Rob Buscher

Rob Buscher is a film and media specialist, educator, curator, and published author who has held leadership positions in non-profit organizations for over a decade. As a person of mixed-race Japanese American heritage who is deeply involved in his community, Rob also has an expertise in cultural competency training, community organizing, and advocacy issues related to the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Robʼs academic area of expertise is Japanese and AAPI Diasporic Cinema. Since 2017, Rob has lectured at University of Pennsylvania’s Asian American Studies Program, where he teaches courses on cinema and activism. He is the producer and host of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation's thirteen-episode podcast Look Toward the Mountain, and host of PBS WHYY's six-episode television series Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders: A Philadelphia Story. Rob is currently co-producing a feature-length documentary, Kiyoshi, about Sansei HIV/AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya, in partnership with William Way LGBT Center.