Judy Yung

Judith Yung (January 25, 1946 – December 14, 2020) was a librarian, community activist, historian, and professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specialized in oral history, women's history, and Asian American history. She died on December 14, 2020, in San Francisco, where she had returned in 2018.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Yung worked as librarian for the Chinatown branch of the San Francisco Public Library and later established the first Asian public library in America at the Park Boulevard branch of the Oakland Public Library, pioneering the development of Asian language materials and Asian American interest collections in the public library to better serve the Asian American community. She also spent four years working as associate editor of the East West newspaper.

Yung appears in the 2021 documentary The Six, in which she explains the significance of a Chinese poem written by RMS Titanic survivor Fong Wing Sun, and Chinese poetry written by Chinese immigrants while being held at Angel Island in the 1920s and 1930s.

She died on December 14, 2020, of complications from a fall at her home. She was 74 years old.