STEWART DAVID IKEDA
Diversity Consulting / Multicultural Outreach / Ethnic Media Planning & Management

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Diversity - Resume - Portfolio

Public Speaking & Instruction | Outreach & Online Marketing | Diversity Content | Asian American

 

Public Speaking & Instruction

Sample Lecture & Seminar Topics Select Speaking Venues

Delivered lectures, workshops, and presentations on: Multicultural marketing, diversity recruitment and retention, ethnic media, cultural sensitivity, civil liberties, race relations, and cultural topics. Successful grant co-applicant for Civil Liberties Public Education Fund and other grants for presentations hosted by: Arizona Humanities Council; Japanese American Citizens League; University of Indiana-Purdue/Ft. Wayne; San Mateo Community College; and many others.

Boston College, Visiting Professor, teaching English and Asian-American Literature classes, 1997-1998. Sat on AHANA faculty of color committees, wrote evaluation for department Chair on mandatory diversity training workshop.

Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Asian-American Studies Program, 1993-1996. Taught Topics in Asian-American Cultures classes. Taught college seminars and participated in course development, awards, hiring committees, promotions, and events programming for start-up of first formal AAS Program in the Midwest. Speaker and workshop leader in a variety of non-AASP campus diversity programs (see below).

University of Michigan Faculty/Graduate Curriculum Planning Seminar, 1991. Member of planning seminar for newly mandated undergraduate ethnic studies credit requirements and new core course, UC299: Race, Racism, and Ethnicity.

Sample Lecture and Seminar Topics

• "Multicultural Publishing Online," University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communications, 2001
• "Working in Online Media," University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communications, 2000
• "Internment and Assimilation," Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, 1998
• "Transforming Barbed Wire" Conference, Arizona Humanities Council, panel chair, 1998
• "Gold Mountain," Asian-American Culture Symposium, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, 1998
• "Interethnic Relations and Civil Liberties," Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, 1998
• "Approaches to the Multicultural Publishing Markets," Publishers Marketing Association meeting, ABA Convention, Chicago, 1997
• "Writing Multicultural Histories," guest lecture, Franklin College, Indianapolis, 1997
• "QUESTions Diversity Conference," talk, University of Wisconsin Union Directorate, 1996
• "Multiracial and Biracial Issues," panel, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1995
• "Cultural Identity," panel discussion and workshop leading, Diversity Training Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
• "Teaching Issues of Multiculturalism," seminar for TAs, UW-Madison Department of Communications, 1994
• "Creation and Ethnicity Beyond the Mosaic," Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994

Select Speaking Venues

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Japanese American Citizens League; Arizona Humanities Council, Phoenix; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; Barnes & Noble; Annenberg Center, Philadelphia; Publishers Marketing Association, ABA Convention, Chicago; Franklin College, Indianapolis; Border's Books; San Mateo Community College; University of Wisconsin - Madison; Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Ann Arbor; Heartland Literary Society/Chicago Tribune, Chicago; Boston College; Japanese American Service Committee, Chicago; Smithsonian/Twin Cities JACL, Minneapolis; Asian American Renaissance, St. Paul; Kalamazoo College, MI; Haverford College, PA; Friends Central School, Philadelphia; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Indiana University-Purdue at Fort Wayne; Asian-American Writers Workshop, New York.

 

Outreach & Online Marketing

AsiaXpress Career Center Asian-Nation.org 80-20 Job Search Frame NikkeiView Jobs Asians.com Careers HBCU Network

IMDiversity.com. Web Page Creation and Management; Partnership and Outreach, iMinorities, Inc. Contracted on consulting basis by former employer to run Asian-American community web site, and to revamp and model online partnership programs. Spearheaded development of new partnership strategies to drive increases in high-impact alliances with government, nonprofit, educational, media, and professional networking organizations. Created new promotions vehicles to boost site traffic, brand recognition, resume submission, and career account sign-up among target audiences. Led new product initiative to extend company jobs database technology and client diversity recruitment messages off-site through partnership with targeted multicultural sites and media. In first two months, new pilot program saw Asian-American partnership inquiries increase 300% and section's monthly page views jump to highest recorded level.

 

Diversity Content

iMinorities, Inc IMDiversity Writings Black Collegian Online Select Special Projects Election 2000 Candidates Diversity Q&A WWII Internment Remembrance President's Initiative on Race Dialogue Global Minorities' Almanac

iMinorities, Inc. Web Content Planning and Management. From 1998 to 2001, served as Director of Online Content for iMinorities, Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of its flagship, IMDiversity.com, leading one of the country's most respected diversity recruitment services and multicultural online community publishers, from start-up through two major redesign and rebranding stages to mature, VC-financed e-business recognized as among the best in class by Career Xroads, Yahoo! Internet Life, and other authorities.

Widely published author of What the Scarecrow Said, 1996, about the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII, nominated by publisher HarperCollins-Regan Books for Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Writings on ethnicity, ethnic studies, and civil liberties in periodicals and anthologies including Last Witnesses (St. Martin's Press, 2001), Yellow Light (Temple University Press, 2000), Voices of the Xiled (Doubleday/Main Street Books, 1994).

• Editor and lead columnist for Asian-American Village Online magazine, contributor to other ethnic media and online publications including Pacific Citizen, Northwest Nikkei, and others, 1998-2002 [IMDiversity Columns Archive]

• Contributing editor to sections of Yellow Light, Asian-American culture and arts textbook, edited by Amy Ling, Temple University Press, 2000

• Contracted to research, devise exercises, and create multicultural education materials for Teaching Editions of middle and high school Prentice-Hall Reader textbooks, Prentice-Hall Publishing, 1993

• Manuscript reader for When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story, Steven Chin & David Tamura; Alex Haley, general editor. Curriculum Concepts, Inc., New York, 1993

 

Asian American

80-20 Initiative Asian American Writers Workshop, NYC Asian-American Village Online

80-20 Initiative. Page Redesign and E-mail Outreach Consulting.   Retained to conduct design and usability assessment on non-profit organization site, and redesign essential frame insert pages pertaining to online donations and anti-spam, MAPS-compliant e-mail outreach functions. April 2001. Client: 80-20 PAC, SB Woo.

Asian American Writers Workshop, NYC.  On Advisory Board to non-profit organization, bookseller, and publisher since 1996.

Asian-American Village Online.  As consultant, managed all of IMDiversity.com's site activity and outreach initiatives for Asian-American market, making Asian-targeted site the highest-performing in network, with greatest traffic to feature content, most community partnerships, and exceptional resume submission rates. Provided regular feature column on diversity and cultural topics.

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