Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared | The Curatorial Roundtable
2025-12-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
In a conversation with The Korea Society, three curators from the National Museum of Asian Art–Carol Huh, J. Keith Wilson, and Sunwoo Hwang–explore the depth and diversity of Korean art and reflect on the practice of collecting in Korea.

Impossible Desires: New Directions in Queer Diaspora Studies
2025-12-02 18:00 - 22:00 | The Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, New York, NY, 10003
The publication of Gayatri Gopinath’s Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press) in 2005 heralded a new moment in transnational scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The book theorized queer and feminist cultural practices in the context of South Asian diasporic migration, and served as a precursor to subsequent scholarship in queer diaspora studies that has radically reshaped the fields of queer and feminist studies in the past two decades.
We mark the twentieth anniversary of Impossible Desires by showcasing the work of a new generation of queer diaspora scholars whose work spans South Asia, the SWANA region, South Africa, and the Caribbean. Scholars Kareem Khubchandani, Suzanne Persard, Medjuline Shomali, and Jordache Ellapen will reflect on their own groundbreaking work in light of Gopinath’s book; and artists Al-An deSouza, Chitra Ganesh, Shahzia Sikander, and Felipe Baeza – all of whom have engaged in long-standing dialogues with Gopinath over the years—will reflect on the artist-critic relationship. The evening will conclude with a DJ set by Arshia Fatima Haq, artist and founder of Discostan.

Serica Storytellers: The Presidents with David Wu & Frank Wu
2025-12-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, 219 West 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018
A hybrid panel with Queens and Baruch College presidents explores how student visa revocations are reshaping CUNY campuses, immigrant communities, and New York’s educational landscape.

JUSTICE: A Conversation With Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:00
What is justice and how do we get it? Join Robert L. Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung in conversation as they draw on their personal and professional journeys to address these questions.
Melissa Murray, the 2024–25 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Murray teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice. She is a co-author (with Andrew Weissman) of The New York Times bestselling book The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary. She is a legal analyst for MSNBC and served as a judicial clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Russell M. Jeung, the 2025–26 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAIP Hate. He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans; Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies; At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors; and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. He co-produced the documentary The Oak Park Story (2010), about a landmark housing lawsuit involving Cambodian and Latino tenants. He was named as one of the TIME‘s 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.

Cameras, Crosswalks, and Change: Exploring the Policy and Design of Better Streets with Streetfilms
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY, 10065
The new Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special screening of selections from Streetfilms, an online documentary project and leading platform for educational films on sustainable transportation. These “shorts” will feature Streetfilms’ signature “man on the ground” storytelling approach, capturing how smart transportation design and policy in Paris, Montreal, London, and beyond are creating more vibrant, healthy, and livable communities.
Following the screening, Sam Schwartz, Chair and Founder of the Transportation Research Program, will lead a discussion with director and founder of Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson Jr. They will explore which of the policies and infrastructure approaches portrayed in the films could be adapted for New York City, as well as the opportunities and challenges involved in doing so.
Please join us as we consider questions such as: What is Paris doing to protect children walking, and rolling, to school? How is Montreal innovating with bicycling infrastructure? How important was congestion pricing in allowing the city of London to rethink its streets?

Closing Artist Talk for Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future
2025-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | 20 Cooper Square – NYU, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The artist Sean Connelly reflects on his year-long residency at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and shares his curatorial process and vision for Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future. The exhibition, on view at 20 Cooper Square, first floor gallery, invites viewers to consider the built environment as oceanic, an interconnected system requiring collective cultural efforts to sustain.

MOCA PRESENTS – Meet Us Where We're At, A Day With(out) Art
2025-12-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
Continuing MOCA’s LGBTQ AANHPI Program Series, we are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 to present Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.
Meet Us Where We’re At features newly commissioned works by Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria), Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam), Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal), Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil), Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany), and José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico).
The hour-long video program will premiere on December 1, in observance of World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art. Visual AIDS has collaborated with museums, galleries, universities, and community organizations worldwide to host free public screenings. Based in New York City, Visual AIDS is a non-profit organization that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

WEBINAR: Paperwork as Power
2025-12-03 20:00 - 21:00
From exclusion laws to “foreign ownership” bans, bureaucracy has always been a border.
Join us for Paperwork as Power, the second event in our two-part History of Anti-AANHPI Laws and Legal Battles series.
From the Geary Act to the Alien Land Laws, learn how documents, data, and property restrictions turned suspicion into control, and how those systems still shape belonging today.

24th Annual CUNY IT Conference
2025-12-04 - 2025-12-05 | John Jay College, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, 10019
Over the years, the CUNY IT Conference has invited us to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by technology — from “Good Moves in Hard Times,” to “Opening Access,” to “Us and It: CUNY in the Age of Generative AI.” Along the way, we’ve examined how to connect across systems, collaborate intentionally, and reimagine the way we teach, learn, and work.
In 2025, we turn toward the future.
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and automation, how do we move forward—thoughtfully, strategically, and ethically—at CUNY? What does it mean to reimagine higher education in an AI-enhanced world, where intelligent systems are reshaping everything from the classroom to the laboratory to the library?
What opportunities—and responsibilities—do we have as educators, researchers, technologists, and administrators?

How is AI influencing the way we conduct, support, or disseminate research? What new questions are we asking, and what new methods are emerging?
How do we design curricula, teaching practices, and learning environments that account for AI as both a tool and a topic?
What does academic integrity look like in an age of machine-generated content and decision-making?
Where is AI helping us streamline operations, improve access, and reduce friction for students and faculty—and where does it raise new concerns?
How do we foster inclusive, human-centered innovation—and what ethical frameworks should guide our use of AI across disciplines, departments, and roles?
We invite proposals from across the CUNY community—as well as our colleagues in industry—that explore how AI is reshaping the work we do, the questions we ask, and the futures we imagine.

Whether you are testing new tools, designing new courses, advancing your research, refining digital pedagogy, or developing critical perspectives on emerging technologies, we hope you’ll join us in this university-wide conversation.
Let’s move forward—together.

Korea-China Relations: A History of Intervention with Dr. Ji-Young Lee
2025-12-04 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Ji-Young Lee for an examination of the circumstances and methods of Chinese military intervention in the Korean Peninsula. Dr. Lee is Associate Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of International Service, and author of China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination (2016) and an upcoming work under contract titled: The Great Power Next Door, a historically informed analysis of when and how China has chosen to militarily intervene in the Korean Peninsula. Dr. Lee’s 2020 article, “The Geopolitics of South Korea–China Relations,” speaks to the contemporary dimension of the evolving relationship. The moderator of the program is policy director Jonathan Corrado.

GMC's Live at Gracie: Graceful Keys and Lyrical Strings
2025-12-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Gracie Mansion Conservancy, 181 East End Avenue, New York, NY, 10128
The Gracie Mansion Conservancy proudly presents the second concert in its Live at Gracie series: Graceful Keys and Lyrical Strings, an intimate evening of virtuosic performance featuring acclaimed musicians: violinist SoHyun Ko and pianist Yadi Liang. Held on December 4th inside the historic People’s House, this special concert continues the Conservancy’s commitment to offering enriching, inspiring, and deeply meaningful cultural experiences for New Yorkers and visitors alike.

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
2025-12-04 18:30 - 20:00 | The Korea Society, 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY, 10017
Join us for a conversation with Tae Kim, author of The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant. Now as the world’s leading AI chipmaker, Nvidia offers a fascinating window into the new era of global entrepreneurship vis-à-vis its partnership with Korea; Nvidia’s commitment to provide 260,000 GPUs to South Korean companies redefines the strength of innovative cooperation across mobility, manufacturing, and robotics. This conversation will take you inside the forces shaping our AI-powered future and offer fresh insights into the culture, strategy, and leadership behind Nvidia’s rise as a global technology leader.

Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion
2025-12-05 - 2025-12-11 | Film at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th Street, New York, NY, 10023
A retrospective honoring an overlooked filmmaker from the golden age of Japanese cinema whose work has grown even more beautiful and profound with time, featuring rare 35mm and 16mm prints
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An Evening with Lucy Liu: Screening and Conversation on Rosemead
2025-12-05 17:00 - 19:30 | AMC Lincoln Square 13, 1998 Broadway, New York, NY, 10023
China Institute of America is pleased to present a special evening featuring a screening of Rosemead at AMC Lincoln Square, followed by a fireside conversation with Lucy Liu.
Inspired by a harrowing true story, Rosemead follows an ailing mother who takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son, set against the simmering tensions of a Chinese American community in the San Gabriel Valley. Lucy Liu delivers a powerful, career-redefining performance that brings depth and humanity to this gripping portrait of a family pushed to the edge.
After the screening, Lucy Liu will join Susan Yuqing Feng, Programs Director of China Institute, for a conversation about her role, her creative process, and the film’s cultural resonance.

Mini-Global Mashup Festival: Flying Horses/Sonic Threads - Music of the Silk Road
2025-12-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY, 11354, United States
Join us for Flying Horses/Sonic Threads, our Mini-Global Mashup Festival, to experience sounds exchanged along the Silk Road, an ancient trade route that crossed Asiatic and North African landscapes. Along with textiles and ceramics, rhythmic patterns, the sounds of lutes, zithers, and fiddles also spread along the Silk Road. Bringing artists from China, India, Iran, Palestine, Syria, and Turkmenistan together, Flying Horses/Sonic Threads will amplify the sonic and historical connections that cross these regions and cultures.

Shorts by Lav Diaz, a Visions/Panawin screening
2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:00 | KJCC, 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
A “Lav Diaz Short” may sound like an oxymoron for worldwide admirers of the Filipino master writer/director, better known for his feature films that run as long as 11 hours. Panawin/Visions presents an opportunity to explore another facet of the artist’s prolific output with this program of his short films, with running times from 40 minutes to as brief as 2. As with his more known feature films, the shorts find him pushing the boundaries of cinematic form while exploring themes of collective trauma, expiation, and transcendence.
The program includes: Butterflies Have No Memories, Himala: A Dialectic of Our Times, Prologue to The Great Desaparecido, The Boy Who Chose the Earth, The Day Before the End, and The Firefly.

Public Tour of With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America
2025-12-06 11:30 - 12:30 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
Join a MOCA educator for a public gallery tour of MOCA’s core exhibition, With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, which provides an overview of the Chinese in America from the 19th century through the present day. Items in the Museum’s collection are used to highlight the major themes of the exhibit.
FREE! RSVP optional, but appreciated. Tours leave from the main lobby. Tour times subject to change or cancellation.

Ping Chong Archival Symposium
2025-12-06 12:00 - 19:00 | Hunter College – Lang Recital Hall, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10065
The Ping Chong Archival Symposium will be a full day gathering exploring the archive and artistic legacy of the visionary artist and Pink Fang Artistic Director Emertius, Ping Chong.
This free, public event on December 6th marks a pivotal collaboration between Pink Fang and Hunter College Theatre Department, a semester-long partnership that includes a co-taught course called Multicultural Theatre Performance: Engaging Community Voices and Stories, class visits, an Artist Lunch for students with Ping Chong, a theater workshop available to the entire Hunter College community, and public screenings of Ping Chong’s archival works followed by talk-backs.
The day-long symposium event will bring together artists, scholars, students, and the public for conversation, panels, artistic activations, and a celebratory reception, illuminating the impact, evolution and future of Chong’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary practice that has transformed the landscape of performance in America and beyond.

Cinema Kinare At Film Noir: An Afternoon of South Asian Shorts
2025-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Film Noir Cinema, 122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11222, United States
Following the event we’ll be regrouping at a bar in Greenpoint for a post screening reception. Details will be shared with those who RSVP with their ticket purchase. There is no additional cost to attend, let us know if you’d like to come!
Cinema Kinare is a community run project without any institutional support. All funds from tickets will go solely towards covering venue costs. Thank you for your support!
Our Program
Our program is threaded through with explorations of masculinity – in its unraveling and its construction, in its excesses and limitations – as found in friendship, desire and resistance.
We’ll be screening films by four South Asian filmmakers; three of whom are based in and around NYC and will be joining us for a post screening discussion about their craft.
Headlining our program is Alexander Farah’s award winning short, One Day This Kid (2024). The film follows Hamed, an Afghan Canadian boy, as he comes into adulthood under the weight of his father’s expectations – confronting fear, desire and shame, in search of a self unknown. One Day This Kid premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and won the Grand Jury Prize at South by Southwest 2025 amongst a host of other accolades.

2025 World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders – Free Livestream
2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:00 | The Ailey Studios, 405 West 55th Street, New York, NY, 10019
Lotus Music & Dance and Robert Browning Associates present
World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders.
Sunday, December 7th, 4pm,
Free Livestream from sold out show in NYC Ailey Citicorp Theatre,
Featuring

“Hidden Faces and the Harvest” with the Japanese Folk Dance Institute
Saung Budaya, West Sumatran Dance
Excerpts form the Cross Cultural Ramayana with Trinayan Odissi Collective East Indian Dance and
Kinding Sindaw, Filipino Tribal Dance
With Live Musical Accompaniment

This event will not only be an entertaining and festive celebration of authentic world-class dance and music, but will feature a Q&A as well as audience participation, providing a chance to learn directly from the artists about the common threads these cultures share and what makes them unique.

Alice Young, Trailblazing Lawyer and Advocate for Equality
2025-12-08 18:00 - 19:00
We are pleased to invite you to attend the eighth Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event that will feature Alice Young, Trailblazing Lawyer and Advocate for Equality, whose career has been defined by groundbreaking achievements in law, advocacy for diversity, and dedicated community service.
Alice served as Partner and Chair of the Asia Practice at leading law firms including Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and Milbank Tweed, specializing in corporate law, international transactions, and Asia business partnerships. As a member of the first graduating class of women of Yale College and one of the first Asian American women to graduate from Harvard Law School, she broke barriers on Wall Street and paved the way for women and minorities throughout her 40+ year law career. Beyond her legal work, Alice has been a tireless advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Words Bridging Worlds: On Poetry and Translation
2025-12-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Queens College/CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY, 11367
A reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, followed by a reception and book signing.

Queens College is honored to welcome Arthur Sze, the nation’s 25th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026. Sze will visit the campus and share his literary expertise, followed by a reading, reception, and book signing.
Author of 12 poetry collections, Sze’s honors include the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the 2024 Science and Literature Award from the National Book Foundation, the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry from Yale University, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, among others.

The Affordability Crisis Facing NYC's Older Adults
2025-12-10 08:00 - 10:45 | The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St, New York, NY
New York’s affordability crisis has finally begun to get the attention it deserves. But few New Yorkers feel the strain more acutely than the city’s 1.3 million older adults. Over the past decade, the number of older adults living in poverty has surged by 41 percent across the five boroughs, and today 18.4 percent of New Yorkers age 65+ live below the poverty line. Even more alarming, nearly one in five older adults report no income from Social Security at all—and many others are working longer out of necessity, struggling to keep up with rising costs and insufficient retirement savings.
This forum will explore how city efforts to tackle New York’s affordability crisis can ensure that older adults’ unique cost-of-living challenges are front and center. Panelists will discuss the bold policy actions and investments needed to strengthen financial security, stabilize incomes, expand access to vital supports, and reverse the alarming rise in older adult poverty.

Waves from Busan
2025-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Korean Cultural Center NY, 122 E 32nd St, New York, NY, 10016
Waves from Busan is an international performing arts initiative organized by the City of Busan and the Busan Foundation for Culture, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York.
The program is produced and managed by the Busan Performing Arts Market (BPAM) Secretariat, introducing Busan’s creative performing arts scene to New York and fostering professional cooperation between the two cities.

The Changing Face of Progressive Brooklyn
2025-12-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201
Brooklyn’s reputation as one of America’s most progressive boroughs reflects a long history of demographic shifts, social movements, labor organizing, and vibrant urban culture. With each new wave of residents, Brooklynites have carried forward a legacy of progressivism, adapting it to new movements for justice, equality, and inclusion.
Join renowned demographer Joseph Salvo, distinguished political scientist John Mollenkopf, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, and moderator Katie Honan of THE CITY, for a conversation about Brooklyn’s evolving population and progressive identity.

Twin Tides Book Launch with Hien Nguyen, Jade Song, Rebecca Ho, and Carolina Đỗ
2025-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 | The Twisted Spine, 306 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
The Twisted Spine is honored to welcome author Hien Nguyen to the shop to celebrate the launch of her debut novel, TWIN TIDES! Hien will be joined in conversation by author Jade Song (Chlorine), and the event will also feature a reading by Carolina Đỗ & Rebecca Ho, two of the voice actors from the audiobook.
Proudly presented with support from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW).
About TWIN TIDES:
Long-lost twin sisters unravel the mystery behind their mother’s disappearance and face the family betrayal that ultimately separated them in this breathtaking speculative young adult thriller.
Heiress and influencer Caliste Ha lives a glamorous life in an LA high rise, her perfectly curated social media feed hiding the cracks in her family. Across the country, Aria Nguyen is barely surviving as a freshman and academic scammer at Georgetown University. They have never met.
That changes with one unexpected and grim phone call. Their long-missing mother has been found dead in Les Eaux, Minnesota. Upon arrival in the sleepy town, Caliste and Aria discover another shocker—they are identical twins.
Ready to unearth the secrets that led to their mother’s death and their separation, they start looking for answers. But a vengeful ghost is haunting the waters, and an unknown enemy is watching their every move.
Can Aria and Caliste unravel all the sinister mysteries of Les Eaux, or will the town’s deadly secrets ultimately drag them under?

Digital Safety and Best Practices for Journalists
2025-12-11 14:00 - 15:00
Instructor:
Danielle Meah, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Hearst
In today’s fast-changing digital environment, journalists and community media professionals are increasingly exposed to online threats such as hacking, phishing, doxing, surveillance, and identity theft.
A single security lapse can compromise sensitive sources, disrupt publishing systems, or erode audience trust. This 90-minute virtual training aims to equip community journalists with essential cybersecurity knowledge and practical tools to safeguard their data, communications, and digital presence.
Participants will learn about:
Protecting digital identities
Secure communications
Device security
Data protection
Threat context and awareness

Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative event
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:00
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 52nd Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative event on the “Findings of the Asian American Career Ceilings Survey – Part II” on December 11 at 6 pm ET that will cover the differences of the results by gender, age group, seniority and profession and what the respondents said about what solution(s) they believe should be implemented by companies, government agencies, etc.
There have been very few surveys done in a professional manner on the issue of Asian American Career Ceilings that seek to capture the opinions and experiences of Asian Americans. Although we conducted an informal survey more than a year ago, we made the decision to do this formal survey a few months ago. The results are thought provoking and should be valuable to both individuals striving to be successful and for policy makers who are tackling this problem.
The survey posed the following questions:

Do you feel that your career success has been impeded in any way because of your ethnicity?
If so, what form of career disadvantage do you feel you have been subjected to (check all that apply):
What do you feel was the cause of the career disadvantage?
Over the last five years, on a scale of 0 to 10, at what level of severity do you feel that you have been subject to Asian American Career Ceilings obstacles (0 = no impact and 10 = severe impact)?
Do you feel that the current tensions between the U.S. and China and the Asia hate incidences have had any impact on your career success? 0 to 10 scale (0 = no impact and 10 -= severe impact)
Share a specific incident that you experienced that you feel is an example of an Asian American Career obstacle.
Share your view of what solution(s) you believe should be implemented by companies, government agencies, etc. to counter Asian American Career obstacles.

Special thanks to Jeremy Wu, a Committee of 100 member, for his review of the methodologies we used and the technical validity of the results,
Jeremy was a senior executive and manager with the federal government, retiring from the Census Bureau after also serving at the Departments of Transportation, Energy, and Agriculture.
His pioneering Big Data work at the Census Bureau included an online mapping and reporting application that was recognized as a major U.S. statistical innovation at the United Nations in 2009.
Part II will be held on December 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time / 5 pm Central Time / 3:00 pm Pacific Time. There is no fee to attend this webcast. Please register for Part II at https://c100-12-11-2025.eventbrite.com

We hope you will join us.
Best regards,
Peter Young
Chair, Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative
Committee of 100 Member and Board Member

Presenter
Peter Young
Chair, Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative
Committee of 100 Member and Board Member

Peter Young is CEO and President of Young & Partners, a corporate strategy and boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.
Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is President and board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization.
The Committee of 100
The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 37 years ago.
The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:
Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community;
Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China.
To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.committee100.org.

Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Asian American / Asian Research Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, 10036, United States
Family Amnesia (Daylight Books, 2025) is a visual tribute and love letter honoring author Betty Yu’s Chinese American family roots in the United States. The art book explores her family’s multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed-media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, and own captured images and archival material.

Amader Jolsha – Community Celebration + Open Mic!
2025-12-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Apicha Community Health Center (Queens), 82-11 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY, 11372
A night of community, creativity, and celebration! Drag queen performances, art, music, and open mic magic. Everyone is invited!

Amader Jolsha (transl. “Our Celebration”) is a community celebration packed with fun cultural activities, beautiful henna art, delicious food, and a dazzling performance by Bangladeshi drag queen, NaFis 🌈 Join us to connect, create, and celebrate! This exciting event is open to community members of all backgrounds and allies!
Featured Performance:
NaFis is a Bangladeshi-American actor, singer, and lightworker born in Satkhira, BD and now based in Queens, NYC. Their artistic journey began in Bangladesh. At the age of 6, they won a National Folk Music Award, in Poddo-Kuri, and placed third nationally, before becoming a finalist on Bangladesh’s first televised children’s singing competition, Channel- I’s Khude Gan Raaz, in 2008. They were the first ever Bangladeshi student accepted into the conservatory Musical Theatre program at the University of Miami. Since moving to the US at fifteen, they have built a multidisciplinary career shaped by queerness, diaspora, and a deep love of storytelling. They originated Sebanti in SoHo Rep’s ‘Public Obscenities’, a performance that earned them a Drama Desk Award, and have appeared in ‘Femininjection’ at The Tank, ‘Rent’ as Angel with Open Hydrant Theatre, ‘Lady in the Dark’ at New York City Center, ‘House of Joy’ as Salima, and ‘Tinderella’ as Dylan, for which they also received BroadwayWorld’s Best Performer in a Musical award. They originated Rini, a non-binary queer Bengali character, in the play, ‘Mahamoha’, for Baltimore’s first t4t theatre festival, and will be closing out 2025 by playing the lead role of Rohan in the New York Theatre Festival’s production of ‘Down Once More’. Their current work focuses on expanding queer and trans South Asian storytelling and uplifting Bangladeshi cultural expression beyond the narrow, homogenized versions of South Asian representation seen in regional and diasporic media. To connect and follow along, IG: @nafis_storyteller
