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Media and Publishing

IMDiversity.com

Managed major projects in business development and partnerships, editorial, promotions, and third-party IT vendor relationships for one of industry's leading, diversity-oriented online careers and multicultural content networks, twice named "Best Equal Opportunity Site" by Yahoo! Internet Life.  Served in various capacities of escalating responsibility, from P/T editorial consultant to company Vice President, directed online community channels for African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, U.S. women professional audiences, and college students.

THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine

Served as interim editor for respected, award-winning publication for African-American college student market during its 2005-2006 35th anniversary publishing year

American Knees Productions

Served as consultant to feature film directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, adaptation of novel American Knees by Shawn Wong

University of Ohio - Athens, Scripps School of Journalism

Invited panel speaker, "Race and Class in Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina"

Publishers Marketing Association Meeting

Panel speaker, Multicultural Publishing, in PMA Meeting during Chicago ABA Conference

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Journalism & Mass Communications

Invited speaker, "Working in Online Ethnic Media" seminar

 

Political / Community

Asian American Creative Coalition

Co-founded network of artists and media professionals to support multicultural / APIA voter outreach in 2004 elections; works actively with numerous national and local NPOs dedicated to promoting civil rights, civil liberties, equal opportunity, diversity, the arts and progressive political values.  Campaign Hell experience coordinating volunteers and field outreach; rapid-response media outreach; multicultural media placements.

The 80-20 Initiative & PAC

Provided consulting service in planning of original web site and email outreach; served as elected Board Member of non-partisan educational organization and PAC in 2005.

US Census Bureau AAC Conference, Oakland

Panel Speaker, 2004 National Conference: Improving Data Quality on Asian Americans, Asian Advisory Committee to the U.S. Census Bureau, Oakland, CA, May 29, 2004

Arizona Humanities Council Transforming Barbed Wire Conference, Phoenix

Panel speaker, conference on WWII internment and civil liberties

Race in Digital Space 2.0 Conference, University of Southern California

Panel speaker, online media and ethnic politics breakout session, at joint conference by MIT, UC Santa Barbara, and USC

APIAVote.org

Contributed copy for non-partisan, multiethnic Asian-American Get Out the Vote promotions for 2004 National Elections

APAs for Progress

Served as Board Member from 2007-2008; regular blogger on APAforProgress.org

 

 

Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Lecturer, Asian American Studies Program / Department of English

Boston College

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Asian American Studies

The Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia

Multicultural education training workshop for middle school teachers on faculty development day

Prentice-Hall Publishers

Contracted to contribute multicultural teaching notes and activities for Teacher's Editions of Prentice-Hall Literature Reader (multiple grade levels)

Midwestern Asian American Student Union Conferences

Workshop instruction to student activists, Champaign-Urbana, IL and Ann Arbor, MI conferences

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia

Invited speaker, Japanese American Internment and Assimilation

Asian American Studies Teach-In, Chicago

Invited panel speaker, mobilization event in support of AAS at UI-Chicago, hosted by JACL, JASC, Asian American Coalition Committee

 

University of Wisconsin - Madison Asian American Studies Program

Arts / Culture

Annenberg Center for the Arts, Philadelphia

Invited panel speaker, Japanese American / Jewish American perspectives on World War II, discussion of historical drama "Gates of Heaven"

Asian American Writers Workshop

Served on Advisory Board to NPO, bookseller and publisher since 1996; invited to serve as judge for First Annual Asian American Literary Awards

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee SCE Writers Festival

Featured literary reading, writing workshop instruction, Experiential Writing Methods, Writing for Multicultural Audiences

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

Invited speaker, "Gold Mountain," Asian-American Culture Symposium

 

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