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Redefining Asian America in the 21st Century: Mapping Boundaries & Building Bridges – Program

banner_minority_newDate: Friday, May 8, 2009 Time: 9AM to 5PM

Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor
between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan


Conference Program

Breakfast & Registration (9AM to 9:30AM)

Greetings (9:30AM to 10AM)

Jennifer Hayashida, Chair, Conference Planning Committee

Hiroko Karan, Chair, Asian American / Asian Research Institute, CUNY

Joyce Moy, Executive Director, Asian American / Asian Research Institute, CUNY

Morning Plenary Session (10AM to 11:45AM)

Moderator: Sewell Chan, Reporter, New York Times

Panelists
Glenn Magpantay, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Elizabeth OuYang, Executive Vice-President, Organization of Chinese Americans – New York

Amardeep Singh, Executive Director, Sikh Coalition

Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, The New York Immigrant Coalition

Lunch & Keynote (12PM to 1:30PM)

Keynote: Parag Mehta, Former Member of Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team

Afternoon Workshop Sessions (1:45PM to 3:30PM)

Capturing the Asian American Experience in Education and the Curriculum

Facilitators
Vanessa Leung, Deputy Director, Coalition for Asian American Children & Families

Choua Vue, Policy Coordinator, Coalition for Asian American Children & Families

Media and Technology : Promise and Limits for Mobilization, Mass Collaboration and Coalition Building

Facilitators
Joanna Eng, Web Editor, Idealist.org

Caroline Fan, Editor in Chief, Asian American Action Fund

Community and Economic Empowerment In The New Financial Reality

Facilitators
Tarry Hum, Associate Professor, Urban Studies, Queens College/CUNY

Shan Rehman, Communications and Development Associate, Chhaya Community Development Corp.

The Arts, Literature and Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century

Facilitators
Ken Chen, Executive Director, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

Helen Koh, Former Associate Director, Cultural Programs, Asia Society

Sunita Mukhi, Director, Asian and Asian American Programs, Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook

Workshop Report and Summary Session (3:45PM to 5PM)

Networking Reception (5PM to 6:30PM)

Redefining Asian America

Program

Biographies

Planning Committee
Nehru E. Cherukupalli
Jennifer Hayashida (Chair)
Carol Huang
Kiyoka Koizumi
Joyce Moy
Frank Shih (Co-Chair)
Kyoko Toyama

Coordinator
Antony Wong

Sponsor
CUNY Diversity Grant

Author Bio