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Biographies
Linda Martín
Alcoff
is Professor of
Philosophy at
Hunter
College/CUNY
Graduate Center.
Her books and
anthologies
include Thinking
From the
Underside of
History
co-edited with
Eduardo Mendieta
(Rowman &
Littlefield,
2000), Singing
in the Fire:
Tales of Women
in Philosophy (Rowman
and Littlefield
2003), Visible
Identities:
Race, Gender and
the Self (Oxford
2006), Feminist
Epistemologies
co-edited with
Elizabeth Potter
(Routledge
1993), Real
Knowing (Cornell
1996), and
Identity
Politics
Reconsidered
co-edited with
Michael Hames-Garcia,
Satya Mohanty
and Paula Moya
(Palgrave,
2006); and
Constructing the
Nation: A Race
and Nationalism
Reader co-edited
with Mariana
Ortega (SUNY
2009).
www.alcoff.com
Kathleen
Bauer,
PhD, RD is a
Professor of
Nutrition and
coordinator of
the Nutrition
and Food Science
major at
Montclair State
University.
Currently she is
involved in
several cultural
and academic
research
projects
regarding
psychosocial
factors related
to obesity among
Chinese-Americans,
methodology for
gaining cultural
competence,
counseling
individuals with
aphasia, and
evaluation of
the new
MyPyramid. Her
most recent
publications
include a text
book on
nutrition
counseling,
Basic Nutrition
Counseling Skill
Development,
and chapters for
books on
psychosocial
models related
to obesity and
gaining cultural
competence in
community
nutrition. Dr.
Bauer’s applied
experience
includes
directing a
nutrition
counseling
clinic,
developing
wellness
programs for
fitness centers
and corporations
and consulting
for nursing
homes. Honors
include American
Dietetic
Association 2002
Outstanding
Dietetic
Educator for
Area VII and the
Gallo Award for
Outstanding
Cancer Research
from the Cancer
Institute of New
Jersey.
Moustafa
Bayoumi
is an associate
professor of
English at
Brooklyn
College, the
City University
of New York.
Born in Zürich,
Switzerland and
raised in
Kingston,
Canada, he
completed his
Ph.D. in English
and comparative
literature at
Columbia
University. He
is co-editor of
The
Edward Said
Reader
and has
published
academic essays
in
Transition,
Interventions,
The
Yale Journal of
Criticism,
Amerasia,
Arab
Studies
Quarterly,
The
Journal of
Asian American
Studies,
and other
places. His
writings have
also appeared in
The
Nation,
The
London Review of
Books,
and
The Village
Voice.
His essay “Disco
Inferno,”
originally
published in
The
Nation,
was included in
the collection
Best
Music Writing
2006.
From 2003 to
2006, he served
on the National
Council of the
American Studies
Association, and
he is currently
an editor for
Middle East
Report.
He is also an
occasional columnist
for the
Progressive
Media Project,
an initiative of
The
Progressive
magazine,
through which
his op-eds
appear in
newspapers
across the
United States.
He lives in
Brooklyn.
Elana
Behar is
the Project
Director for
Professor Chin’s
study on Asian
immigrant
religious
organizations
and HIV. Prior
to joining the
research staff
at Hunter
College, Elana
worked at the
New York Academy
of Medicine and
was involved in
various research
projects having
to do with
understanding
and learning how
to remove
barriers to
health care for
people with
HIV/AIDS, and a
research project
assessing how
NYC pharmacies
explain
prescription
medicines to
limited English
proficient New
Yorkers. Elana
received an MA
in Applied
Anthropology
from Montclair
State
University, and
a BA from
Grinnell
College.
Charlotte
Brooks,
a native of
California,
Charlotte Brooks
earned her B.A.
in Chinese
history from
Yale University
and worked in
China and Hong
Kong after
college. She
received her
M.A. and Ph.D.
in U.S. history
from
Northwestern
University and
taught at the
University at
Albany, SUNY,
before coming to
Baruch College.
Her first book,
Alien
Neighbors,
Foreign Friends:
Asian Americans,
Housing, and the
Transformation
of Urban
California
(University of
Chicago Press),
will be
published in
spring 2009. Her
articles include
“In the Twilight
Zone Between
Black and White:
Japanese
American
Resettlement and
Community in
Chicago,
1942-1945,” in
the Journal
of American
History
(2000), and
“Sing Sheng vs.
Southwood:
Housing, Race,
and the Cold War
in 1950s
California,”
originally
published in the
Pacific
Historical
Review
(2004) and later
republished in
The Best
American History
Essays 2006.
She is currently
doing research
for her second
book, which will
examine Asian
Americans, party
politics, and
foreign policy
between 1945 and
1975.
Esther K.
Chae is
an international
award-winning
actor/writer and
academic based
in Los Angeles
and New York.
Her artistic
work has been
seen and heard
in the US,
Korea, Ireland,
Australia,
Canada and
Russia. Her
numerous credits
as a performer
include TV shows
NCIS, Law and
Order: Criminal
Intent, The West
Wing, The
Shield, ER;
and theatre
stages such as
Yale Repertory
Theater, La
Mama, Mark Taper
Forum/ Kirk
Douglas Theater,
East West
Players, P.S.
122, CUNY/Martin
Segal Theater
and
Harvard/A.R.T.
Chae’s
performances
have been lauded
as “talented” (Variety),
“engaging” (Hollywood
Reporter) –
and may just
“break your
heart” (Asia
Pacific Arts).
Her life in
Hollywood has
been featured in
a Korean
Broadcasting
Station (KBS)
documentary.
Her solo
performance
So the Arrow
Flies, about
a North Korean
spy and the
Korean-American
FBI Agent who
pursues her, was
featured at the
Edinburgh Fringe
Festival (“a
powerful and
compelling
script…
fascinatingly
gripping-ThreeWeeks
Magazine),
Ars Nova Theater
Festival (NY)
and the World
Women’s Forum
(Seoul) in 2008.
This year it has
been invited to
TED (Technology,
Entertainment
and Design)
conference of
which she is an
inaugural
fellow, CUNY’s
Martin Segal
Theater and
NYU’s
Performance
Studies. The
play is being
adapted into a
feature film
script.
Chae graduated
from the Yale
School of Drama
with an MFA in
Acting, the
University of
Michigan with an
MA in Theater
Studies, and
Korea
University.
Believing
strongly in the
concept of
inspirational
education, Chae
has taught and
lectured at
NYU's Tisch
Performance
Studies (mentor
Anna Deavere
Smith’s class),
Yale School of
Drama, USC,
University of
Baltimore,
Maryland and Cal
State San
Marcos. She is
a TED and USC
NetKAL fellow
and invited
speaker at the
2008
International
Women’s World
Forum in Seoul.
She is a
certified stage
combatant,
trained in
Korean Drum and
Mask dance and
is proud to have
trekked the
Himalayan
mountains
(India, 4100m)-
despite the
altitude
sickness.
Joanne
Chang is
an Assistant
Professor in the
Music Department
at Queensborough
Community
College, The
City University
of New York. Dr.
Chang received
her
undergraduate
degree from
Queensland
Conservatorium
at Griffith
University in
Australia, her
Master's degree
from the
Manhattan School
of Music, and
her Doctoral
degree from
Columbia
University.
Her teachers
include
Constance Keene,
Karl-Heinz
Kammerling,
Natasha
Vlassenko,
Mykola Suk,
Valida
Rassoulova and
Lev Vlassenko,
(the later four
are direct
student
descendants of
legendary
Rachmaninoff).
In 1995, she
gave her recital
debut in
Australia, and
subsequently
performed in Die
Stiftung
Schleswig-Holstein
Musik Festival
in Germany, and
in New York's
Carnegie Weill
Recital Hall.
Dr. Chang also
premiered
Four
Temperaments
by Hindemith
with the Taipei
Symphony
Orchestra at the
National Concert
Hall in Taiwan.
Her selected
performances
include a
recital and a
chamber music
tours in Taiwan
(the former one
being sponsored
by the Italian
Fazioli Piano
Corporation),
invitations from
Faust and
Harrison in its
series of
"Pianists for
the New
Millennium",
Merkin Hall of
Abraham Goodman
House sponsored
by Artist’s
International
Inc., Four-Hand
piano concert
from Klavierhaus
Inc., a concert
tour in
Switzerland; and
recitals at
Symphony Space,
Steinway Hall,
NYPL at Donnell
branch, an
extensive
Australian
concert tour
(including one
concert at the
Queensland
Performing Arts
Complex),
Carnegie Weill
Hall in New York
City.
Dr. Chang has
also established
herself as an
interdisciplinary
researcher
(music and
psychology).
She has several
publications in
scientific
journals such as
Psychology of
Music in the
United Kingdom
and Medical
Problems for
Performing
Artists in
the USA. In
addition to
concert
performances and
publications,
Dr. Chang is a
multiple grant
award winner:
two PSC-CUNY
Grants, two
G. Shuster
Fellowships
and two
Travel Awards
from the State
of New York.
Dr. Chang has
also served on
the faculty of
City College,
Lehman College,
John Jay College
(all CUNY), New
Jersey City
University, and
Montclair State
University. Her
recent events
include a piano
recital and
lecture in
Shanghai City,
China during the
summer of 2009.
Po Chun
Chen is
a Research
Associate for
Professor Chin’s
study on Asian
immigrant
religious
organizations
and HIV. Po Chun
received her BA
in Public
Administration
from National
Chengchi
University in
Taiwan and an MS
in Urban Affairs
from Hunter
College.
John Chin
is an Associate
Professor in the
department of
Urban Affairs
and Planning at
Hunter College,
City University
of New York.
His research
focuses on the
role of
community
institutions in
community
planning and in
the delivery of
social and
health services,
particularly to
under-served
communities,
such as
immigrant
communities and
communities of
color. He is
also interested
in how key
community-based
institutions in
immigrant and
minority
communities
shape community
values and
norms,
particularly in
relation to
controversial or
sensitive
topics, like
HIV. He is
currently
completing a
pilot study on
emerging Asian
immigrant
populations in
small U.S.
cities.
Professor Chin
is the Principal
Investigator of
a 5-year study
funded by the
National
Institutes of
Health on Asian
immigrant
religious
institutions and
their potential
role in HIV
prevention for
Asian immigrant
communities.
Prior to coming
to Hunter
College,
Professor Chin
was a Senior
Research
Associate for 6
years at the New
York Academy of
Medicine.
Previously, he
was also an
assistant
professor of
clinical
sociomedical
sciences at
Columbia
University
(Mailman School
of Public
Health) and a
visiting
assistant
research
scientist at the
University of
California, San
Francisco.
Prior to his
academic/research
career,
Professor Chin
was on staff for
8 years at the
the Asian &
Pacific Islander
Coalition on
HIV/AIDS (APICHA),
a NYC-based
nonprofit
organization, of
which he was a
co-founder and
Deputy Executive
Director. He
also worked for
the NYC
Commission on
Human Rights and
the NYC
Comptroller’s
Office. He has
a Ph.D. in Urban
Planning from
Columbia
University and
an M.S. in Urban
Policy Analysis
from the New
School for
Social
Research.
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.
CVN Kalari
is
internationally
known for their
demonstration
and practice of
Kalaripayat,
India's
traditional
martial arts
system. Hailing
from Trivandrum,
Kerala State,
the group is
headed by
Govindan Kutty
Nair
Sathyanarayanan,
the Gurukkal of
CVN Kalari.
Training since
the age of 10,
Govindan is a
performer,
consultant,
teacher, actor,
and dancer. He
has performed in
many countries
such as China,
England, France,
Germany, Japan,
Russia, and even
in the film “The
Myth” with
Jackie Chan.
Accompanying the
Gurukkal are:
Balakrishnan
Harindranath,
one of the
youngest boys to
win the state
Kalaripayat
championships in
1982.
Balakrishnan is
also the winner
of two gold
medals in the
1985 and 1990
Olympics for
Fencing.
Nagappan Nair
Rajasekharan
Nair has won
various
individual and
team medals at
the Team
Championships
for Kalarippayat
(1972 to 1975). Nagappan
is also a senior
instructor and
teaches students
theatre, dance,
and martial
arts.
Ravikumar Ram
Kumar is
trained in the
art of weaponry,
and has
conducted
workshops on
Kalaripayat for
the professional
dance group Emio/Greco
PC in Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
Fred
Ho
is a
one-of-a-kind
revolutionary
Chinese American
baritone
saxophonist,
composer,
writer,
producer,
political
activist and
leader of
several music
ensembles. For
two decades, he
has innovated a
new American
Multicultural
Music embedded
in the
swingingest,
most soulful and
transgressive
forms of African
American music
with the
influences of
Asia and the
Pacific Rim. As
Larry Birnbaum
writes in Down
Beat "Fred Ho's
style is a genre
unto itself, a
pioneering
fusion of
free-jazz and
traditional
Chinese music
that manages to
combine
truculence and
delicacy with
such natural
ease that it
sounds
positively
organic."
Ho is a
prodigious
composer whose
output of
multimedia
pieces, scores
and oratorios
includes the
nationally
toured and
celebrated
Voice of the
Dragon;
Josephine
Baker's
Angels from the
Rainbow (for
Imani Winds);
Suite for
Matriarchal
Shaman
Warriors (for
percussion
ensemble IIIZ+);
music/theater
project
Deadly She-Wolf
Assassin
at Armageddon!
(a martial
arts sword epic
paying homage to
manga and
samurai film
classics), and
the opera Mr.
Mystery: The
Return of Sun Ra
to Save Planet
Earth with
libretto by
Quincy Troupe
and Dragon
vs. Eagle
for the Apollo
Theater and
Brooklyn Academy
of Music Next
Wave Festival.
He received a
Jazz
Commissioning
Award from
Chamber Music
America to
compose Suite
Sam Furnace
and has been
awarded numerous
other grants and
commissions to
present his
vision of music
and the arts.
From
organizations
including the
National
Endowment for
the Arts, The
Apollo Theater
Foundation, The
Rockefeller
Foundation, NY
State Council on
the Arts,
Chamber Music
America and
World Music
Institute.
As a musical
leader, Fred Ho
has recorded
more than
fifteen albums
and founded the
Afro Asian Music
Ensemble in 1982
and Monkey
Orchestra in
1990, co-founded
the Brooklyn Sax
Quartet with
David Bindmanin
in 1997, and
Caliente! Circle
Around the Sun
(with poets
Magdalena Gomez
and Raul
Salinas) among
others.
He has published
several books
including his
newest Wicked
Theory, Naked
Practice, a
groundbreaking
collection of
his writings,
speeches and
interviews from
the past 30
years. Fred Ho
has been the
subject of
several
scholarly works,
while his other
distinctions
include a 1996
American Book
Award and
becoming the
youngest person
to receive the
Duke Ellington
Distinguished
Artist Lifetime
Achievement
Award. He
currently
resides in
Brooklyn, NY.
Terry Hong
is media arts
consultant for
the Smithsonian
Asian Pacific
American Program
at the
Smithsonian
Institution; she
served as the
project director
for the 2003
Smithsonian
Korean American
Centennial
Commemoration.
She created and
maintains
BookDragon (http://bookdragon.si.edu/),
an extensive
book blog for
the Smithsonian.
Terry taught for
two years in
Duke
University’s
Leadership in
the Arts, a
performance and
public policy
program based in
New York
City. She writes
frequently about
theater, books,
and film.
Publication
credits include
American
Theatre,
Washington Post,
Christian
Science Monitor,
San Francisco
Chronicle,
Library Journal,
Dallas Morning
News, The
Bloomsbury
Review,
AsianWeek,
aMagazine:
Inside Asian
America, among
others. Terry
co-authored two
books, Eastern
Standard Time: A
Guide to Asian
Influence on
American Culture
from Astro Boy
to Zen Buddhism
and What Do I
Read Next?
Multicultural
Literature. She
holds degrees
from Dartmouth
College and Yale
University.
Yunah
Hong is
an award-winning
video/filmmaker,
based in New
York City. She
grew up in
Seoul, Korea.
She studied art
history,
photography and
design at the
Seoul National
University,
graduating in
1985. Two years
later she earned
an M. A. in
computer
graphics at the
New York
Institute of
Technology.
While working as
a designer in
New York, she
began to
experiment with
video. She has
now made seven
films, ranging
in scale from a
one-hour
documentary to
short
experimental
productions.
Her first work,
“Memory/all
echo”
(1990), is an
experimental
video based on
the Dictée
by Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha.
It was
broadcasted on
CUNY-TV in 1991
and has been
distributed to
libraries and
universities
throughout the
U.S. Her second
“Through the
Milky Way”
(1992), is an
experimental
video evoking
the experience
of Korean women
immigrants in
Hawaii at the
turn of the
century. It was
awarded First
Prize in Video
Art at the 1992
Tam Tam
International
Video Festival
in Italy and
broadcast on
WNYC-TV. Her
short film, “Here
Now” (1995),
frames a day in
the life of a
woman who, at
age 30, finds
her mind
bouncing between
fantasy and
reality. It was
awarded the
Special Jury
Award at the 2nd
Seoul Short Film
Festival in
Korea 1995. Her
feature
screenplay, “Monday”,
was an official
selection of PPP
1998: Pusan
International
Film Festival
Film Market in
Korea.
Her documentary,
“Becoming an
Actress in New
York” (2000)
is about three
Korean American
actresses who
pursue their big
dreams in New
York. It was
broadcasted in
Korea in 2001
and 2004. It
was named a
final nominee
for aMedia’s
2001 Ammy Awards
for Best
Documentary.
Her documentary,
“Between the
Lines: Asian
American Women’s
Poetry”
(2001) brings
forth how the
lives of Asian
American woman
poets are
reflected in the
poetry they
produce. It
received a CINE
Golden Eagle
Award in 2002.
It has received
critical acclaim
and has been
exhibited
throughout the
States.
Over the past
nineteen years
since she became
a
video/filmmaker,
her video/films
have focused on
women, and the
arts. She has
worked on
various genres
of film and
video --
experimental,
drama, computer
animation and
documentary --
to explore the
possibilities of
video/film form
and new ways to
visualize
personal stories
and history.
Currently, she
is in the final
stage of
finishing a new
documentary,
“Anna May Wong:
In Her Own
Words” which
will combine her
previous
experience of
working in both
documentary and
fiction
filmmaking to
create a
memorable
portrait of
Wong’s
extraordinary
life. She also
published an
article about
Wong, “A
Twentieth
Century Actress”
with Peter X
Feng in
Quarterly Review
of Film and
Video, Routledge
in 2006.
She is a
recipient of the
New York
Foundation for
the Arts
fellowship in
video (2000,
1992), the Media
Alliance Media
Arts fellowship
(1993), and the
Art Matters
fellowship
(1995). She
received funding
from the New
York State
Council (2004,
2002, 1999 &
1995), the
Jerome
Foundation
(2006, 1994),
the Asian Women
Giving Circle
(2009), Urban
Artist
Initiatives
(2008) and the
Pyramid Arts
Center's Diverse
Forms Artist
Project (1992).
She also
received a media
fund and a James
Yee mentorship
award from
Center for Asian
American Media
in 2008 and
2005.
She served as
video grant
advisor to the
New York
Foundation for
the Arts
(2004-8).
David Henry
Hwang is
a playwright.
His work
includes the
plays M.
Butterfly,
Golden Child,
Yellow Face
and FOB;
the Broadway
musicals Elton
John & Tim
Rice’s Aida
(co-author),
the revised
Flower Drum Song
and Disney’s
Tarzan; and
the operas
The Voyage
(music by Philip
Glass),
Ainadamar (Osvaldo
Golijov - two
2007 Grammy
Awards), The
Silver River
(Bright Sheng)
and Alice in
Wonderland (Unsuk
Chin). He is a
Tony Award
winner and
three-time
nominee, a
three-time Obie
Award winner and
a two-time
Finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize.
Chigon
Kim is
an assistant
professor in the
Sociology/Anthropology
department at
Wright State
University. He
also teaches in
the Applied
Behavioral
Science program.
Dr. Kim earned
his Ph.D. from
the State
University of
New York at
Buffalo and his
M.A. from Hanyang
University in
Seoul Korea. He
specializes in
social research
methods and data
analysis. Dr.
Kim's research
interests
include gender
and racial
inequalities in
urban labor
markets,
globalization,
and minority
communities.
Jason
Koo
is the author of
Man on
Extremely Small
Island,
winner of the
2008 De Novo
Poetry Prize
(C&R Press,
2009) and a
Finalist for the
National Poetry
Series, the
Kathryn A.
Morton Prize and
the Ohio State
University
Press/The
Journal
Award in Poetry.
He was born in
New York City
and grew up in
Cleveland, Ohio.
He earned his BA
in English from
Yale, his MFA in
creative writing
from the
University of
Houston and his
PhD in English
and creative
writing from the
University of
Missouri-Columbia.
The recipient of
fellowships from
the National
Endowment for
the Arts and the
Vermont Studio
Center, he has
published his
poetry and prose
in numerous
journals,
including The
Yale Review,
North American
Review and
The Missouri
Review. He
teaches at NYU
and Lehman
College and
serves as Poetry
Editor of Low
Rent. He
lives in
Brooklyn with
his cat, Django.
Kyoo
Lee,
currently a
Mellon Faculty
Fellow at CUNY
Graduate Center,
is Assistant
Professor of
Philosophy at
John Jay, CUNY,
where she is
also affiliated
faculty for the
Justice Studies
and Gender
Studies
Programs; from
Fall 2010, she
will be also
teaching for
Women’s Studies
Certificate
Program at the
Graduate Center.
With a dual
doctoral
training in
Continental
philosophy and
literary theory,
she writes in
the intersecting
fields of
aesthetics,
Asian American
studies,
comparative
literature/philosophy,
Continental
philosophy,
gender studies,
poetics,
post-phenomenology
and translation.
Her academic
essays have
appeared in
Angelaki,
the Comparatist,
Encyclopedia
of
Nineteenth-century
Thought, How
to Talk to
Photography,
Mythos and
Logos, A
New Kind of
Containment,
Parallax,
Philosophical
Writings,
Poetry Review,
Race and
Nationalism
Reader,
SOAS Literary
Review and
Social
Identities;
some of the
forthcoming
essays concern
Asian American
irony (Philosophy
Today),
Descartes and
Princess
Elizabeth (PhiloSOPHIA:
A Journal of
Continental
Feminism)
and Laura
Hengehold’s
Body Problematic
(Hypatia: A
Journal of
Feminist
Philosophy).
Presently, while
writing a book
on Cartesian
alterity, she is
undertaking a
Mellon-funded
project on
familial
alterity in
America and
beyond.
Min Ying
Li
is a Research
Associate for
Professor Chin’s
study on Asian
immigrant
religious
organizations
and HIV. Min
Ying received
her B.A. in
Social Work and
Psychology from
Syracuse
University and
MSW from
Columbia
University, with
a concentration
in Public
Policy. During
her academic
education, she
proposed and
implemented an
exploratory
study to measure
how
acculturative
stress, parental
involvement and
academic
achievement
related to the
psychological
well-being among
recent Chinese
immigrant
adolescents in
order to debunk
the myth of the
Model Minority
and advocate for
educational
reform targeting
a growing
population at
risk. The study
was presented at
the Society for
Research in
Child
Development 2007
biennial
conference
poster session.
In addition, she
worked as a
research
assistant to
analyze
ethnographic
data and examine
the impact of
maternal
work-related
stress on child
outcomes as a
result of the
Welfare Reform
as part of the
New Hope
Project. Aside
from her
research
background, she
interned at the
YMCA of Greater
New York, where
she worked
closely with the
Department of
Public Affairs
on projects
regarding public
relations,
funding
activities and
the development
of the New
American Welcome
Center.
Ed
Lin is
the author of
Waylaid and This
Is a Bust. Both
books were
published by
Kaya Press, in
2002 and 2007,
respectively,
and both were
widely praised.
Lin is the first
author to win
two Members'
Choice Awards in
the Asian
American
Literary Awards.
His forthcoming
book, Snakes
Can't Run, will
be published in
hardcover by
Thomas Dunne/St.
Martin's/Minotaur
in April 2010;
it is the sequel
to This Is a
Bust. Lin, who
is of Taiwanese
and Chinese
descent, lives
in New York with
his wife,
actress Cindy
Cheung.
Doreen
Liou,
Ed.D., R.D., is
currently
associate
professor at
Montclair State
University in
the Department
of Health and
Nutrition
Sciences, where
she teaches
undergraduate
and graduate
courses in
nutrition
education,
social
marketing, and
applied
research.
She is also
serving as
director of the
Didactic Program
in Dietetics for
undergraduate
students
pursuing careers
in the field of
nutrition and
dietetics. Her
research
interests
include
applications of
social
psychological
theories of
health behavior
in Chinese
Americans and
nutrition
education of
minority
populations.
She holds a
doctorate degree
in nutrition
education from
Teachers
College/Columbia
University.
Gary
Mar is a
Professor of
Philosophy,
specializing in
logic,
philosophy of
religion, and
Asian American
philosophy, at
Stony Brook
University. In
1997 Gary Mar
was the catalyst
for the donation
of the Charles
B. Wang Asian
American Center,
which was at
that time the
largest donation
in the history
of the public
education system
in New York
State., and he
continues to
serve as the
founding
director of the
Asian American
Center Bridge.
Gary Mar is
currently a
member of the
Suffolk County
Human Rights
Commission, a
member of the
community
advisory board
for public TV
station WLIW21,
VP of education
for Organization
of Chinese
Americans, a
member of the
executive board
for the Council
on Prejudice
Reduction, and
Chair of the
American
Philosophical
Association
Committee on
Asian and
Asian-American
Philosophers and
Philosophies.
Gary Mar has won
numerous awards
including the
President’s and
Chancellor’s
Award for
Excellence in
Teaching, a
fellowship with
the Academy of
Scholar-Teachers,
and the
Outstanding
Professor Award
from the Alumni
Association.
Pyong Gap
Min is
Distinguished Professor of
Sociology at
Queens College
and the Graduate
Center of the
City University
of New York. He
serves as
Director of the
Center for
Research on
Overseas Koreans
at Queens
College. He
has taught Race
and Ethnic
Relations,
Immigration,
Ethnic Identity,
The New
Immigrants and
Their Religion,
and Asian
Americans. The
areas of his
research
interest are
immigration,
ethnic identity,
ethnic business,
religion, and
family/gender,
with a special
focus on
Asian/Korean
Americans.
He is the author
of five books,
all focusing on
Korean
immigrants’
experiences.
They include
Caught in the
Middle: Korean
Communities in
New York and Los
Angeles
(1996), the
winner of two
national book
awards,
Changes and
Conflicts:
Korean Immigrant
Families in New
York, and
Ethnic
Solidarity for
Economic
Survival: Korean
Greengrocers in
New York City
(2008). His
new book,
entitled
Preserving
Ethnicity
through Religion
in America:
Korean
Protestants and
Indian Hindus
across
Generations,
will be
published in
March 2010.
He was
selected as a
Visiting
Scholars at
Russell Sage
Foundation in
2006-2007 to
complete his
book, Ethnic
Solidarity for
Economic
Survival. He
is the editor or
a co-editor of
six books. His
edited books
include
Encyclopedia of
Racism in the
United States,
3 volumes (2005)
and Asian
Americans:
Contemporary
Trends and
Issues, the
Second Edition
(2006).
Encyclopedia of
Racism in the
United States
was selected
among the best
books (23)
published in
2005 in the
reference
category by
Booklist
editors.
Risa
Morimoto
is the President
of Edgewood
Pictures. Risa
is a
second-generation
Japanese
American, and
studied and
lived in Kyoto
for three years.
She received her
Master's degree
in film and
education from
New York
University in
1999
while serving as
the Associate
Director of the
Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Program and
Institute. She
produced the
independent
feature film,
The LaMastas,
and produced and
directed several
short films
and documentaries
including, 9066
with Pat Morita.
Risa was the
Executive Director
of Asian
CineVision, a
NYC-based
non-profit media
arts organization
from 2002-2006.
A producer for
television (AZN-TV,
A&E Networks),
she also
freelances as a
video journalist
for the New
York Post. Risa
is a 2009 Japan
Foundation
research
fellowship
recipient for
her next project
about
internationally
renowned
sculptor and
artist, Isamu
Noguchi.
Risa recently
directed the
award-winning
documentary,
Wings of Defeat,
about surviving
Kamikaze pilots.
It recently
aired nationally
on PBS.
Nanjia
Cairang:
He was from
Tongren County
of Huangna
Tibetan
Autonomous
Regions, and
graduated from
the Central
University for
Nationalities,
with research
interests in
Tibetan language
and literature.
He is currently
working as
Tibetan language
editor Tibetan
at Tibetan
Studies
Publishing
House.
Kevin
Nadal is
truly a one-man
show. A New
Yorker by way of
California, he
has been
involved in the
Pilipino
American, Asian
Pacific
American, and
ethnic minority
communities for
as long as he
can remember.
Having earned
BA's in
Psychology and
Political
Science from the
University of
California at
Irvine and an MA
in Counseling
from Michigan
State
University, he
received his
Ph.D. in
Counseling
Psychology from
Columbia
University in
New York City in
2008. His
research has
focused on the
Pilipino
American
experience,
particularly
Pilipino
American
identity and
mental health.
His "Pilipino
American
Identity
Development
Model" (2004)
has advocated
for Pilipino
American
culturally
competent
services in
education,
psychology, and
health. He has
published in
numerous books
and journals
including the
American
Psychologist,
Asian American
Psychology:
Current
Perspectives,
Encyclopedia of
Cross-cultural
Psychology,
Journal of
Counseling and
Development,
and the
Encyclopedia of
Counseling.
His first book,
Filipino
American
Psychology: A
Handbook of
Theory,
Research, and
Clinical
Practice, is
the first book
of its kind and
was launched on
June 25, 2009.
Dr. Nadal is
currently an
assistant
professor in
psychology at
John Jay College
for Criminal
Justice- City
University of
New York where
he is also the
deputy director
of the Forensic
Mental Health
Counseling
Masters program.
His current
research focuses
on the impact of
microaggressions,
or subtle
discrimination,
on people of
color, women,
and lesbian,
gay, bisexual,
and transngender
individuals. He
also manages
Kevin Nadal
Consulting,
where he has
facilitated
numerous
trainings on
multicultural
competence in
corporate and
non-profit
organizations.
He has delivered
many keynote
speeches and
lectures around
the country
focusing on
racial
microaggressions,
racial & ethnic
identity,
Filipino and
Asian American
experiences,
mental health,
activism, and
issues facing
LGBTQ
communities of
color. He is
also a mental
health trainer
for the New York
Police
Department.
Kevin's mission
in life is to
"save the
world... one
pinoy/pinay at a
time." He also
hopes to make
the world a
better place for
LGBTQ youth and
all oppressed
groups whose
voices are not
heard. He hopes
to do so through
education,
entertainment,
love, and soul
connecting.
Gary Y.
Okihiro
is professor of
international
and public
affairs and the
founding
director of the
Center for the
Study of
Ethnicity and
Race at Columbia
University. He
is author of ten
books, including
Common Ground:
Reimagining
American History
(a Choice
outstanding
academic book)
and The Columbia
Guide to Asian
American History
(an Association
for Asian
American Studies
award-winning
book). Two of
his trilogy on
space/time,
Island World: A
History of
Hawai`i and the
United States
(2008) and
Pineapple
Culture: A
History of the
Tropical and
Temperate Zones
(2009), are from
the University
of California
Press. He is
the recipient of
the Lifetime
Achievement
Award from the
American Studies
Association, and
is a past
president of the
Association for
Asian American
Studies.
Wayne
Patterson
is a professor
of history at
St. Norbert
College since
1977,
specializing in
East Asia, and
is currently a
Visiting
Professor of
Asian Studies,
and Visiting
Scholar at the
Institute of
East Asian
Studies -
University of
California,
Berkeley.
Dr. Patterson
has an
undergraduate
degree in
History from
Swarthmore
College. He
holds two
masters
degrees–one in
History and one
in International
Relations–both
from the
University of
Pennsylvania.
His Ph.D., also
from the
University of
Pennsylvania, is
in International
Relations, with
a concentration
in modern East
Asian history.
Additionally, he
has lived,
taught or
attended
universities in
Taiwan, Japan
and Korea.
The recipient of
four Fulbright
Fellowships, Dr.
Patterson
has authored or
edited twelve
books on modern
Korea and Japan,
and is the
recipient of the
Donald B. King
Outstanding
Scholar Award.
He has been a
visiting
professor at a
number of
universities.
In the United
States, these
include the
University of
Hawaii at Manoa,
the University
of Wisconsin at
Madison, the
University of
Pennsylvania,
the University
of Kansas, the
University of
Maryland, the
University of
South Carolina,
Vanderbilt
University, the
University of
Chicago and
Harvard
University.
Abroad, Dr.
Patterson has
held visiting
professorships
at the
University of
the Philippines,
Korea
University,
Yonsei
University, and
Ewha University.
Kavita
Ramdya
was born in New
York City and
raised in Long
Island where she
attended
Smithtown High
School. She
received her
B.A. from New
York University
and her M.A. and
Ph.D. from
Boston
University where
she was a
Presidential
University
Graduate Fellow.
She currently
works at an
American bank in
London and is a
regular Arts
Opinion-Editorial
columnist for
“News India
Times". She also
writes about
popular culture
and current
events for a
variety of
publications,
both mainstream
and academic,
including "India
Abroad" and "The
Indian
American".
Kavita Ramdya
co-chairs the
Junior
Leadership
Circle for Women
for Women
International, a
charity which
provides
financial and
emotional
assistance to
women survivors
of war.
University
teaching credits
includes “Modern
British Drama”,
“Contemporary
British
Literature”,
“Literature of
the American
Dream”, and
“Literature of
the American
Frontier.”
Geoffrey
Redmond,
MA, MD, is a
biomedical
scientist and
practicing
physician who
has long been
fascinated by
Chinese
philosophy. His
most recent book
is Science
and Asian
Spiritual
Traditions
(Greenwood Press
2007). Dr.
Redmond shows
how ancient
wisdom can be
integrated with
the contemporary
scientific
worldview.
Steven
Romalewski
joined the
Center for Urban
Research in
January 2006 to
launch and
direct the
CUNY Mapping
Service
as a project of
CUR. Prior to
joining CUR,
Romalewski
co-founded and
directed the
Community
Mapping
Assistance
Project (CMAP)
at NYPIRG.
During its
eight-year
history, CMAP
enabled dozens
of nonprofit,
philanthropic,
and public
service
organizations to
use computer
mapping to
visualize data,
analyze
information
geographically,
provide
services, and
otherwise take
advantage of the
growing power of
online mapping
systems.
Romalewski was
awarded a
Charles H.
Revson
Fellowship at
Columbia
University in
1995, and
received his MS
in urban
planning from
Columbia in
1998. He also
teaches
graduate-level
GIS courses at
Pratt
Institute’s
Graduate Center
for Planning and
the Environment.
Bruce
Robbins
is Old Dominion
Foundation
Professor of the
Humanities in
the department
of English and
Comparative
Literature at
Columbia
University. He
has also taught
at the
universities of
Geneva and
Lausanne in
Switzerland and
at Rutgers
University, New
Brunswick and
has held
visiting
positions at
Harvard,
Cornell, and
NYU. His most
recent book is
Upward Mobility
and the Common
Good (Princeton
2007). He is
also the author
of Feeling
Global:
Internationalism
in Distress
(1999), The
Servant's Hand:
English Fiction
from Below
(1986), and
Secular
Vocations:
Intellectuals,
Professionalism,
Culture (1993)
and is co-author
of the Longman
Anthology of
World Literature
(2003). He has
edited
Intellectuals:
Aesthetics,
Politics,
Academics (1990)
and The Phantom
Public Sphere
(1993) and
co-edited (with
Pheng Cheah)
Cosmopolitics:
Thinking and
Feeling beyond
the Nation
(1998). He was
co-editor of the
journal Social
Text from 1991
to 2000 and is
presently on the
editorial board
of boundary 2.
He is co-editor
of a forthcoming
collection of
essays on
Immanuel
Wallerstein.
His current
research is on
versions of
cosmopolitanism.
Sangding
Cairen:
a Tibetan
scholar
originally from
Yun Shu Tibetan
Autonomous
Prefecture of
Qinghai, is
working as the
director of the
Library of China
Tibetology
Research
Center. His
publications
include
-
The Annals
of Tibetan
Affairs
during the
Period of
the Republic
of China
-
The Basic
Issues of
Tibetan
Documents
Submitted to
the Throne
During Qing
Dynasty
-
A Study on
Institution
of the
Hundreds and
Thousands
Households
in Yunshu
Howard
Shih
is the Census
Programs
Director for the
Asian American
Federation. Mr.
Shih is leading
the Federation’s
outreach
initiative to
build awareness
and encourage
Asian Americans
to participate
fully in the
Census 2010. In
addition, Mr.
Shih is
responsible for
the Census
Information
Center (CIC),
officially
designated by
the Census
Bureau as a
repository of
Census data.
The CIC has
produced a
number of
reports based on
Census data,
such as
Working but
Poor: Asian
American Poverty
in New York City,
Economic
Characteristics
of Asian
Americans in the
New York
Metropolitan
Area, and
the series of
Demographic
Profiles on
Asian American
communities in
New York City.
The CIC also
responds to data
requests from
community
organizations
and the general
public on the
Asian American
community. Mr.
Shih currently
sits on the
Census
Information
Center Steering
Committee, which
works closely
with the Census
Bureau on
disseminating
data to
underserved
communities and
bringing
Census-related
issues among
those
communities to
the attention of
the Census
Bureau.
Prior to join
the Federation,
Mr. Shih was an
analyst with a
public policy
consulting firm,
CONSAD Research,
based in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
While at CONSAD,
he was
responsible for
data analysis
and economic
modeling on
projects
covering
regulatory
impact of OSHA
and EPA
regulations as
well as local
policy issues
such as property
reassessment.
Mr. Shih has a
Masters degree
in Engineering
and Public
Policy from
Carnegie Mellon
University.
Sitta
Hyekyung
Sim is a
faculty member
at Seoul Digital
University and
the head of
Sitta Sim &
Dance Company.
The artistic
point of view of
Hyekyung Sim as
a director and
choreographer,
pursuing
insuperable
energy and
potential beyond
the tradition
and the present
times through
performances at
home and abroad
is ultimately
aimed at
pursuing the
life with full
of true human
happiness and
love by
exhibiting the
message for
freedom and
peace of the
humankind
through
performance.
Her works mainly
adapts the
humanity and the
nature as
subjects and
have been
evaluated as a
fresh storm
through her
attempt at new
choreography of
'Raining on the
Dried Earth',
her first work
of 1994. Her
principal works
include
'Sun-rising
Country', 'Early
Riser Can See
the Sunrise', 'Jeokmyulbogung'
and so on. Her
artistic
material and
techniques have
been reflected
in her works are
being realized
through teaching
students in
college and the
performance. The
dance comes to
us as a
shamanism at
first, the art
and now as the
therapy;
Hyekyung Sim
translates the
role of dance to
mankind as the
therapy becomes
a part of human
life then brings
us the true
happiness
through both
physical and
spiritual
health.
She has involved
in creative
activity at home
and taken a main
role as the
ambassador
introducing
traditional
Korean arts and
cultures to the
world with
touring
performances in
Hawaii, Russia,
Taiwan, EU,
Japan, Canada
and the United
States.
Nikky-Guninder
Kaur
Singh is
the Crawford
Family Professor
of Religious
Studies at Colby
College in
Maine. Her
interests focus
on poetics and
feminist issues.
Nikky Singh has
published
extensively in
the field of
Sikhism,
including
Cosmic Symphony
(New Delhi:
2008), The
Birth of the
Khalsa (SUNY
2005), The
Feminine
Principle in the
Sikh Vision of
the Transcendent
(Cambridge:
Cambridge
University
Press, 1993),
Sikhism
(Facts on File,
1993), and
The Name of My
Beloved: Verses
of the Sikh
Gurus
(HarperCollins
and Penguin).
Her views have
also been aired
on television
and radio in
America, Canada,
England, India,
and Australia.
John Kuo Wei
(Jack)
Tchen is
the founding
director of the
A/P/A
(Asian/Pacific
/American)
Studies Program
and Institute at
New York
University, NYU.
He co-founded
the Museum of
Chinese in
America in
1979-80 where he
continues to
serve as senior
historian. In
1991, he was
awarded the
Charles S.
Frankel Prize
from the
National
Endowment for
the Humanities
(renamed The
National Medal
of Humanities).
He is author of
the
award-winning
books New
York before
Chinatown:
Orientalism and
the Shaping of
American
Culture,
1776-1882
and Genthe’s
Photographs of
San Francisco’s
Old Chinatown,
1895-1905.
And he is
co-principle
investigator of
“Asian Americas
and Pacific
Islanders Facts,
Not Fiction:
Setting the
Record Straight”
with The College
Board. Most
recently, he co-curated
MoCA’s core
exhibition:
“With a single
step: stories in
the making of
America” in a
new space
designed by Maya
Lin. Jack is now
working on a
book about New
York City –
focusing on the
unrecognized
tradition of the
intermingling of
people,
creativity and
improvisation of
everyday
residents.
Bonnie
Tsui is
a frequent
contributor to
The New
York Times.
A graduate of
Harvard
University and a
former editor at
Travel +
Leisure,
she has written
for The
Atlantic Monthly,
National
Geographic
Adventure,
Salon,
and Condé
Nast Traveller,
among other
publications.
She is the
editor of
A Leaky Tent Is
a Piece of
Paradise,
a collection of
essays on the
outdoors, and is
a recipient of
the Radcliffe
Traveling
Fellowship, the
Lowell Thomas
Award for travel
journalism, and
the Jane Rainie
Opel Award from
the Radcliffe
Institute, for
outstanding
contribution to
her profession.
She lives in San
Francisco with
her husband, and
can be contacted
at
www.bonnietsui.com.
Wang Xiaobin:
worked in Chamdu
Prefecture in
Tibet Autonomous
Region for over
ten years.
Currently, he is
serving as
senior research
fellow for the
Institute of
Contemporary
Tibetan Studies
at the China
Tibetology
Research Center.
His major
publications
include
-
The 60 Years
of Work in
Tibet Since
the
Foundation
of the
People’s
Republic of
China
-
The Policies
of the
Communist
Party of
China in
Tibet
-
History of
Emancipation
in Tibet
-
the most
recently
publication
is A real
Tibet in 50
years:
Democratic
Reform in
Tibet
Ying
Zhu
is Professor of
Media Culture
and
Co-coordinator
of Modern China
Program at the
City University
of New York,
College of
Staten Island.
Her publications
have appeared in
leading media
journals such as
“Cinema
Journal,”
“Quarterly
Review of Film &
Video,” “Journal
of
Communication,”
“Consumption,
Markets &
Culture” and
various edited
book volumes.
She is the
author to
“Chinese Cinema
during the Era
of Reform: the
Ingenuity of the
System” (2003)
and “Television
in Post-Reform
China: Serial
Drama, Confucian
Leadership and
Global
Television
Market” (2008);
and co-editor of
“Television
Drama: A Chinese
and US
Perspective”
(2005), “TV
Drama in China”
(with Michael
Keane and Bai
Ruoyun, 2008),
and “TV China”
(with Chris
Berry, 2009).
Her upcoming
books include
“The Interplay
of Art, Politics
and Commerce in
Chinese Cinema”
(co-edited with
Stanley Rosen) &
a New Press
book, “The
Transformation
of China Central
Television.” She
is the recipient
of an American
Council of
Learned
Societies
Fellowship
(2007-08) and of
the 2006 Fellow
of National
Endowment for
the Humanities.
She co-curated
“Chinese Film
Retrospective”
at New York’s
Lincoln Center
in 2005 and
served as a
Chinese media
expert and
contributor for
New York Times
“China Studies”
website.
Zheng Dui
is
Deputy Director
General of China
Tibetology
Research Center
(CTRC) and
Director of
Tibetan Religion
Studies of CTRC.
A visiting
professor of
Tibet
University, he
is a prominent
scholar in
Tibetan studies
with many books
and research
papers on
Tibetan Buddhism
studies,
including:
-
The
Unique Eye
of the World
- Biography
of Lodan
Sherab.
In
collaboration
with Austria
Academy of
Sciences,
and
published by
Wiener
Studien zur
Tibetologie
und
Buddhismuskunde
(WSTB No.61)
-
The
Farmers of
Tibet, A
report of
Paljor
Lhunpo
Village in
Gyangtse of
Tibet,
published by
China
Intercontinental
press.
-
On the
path of the
‘Stages of
the Path to
Enlightenment’,
In
collaboration
with Bukkyo
Dendo Kyokai,
Japan.
-
The book
series that
introduces
monasteries
and its
life:
Drepung
monastery,
Tashi Lhunpo
Monastery,
and the
religious
rites and
the monk's
life in
Tibetan
monasteries
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