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2008 - 2009
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.
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.
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.
Rosalind
Morris
is a professor
of Anthropology
at Columbia
University.
Prof. Morris’
two main areas
of interest are:
Thailand and
South Africa.
Over the past
decade, she has
devoted her
attention to
thinking about a
number of
inter-related
issues and
questions
concerning: the
history of
modernity in
Southeast Asia
and the place of
the mass media
in its
development; the
relationships
between value
and violence;
the
sexualization of
power and
desire; the
theorization of
gender; and the
history of
anthropological
thought and
social theory.
In her writings
on all of these
issues, she
attends to
questions of
representation.
Her writings
include
monographs on
spirit
mediumship and
the mass media
in Northern
Thailand, the
archive of
visual
anthropology,
and the
afterlife of
apartheid in
South Africa’s
mining towns.
Other essays
have addressed
the history of
fetishism, the
violence of
culture in
anthropological
theory,
translation and
radicalism,
mediatic war,
photography and
its discontents,
sex, gender and
sexuality, and
art in South
Africa.
Prof. Morris is
a former
Director of the
Institute for
Research on
Women and
Gender, the
Associate
Director of the
Center for
Comparative
Literature and
Society, and the
former co-editor
of CONNECT: art,
politics,
theory, culture.
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.
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.
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.
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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