Areerat (Aree) Worawongwasu is a Mon, Teochew, and Thai organizer from Bangkok, currently pursuing her PhD at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is committed to organizing for a decoccupied, demilitarized, and decolonized Hawaiʻi, in internationalist struggle. Prior to attending the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Aree received her BA with a concentration in decolonization from New York University. She received her MA En-Route to her PhD at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with specialized fields in Indigenous Studies and Labor Migration. Her current research interests are in the nexus of Indigenous feminisms, settler colonial studies, historical materialism, Marxist cultural analysis, abolition, Asian American Studies, and Cold War studies. Aree has been instructing undergraduate students since 2020, and has been nominated for the prestigious Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for a Graduate Assistant.

Aree has presented her original scholarly research at many international conferences, including American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, College Art Association Conference, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and Socialism Conference. She has given invited talks on Indigeneity in Southeast Asia at UCLA and Dartmouth. Her creative work has been published through the Asian American Feminist Collective and featured at Aupuni Space.

Aree organizes in Academic Labor United, Hui Hawaiʻi Dis/Ability Justice, Women’s Voices Women Speak, the Cancel RIMPAC Campaign, and the Palestinian solidarity movement. She previously stewarded youth organizing for Decolonize This Place’s campaign to remove weapons manufacturer Safariland CEO Warren Kanders from the board of the Whitney Museum. She also organized in No New Jails NYC. She is a member of Dark Laboratory, and previously the Director of Communications of the Afro-Asia Group.