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2006 - 2007
Biographies
Melanie E. L.
Bush,
Ph.D., author of
Breaking the
Code of Good
Intentions:
Everyday Forms
of Whiteness , (Rowman
and Littlefield,
Inc. 2004) is an
Assistant
Professor of
Sociology at
Adelphi
University
(Garden City,
NY). She has
published
numerous
articles in
scholarly
journals and
presented
nationally on
issues of racial
and social
justice, U.S.
nationalism,
academic freedom
and education
and the common
good. She can be
reached at
melanie.e.l.bush@gmail.com
Roderick D.
Bush, Ph.D.,
author of We Are
Not What We
Seem, Black
Nationalism and
Class Struggle
in the American
Century (NYU
Press 1999) and
forthcoming The
End of White
World Supremacy:
Black
Internationalism
and the Problem
of the Color
Line (Temple
Press 2007) is
currently an
Associate
Professor of
Sociology at St.
John's
University
(Jamaica, NY).
He has published
and presented
widely about
social
movements, world
systems and
racism and can
be reached at
bushr@stjohns.edu
Randolph W.
Cameron
a professor at
the Medgar Evers
College School
of Business.
Prof. Cameron is
the founder and
president of
Cameron
Enterprises, a
New York-based
management
consulting firm
with client
experience that
includes Avon
Products, Grey
Advertising,
Public/Private
Ventures, The
Ford Foundation,
Walsh
Construction,
Yale University,
The Children’s
Aid Society,
United Way of
New York City, &
the New York
State Division
of Youth.
Prof. Cameron is
the author
Finding a Way to
the Top: Career
Moves for the
Minority Manager
(2004) and
Minority
Executives’
Handbook (1993).
Hanson Chan,
writer of
Chinese novels
and screenplays,
was born in
Taishan,
Kwongtung,
China. He grew
up in Hong Kong,
received his
Bachelor of Arts
in History from
the University
of Maryland and
his Master’s in
Asian Studies
from Seton Hall
University. He
was a reporter,
editor, and
feature
columnist for
Chinese
newspapers in
Hong Kong and
New York City
(deputy
editor-in-chief
1977-1985,
China Daily News,
USA;
editor-in-chief
1985-1986,
The China Post,
USA). He is
credited and
known for his
martial arts
screenplays: “Swordsman
II”, “Once
Upon a Time in
China II”
(both played by
Jet Li), and a
Chinatown gang
novel titled, “The
City of Knife”.
“Hua Hu”
is Hanson Chan’s
first of a
series of action
novels on
Chinese martial
arts. Hua Hu,
Book I: The
Forbidden
Scripture;
and Hua Hu,
Book II: The
Thunder Spell
have been
simultaneously
published in
English and
Chinese.
He lives with
his wife, Lan,
in the Pocono
Mountains in
Pennsylvania.
Terrence
Cheng is
the author of
Sons of Heaven,
which is set
during the
Tiananmen Square
Massacre in
1989; and
Deep in the
Mountains
(forthcoming
Spring 2007), an
historical young
adult novel
based on the
life of Zhu
Qizhan. Cheng
earned his MFA
in Fiction at
the University
of Miami, FL,
where he was a
James Michener
Fellow. In 2005
he received a
Literature
Fellowship from
the National
Endowment for
the Arts to
complete his
third novel,
Little Flower,
which is based
on war crimes
committed by the
Japanese
military in
China before and
during WWII.
Cheng is
currently
Assistant
Professor of
English and
Creative Writing
at Lehman
College, part of
the City
University of
New York. He has
lived most of
his life in New
York. For more
information
visit
www.tcheng.net
Nehru E. Cherukupalli
(a.k.a. C.E. Nehru) is Professor of Geology at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He hails
from South India, had his
schooling in Madras, India,
and earned a Ph.D. in
geology from Madras
University. He also has a
Master’s degree from
Columbia University, New
York. He has been teaching
at Brooklyn College, City
University of New York for
over four decades and has
been the past Chairman of
the Geology Department. He
has field experience in many
places in India and in the
United States and Canada. He
has worked in mining
operations in copper and
iron ore mines in India. He
has also worked on Moon
rocks and he works on
Meteorites and is a Research
Associate at the American
Museum of Natural History in
New York. He has
considerable experience in
teaching all levels of
students at Brooklyn College
and at the Graduate Center
of the City University of
New York.
Prof. Nehru has
authored more than a hundred
research papers in geology.
He is also interested in
environmental geology and
teacher education. He has
taught geology to ESL
(English as Second Language)
students and published on
this subject. More recently
he has taken part in the
CUNY Chancellor’s relief
efforts of the victims of
the December 2004 Tsunami of
South Asia. In November 2005
he Chaired the Tsunami
session held by Association
of Exploration Geophysicists
in Poona, India. Since June
2006, he has taken on the
responsibility as the
Interim Executive Director
of Asian American/ Asian
Research Institute (AAARI)
in New York.
Linda T.
Chin,
Esq. has
practiced law
for over twenty
years. She
served as the
Counsel to the
President at
Hunter College
for over 16
years, practiced
corporate law at
Con Edison and
served as
General Counsel
for the New York
State Judicial
Commission on
Minorities.
Presently, Ms.
Chin is
an Assistant Professor of
Legal Studies at
St. John's
University where
she teaches
Employment Law,
Social Security
Disability Law,
and Elder Law.
Professor Chin
received her
Bachelor of Arts
Degree from the
City College of
New York and her
Juris Doctor
from Brooklyn
Law School.
Nicholas K.
Coch
received his
Ph.D.. in 1965
from Yale
University with
a specialization
in sedimentology
and coastal
geology. In
1967, he joined
the faculty at
Queens College
and the CUNY
Doctoral Faculty
in Earth and
Environmental
Sciences and is
now a Professor
of Geology in
the School of
Earth and
Environmental
Sciences at
Queens College.
He has
co-authored two
college geology
textbooks
(PHYSICAL
GEOLOGY) and is
the author of
GEOHAZARDS
(Prentice Hall).
At Queens
College, Dr.
Coch teaches a
large
introductory
course in
Natural
Disasters as
well as upper
level courses in
Surficial
Geology, Coastal
Geology and
Environmental
Geology. His
research studies
since 1967 have
included
sedimentation on
the Moon, as a
Principal
Investigator in
NASA's Lunar
Sample Study
Program, and
shipboard
studies of
continental
shelf, coastal
and estuarine
areas, as well
as ground and
aerial studies
of the effects
of hurricanes on
coasts and urban
centers.
Recent research
by Dr. Coch and
his students has
shown that major
hurricanes
passed directly
over New York
City and caused
severe damage in
1821 and 1893.
The 1821 event
sunk most of the
ships in New
York Harbor,
raised sea level
13 feet in an
hour from low
tide at the
Battery and
resulted in
massive wind
damage in
Southern New
England. The
1893 Hurricane
was an
unprecedented
event; it
removed an
urbanized
barrier island
that existed
from 1870-1893
south of the
present Rockaway
Shore. Details
of the geologic,
historical and
archeological
studies that
document this
event were
published in the
local and
national
editions of the
NEW YORK TIMES
on March 18,
1997. The
re-discovery of
two additional
L.I. hurricanes
has decreased
the expected
recurrence of a
major hurricane
in the Northeast
from 125 to 90
years. He
recently
completed a
forensic
reconstruction
of the 1635
"Colonial"
Hurricane, that
nearly wiped out
early English
settlements in
New England.
Data from the
study were used
to make a
dynamic computer
model of the
storm as it
raced towards
New England 370
years ago! Most
recently, he has
studied the 1935
Hurricane in the
Florida Keys in
an attempt to
determine how
some southern
hurricanes
undergo rapid
intensification.
His results were
used to analyze
the massive
destruction by
Hurricanes Rita
and Katrina in
the Gulf in
2004.
Dr. Coch is an
expert on
Northern
Hurricanes and
has been a
consultant to
the N.Y. City
Emergency
Management
Organization and
the N.Y.State
Office of
Emergency
Management. He
has presented
hurricane
seminars to
emergency
management and
government
officials in
every county in
southern New
York as well as
insurance,
reinsurance and
risk management
groups
nationwide. He
was chosen as a
Sigma Xi
Distinguished
Lecturer for
2004-2006, and
presented
lectures on his
hurricane
research at
educational and
research
facilities in
the U.S. and
Canada.
Dr. Coch is a
Fellow of the
Geological
Society of
America and a
Member of The
American
Meteorological
Society, Society
of Sedimentary
Geologists,
National
Association of
Geology
Teachers,
American
Association of
Petroleum
Geologists and
is a Certified
Professional
Geologist.
Aspects of his
hurricane
research have
been featured
in programs on
the Weather and
History
Channels in
2006 andwill be
presented on the
National
Geographic and
the
BBC-Discovery
Channel in 2007.
Kristina
Rodriguez
Czuchlewski
received the
B.S.E. degree
from Princeton
University,
Princeton, New
Jersey and the
Ph.D. degree
from Columbia
University in
New York. Her
Ph.D. thesis
"Synthetic
Aperture Radar
and Natural
Disasters:
Hazard Mapping
Using Radar
Polarimetry"
developed
algorithms for
radar-based
natural disaster
response. Since
January 2005,
she has been a
Fellow at the
Earth Institute
at Columbia
University,
where she
focuses on the
integration of
remote sensing
(with an
emphasis on SAR
polarimetry) and
in situ data for
improved hazard
preparedness,
impact
assessment and
recovery.
Caf
Dowlah,
Ph.D. joined the
Queensborough
Community
College-CUNY as
an Assistant
Professor of
Economics in
January, 2003.
He graduated
from the
University of
Southern
California with
a Ph.D. in
Political
Economy and
Public Policy in
1990. Prior to
that, he earned
two separate
Master’s degrees
– in Economics
and Public
Administration
-- from the same
institution.
Dr. Dowlah launched his
career in
academia in 1991
as Assistant
Professor of
Economics and
Government at
the State
University of
New York –
Canton College –
where he worked
until 1996.
Thereafter, he
accepted a
Consultant
Economist
position with
the Dhaka Office
of the World
Bank, and then,
a Policy Adviser
position with
the United
Nations. Before
returning to the
U.S. in 2001 as
Visiting Scholar
at Columbia
University, he
worked as a
Japan Foundation
Fellow and
Visiting
Professor of
Economics at
Otaru University
Commerce. He
also worked in
consultancy
capacities for
the United
Nations, USAID,
USIA (United
States
Information
Agency), the
European Union
and the German
GTZ, among other
organizations.
A recipient of numerous
prestigious
scholarships,
including that
from Fulbright,
Commonwealth,
Rotary
Foundation, and
Asia Foundation,
Dr. Dowlah has
conducted
important
research in the
areas of
transition of
formerly
socialist
countries;
economic reform
issues in
under-developed
countries; and
globalization
and
international
trade issues,
particularly in
the context of
the World Trade
Organization.
Besides, Backwaters of
Global
Prosperity,
he authored two
other books --
The Life and
Times of Soviet
Socialism (Praeger
Publishers,
1997) and
Soviet Political
Economy in
Transition: From
Lenin to
Gorbachev
(Greenwood
Press, 1992).
His articles
appeared in
refereed
journals,
including the
World Economy;
International
Journal of
Social Welfare,
The Asia-Pacific
Development
Journal; and The
Indian Journal
of Industrial
Relations.
He also wrote
columns for the
Japan Times
(Tokyo), The
Daily Star
(Dhaka); and
The Financial
Express
(Dhaka).
Emma Christa
Farmer
earned her Ph.D.
from Columbia
University's
Department of
Earth and
Environmental
Sciences in
2005. Dr.
Farmer's
dissertation
focused on
tropical
Atlantic climate
change over the
last 22,000
years, in an
attempt to
quantify
"natural"
variability in
the Earth's
climate system.
She currently
teaches
Environmental
Geology and
Natural Hazards
at Hofstra
University, and
continues her
research into
tropical
Atlantic
paleoceanography.
Kuang-Yu
Fong
majored in
Chinese Opera at
the Chinese
Cultural
University in
Taiwan. In 1983
she moved to the
United States,
where she
received her MA
in Educational
Theater at New
York University.
She travelled
all over the
United States
and to Belgium,
Germany,
Greece,
Holland, Taiwan,
Korea, Hong Kong
and China. In
1990 Ms. Fong
founded Chinese
Theatre Workshop
(CTW). She has
also been the
artistic
director of the
Gold Mountain
Institute for
Traditional
Shadow Theatre
(GMI) since
1998. In 2001,
the two
companies, GMI
and CTW merged
to form a new
organization,
Chinese Theatre
Works, Inc.
which Ms. Fong
is executive
director and
co-artistic
director.
Some of the
original works
produced by CTW,
which Ms. Fong
conceived,
wrote, directed
and often
performed in as
well include: A
Day at the
Office, Zhang
Boils the Ocean,
Climbing Gold
Mountain, Kasper
as a Banana,
Toy Theatre
Peony Pavilion
(winner of a
2000 UNIMA
Citation of
Excellence in
Puppetry),
Little Red
Riding Hood: the
Chinese Opera ,
Kun/Shadow
Whitesnake,
Border of
Womanhood, Tiger
Tales, (awarded
“best short
play” and “best
vocal
performance” at
the First
International
Shadow Play
Festival,
Tangshan,
China,) Birth of
the Monkey
King, Monkey in
America: Day
Jobs, Opera
Dreams, Three
Women: Many
Plays (awarded
“best directing
and
playwrighting”
at the First
International
Shadow Play
Festival,
Tangshan, China)
and Book of
Songs.
She has been a
guest professor
at the Chinese
Opera Academy
in Beijing. She
has taught in
the Language and
Culture
Department of
Pace University
since 1990. She
is currently
serving as a
member of the
board of
directors of
UNIMA/USA, in
charge of the
“Hands Across
the Sea”
foreign puppetry
cultural
exchange
program. Ms.
Fong has
written many
articles for
Chinese
magazines,
newspapers,
conferences and
for the journal
“Puppetry
International.”
She translated
into Mandarin
Nellie
McCaslin’s book,
“Shows on a
Shoestring”,
which is a
standard text
for educational
theater. With
Stephen Kaplin,
she co-wrote
“Theatre on a
Tabletop:
Puppetry for
Small Space.”
Amita
Gupta is
currently
Assistant
Professor of
Education in the
School of
Education at The
City College of
New York. Amita
Gupta earned her
Doctorate from
Columbia
University in
early childhood
teacher
education. The
early education
of children and
the preparation
of their
teachers has
been at the core
of her inquiry
both in her
field-based
professional
experience as
well as in her
academic
research over
the last 18
years.
Professor Gupta
has extensive
cross-cultural
experience in
classroom
teaching, school
administration
and teacher
development in
both India and
the U.S. Prior
to joining CUNY
she was the
Educational
Director of a
school on
Manhattans’s
Upper West Side
for ten years.
She continues to
offer
professional
development
workshops for
teachers and
school
administrators
in India and the
U.S.
Her research
interests
include
curriculum and
culturally
relevant
pedagogy,
socio-cultural-historical
constructivism
in teaching and
learning,
postcolonial
theory,
international
and comparative
education, , and
the place of
implicit beliefs
and practical
knowledge in the
pedagogical
practices of
teachers from
“non-western”
backgrounds.
Professor Gupta
has published
several articles
in journals of
education, and
is the author of
the recently
published book
Early
Childhood
Education,
Postcolonial
Theory and
Teaching
Practices in
India: Balancing
Vygotsky and the
Veda
(Palgrave
Macmillan,
2006). She is
currently
completing
another book
titled
Schooling in
South Asia
(Greenwood
Publishing
Company) which
includes a brief
examination of
the influence of
social,
cultural,
political,
historical and
religious forces
on the
development of
schooling and
education in
India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, Nepal,
Afghanistan,
Bhutan and the
Maldives.
Blossom
Kan is
an attorney
employed in
Manhattan and a
member of the
Asian American
Bar Association
of New York and
the Asian
American Legal
Defense and
Education Fund.
She graduated
from Yale
University where
she majored in
English. Both
Blossom and her
China Dolls
co-author
Michelle Yu
reside in New
York City, where
they are hard at
work on their
next novel. They
can be found
online at
www.chinadollsnovel.com
Dr. Charles
Mandeville,
a Senior
Research
Scientist in the
Dept. of Earth
and Planetary
Sciences first
came to the
American Museum
of Natural
History (AMNH)
in July of
1997. Dr.
Mandeville is a
volcanologist
and geochemist,
though he has
done previous
research in
tectonics,
metamorphic
petrology and
structural
geology. Dr.
Mandeville holds
a B.S. in
geology from the
University of
Rhode Island and
a M.S. in
geology from
Virginia
Polytechnic
Institute and
State
University. Dr
Mandeville
obtained his
Ph.D. at the
University of
Rhode Island
Graduate School
of
Oceanography.
His dissertation
research focused
entirely on the
catastrophic
1883 eruption of
Krakatau volcano
in Indonesia in
collaboration
with Dr. Steve
Carey and Dr.
Haraldur
Sigurdsson.
Charlie’s
dissertation
research was
followed by
postdoctoral
fellowships at
Brown University
where he
investigated the
solubility of Cl
in andesitic
magmas (similar
to that erupted
at Krakatau)
with Dr. Malcolm
Rutherford and
at the
Geological
Survey of Japan
where he did
stable isotopic
measurements of
sulfur and
oxygen and
infrared
spectroscopy
measurements of
dissolved water
and carbon
dioxide in
Krakatau 1883
samples.
Following his
study of the
1883 eruption,
Charlie
initiated and
completed a
study of the
sulfur and
chlorine
degassed during
the 7700 year
before present
climactic
eruption of Mt.
Mazama, Crater
Lake Oregon (an
eruption ~ 3.5
times larger
than Krakatau
1883, but
remarkably
similar in other
important
aspects) in
collaboration
with Dr. Charles
Bacon of USGS,
Menlo Park, and
Dept. colleague
Dr. James
Webster, Chair
of the Earth and
Planetary
Sciences Dept.
at AMNH.
Results indicate
that the amount
of sulfur
degassed during
the eruption of
Mt. Mazama was
comparable to
that of the 1815
eruption of Mt.
Tambora in
Indonesia and
it’s impact on
global climate
may have been
just as severe.
Other ongoing
research here at
AMNH includes
measurement of
dissolved H2O
and CO2
in
recently erupted
November 2004
and January 2005
dome samples
from Mt. St.
Helens in
collaboration
with Dr. John
Pallister and
Dr. Carl
Thornber of the
USGS Cascades
Volcano
Observatory.
Charlie is also
doing
collaborative
research on
recently erupted
(January 2006 -
March 2006)
samples from Mt.
St. Augustine,
Cook Inlet
Alaska.
Charles
Merguerian,
Ph.D., is
recognized as
the leading
authority on the
geologic
structure of the
New York City
area.
Dr. Merguerian
is qualified in:
-
Geology
-
Geologic
mapping
-
Geologic
structure of
New York
City area
-
Earthquake
and tsunami
implications
-
Subsurface
geologic
structures
-
Fault and
foundation
analysis
Dr. Merguerian
has over 30
years of
experience in
geologic mapping
and structural
analysis of
complexly
deformed
metamorphic
terrains,
plutonic and
volcanic
districts, and
areas underlain
by sedimentary
and glacial
strata.
Yusheng
Peng is
an associate
professor of
sociology at
CUNY Graduate
Center and in
the Business
Program at
Brooklyn
College. He
graduated from
UCLA with a PhD
in sociology
and, before
joining CUNY,
was a tenured
associate
professor at the
Chinese
Universty of
Hong Kong. He is
interested in
the
institutional
and
organizational
analysis of
Chinese economy
and society and
has recently
published
"Chinese
townships and
villages as
industrial
corporations"
(2001), "Kinship
networks and
entrepreneurs in
China's
transitional
economy" (2004),
both in
American Journal
of Sociology,
and “Lineage
networks, rural
entrepreneurs,
and Max Weber”
(2005) in
Research in the
Sociology of
Work, Vol. 15.
Geoffrey
Redmond
is a prominent
endocrinologist
who has studied
Chinese art and
philosophy for
many years.
During the
lecture, he'll
demonstrate the
first chapter of
the Daode Jing
in calligraphy,
to Mingmei's qin
accompaniment
and singing of
the same
text. The 2.500
year old Daode
Jing, also
transliterated
at Tao Te Ching,
is the most
famous Chinese
philosphical
text. When he
is not doing
calligraphy, Dr.
Redmond
practices
medicine in
Manhattan and
was recently on
the Today Show
to discuss his
new book The
Hormonally
Vulnerable Woman
(ReganBooks/HaprerCollins).
He is also the
author of six
books as well as
numerous
articles on
medicine,
Buddhism and
Chinese culture.
His website is
www.
hormonehelpny.com.
Sonali Skandan
has trained from
some of the most
accomplished
teachers and
performers of
this art form.
Having undergone
rigorous
training by Guru
Smt. Thejeswini
Raj, she went on
to study under
the
world-renowned
teacher and
performer,
Professor CV
Chandrasekhar in
Chennai, India
and Smt. Indira
Kadambi of
Chennai, India.
Sonali is also
an avid student
of yoga,
Carnatic music
and rhythm.
For Sonali, Bharatanatyam is more than
a dance for; it
is a means of
expression and
joy. Combining
powerful
rhythmically
intense
footwork,
graceful and
lyrical
postures, and
dramatic
story-telling,
Bharatanatyam is
a confluence of
many artistic
genres; from
dance to theatre
to music and
literature.
Sonali has performed in prestigious
venues in the
US, India and
Canada. Sonali
has two major
productions to
her credit:
Urban Kutcheri
at the Joyce/SoHo
(June 2006) and
Bharatanatyam
Margam at the
Lighthouse
International
Auditorium (June
2004). She has
participated in
major dance
festivals,
including the
Chennai Music
and Dance
Festival, the
Toronto
International
Dance Festival,
the Dancenow/NYC
Festival and the
Downtown Dance
Festival in NYC.
Sonali's passion
for
Bharatanatyam
stems from its
spirituality,
its intricate
beauty and
grace. Sonali's
work reflects a
high-level
quality and
dedication to
the pure art
form. By
combining her
devotion to the
dance with her
western
upbringing,
Sonali hopes to
bridge the
cultural
boundaries and
present
Bharatanatyam in
a clear and
enlightening
manner.
Xiao Li
Tan is a
filmmaker, video
artist, and
documentarian.
She was born in
Tai Shan, China.
At age 12, she
emmigrated to
New York City.
She received her
BFA in Film and
T.V. and an MPS
in Interactive
Telecommunications
Program, both
from New York
University. In
2005, she was
awarded the
Fulbright grant
to make “My
China Bohemia”.
It is her first
feature
documentary.
For more info,
please visit
www.xiaolitan.com
Zhenhai
Tang
received his
BS in Chinese
Language and
Literature from
SuZhou
University,
China, and his
MS in Chinese
Language and
Literature from
Nanjing
University,
China. Mr. Tang
was an Associate
Professor at
SuZhou
University,
China, from 1982
to 1990, where
he taught the
Review of Movie
and Television
Art. He has also
served as a
Visiting
Professor at
various Korean
National
Universities
during 1998 to
1999, where he
taught the
Critics of Movie
and Television
Art.
Mr. Tang is the
author of numerous
articles, and
four books
published in
China, The
Essentials of
Movie and
Television Art
(June 1997),
Appreciation and
Analyze of
Excellent Movie
and Television
Programs (May
1996), A
Kaleidoscope of
Movies and
Television
(December 1995),
and The
Dictionary of
Appreciation of
Literature and
Arts (September
1991).
Don
Watkins
(PhD, Yale
University),
Professor
Emeritus, School
of Public
Affairs, City
University of
New York/Baruch
College. Board
Member and Vice
President,
United
States-China
Education
Foundation (US-CEF).
Active with
China since
1982. Taught
College
graduates and
directors of
work units for
two summers in
Shanxi Province.
Serves as the
Senior Advisor
and Treasurer of
the Sino-
American
Conferences on
Education
jointly
sponsored since
1985 by Shanxi
and the City
University of
New York. US-CEF
co-founded a
vocational/technical
school and
college in
Sichuan Province
and with a Ford
Foundation
grant,
implemented a
four
collaborative
community
College in China
Project. His
forty-year
career as
professor and
administrator in
higher education
includes
participating in
a variety of
international
projects and
programs in
China, India,
Israel, Italy
and Puerto Rico.
He has written
papers and
monographs on
cross-cultural
education,
discrimination
and higher
education. His
current one, on
recent
vocational/technical
and community
college
developments in
China, is
co-authored with
Dr. Gerard
Postiglione and
wang Liangjuan,
both at Hong
Kong University.
To be published
in 2007 by the
American
Association of
Community
Colleges as a
Chapter in a
book surveying
“further
education” in
20-22 countries
and regions of
the world.
Lee
Wang is
a director and
camerawoman from
New York City.
She studied
documentary film
at the UC
Berkeley
Graduate School
of Journalism
and is a
graduate of Yale
University. Her
work has
appeared on PBS,
CNN, MSNBC and
the Travel
Channel. She
is currently
working on an
hour-long
version of
"Someone Else's
War" for PBS.
Filmography
"Japan & China:
The Unforgotten
War"
PBS-
Frontline/World
Co-Producer,
Reporter,
Camera, Editor
"Days of Our
Tortuga"
CNN- Anderson
Cooper 360
Co-Producer,
Camera, Editor
“Someone Else’s
War”
PBS
Director,
Producer,
Camera, Editor
“The Enemy
Within”
PBS- Frontline
Researcher,
Production
Assitant
Kazuo
Yamazaki
is an assistant
trader in the
Security Lending
Department at
Mitsubishi UFJ
Trust Banking
Corporation
(U.S.A.). Mr.
Yamazaki is
currently
enrolled in the
Post-baccalaureate
Program in
Quantitative
Studies for
Finance at
Columbia
University,
while
simultaneously
pursuing a
completion of
the Certificate
of Risk
Management at
New York
University.
Mr. Yamazaki is
an honor student
graduate from
Brooklyn
College, CUNY,
with a major in
Political
Science and
minor in
Economics. He
has also worked
for the United
Nations
Department of
Economic and
Social Affairs
for six months
as a research
assistant, and
obtained a
certificate at
the United
Nations Graduate
Advanced Program
in the same
period.
Mingmei
Yip
received her PhD
in musicology
from the
University of
Paris (Sorbonne)
on a scholarship
from the French
Government. A
master performer
on the qin,
she has given
lectures and
recitals at
venues such as
Columbia
University,
Oxford
University,
Beijing
University, the
University of
Paris, Amsterdam
University,
Oberlin
Conservatory,
the Cleveland
Museum of Art,
and the China
Institute in New
York.
Mingmei is also
a writer, her
literary career
began at
fourteen when
her essay about
art was
published in a
literary
magazine. She
has published
six books, the
latest being
Chinese
Children's
Favorite Stories
(Tuttle
Publishing,
2004) which she
both wrote and
illustrated. Her
forthcoming
novel, The
Peach Blossom
Pavilion,
will be published
by Kensington
Publishing in
2007. In
Hong Kong, she
wrote columns
for seven major
newspapers and
has appeared on
over 40 TV and
radio programs
in Hong Kong,
Taiwan, China,
and the United
States. Her
poems were
published and
performed in
Hong Kong,
Taiwan and the
U.S.
Mingmei is also
accomplished as
a painter and
calligrapher. A
one-person show
of her paintings
of Guan Yin (the
Chinese Goddess
of Compassion)
and calligraphy
was held at the
New York Open
Center Gallery
in SoHo in 2002.
This exhibit was
the subject of a
full hour
special program
on CHN cable in
New Jersey
Mingmei was a
professor of
music in Hong
Kong, and in
2005, an
International
Institute of
Asian Studies
fellow in
Holland. She has
taught qin
playing and
calligraphy at
two major Hong
Kong
Universities.
Contact Mingmei
at:
mingmeiyip@aol.com
Makiko
Young,
MA, MPS-ATR-LCAT-BC,
is a NY state
licensed art
therapist (and
soon to be board
certified) and a
director of
creative arts
therapies
program at
Housing Works’s
E9th st Adult
Day Health Care
Program in NYC.
Housing Works
offers diverse
services and
care for people
who are living
w/ HIV and AIDS
with history of
mental illness,
substance use,
homelessness,
etc. Ms. Harada
holds MA in
health education
from Teachers
College,
Columbia
University and
MPS in art
therapy from
Pratt Institute.
Ms. Young was
recently
featured by
Newsweek Japan
as one of the
100 Japanese
Women: Shakers
and Movers in
the world. She
met with
Princess
Stephanie of
Monaco and
explained the
benefits of art
therapy.
Michelle
Yu,
a graduate of
Manhattan
College, is an
on-air sports
reporter for NY1
News and a
member of the
Asian American
Journalism
Association. She
also served as a
sports writer
for College
Sports
Television and a
reporter at
Sports
Illustrated for
Kids Magazine.
Both Michelle
and her China
Dolls co-author
Blossom Kan
reside in New
York City, where
they are hard at
work on their
next novel. They
can be found
online at
www.chinadollsnovel.com
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