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Biographies
Joseph
Aranha
who is
originally from
India and now
lives in the US
has been
researching
this monk for
the past twenty
five years and
is now working
on the final
manuscript of a
book,
establishing
beyond any doubt
that Bodhidharma
existed. His
lecture will
cover both the
religious and
and martial art
expertise of
this monk.
Aranha was an
investigator,
and also a
journalist and
photographer by
profession. He
is presently
Senior Editor
for South Asian
Insider.
Henry
Chang is
a New Yorker, a
native son of
Chinatown. His
2006 debut
novel, CHINATOWN
BEAT, garnered
praise from The
Boston Globe,
The Washington
Post, and The
New York Times
among others.
CHINATOWN BEAT
was selected
Best Debut
Mystery by the
Florida
Sun-Sentinel and
was honored on
several Best of
2006 lists.
Henry Chang is a
graduate of CCNY
and was honored
by its Asian
Alumni Group as
‘Distinguished
Asian Role Model
of the Year
2007’. He has
been a lighting
consultant and a
security
director in New
York City and
continues to
live in the
Chinatown area.
Young
Cheong
is an Editor,
producer,
director,
education
coordinator for
New Media and
Digital
technology and
adjunct
assistant
professor at
Brooklyn
College.
Unique design
and creative
production are
prominent in his
work. His
research
interests lies
in the area of
diversity and
social impact.
As a natural
born South
Korean he is
still involved
with his native
land and is
currently
associated with
the SBS (Seoul
Broadcasting
System) and has
produced
segments in the
U.S. for the
show, "Global VJ
Express", which
is aired
nationally in
South Korea.
Mr. Cheong is an
Apple
certified
trainer for
Final Cut Pro.
His expertise in
editing is one
of many valuable
assets he
possesses. His
approach to the
skill of editing
has benefited
both
undergraduate
and graduate
students
attending
Brooklyn
College. His
persona is such
that students
are both well
trained and
comfortable
under his
tutelage.
In addition to
all of his
teaching and
training skills,
Mr. Cheong is an
award-winning
producer and
editor.
Some of his most
noted praise has
come from
editing and
producing videos
such as CUNY's
Human Resources'
introductory
video for new
staff members.
For the 48 hour
film Festival in
New York he
produced and
directed, First
Day, which won
awards for Best
Actor, Best
Lighting and
Best Editing.
Young Cheong is
regarded as an
exceptional
videographer
and is a
consummate
professional in
all his
endeavors.
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
served as the
Interim
Executive
Director of the
Asian
American/Asian
Research
Institute of
CUNY during
2006-2007. 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.
Irene
Chung,
PhD, LCSW, is a
clinical social
worker who has
worked in the
mental health
field,
predominantly
with Asian
Americans, for
over twenty
years. She is
currently
Associate
Professor at the
Hunter College
School of Social
Work and
maintains a
private practice
in Manhattan.
Alvin
Eng
is the
editor/compiler
of the play
anthology/oral
history, TOKENS?
THE NYC ASIAN
AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE ON
STAGE, that
includes his
play, “The Last
Hand Laundry in
Chinatown.” His
plays and poetry
have also been
published in
numerous
anthologies and
journals. Honors
include grants
from the New
York Foundation
for the Arts and
the Corporation
For Public
Broadcasting,
and an MFA in
Musical Theatre
Writing from
NYU. He is a
proud Flushing,
Queens native
who currently
lives in
Manhattan, and
was named after
the Chipmunk
cartoon
character. URL:
www.alvineng.com
Winnie
Tam Hung
is a PhD
candidate in the
Cultural Studies
Graduate Group
at the
University of
California,
Davis. Her
dissertation
research focuses
on Fuzhounese
youth,
neoliberalism,
and the
restructuring of
New York City
Chinatown. Her
project,
Chinatown Rim:
Chinese
Subjectivities
and the Cultural
Politics of an
Ethnic Space, is
situated at the
intersection of
Asian American
Studies, the
politics of
racial and class
formation in the
United States,
and the
relationship
between
immigration and
the organization
of urban spaces.
Hung was
recently awarded
an American
Dissertation
Fellowship from
the American
Association of
University Women
for 2008-2009.
Philip
Kasinitz
is Professor of
Sociology at the
Graduate Center
and Hunter
College of the
City University
of New York. He
currently chairs
the Ph.D.
Program in
Sociology at the
Graduate Center
and is a former
President of the
Eastern
Sociological
Society. Prior
to coming to
CUNY he taught
at Williams
College and was
a visiting
professor at
Princeton. His
book
Caribbean New
York: Black
Immigrants and
the Politics of
Race
(Cornell
University
Press, 1992) won
the Thomas and
Znaniecki Award
from the
International
Migration
Section of the
ASA. He is the
editor of
Metropolis:
Center and
Symbol of Our
Time (New
York University
Press, 1995),
co-editor (with
Josh DeWind and
Charles
Hirschman) of
Handbook on
International
Migration
(Russell Sage
Foundation,
1999), and (with
Mollenkopf and
Waters)
Becoming New
Yorkers:
Ethnographies of
The New Second
Generation
(Russell
AgeFoundation
2004), which
received an
honorable
mention for the
2005 Robert Park
Award. His most
recent book,
Inheriting the
City: The
Children of
Immigrants Come
of Age (with
Waters,
Mollenkopf and
Jennifer
Holdaway) was
published by the
Harvard
University Press
in April 2008.
He has been a
member of the
Social Science
Research
Council’s
Committee on
International
Migration and
the historical
advisory board
of the new
museum of
American
Immigration on
Ellis Island.
Professor
Kasinitz
received his
B.A. from Boston
University on
1979 and his
Ph.D. from the
Sociology
Department of
New York
University in
1987.
Peter
Kwong
is on the
faculty of the
Hunter College
Urban Affairs
and Planning
Department. He
writes
extensively on
Chinese
Americans,
labor, and
immigration
issues. His
commentaries on
Chinese politics
are syndicated
worldwide and
appear regularly
in The Nation
and The
International
Herald Tribune.
Kwong is a
recipient of
Hunter’s
Presidential
Award for
Excellence in
Scholarship.
Jennifer 8
Lee
is a
metropolitan
reporter at The
New York Times,
where she has
worked for many
years. She
harbors a deep
obsession for
Chinese food,
the product of
which is The
Fortune Cookie
Chronicles
(Twelve, 2008),
which explores
how Chinese food
is all-American.
At the Times,
she has written
about poverty,
the environment,
crime, politics,
and technology.
She has been
called, by NPR,
a “conceptual
scoop artist.”
One of her
better known
articles is on
the Man Dates,
and also on the
fastest growing
baby name in the
history of
America.
She was born and
raised in New
York City,
attending Hunter
College
Elementary
School and
Hunter College
High School for
a total of 14
years. She
majored in
applied math and
economics at
Harvard, where
she also angsted
a lot about The
Harvard Crimson,
a fabulous
start-up
magazine called
Diversity &
Distinction, and
the Asian
American
Association.
After college,
she fled to
China and spent
a year at
Beijing
University
studying
international
relations.
Joann
Faung Jean
Lee,
Ph.D. is author
of Asian
Americans in the
Twenty-First
Century (New
Press, 2008).
This marks her
third book of
oral histories
on Asians in
America. She has
written and
lectured
extensively on
the Asian
American
experience and
Asians and
media.
She has been a
journalism
educator for
over two
decades. She is
currently
Professor and
Chairperson of
the
Communication
Department at
William Paterson
University. She
has served as
Dean of the
Reynolds School
of Journalism,
University of
Nevada, Reno.
At Queens
College, City
University of
New York, she
established and
directed the
journalism
program and
created the T.W.
Wang Awards for
Excellence in
Coverage of
Chinese American
Issues, a
national
journalism award
sponsored by the
World Journal.
She was also a
faculty member
of the Graduate
School of
Journalism,
Columbia
University.
As a journalist,
Dr. Lee was the
first Asian
American
reporter hired
by CNN, as well
as its first New
York
Correspondent,
covering Wall
Street, the
United Nations,
and the court
system. She was
also the first
Asian American
television
reporter to be
hired for ABC
and CBS local
affiliate
stations in
Sacramento,
Chicago, and
Philadelphia.
Her other books
include Asian
American Actors
(McFarland,
2000), and
Asian Americans
(New Press,
1992).
Cheryl
Littman
is the Assistant
Dean for
Institutional
Research at The
City University
of New York.
She's worked in
the Office of
Institutional
Research and
Assessment for
more than seven
years, first as
a
manager/analyst
and then as
Director of IR
for the Central
Office. Her
responsibilities
include
developing
quantitative
analyses for
decision support
at the Central
Office,
developing and
administering
the CUNY Student
Experience
Survey, managing
the process of
annual federal
and state
reporting,
responding to
requests for
quantitative
information
about CUNY's
student body and
various other
tasks related to
collecting,
managing,
organizing and
reporting on
data. Dr.
Littman's
educational
background is in
measurement,
evaluation and
applied
statistical
analysis. She
earned her Ph.D.
from the
University of
Chicago, an M.S.
in science
education from
LIU/C.W. Post
and a B.S. in
biology from
Cornell
University. She
has experience
conducting
research and
analysis for
K-12 as well as
higher education
systems.
Keming
Liu is
the Technical
Writing
Coordinator in
the Department
of English at
Medgar Evers
College, CUNY.
The daughter of
a former KMT
general, Dr. Liu
was born in
mainland China
and came to the
U.S. to pursue
her advanced
studies, which
includes an Ed.D.
in Applied
Linguistics from
Teachers'
College,
Columbia
University and
M.A. in TESOL
and Computer
Technology. Dr.
Liu's past
presentations at
AAARI include
Off the Wall:
New of
Creativity and
Language (2003),
and Passing: A
Thematic
Approach to
Asian American
Literary
Analysis (2002).
Edward
Ma,
is a NY/NJ
certified
Psychotherapist,
Member of
Manhattan
Community Board
2, and former
New York City
Human Rights
Commissioner.
Mr. Ma received
his diploma in
Psychotherapy
from New York
Medical College,
and MSW from the
University of
Connecticut. He
serves on the
board of the
Chinese American
Planning Council
(CPC), and
provides
consultation for
the Chinese
Community Social
Result Services
and Health
Council, which
is organized by
40 agency
members,
including
Bellevue,
Downtown, and
Gouverneur
Hospitals.
In the promotion
of community
advocacy, with
the support of
friends, Mr. Ma
founded Asian
American
Community
Consultation
Association in
1995,
functioning in
an enabling
facilitating
role to assist
Asian American
community and
their leaders in
building access
to mainstream
resources for
empowerment,
justice and
democracy.
Workshops,
lecture, and
interview by
television and
newspaper are
regularly given
as public
education on
mental health,
parent-child
relationships,
prevention of
family violence,
child/elderly
abuse, etc.
Testimonies have
also been made
in public
hearings, letter
writings and
lobbying for
legislation.
Mr. Ma also
assisted in
founding the
Committee of
Bridging the
Gap No answer
Between ACS and
Asian American
Community in the
prevention of
children remove
from family
tragedy due to
alleged abuse.
Mr. Ma has made
presentations at
conferences by
the American
Society of Group
Psychotherapy
and Psychodrama
in San Francisco
in 2006, and New
York City in
2007. His topic,
Diversity and
Group Coalition
for Peace and
Democracy, is
about how
Chinatown in the
process of
rebuilding
through sharing,
participating,
volunteering and
hearing for
prosperity,
justice,
democracy, and
mainstream.
Recently, Mr. Ma
received special
training in
advocacy (by
Coalition of
Asian American
for Children and
Families), and
How to Run
Public Office in
New York City
(by The League
of Women
Voters). His
philosophy is
learning,
growing, sharing
and healing.
John
Mollenkopf
is Distinguished
Professor of
Political
Science and
Sociology and
Director of the
Center for Urban
Research at The
Graduate Center
of the City
University of
New York. He
has authored or
edited fifteen
books on urban
politics and
policy and the
role of race,
ethnicity, and
immigration in
urban America,
most recently
Bringing
Outsiders In:
Transatlantic
Perspectives on
Immigrant
Political
Incorporation
(co-edited with
Jennifer
Hochschild,
forthcoming from
Cornell
University
Press). With
Philip Kasinitz,
Mary Waters, and
Jennifer
Holdaway, he
recently
completed
Inheriting the
City: The
Children of
Immigrants Come
of Age
(Harvard
University
Press, 2008), a
study of
educational
attainment,
labor market
outcomes, and
political and
civic
involvement
among second
generation
immigrant and
native minority
young adults in
metropolitan New
York. His
current research
focuses on the
impact of
immigration on
racial and
ethnic
empowerment in
New York and Los
Angeles and the
comparative
politics of
immigrant
political
incorporation.
Mollenkopf
serves on the
selection
committees for
the “Worlds in
Motion” PhD
Fellowship of
the Zeit
Foundation in
Hamburg, Germany
and the “New
Americans
Fellowship” of
the Paul and
Daisy Soros
Foundation. He
is also a
consultant to a
study of the
reasons for and
barriers to
naturalization
being conducted
by the
Citizenship and
Immigration
Services
division of the
U.S. Department
of Homeland
Services. He
received his PhD
from Harvard and
BA from Carleton
College.
Rosalind
Morris
is Professor of
Anthropology and
Associate
Director of the
Center for
Comparative
Literature and
Society at
Columbia
University,
where she has
also served as
Director of the
Institute for
Research on
Women and
Gender. Her
work focuses on
questions of
representation
and translation
in modernity,
the politics of
the mass media,
the problem of
the subject and
the history of
social theory.
She is the
author of In
the Place of
Origins:
Modernity and
its Mediums in
Northern
Thailand
(2000), and
The Camera and
its Histories in
East and
Southeast Asia
(forthcoming,
February 2009).
Kathy
Napoli
is currently the
Administrative
Assistant in the
Department of
Television and
Radio at
Brooklyn
College. She
has thirty-eight
years of
professional
experience,
fifteen of which
are exclusively
in the area of
academia.
Ms. Napoli has
previously
worked at
Crossland
Savings Bank,
and New York
Life Insurance
Company. She was
also the CSTEP
Administrator
with the
Research
Foundation under
the auspice of
the Office of
the Dean of
Graduate
Studies. Ms.
Napoli was
instrumental in
helping to
organize the
Center for the
Study of World
Television's
International
Symposium in
April, 1999 and
the Brooklyn
College Arts
Council Gala in
May 2001. She
was actively
involved in the
initial
organizatoin of
PIMA
(Performance and
Interactive
Media Arts) at
Brooklyn
College. Ms.
Napoli was
honored as the
BC Employee of
the Month in
June 2002. Ms.
Napoli is
currently a
member of the
Brooklyn College
Strategic
Planning
Steering
Committee; the
annual Brooklyn
College
Appreciation Day
Committee; the
annual
Commencement
Committee; and
the Middle
States Working
Group 3
Committee. She
works
extensively with
the Chair of the
Department of
Television and
Radio.
Ms. Napoli has
been actively
involved with
the graduate
students at
Brooklyn College
and is the
graduate student
club advisor for
the Graduate
Student
Organization in
the TV/Radio
department. She
has been given
awards by the
Student Life
department for
her work with
the annual
commencement
exercises and by
the students of
WBCR the
Brooklyn College
Radio Station
and by the
students of the
Television Club.
Her most recent
accomplishment
has been her
participation in
Young Cheong's
documentary,
A World Within.
Ms. Napoli has
been married for
thirty years and
is the mother of
two sons. She
enjoys writing,
dancing and
learning
something new
each and every
day.
Jacqueline M.
Newman
is Professor
Emeritus of
Queens College,
the City
University of
New York, and
editor of Flavor
and Fortune, a
magazine
dedicated to the
Science and Art
of Chinese
Cuisine,
available by
subscription at
www.flavorandfortune.com.
She has also
been the
Chairperson of
the Department
of Family,
Nutrition and
Exercise
Sciences, and
before that, the
Department of
Home Economics
at Queens
College.
Dr. Newman is
currently consultant
to various food
companies,
journals,
restaurants and
related
facilities; and
writes a monthly
column for Asian
Restaurant News.
Her most recent
books include
Chinese-American
Foods, Customs
and Culture,
Melting Pot: An
Annotated
Biography and
Guide to Food
and Nutrition
Information for
Ethnic Groups in
America, Second
Edition, and her
latest, Cooking
from China’s
Fujian Province.
Gene
Park
teaches courses
on East Asian
politics and
political
economy. He is
currently
completing a
research project
on the politics
of government
finance in
Japan. His
research
interests
include the
comparative
political
economy of East
Asian states and
advanced
industrial
democracies.
His work has
appeared in the
journals
Governance and
Asian Survey,
and he
co-authored an
article for the
edited volume,
The State after
Statism (Harvard
University
Press). Gene
received his
Ph.D. in
Political
Science from
University of
California,
Berkeley in
2007. He is
also he
recipient of a
Fulbright
scholarship. He
has been a
visiting scholar
at the Japanese
Ministry of
Finance and a
Research Fellow
at Stanford
Universityıs
Asia-Pacific
Research Center.
Rick
Repetti
is Assistant
Professor of
Philosophy in
the Department
of History,
Philosophy &
Political
Science at
Kingsborough
Community
College in the
City University
of New York.
Dr. Repetti
received his
Ph.D in
philosophy at
the CUNY
Graduate School
(May 2005) for
his dissertation
on the
relationship
between
reflective
consciousness
and autonomy,
"The Metacausal
Theory of
Autonomy". His
primary
philosophical
interest is in
meditation and
other
contemplative
practices, and
issues related
to these, such
as philosophy of
mind and ethics.
Dr. Repetti
facilitates the
Contemplative
Practices
Faculty Interest
Group at
Kingsborough,
and is a
founding member
of the CUNY
Contemplatives,
a group of CUNY
faculty
interested in
integrating
contemplative
practices into
the classroom.
Dr. Repetti is a
meditation and
yoga
practitioner for
over 35 years,
has studied with
many renowned
meditation and
yoga teachers,
and for the past
decade has been
conducting
meditation and
yoga classes at
Natural Balance
Massage &
Wellness Center,
in Marine Park,
Brooklyn. He
also completed
two years of
post-graduate
training at the
Gestalt Center
for
Psychotherapy
and Training in
NYC, and sees
clients for
philosophical
counseling.
Rick is also a
marathon runner,
a student of
mixed martial
arts, and a 4th
degree black
belt in Shotokan
Karate.
Zohra
Saed
teaches Asian
and Middle
Eastern American
Literature and
Film at Hunter
College. She is
in the midst of
her PhD Studies
at The CUNY
Graduate
Center. Zohra
received her MFA
in Poetry at
Brooklyn College
where she
studied with
Julie Agoos and
Ron Padgett. In
2007, she joined
the cast of Ping
Chong's
Undesirable
Elements, an
ongoing series
of life history
theater work.
She has edited
an anthology of
Afghan American
Literature along
with Lida Abdul
and Sahar Muradi
(forthcoming
2009). Zohra is
co-founding
editor of Up-Set
Press, an
independent
literary press:
www.upsetpress.org
Frank H.
Shih,
a former social
worker and
community
advocate in New
York City,
received his
M.A. and Ph.D.
in Anthropology
from the New
School for
Social
Research. He
has interests in
multiculturalism
and pluralism
and has written
about the
experiences of
Asian and Asian
American
students and
presented on
diversity and
conflict
resolution
issues. Dr.
Shih’s research
focuses on
transnationalism
and
globalization
and its
particular
impact on
international
education. He
is the author of
Re-shaping
the Chinese
Diaspora:
International
Education and
Foreign Students
from the
People’s
Republic of
China (In,
Education
Landscapes in
the 21st
Century:
Cross-cultural
Challenges and
Multi-disciplinary
Perspectives.
Bruce Swaffield
and Iris Guske,
eds., London,
UK, Cambridge
Scholars
Publishing,
2008).
Dr. Shih is
currently on
leave from CUNY
School of Law
where he is the
Assistant Dean
for Student
Affairs. Prior
to his present
position, he was
the Director of
the Center for
Academic
Advising at the
State University
of New York at
Stony Brook
where he
received the
1992 SUNY
Chancellor's
Award for
Excellence in
Professional
Service.
As an active
volunteer in the
community, he
serves on the
Board of
Directors of the
United Way of
Long Island and
AAARI. He is
also a member of
the Advisory
Councils of
Nassau Suffolk
Law Services,
Inc. and
Literacy
Suffolk, Inc.
Christine
Wade,
MPH joined the
Office of
Institutional
Research and
Assessment as
Deputy Director
last spring.
She is an
epidemiologist
and prior to
coming to CUNY
worked on
multi-disciplinary
projects in
healthcare with
a focus on
multi-cultural
populations at
Columbia
University's
College of
Physician and
Surgeons. She
conducted an NIH-funded
population-based
study of health
care choices of
Chinese women
living in the
United States
which was
published in the
Journal of
Immigrant and
Minority Health
in 2007.
Ming
Xia
is a professor
of political
science at the
College of
Staten Island of
the City
University of
New York. In
addition to his
duties at CSI,
Professor Ming
Xia is a
visiting
professor at the
School of
International
Relations and
Public Affairs,
Fudan
University;
guest research
fellow at the
Center for
Elections and
People's
Congress System
at Fudan
University and
guest professor
at Jishou
University
(Hunan, China).
Mingmei
Yip
was born in
China, received
her Ph.D. from
the University
of Paris,
Sorbonne, and
held faculty
appointments at
the Chinese
University and
Baptist
University in
Hong Kong. She’s
published five
books in
Chinese, written
several columns
for seven major
Hong Kong
newspapers, and
has appeared on
over forty TV
and radio
programs in Hong
Kong, Taiwan,
Mainland China,
and the U.S. She
immigrated to
the United
States in 1992,
where she now
lives in New
York City. Peach
Blossom Pavilion
is her first
novel, her other
book in English
is Chinese
Children's
Favorite Stories
of which she
both wrote and
illustrated.
Visit her at:
www.mingmeiyip.com
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