Date: Monday, May 5, 2014 Time: 8:30AM to 5PM
Place: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Concourse Level, Manhattan
Jocelyne Chait is a planning consultant in New York City with extensive experience in integrative, community-based planning and sustainable development practice. She has collaborated with local and citywide organizations and institutions, city agencies and elected officials on a number of planning initiatives and research projects, ranging from a plan to develop a Bronx “downtown,” to a community-based analysis of competing housing and open space needs, and an assessment of sustainable development efforts in the South Bronx. Much of Ms. Chait’s work for the past eighteen years has focused on planning under Section 197-a of the New York City Charter, both in terms of developing plans with local communities and promoting a citywide community planning agenda. Her 197-a plan for Sunset Park waterfront, adopted in 2009, is aimed at establishing a sustainable industrial district and maintaining local employment opportunities on this historically significant maritime and industrial stretch of the Brooklyn waterfront. Ms. Chait has a degree in Architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and holds an M.S. in Urban Planning from Hunter College, the City University of New York.
John J. Chin, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the department of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. His research interests include urban public health, urban demographic change, immigration, and the role of community institutions in promoting health in underserved communities. Professor Chin is the Principal Investigator of a recently completed NIH-funded study on Asian immigrant religious institutions in NYC and their potential role in HIV prevention in the communities they serve and a new NIH-funded study on the geography of HIV risk among Asian immigrant female sex workers in NYC.
Richard S. David is a founding member and Executive Director of the Indo-Caribbean Alliance, Inc. (ICA), a youth services non-profit in Richmond Hill, Queens, where he works on program development, community outreach and fundraising. Outside of ICA, Richard manages a portfolio of discretionary-funded capital projects for many of New York City’s leading organizations. Richard graduated with a BA in Political Science from Hunter College, CUNY and an MPA from New York University. Richard is has also been a Community Board 9 Member in Queens for over five years. Richard was born in Guyana and moved to New York in 1995.
Donna Graves is a historian and cultural planner with over twenty years experience developing public history projects that document and interpret unrecognized histories. She is Project Director for Preserving California’s Japantowns, a statewide effort to identify and document what remains of the many pre-WWII communities that were destroyed by forced removal and incarceration. Graves co-authored the award-winning Sento at Sixth and Main: Preserving Landmarks of Japanese American Heritage (Smithsonian Press), with Gail Dubrow.
Graves served as Project Director for the City of Richmond’s Rosie the Riveter Memorial, and worked with the City and National Park Service to initiate, plan and implement the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. Graves is on the Advisory Panel for the National Parks Service’s Asian Pacific Islander National Theme Study and serves on the Board of Advisors to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She holds MAs from Brown University in American Civilization and UCLA in Urban Planning and was a 2009-2010 Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
Kenneth J. Guest is an Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Baruch College/CUNY. Dr. Guest is a graduate of Columbia University (B.A., East Asian Studies); Union Theological Seminary (M.A., Religious Studies); and The City University of New York Graduate Center (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Anthropology).
Dr. Guest is the author of God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Evolving Immigrant Community (NYU Press, 2003) which addresses the role of religious communities in the recent migration of Fuzhounese from southeast China to New York City, the creation of transnational religious networks, and the effects of this migration on the religious revival sweeping coastal China. His research focuses on China, New York City, immigration, religion, and transnationalism. He has conducted fieldwork in China and the US.
Jennifer Hayashida is Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College/CUNY. Prof. Hayashida received her B.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and has an M.F.A. in poetry from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She was a 2009 Poetry Fellow through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and in 2008-2009 she was Writer-in-Residence through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program. She is the recipient of a PEN Translation Fund Grant, a Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow.
Prof. Hayashida is the translator of Fredrik Nyberg’s A Different Practice (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007), and Eva Sjödin’s Inner China (Litmus Press, 2005). Recent work was published in Salt Hill, Chicago Review, and Harp & Altar, with forthcoming book-length translations being published in 2013 by Black Square Editions. Fields of interest include representations of the welfare state and immigrant experience; cross-genre literature and film; translation; Asian American community activism.
Peter Kwong is Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, Professor of Asian American Studies at Hunter College, and Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is best known for his work on Chinese Americans and on modern Chinese politics. Prof. Kwong sits on the Board of Directors of several organizations: Downtown Community TV; Manhattan Neighborhood Network; International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship; and The New Press, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York Foundation.
Russell C. Leong is the founding editor of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s CUNY FORUM publication, and previously served as the CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at Hunter College/CUNY. During his 33-year tenure as an academic editor at UCLA, he edited the first books and journals on Asian Pacific media and film, on Asian American sexualities, on Asian Americans post 9/ll, and on Asian American transcultural studies. Between 1977-2010, Leong was the editor of the foremost journal in Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. There, he served as an adjunct full professor of English and Asian American Studies. His stories (Phoenix Eyes (2000)) and poetry (Country of Dreams and Dust (1993)) received an American Book Award and PEN Josephine Miles Award. Leong, educated in the U.S. and Taiwan in film and comparative literature, is a consulting senior editor for International Projects at UCLA.
Ke Liang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Baruch College/CUNY. Dr. Liang received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008, and teaches Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Analysis, and Research Methods at Baruch College. Her research interests include medical sociology, social stratification, China studies, and research methods.
Joyce Moy is the Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute. She was the first Asian American director of a NYS Small Business Development Center where she helped to secure $25 million in funding for small business. Her area of expertise is entrepreneurship and economic development. She has taught business law and taxation at Queens College, the CUNY School of Law, and at Cornell University School of Law. She is a former practicing attorney. Recently she developed a 45 hour curriculum to train financial counselors embedded in CBO’s which has been adopted as a national model for replication nationwide by Cities for Financial Empowerment.
Joseph J. Salvo is Director of the Population Division at the New York City Department of City Planning. The Population Division serves as the city’s in-house demographic consultant, providing expertise for a whole host of applications involving assessments of need, program planning and targeting, and policy formulation. This includes the development of population estimates and projections for infrastructure and capital planning, such as projections for PlaNYC, the long-term sustainability plan for New York City. The Division has worked closely with the Census Bureau on the execution and evaluation of the 2010 Census and the continued development of the American Community Survey. He has served on the Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee, on Panels at the National Academy of Sciences on census issues and is a former President of the Association of Public Data Users. Dr. Salvo is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census (CQ Press, 2012) and co-author of The Newest New Yorkers: 2013, the latest in a series of publications that provide a comprehensive look at the city’s foreign-born population. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Fordham University, is a recipient of the Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Roy Dhanraj Singh is 2nd Vice-President of the Federation of Hindu Mandirs; Organization Secretary for the Hindu Parades & Festival Committee; Director of Youth Affairs for Indo-Caribbean Council; and Organization Secretary for International Ramayana Conference-NY Chapter. Mr. Singh is a Founding Member and former President of Shri Radha Krishna Mandir. A former police officer in Guyana, a former soldier for the British Army, and former electrical engineering instructor in London, England, Mr. Singh has been a licensed real estate broker in New York since 1986, and is also a registered New York State tax preparer.
Darrel Sukhdeo is a community leader and activist working to profile the Indo-Caribbean peoples and to build relations and partnerships between their communities and others. Mr. Sukhdeo was born in Guyana to a Trinidadian mother and Guyanese father but grew up in Trinidad where he spent his formative years and young adulthood. As a gateway to building relationships and partnerships on behalf of his Indo-Caribbean community here in New York City, Mr. Sukhdeo collaborates with Agenda21, the Rajkumari Center, the American Cancer Society, Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY, Families for Freedom, South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council, and the Indo Caribbean Alliance among others.
Antony Wong is Program Coordinator at the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) of the City University of New York (CUNY). Antony received his BA in English from Hunter College/CUNY, and his MBA in Accountancy from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College/CUNY. He is also serves on Manhattan Community Board No. 2 serving as Board Treasurer and member on the Traffic & Transportation and State Liquor Authority committees; and is Co-Chair of the
Chinatown Working Group.
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