Date: Friday, April 27, 2012 Time: 9AM to 4PM
Place: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Concourse Level, Manhattan
Registration & Breakfast (9AM to 9:30AM)
Greetings (9:30AM to 9:45AM)
Joyce Moy, Executive Director, Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
Session 1 (9:45AM to 10:15AM)
Through the Lens of Comparative Analysis: Researching Asian American Places, Power and Action
Presenter
Paul Ong, Professor, Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Session 2 (10:15AM to 11:30AM)
Future of Ethnic Neighborhoods
Moderator: Paul Ong, Professor, Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Presenters
Dennis Arguelles, Director of Community Economic Development, Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA)
Topic: Poverty, Preservation and Power in the Development of Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown
Peter Kwong, Distinguished Professor, Urban Studies, Hunter College/CUNY
Topic: Manhattan’s Chinatown
Darrel Sukhdeo, Business Coach/Writer/Activist
Topic: Indo-Caribbean – Transformed/Transforming NYC, the Largest Group within the South Asian Community Awakens at Last, 5 Decades of Growth
Sessions 3 (11:30AM to 12:15PM)
Gentrification of Chinatowns in Boston, Philadelphia & New York
Moderator: Carol Huang, Assistant Professor, School of Education, City College/CUNY
Presenters
Seth Pollack, Undergraduate Student, Urban Affairs, Queens College/CUNY
Topic: A Study of Boston’s Chinatown
Samantha Varn, Graduate Student, Urban Affairs, Queens College/CUNY
Topic: A Study of Philadelphia’s Chinatown
Esther Wang, Director of Chinatown Tenants Union, Committee Against Anti-Asian American Violence (CAAAV)
Topic: Reimagining Rezoning: A Chinatown for Residents is a Chinatown for All
Lunch (12:15PM to 1PM)
Session 4 (1PM to 1:45PM)
The DREAM Act
Moderator: May Y. Chen, Advisory Commission Member, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders & Adjunct Professor, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
Presenters
Russell Lum, Justice and Peace Representative, Little Sisters of the Assumption
Emily Park, “Dare to DREAM” Campaign Coordinator, MinKwon Center for Community Action
Jimmy Yan, General Counsel, Office of the Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer
Session 5 (1:45PM to 2:30PM)
Our Community, Our Causes: Case Studies
Moderator: Dennis Chin, Communications Coordinator, Center of Social Inclusion
Presenters
Elizabeth R. OuYang, President, Organization of Chinese Americans – NY Chapter
Topic: Danny Chen – How OCA-NY Harnessed the Power of Community
Iva Radivojevic & Martyna Starosta, Filmmakers
Topic: “Are You With Me?” – Documentary on Occupy Wall Street and Louis Reyes Rivera
Session 6 (2:30PM to 3:45PM)
Putting Asian Americans on the Map: Coalition for Redistricting
Moderator: Tarry Hum, Associate Professor, Urban Studies, Queens College/CUNY
Presenters
Steve Chung, President, United Chinese Association of Brooklyn
James Hong, Civic Participation Coordinator, MinKwon Center for Community Action
Glenn D. Magpantay, Director, Democracy Program, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Rachana Shah, Taking Our Seat
Closing Remarks (3:45PM to 4PM)
Sound Bytes: The Essence of Asian American Communities
Moderator: Russell Leong, CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor, Asian American Studies, Hunter College/CUNY
Presenters
James Guo, Undergraduate Student, English, Hunter College/CUNY
Topic: Manhattan
Iris Lam, Undergraduate Student, Linguistics and Rhetoric, Studio Art, Hunter College/CUNY
Topic: Jackson Heights, Queens
Remoy Philip, Undergraduate Student, Creative Writing, Hunter College/CUNY
Topic: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Ken Ruan, Undergraduate Student, Sociology, Hunter College/CUNY
Topic: Chinatown
Planning Committee
Carol Huang
Tarry Hum
Trevor Lee
Russell Leong
Joyce Moy
Paul Ong
Antony Wong
Sponsor
CUNY Diversity Grant