the Chao Center for Asian Studies. She manages the Department's and the Center's websites and social media, creates Department and Center promotional materials, and manages the Center's research journal, Transnational Asia. She and her husband are also former Resident Associates at Brown College. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Louisiana State University and a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University.