Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Friday, February 24, 2023 | 12pm to 1pm
Online Talk
Join us for a virtual discussion about efforts at LaGuardia Community College and Brooklyn College to organize AAPI communities. Bring questions, stories, and strategies from experiences on your own campus!
Asian American / Asian Studies across CUNY Brown Bag Series
Sponsored by the CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) Grant
Sau-fong Au has been the Brooklyn College Women’s Center Director since 2000. Under her leadership, the Center has become one of CUNY’s most dynamic and influential spaces, welcoming over 5,000 student visits and hosting over 50 events each semester that empower and engage women students. As the current chair of the CUNY Women’s Center Council, Dr. Au champions initiatives that elevate women's voices across the university system.
In 2017, with support from the AAUW, she launched the groundbreaking Muslim Women’s Leadership Development Project, a pioneering initiative designed to support Muslim college women. She is also the co-president of the Asian American Faculty and Staff Association at Brooklyn College, advocating for the needs and rights of Asian American communities.
Dr. Au's dedication to student development continued in 2023 when she obtained a $2 million federal AANAPISI grant to start the Brooklyn College AANAPISI Project (BCAP), a dedicated program to support AAPI students on campus.
Dr. Au earned a B.A. in History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an M.Ed. in Education from Rutgers University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Manhattanville College. Using an interdisciplinary approach, her research and professional interests include the contemporary Asian American experience, feminist movement and theories, spirituality and faith, student development, and student engagement for women and religious minorities.
Ann Matsuuchi is an instructional technology librarian and professor at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. Since 2010, Ann has helped organize an active annual Asian American events series at LaGuardia. Published work focuses on African American science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany’s comic book/graphic novels, a co-authored chapter on teaching Octavia E. Butler with Wikipedia for MLA’s Teaching Octavia Butler, and on Japanese American internment for Asian American reference books. Ann currently co-teaches an ENG101/intro to internet studies, and manages a student project on LGBTQ+ history in New York City with the LaGuardia and Wagner Archive.