A Siren and a Red Herring: How Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai Spoke Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai has made a living of speaking through words, a passion cultivated as a young teenager in Chicago that later transformed into a full-on professional career. At the age of 14, Tsai’s life was profoundly changed by a... Read more...
It’s 7 a.m. on an overcast Friday in October at the Fresh Pond subway station. Commuters are hustling up the stairs with weary expressions. At the end of the hallway, a handful of smiling people cheerfully greet the morning rush. “Good morning, I’m Grace Meng; please vote on November 6,... Read more...
At the San Francisco premiere of the movie “Shanghai Calling” on Feb. 6, 2013, a most striking figure stood out for me. No, it was not bewitching lead actor Daniel Henney, who played a partner-tracked Manhattan lawyer on assignment in Shanghai. It was producer Janet Yang. (more…) Read more...
For decades, the East Coast Asian American Student Union has been dedicated to advancing the needs of the Asian American student demographic. The annual ECAASU Conference brings hundreds of undergraduate students together to discuss issues of racial identity, discrimination, and empowerment. This ye... Read more...
Discovering the Vietnamese Kitchen Cookbook author, cooking teacher, and communications consultant Andrea Nguyen recalls her earliest food memory. She was five years old and still living in Vietnam. She sat on a little wooden bench eating a bowl of pho and using her own chopsticks. “I ate t... Read more...
