Graduate Center Alumna Is the First Asian Woman on the Julliard Piano Faculty
Soyeon Kate Lee embraces her roles as a teacher, musician, and role model.
Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Soyeon Kate Lee embraces her roles as a teacher, musician, and role model.
U.S.-born, she lived for a time in China and then fled it as Japan invaded. She later broke academic ground in New York in the study of the Asian American diaspora.
Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial or ethnic group in the United States — and that growth has been especially rapid in the Southeast. While most Asian Americans still reside on the West Coast, the second greatest proportion lives below the Mason-Dixon Line.
The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to providing assistance to survivors and families, and all those affected by mass violence, including in the aftermath of the shootings in Monterey Park, CA and Half Moon Bay, CA and to providing culturally appropriate resources to all those affected, including those in the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific … Read more
The paper’s editor said the list’s purpose is to honor “leaders who have amassed a long list of accomplishments over the course of their entire careers.” Among those honored was S. David Wu, who was also featured on the cover of the newspaper Wednesday morning.
President Wu was recognized at an awards reception on January 31st and was featured on the cover of a special edition of City & State magazine.