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APA Spotlight: Tammy Chu, Co-Founder, Adoptee Solidarity Korea
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Tammy Chu was born in Seoul, Korea and adopted to the U.S. She studied Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. Her award-winning first short documentary, Searching for Go-Hyang, was broadcast on [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Richard Katsuda, Kay Ochi, and Kathy Masaoka, Co-Chairs, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR)
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). The Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) is an all volunteer, grassroots, community organization based in Los Angeles. The group formed in 1980 to seek individual monetary reparations for Japanese [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Do Kim, President, K.W. Lee Center for Leadership
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). In addition to being the President of the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership, Do Kim is a civil rights attorney at the Law Offices of Do Kim, specializing in employment discrimination, [...] Continue »
Daniel Park Interview: A One Man Band
There aren’t that many Asian American singers and songwriters in the media these days. Actually, I don’t think Asian Americans get all the much recognition because they’re considered the underdogs of music. As I was sitting at The Coffee Garden in Sacramento on a Friday night, I stumbled into a live show by an Asian American acoustic musician from New Mexico named Daniel Park. I sat, listened and was blown away at his talent. A [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Aldous Davidson, Co-manager, Asian American Film Lab
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Aldous Davidson is an NYU film graduate who has been acting and directing for the past 10 years and his recent short film How to Greet the Dead was an Interpretations [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Ling Woo Liu, Director, Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Ling Woo Liu is the first director of the Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education, a program of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. She has a wealth of media [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Gregory A. Cendana, Executive Director, APALA, AFL-CIO
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Gregory is currently the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO and is the first openly gay person to serve in this post. Founded in 1992, APALA [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Sonia Sakamoto-Jog, Executive Director, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Sonia Sakamoto-Jog (pictured on the left) joined Reel Asian as Executive Director in May of 2009 after graduating from the MBA program at the Rotman School of Management at the University [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Helen H. Ota, Artistic Director, Cold Tofu
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Helen H. Ota is the Artistic Director of COLD TOFU, the nation’s premier Asian American comedy improvisation group. A member since 1993, she has performed in and produced numerous COLD TOFU [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Ben Park, Executive Director, Asia America MultiTechnology Association
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Ben Park is a serial entrepreneur and the marketing force behind two companies that he successfully sold to Broadcom and Netgear and he is an expert at targeting the right products [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, George & Sakaye Aratani Chair, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). Lane Ryo Hirabayashi is professor in the Asian American Studies Department, and affiliate of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, where he is also the inaugural “George & Sakaye Aratani [...] Continue »
APA Spotlight: EunSook Lee, Former Executive Director, National Korean American Service & Education Consortium
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s). EunSook Lee knows firsthand the many difficulties facing immigrants in the United States. As a young girl, EunSook emigrated from South Korea to Toronto; she later moved to the United States [...] Continue »
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