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2010 - 2011
Biographies
Henry
Chang is
a native son of
Chinatown, NYC.
His work has
appeared in
Yellow Pearl,
Bridge Magazine,
and in The
NuyorAsian
Anthology. His
Chinatown
mysteries,
CHINATOWN BEAT,
YEAR OF THE DOG,
have garnered
high praise from
the New York
Times Book
Review, the
Boston Globe,
the Washington
Post, among
others.
Chang is a
graduate of CCNY
and is a life
long New Yorker.
His website is
Chinatowntrilogy.com.
King-Kok
Cheung
is Professor of
English and
Asian American
Studies at UCLA.
She received her
Ph.D. in English
from the
University of
California,
Berkeley. She is
author of
Articulate
Silences: Hisaye
Yamamoto, Maxine
Hong Kingston,
Joy Kogawa (Cornell,1993);
editor of
Words Matter
(U of Hawaii
Press, 2000),
An Interethnic
Companion to
Asian American
literature
(Cambridge,
1996),
"Seventeen
Syllables"
(Rutgers, 1994),
Asian
American
literature: An
Annotated
Bibliography
(MLA, 1988) and
a co-editor of
The Heath
Anthology of
American
Literature.
Her articles
have appeared in
American
Literary History,
Biography,
Bucknell
Review,
MELUS,
Milton Studies,
PMLA,
Positions
and
Shakespeare
Quarterly.
She has received
an American
Council of
Learned
Societies (ACLS)
fellowship, a
Mellon
fellowship, a
Fulbright award,
and a resident
fellowship at
the Center for
Advanced Study
in the
Behavioral
Sciences,
Stanford. She
was Director of
the University
of California
Education Abroad
Program in
Beijing from
2007 to 2010.
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.
Lisa
Eng,
D.O. is board
certified in
Obstetrics &
Gynecology,
completed her
training at
Lutheran Medical
Center in
Brooklyn, New
York. Dr. Eng
has been in
private practice
since 1995 and
is one of the
co-founders of
New Life Ob/Gyn,
LLP and Doctors
First
Association.
She is the
President of
ACAP
(Association of
Chinese American
Physicians),
Chair of
Section 2
(Brooklyn &
Staten Island),
District II of
the American
College of
Obstetricians/Gynecologists
(ACOG), Board
of Director of
NYS Osteopathic
Medical Society,
Past President
of the Brooklyn
Gyn Society,
chair of
Committee on
Public Health
and Secretary
for Kings County
Medical Society,
member of the
Committee to
Eliminate
Healthcare
Disparities for
the Medical
Society of the
State of New
York, serves on
the Board of
Directors for
Homecrest
Community
Services, a
Chinese senior
center in
Brooklyn.
Recipient of the
Community
Service Award
for ACOG
District II in
2007, and named
one of
Brooklyn’s
Extraordinary
Women by Kings
County District
Attorney Charles
J. Hynes in
2008, Community
Service Award
from Manhattan
Borough
President
Stringer in
2009, Ciba-Geigy
Community
Service Award
while in Medical
School for
organizing
fundraiser for
Special
Olympics. She
has trained
residents for 12
years at
Lutheran Medical
Center’s Dept of
Ob/Gyn.
Mary Uyematsu
Kao is the
Publications
Coordinator for
the UCLA Asian
American Studies
Center Press
since 1987. She
received her
M.A. in Asian
American Studies
at UCLA in 2007,
with her thesis
titled “Three
Step Boogie:
Japanese
American Women
in the 1970s
Asian American
Movement in Los
Angeles.” She
was the graphic
designer for
Asian American:
The Movement and
the Moment and
Passing It On:
A Memoir by Yuri
Kochiyama, among
many other UCLA
AASCPress
titles. Living
in New York City
from 1974-76,
she got involved
with the Asian
Women’s Group at
the Asian
Center, and the
Confucius Plaza
struggle.
Chee Wang
Ng
is a visual
artist born in
Kuala Lumpur,
and based in New
York City. Ng
studied Liberal
Arts at Wartburg
College and
earned his BFA
in Architecture
from Rhode
Island School of
Design.
Ng’s work
addresses the
identity of the
Chinese diaspora
by reevaluating,
challenging, and
modernizing
traditional
Chinese allegory
that draws upon
ancient
literature,
metaphor, and
mythology by
engaging and
matching with
various
different media.
His photographic
series “Eaten
Your Fill of
Rice?” was the
main cultural
component in the
2004 World Food
Prize
International
Symposium in Des
Moines, IA. His
installation
“100 China(s):
All Chinese
Looks Alike…”
questioned the
metaphysical
essence of
Chineseness,
while his video
“108 Global Rice
Bowls” captured
the spirituality
of Buddhism in
new media.
Ng has had solo
shows at Capital
Square, and
Plymouth Gallery
in Des Moines,
IA, and
exhibited his
work at the
Godwin-Ternbach
Museum; Aljira;
University of
California,
Berkeley; Stony
Brook
University; and
Savannah College
of Art and
Design.
Tam
Nguyen
is a first
generation
Vietnamese
American. He is
currently the
Information
Technology
Coordinator and
Information
Architect at the
UCLA Asian
American Studies
Center (AASC),
where his
primary role is
developing and
implementing
technology to
help provide
access to Asian
American Studies
resources. Tam
serves on the
board of
multiple
non-profit
organizations.
His research
interests
focuses on oral
histories and
information
architecture and
access. His
graduate
thesis/project
focused on
online oral
histories and
the Vietnamese
American
community in
Southern
California
(specifically
Orange County
and Southbay).
Kate
Shen is
the Manager of
Special Events
at American
Cancer
Society Asian
Initiatives (ACSAI).
During her two
years work at
ACSAI, she
worked at both
NJ and NY
offices, serving
the Asian
population in
both States.
With an MPH
degree obtained
from UCLA, She
is a Certified
Health Education
Specialist with
a focus on
designing and
providing
culturally
competent
education
programs to
ethnic
community. She
is particularly
interested in
language
services and
women's health.
Recently she
transferred to
Special Events
sector and
specializes in
special events
planning,
growing and
cultivating
Young Alumni and
Young
Professional
Donors, and
Asian American
Philanthropy, as
well as Making
Strides Against
Breast Cancer
and Relay for
Life team
recruitment and
development.
Nan
Sussman
received a PhD.
in Social and
Cross-cultural
Psychology,
became a
Professional
Associate at the
East-West Center
in Honolulu, and
completed her
training at the
Intercultural
Communications
Institute in
Stanford. She
has had a
30-year career
in the
intercultural
field: as a
practitioner,
educator, and
researcher. Her
research has
been featured in
the LA Times,
Wall St.
Journal,
South China
Morning Post
(Hong Kong),
China Daily,
Shanghai
Daily, and
Shenzhen
Daily.
As a researcher,
she has
maintained
program of
research
focusing on the
psychological
aspects of
cultural
transitions. She
has been awarded
two Fulbright
Fellowships,
conducting
research in
Japan and Hong
Kong. Other
research has
focused on
acculturation
and health, and
culture and
nonverbal
behavior. Her
recent book,
Return Migration
and Identity: A
Global
Phenomenon, A
Hong Kong Case,
is published by
Hong Kong
University
Press. She
serves on the
Board of
Directors of the
International
Academy for
Intercultural
Research.
As an educator,
she taught at
five US and six
international
universities and
is currently an
Associate
Professor of
Psychology, City
University of
New York, Staten
Island and on
the doctoral
faculty of the
CUNY Graduate
Center in
Industrial and
Organizational
Psychology. She
developed
overseas study
programs in five
countries and
served as the
Director of the
Center for
International
Service.
Professor
Sussman was
active in the
National
Association for
Foreign Student
Affairs (NAFSA)
and was
Vice-chairman of
the Board of the
College
Consortium for
International
Studies (CCIS).
As a
practitioner,
she trained
Indo-chinese
refugees,
American
executives,
Nigerian
trainees,
American
students
embarking on
study abroad,
repatriated JET
teachers, World
Bank staff,
foreign service
officers,
Chinese
technicians and
mid-level
managers from
developing
countries. She
worked with
several NGOs in
Washington DC as
an intercultural
advisor and
trainer. She
wrote and
produced the
videotape
training series,
American
Social Behavior:
Sources of
Cultural
Misunderstanding
while a Senior
Program
Coordinator at
Meridian
International.
She served on
the Governing
Board of SIETAR
and won their
Outstanding
Interculturalist
Award. She
specializes in
preparing people
for working
globally and for
re-entry to
their home
countries.
Katie
Yamasaki
is an artist
based in
Brooklyn, New
York. She works
primarily as a
muralist,
community artist
and children’s
book
illustrator. Her
work has enabled
her to travel
and create
visual dialogues
with children in
Cuba, Namibian
teens, Japanese
auto
manufacturers
and indigenous
women inmates
fighting for
gender equality
and non-violence
within the
prisons of
Chiapas,
Mexico. Katie’s
public projects
have explored
topics that
range from the
Japanese
Internment to
Appalachia’s
economic crisis
to tribalism
among Namibian
youth. She has
worked on a
collaborative
mural project
with members of
the Zapatista
Army for
National
Liberation in
Chiapas and and
most recently
completed public
projects in
Cypress Hills,
Brooklyn,
Barcelona and
Sevilla, Spain.
For years, Katie
has lead a
public art
program for
young women
called Voices
Her’d (www.groundswellmural.org),
where teen girls
address critical
issues in the
form of
large-scale
public art. She
also teaches art
to 4th-8th grade
students at
Ballet Tech, the
New York City
Public School
for Dance. Katie
earned her
Masters of Fine
Arts from the
School of Visual
Arts and
currently has
illustrated two
published books,
Honda: The Boy
Who Dreamed of
Cars (Lee & Low)
and Lifelines:
The Black Book
of Proverbs
(Broadway
Books/Random
House). She is
currently
working on 'Fish
for Jimmy,' her
first published
book as both
author and
illustrator with
Holiday House
Books. It is a
story of two
brothers in the
Japanese
internment camps
of WWII.
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