Podcasts about Asian American Journalists Association

Send us a Text Message.Mistreatment of migrant workers, especially those forced to work in hot, dangerous conditions, created huge headlines in the run-up to the Qatar World Cup in 2022, thanks in part to the work of today's guest—journalist Pramod Acharya. Pramod's subsequent reporting also made the news globally. Also done in collaboration with journalists around the world, it spotlighted the conditions faced by Nepalis and others working in Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia, and led to Amazon changing some of its work practices. For that reporting, Pramod and his colleagues have received numerous nominations and awards, including—for the Amazon work—the Excellence in International Reporting award from the Asian American Journalists Association and the Human Rights Press Award, from Human Rights Watch and others. Today he'll tell us how and where he got his start in journalism, how migration from Nepal has changed in the decade since he started investigating it, and the role that the media might play in making positive change.  ResourcesOne of Pramod's reports on the Qatar World CupA report from Pramod on Amazon warehousesCentre for Investigative Journalism, Nepal Send us feedback and ideas. We'll respond to every message:LinkedInInstagramFacebookVoicemailMusic by audionautix.com.Thank you to the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters of Nepal and Himal Media for use of their studios.

Send us a Text Message.Mistreatment of migrant workers, especially those forced to work in hot, dangerous conditions, created huge headlines in the run-up to the Qatar World Cup in 2022, thanks in part to the work of today's guest—journalist Pramod Acharya. Pramod's subsequent reporting also made the news globally. Also done in collaboration with journalists around the world, it spotlighted the conditions faced by Nepalis and others working in Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia, and led to Amazon changing some of its work practices. For that reporting, Pramod and his colleagues have received numerous nominations and awards, including—for the Amazon work—the Excellence in International Reporting award from the Asian American Journalists Association and the Human Rights Press Award, from Human Rights Watch and others. Today he'll tell us how and where he got his start in journalism, how migration from Nepal has changed in the decade since he started investigating it, and the role that the media might play in making positive change.  ResourcesOne of Pramod's reports on the Qatar World CupA report from Pramod on Amazon warehousesCentre for Investigative Journalism, Nepal Send us feedback and ideas. We'll respond to every message:LinkedInInstagramFacebookVoicemailMusic by audionautix.com.Thank you to the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters of Nepal and Himal Media for use of their studios.

Wing describes his own genuine, unique, and effective way of standing out while building his brand. Welcome to Elevating Brick and Mortar. A podcast about how operations and facilities drive brand performance.On today's episode, we talk with Wing Lam, Co-Founder and Owner of Wahoo's Fish Taco. Wahoo's is a fast-casual taco chain that serves tacos full of Asian and Brazilian influences, with over 50 locations across the country and Japan.Guest Bio:Wing Lam co-founded Wahoo's Fish Taco in 1988 with his two brothers Ed and Mingo. Wing has nearly 40 years of experience in the restaurant industry. Wing makes appearances as the guest speaker/panel at events such as the IEG Conferences and has been featured by nation's top campuses like Yale, UCLA and USC MBA Program. Lam is also active in the Asian American Journalists Association. He received the 2018 Corporate Creativity and Innovation Leadership Award from the Child Creativity Lab and the 2018 IMPACT Award from the International Executive Council. Lam, his brothers, and Wahoo's Fish Taco have been named one of the 500 Most Influential by the Orange County Business Journal, Best OC Brand by OC Weekly, the Golden Foodie Award and has countless awards for philanthropy and business achievements.Timestamps:00:53 - About Wahoo's03:14 - A marketing crash course07:14 - Importance of brand association11:32 - Conceptualizing a unique space15:32 - Functions and the brand21:55 - Wahoo's and charity31:40 - Future thinking35:54 - Where to find WingSPONSOR:ServiceChannel brings you peace of mind through peak facilities performance.Rest easy knowing your locations are:Offering the best possible guest experienceLiving up to brand standardsOperating with minimal downtimeServiceChannel partners with more than 500 leading brands globally to provide visibility across operations, the flexibility to grow and adapt to consumer expectations, and accelerated performance from their asset fleet and service providers.Links:Connect with Wing on LinkedInConnect with Sid Shetty on LinkedinCheck out the ServiceChannel Website

May 8, 2024 - With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values as guiding principles of the human condition. With generous support from Y.T. Hwang Family Foundation, The Korea Society presents a Series on Ethics and Common Values. This series promotes the understanding of central themes of our human existence - morality, ethics, personal responsibility, compassion and civility - through a series of lectures by distinguished speakers and conversation with extraordinary individuals who exemplify the universal values in line with the mission of Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation and The Korea Society. The Korea Society and Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation is proud to present Min Jin Lee in a conversation with Kyung B. Yoon. Min Jin Lee is the author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award. Lee is the recipient of the 2022 Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity. She has received fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee has been inducted into the Hall of Fame for the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Writers, and the Bronx High School of Science. She has been honored by the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Korean American Community Foundation, the Council of Korean Americans, the Queens Public Library, and the Korean Community Center. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Chosun Ilbo, Vogue, and Food & Wine. She has introduced the Penguin Classics edition of The Great Gatsby. In 2023, Lee served as the Editor of the The Best American Shorts Stories. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. Lee lives in Harlem with her family. Kyung B. Yoon is the President and CEO (as well as co-founder) of the Korean American Community Foundation (KACF), the first and largest philanthropic organization in the U.S. dedicated to strengthening Korean American communities. Her career in poverty alleviation, development economics, and media encompasses her roles as the Executive Producer of Television at the World Bank Institute and a correspondent for WNYW-Fox Channel 5 where she made history as the first Korean American broadcast reporter in NYC. Kyung is currently a contributing reporter to CUNY-TV's Asian American Life, which is broadcast nationally on PBS stations and for which she received an Emmy nomination. She has previously served as the board chair of Philanthropy New York and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, as a trustee of the New York Foundation, and as a board member of the United Way of New York City. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1817-y-t-hwang-family-foundation-series-on-ethics-common-values-a-conversation-with-min-jin-lee

What is our purpose, both individually and collectively? What lies in the balance of who we are now and who we will become?  In Part Two of this episode, the Surgeon General and Shankar Vedantam, host of “Hidden Brain,” go deep into conversation about our individual and national quest for meaning and purpose.  This episode becomes deeply personal as both host and guest reveal their family's hopes for coming to America, and the unimaginable ways in which those dreams were realized. They find themselves asking where else on earth has what America can offer? And how can we remember and reinforce our ideals at moments the noise becomes too great?  (03:23)    How can we encourage young people to dream about the future?  (09:21)    How can we bring freshness and curiosity to our daily lives?  (11:57)    What does it mean to be a tourist in our own lives?  (15:28)    What is the power of having purpose in our lives?  (22:39)    What's the difference between goals and purpose?  (25:39)    How would Dr. Murthy bolster America's sense of purpose?  (28:58)    What is the enormous possibility that the United States offers?  (30:16)    What story of America did Dr. Murthy see in the crowd at his swearing in ceremony?  (32:51)    Who are Shankar Vedantam's Unsung Heroes?    We'd love to hear from you! Send us a note at housecalls@hhs.gov with your feedback & ideas. For more episodes, visit www.surgeongeneral.gov/housecalls.      Shankar Vedantam, Host, “Hidden Brain” Podcast  Instagram: @hiddenbrain   X: @hiddenbrain  Facebook: @hiddenbrain    About Shankar Vedantam  Shankar Vedantam is the host and executive editor of the Hidden Brain podcast and radio show. Shankar and NPR launched the podcast in 2015, and it now receives millions of downloads per week, and is regularly listed as one of the top 20 podcasts in the world. The radio show, which debuted in 2017, is heard on more than 425 public radio stations across the United States.     Vedantam was NPR's social science correspondent between 2011 and 2020, and he spent 10 years as a reporter at The Washington Post. From 2007 to 2009, he was also a columnist, and wrote the Department of Human Behavior column for the Post.     Vedantam and Hidden Brain have been recognized with numerous journalism awards, including the Edward R Murrow Award, and honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Austen Riggs Center, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Webby Awards, the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, the South Asian Journalists Association, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the American Public Health Association, the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship on Science and Religion, and the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship.     In 2009-2010, Vedantam served as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.     Shankar Vedantam speaks internationally about how the “hidden brain” shapes our world and is the author of two non-fiction books: The Hidden Brain: How our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, published in 2010, and Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain published in 2021, an exploration of deception's role in human success.  

Have you ever had a moment when you've wanted to reach out to someone you haven't seen in awhile, but something stops you, like the worry you'll say the wrong thing?  Or have you had the experience of assuming that someone who disagrees with you must also dislike you?   It turns out, our mind can play tricks on us that make it harder to connect.   Shankar Vedantam, host and creator of the podcast ”Hidden Brain” joins the Surgeon General for a two-part conversation that travels across science and deeper philosophical questions about life.   In this first conversation, Shankar explains the “hidden brain,” the part of the mind that function outside of our awareness, making unconscious decisions and judgments. They ponder the paradox of how social anxieties keep us from connecting, but how acts of connection and kindness have far greater impact and power than most of us realize.     Offering both science and personal stories, Shankar and Dr. Murthy help us work through our fears of connecting. And help us close the gap between our values, like kindness, and our actions.  (04:04)    How does Shankar Vedantam describe the origins of the Hidden Brain podcast?  (06:18)    How can we understand if our hidden brain is helping us?  (08:34)    How does our hidden brain keep us from connecting with other people?  (14:04)    What does it mean to express gratitude to someone else?  (18:39)    How has Dr. Murthy cultivated his sense of kind and warmth?  (24:20)    How can we tell a better story about the nature of our humanity?  (29:36)    How did Shankar Vedantam become a translator of science?  (33:12)    How do listeners respond to the Hidden Brain podcast?  (36:12)    How are ideas for Hidden Brain podcast episodes developed?    We'd love to hear from you! Send us a note at housecalls@hhs.gov with your feedback & ideas. For more episodes, visit www.surgeongeneral.gov/housecalls.      Shankar Vedantam, Host, “Hidden Brain” Podcast  Instagram: @hiddenbrain   X: @hiddenbrain  Facebook: @hiddenbrain    About Shankar Vedantam  Shankar Vedantam is the host and executive editor of the Hidden Brain podcast and radio show. Shankar and NPR launched the podcast in 2015, and it now receives millions of downloads per week, and is regularly listed as one of the top 20 podcasts in the world. The radio show, which debuted in 2017, is heard on more than 425 public radio stations across the United States.     Vedantam was NPR's social science correspondent between 2011 and 2020, and he spent 10 years as a reporter at The Washington Post. From 2007 to 2009, he was also a columnist, and wrote the Department of Human Behavior column for the Post.     Vedantam and Hidden Brain have been recognized with numerous journalism awards, including the Edward R Murrow Award, and honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Austen Riggs Center, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Webby Awards, the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, the South Asian Journalists Association, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the American Public Health Association, the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship on Science and Religion, and the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship.     In 2009-2010, Vedantam served as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.     Shankar Vedantam speaks internationally about how the “hidden brain” shapes our world and is the author of two non-fiction books: The Hidden Brain: How our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, published in 2010, and Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain published in 2021, an exploration of deception's role in human success.  

On this episode we're joined by Mallory Carra. Mallory is a journalist, editor and professor who has experience in print, digital, and audio. Among many projects, she's currently teaching journalism at USC, is the lead producer of the soon-released Electric Futures Podcast, and publishes a job listings newsletter, West Coast Media Jobs.She formerly wrote for Bustle and wrote and edited podcast episodes for Parcast Studios.Mallory talked about what she learned at each of her jobs, from covering the outdoors in Tennessee to coming up with clever ways to handle celebrity interviews at Bustle, to writing first-person experience taking a stunt-fighting class to writing podcast episodes about September 11, 2001 for Spotify.She also explained the purpose of her newsletter, the current projects she's working on and why she's so passionate about pushing for paid editing tests.Mallory's salute: The Asian-American Journalists Association and all journalism affinity groupsThank you as always for listening. Please send us feedback to journalismsalute@gmail.com,Visit our website: thejournalismsalute.org Mark's website (MarkSimonmedia.com)Tweet us at @journalismpod.Subscribe to our newsletter- journalismsalute.substack.comAnd find us on TikTok at @journalismsalute.

Our guest speaker for this program is Rummana Hussain, an editorial board member and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. During her career at the newspaper, she also had stints as an assistant metro editor, criminal courts reporter, general assignment reporter and assistant to columnist Michael Sneed.Before the Sun-Times, Rummana covered education and criminal courts in Lake County for the Chicago Tribune and was assigned the crime, education and City Hall beats for the City News Bureau of Chicago.Rummana was named a Jefferson fellow by the East-West Center in 2006. She has also served on the board of the Chicago Headline Club and the local chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.

In this episode, we explore the power of outdoor recreation with Yvonne Leow, the founder of Bewilder. We discuss her journey from a culture distant from outdoor activities to her life-changing backpacking trip, emphasizing the role of nature in mental well-being. We cover topics like pain, self-optimization, social media's impact on authenticity, and insights on supportive networks. Finally, we highlight the significance of mental health, finding purpose, and the transformative potential of nurturing relationships and spending time in nature.Yvonne Leow is the CEO and founder of Bewilder, an environmental education company based in Los Angeles. They blend arts, games, storytelling, and gear to create educational experiences for schools and families. Yvonne is a former journalist turned entrepreneur. She was an editor at The Associated Press, Vox.com, the national president of the Asian American Journalists Association, and a journalism fellow at Stanford University. Bewilder participated in REI's accelerator and has since inspired hundreds of students and parents to reconnect with nature. You can find her at yvonne@bewilder.camp.  Join Yvonne for "Weekly Hike"Yvonne invites five amazing listeners like you to join her accountability campaign. The campaign is a Weekly Hike for 4 weeks.  Join her here:https://joiny.ai/yvonne_leowWhen sending your request, take a moment to share your story and the goals you have by joining this campaign. You will be notified to start the campaign if selected by Yvonne.*Nominate the next guest: forms.gle/K8DXSfSqewKqGyTX8Instagram: instagram.com/theally.showTwitter: twitter.com/theallyshowYoutube: youtube.com/@TheAllyShowbyaliAli's Linkedin: Support the show*Disclaimer: The information provided in "The Ally Show" is for general informational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of qualified mental health professionals or medical professionals regarding any mental health concerns or conditions. The views and opinions expressed by guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or the show. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information shared, "The Ally Show" cannot guarantee the completeness, validity, or timeliness of any information provided. Listeners are encouraged to use their discretion and consult appropriate professionals before making any decisions or taking any actions based on the information shared on the show. "The Ally Show" is not responsible for any consequences resulting from the use of or reliance on the information presented.For Guests: The views and opinions expressed by guests on "The Ally Show" are solely their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the host or the show. The guests share their personal experiences and perspectives for educational and informational purposes. The information provided by the guests should not be considered professional advice or treatment. Learn More For questions, please contact: ali@theally.show

Retired Chicago veteran news anchor Linda Yu kicks off my season 9 opener as we talk about her decades-long career in Chicago news television, what it was like to navigate the news media industry as an Asian American woman, and more. Bio: Linda Yu has been called a trailblazer, mentor and award- journalist. She recently stepped back from daily broadcasting after more than forty years in television news. Yu began her career in 1974 as a writer for the Los Angeles ABC station KABC-TV and then went on to become a writer/producer at KTLA-TV. In 1975 she stepped in front of the camera as a reporter for the ABC affiliate station in Portland, Oregon KATU-TV. Within months, she received an offer from ABC owned station KGO-TV in San Francisco as reporter and anchor, where Yu worked from to 1979. In late 1979, she was spotted by the NBC owned station in Chicago, WMAQ-TV, and moved to the Windy City as weekend anchor and reporter. Part of Yu's motivation for accepting the position was that she would be the first Asian American to appear on a Chicago network station. Five years later, ABC won her back and she moved to Chicago's ABC7, WLS-TV, to anchor the station's newly created 4 p.m. news hour. Later, an 11 a.m. news hour was added to her anchor duties. Both news programs maintained their number one rating throughout her 33 year career at ABC7. Among the honors and recognition for Yu are six local Emmy awards, as well as induction into the prestigious “Silver Circle” of legendary Chicago broadcasters. She has been named one of Today's Chicago Women magazine's “100 Women to Watch” and has been awarded a National Gold Medal by the National Conference of Community and Justice. In her community service, Yu spent more than 30 years as the Advisory Board Chairperson for the Chinese American Service League. She is also a co-founder of the Chicago chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She has been an active supporter and volunteer for Common Threads, the Juvenile Protective Association and the March of Dimes. Yu is the author of “Living and Working in America”, a book published in Chinese and sold in China. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/banhmichronicles/support

About Our Guest:Paul Cheung leads The Center for Public Integrity, one of the oldest and most diverse investigative nonprofit news organizations in America, as CEO to hold the powerful to account, expose systems of inequality and equip the public with knowledge to drive change. Their reporting has led to hundreds of law and policy changes and forced federal and state governments to release information critical to the public interest.Previously, Cheung managed a $50 million dollar investment portfolio at the Knight Foundation to scale AI, business sustainability solutions, and mitigating misinformation. He has 20 years of experience in leading digital transformation at media outlets including NBC News Digital, The Associated Press, The Miami Herald, and The Wall Street Journal.Cheung serves on the boards of Center for Disaster Philanthropy and News Leaders Association. He is a Council member of University of Florida's Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology and co-leads the Asian American Journalists Association's executive leadership program in US and Asia. Cheung is a graduate of the 2016 Punch Sulzberger Executive Leadership program at Columbia University and an alumnus of New York University.About Your Host:Anita Zielina is the CEO and founder of Better Leaders Lab. She's also an Executive in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she spent the last few years leading all continuing and executive education initiatives. Anita serves as the inaugural Board Chair of News Product Alliance (NPA) and is a member of the board of directors at the Austrian Public Broadcaster ORF.For the past 15 years, Anita held senior executive positions focused on product, strategy and innovation in various media and education organizations as Chief Product Officer, Managing Editor Digital, Editor-in-Chief and Director Strategic Initiatives. She has worked with around 500 managers, leaders and entrepreneurs as a consultant, coach and educator.She holds a Master in Law from Vienna University and an Executive MBA from INSEAD. Anita is an alumna of the Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship and the Oxford Reuters Institute Fellowship. About Better Leaders LabBetter Leaders Lab is a Do and Think Tank for good leadership and smart management in media and beyond and a boutique strategic advisory firm. BLL specializes in organizational change, strategy and scenario planning, leadership development and executive recruiting research. Its goal is to empower managers, leaders and organizations in the broader media, digital & innovation space to build successful, sustainable, modern and healthy businesses.Learn more:https://betterleaderslab.comGet in touchFeedback or questions related to the podcast?hello@betterleaderslab.com

Today, we have a special guest on the podcast (and a worthy NüVoices ally) MIT Tech Review reporter, Zeyi Yang! Together with co-hosts Megan Cattel and Solarina Ho, Zeyi talks about China's initial reception to ChatGPT and all the uproar and suspicion surrounding TikTok. What are valid concerns surrounding the app and Bytedance? What are oversimplifications made by members of Congress and Western media? We touch on all this and more in the episode.About Zeyi Yang: As a reporter for MIT Technology Review, he covers technologies in China and East Asia. His work often focuses on the intersection of tech and social issues, particularly LGBTQ rights and immigration. He writes a weekly newsletter China Report that bridges the Chinese tech industry and readers in the English-speaking world. Previously, his writing has been published in Protocol, Rest of World, Columbia Journalism Review, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, among others. He has received awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, the Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and the Society of Professional Journalists. In his spare time, Zeyi also works as a podcaster, translator, and fact-checker.

Brandi sits with award winning Journalist Jo Ling Kent to discuss how good parents raise good humans in an internet driven world. From cancel culture, to racism, and learning to keep connections with people who have differences, this feel good conversation is a reminder of what our job as parents really is. If you are looking for a little compassion, truth telling, and learning to lead with love, you don't want to miss this episode.   Jo Ling Kent is an award-winning tv journalist and anchor. She was most recently the business and tech correspondent at NBC News, appearing on the TODAY show, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and MSNBC.    At NBC since 2016, Kent covered a wide range of stories from the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic to the baby formula shortage crisis to protests in Seattle following the death of George Floyd. She led NBC News' investigations into Amazon and Facebook and interviewed the CEOs of Twitter, Reddit, Etsy and eBay. Kent has sat down with whistleblowers from Facebook and Google, and questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the halls of Congress. Her reporting has won an Edward R. Murrow Award and earned an Emmy nomination.  Previously, Kent was a reporter and podcast host at Fox Business Network and an investigative reporter at NBC Connecticut (WVIT), where she was a member of the team awarded a Peabody for coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting.    Kent has two master's degrees in international affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University, along with a BA from Rice University. She's from Minnesota, fluent in Mandarin and serves on the board of Libraries Without Borders US. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her family and is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.  You can follow Jo Ling Kent on her Instagram or Twitter account.   You can follow Brandi and her work @deardoulapodcast on IG, @brandi_jordan_official IG, and send questions, comments and platitudes to brandi@deardoulapodcast.com. Have a question you want Brandi to answer? Shoot her an email or a DM and she might include it on her next podcast episode!   If you are looking for support with your children, you can reach out to us at The Cradle Company for more information on hiring a parenting or baby specialist. If you appreciate Dear Doula please take a minute to rate and review! If you have questions for Brandi feel free to shoot an email to brandi@deardoulapodcast.com.   Produced by Dear Media  

Momo Chang is a Freelance Journalist, Editor, and Co-Director of Oakland Voices based in the San Francisco East Bay. Born in Taiwan, and raised in the United States, her work has a special focus on healthcare, immigration, education, Asian American communities, food, and culture. Growing up with not enough Asian-American journalists to look up to, she aimed to create a more diverse media by working with the alumni network of Oakland Voices. Momo's writing journey began with writing short stories and poetry which led her to receive journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative reporting and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. Momo's portfolio:  www.momochang.com The podcast editing for this episode is by @100firesmusic_ Listen to the full episode on our website.

Ericka here, bringing you all something different for today's episode.  Every week, our job here at The Bay is to tell stories about this place and the people in it. But recently, I got the chance to tell a different kind of story: one about…me.  Earlier this summer, the San Francisco chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association hosted a live storytelling event at KQED called Hella Asian. It was a gathering of local journalists and storytellers sharing reflections on how we come back as a community after the last two and a half years. I told a story about a camping trip I went on with my best friend during the pandemic. It's a story about friendship and photography. It's also a story about the mental impact of journalism and the news, especially on journalists of color like myself. The story shows how my work has affected me and my sense of safety after covering the pandemic and hate against the Asian community. And that's the story we're sharing with you today.  Hella Asian: The Comeback

 Qasim Rashid earned his law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law and has a long track record of serving diverse communities in Virginia. This includes his work to combat domestic and sexual violence against women, uplift the incarcerated through prison chaplaincy, serve his neighbors through blood drives and highway cleanups, and advocate for children's education. Qasim channels his passion to serve the marginalized by working with national and international non-profit organizations that advance women's rights, improve water, food, shelter, healthcare, and education access for children living in poverty, and fight to protect the religious freedom for all people. To that end Qasim has written numerous books, given hundreds of interviews, and testified before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom to protect the rights of persecuted religious minorities around the world. Likewise, Qasim has worked with the US Government to improve national security here at home, while upholding the United States Constitution as the supreme law of the land. In addition to his humanitarian commitments, Qasim works as a consultant to help major organizations, small businesses, and non-profits improve their corporate strategies, messaging, and innovation. He loves interfaith dialogue, running marathons, reading, and spending time with his wife and children. Qasim and his family attend worship services at the Masroor Mosque in Manassas. Qasim Rashid is a human rights lawyer and author. His new book is for kids and it's called Hannah and the Ramadan gift.  AISHA SULTAN is a nationally syndicated columnist and features writer. Her work connects with parents trying to balance work and home life, while raising kids in a complex, digital age. She chronicles the lives of families – those intimate relationships in which we battle and love most intensely. In their daily decisions, their small victories and defeats, readers look for someone with whom to connect. Aisha's ability to authentically share these struggles, from the poignant to the hilarious, brings readers back week after week. The Society of Features Journalism has repeatedly recognized her commentary as among the best in the country. The Asian American Journalists Association honored her coverage of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., with an Excellence in Print national writing award. She is a former Knight Wallace Fellow, during which she took a sabbatical at the University of Michigan to dive into how technology is changing modern family life. She also produces videos and films, hosts a weekly podcast, speaks at conferences and frequently appears on television. Her work has appeared in more than a hundred print and digital publications, including The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Quartz and runs weekly in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is producing a series of short films about race relations in the heartland and a collection of essays about being a Muslim mom in the Midwest. She lives in St. Louis with her husband and two children. Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more  

Jim Colton is currently Editor at Large at ZUMA Press and Editor-in-Chief of zPhotoJournal.com. He began his career in 1972 as a color picture editor for the Associated Press. Five years later, he joined Newsweek as Senior Photo Editor for International News. In 1988, he became Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Sipa Press in New York, before returning to Newsweek in 1992 as the Director of Photography. for 15 years Jim was the Photography Editor at Sports Illustrated. Colton was on the Board of Directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop and is a mentor for J Camp, a national program that recruits talented high school students, sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association. He was presented with the “Golden Career Award” at FOTOfusion 2004 by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, was the Jury Chairman for the World Press Photo contest in 2005, received an International Photography Awards “Lucie” for Picture Editor of the Year in 2007, was named Magazine Picture Editor of the Year in 2008 by the National Press Photographers Association and has been acknowledged as one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo. He's website is jimcolton.com and forget to check out the pottery. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/matt-brown57/support

Michelle Li is a longtime reporter and anchor for NBC St. Louis. During a January broadcast sharing commonly eaten foods for the New Year's, she briefly shared some of her Korean American New Years traditions. Then a viewer left her station a voicemail. Then Michelle shared the voicemail. And the internet blew up. #veryasian ...Sharon and Raman react - and unpack - this a little more. LEARN MORE washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/01/03/asian-journalist-racist-voicemail/ twitter.com/MichelleLiTV SUPPORT #veryasian - veryasian.us (proceeds support the Asian American Journalists Association - aaja.org)

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 104 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Michael Yamashita on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! After graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in Asian studies, photographer Michael Yamashita spent seven years in Asia, which became his photographic area of specialty. Upon returning to the US, Yamashita began shooting for the National Geographic as well as other American and international magazines and clients. Combining his dual passions of photography and travel has culminated in a career spanning over 35 years, an Instagram following of more than 1.8 million, and most recently entered him into the world of NFTs. A frequent lecturer and teacher at universities and workshops around the world, Yamashita has received numerous industry awards, including those from the Pictures of the Year, Photo District News, the New York Art Directors Club, and the Asian-American Journalists Association. His work has been exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at the National Gallery in Washington, DC. Yamashita's most recent exhibitions, currently traveling the world, are focused on the theme of the Silk Road Journey following both the overland and maritime silk road routes. In addition to Yamashita's focus on Asia, his work has taken him to six continents. Yamashita's particular specialty is in retracing the paths of famous travelers and historical routes resulting in stories on Marco Polo, the Chinese explorer Zheng He, Chamagudao - the Tea Horse Road, the Great Wall of China, the Mekong River from source to mouth. Yamashita has published thirteen books, mostly inspired by his 30 National Geographic stories. His passion for the Tibetan world led him to shoot 4 stories for Natgeo: Our Man in China; Joseph Rock, The Forgotten Road, Tibetan Gold and Journey to Shangri-La photographed over a 6 year period, which resulted in the book, Shangri-La [along the tea road to Lhasa]. While not traveling, Michael Yamashita lives with his family in rural New Jersey, where he maintains a studio and is an active volunteer fireman. Please check out our Patreon at @asianhustlenetwork. We want AHN to continue to be meaningful and give back to the Asian community. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to contribute to our future, we hope you'll consider becoming a patron. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianhustlenetwork/support

Jayzen is excited to welcome Liberty Zabala to the show. As a seasoned reporter and television anchor, Liberty brings her amazing personal brand to every story. From interviewing Oprah to covering mass tragedies, Liberty has an incredible career story that has earned her four Emmy awards. Liberty is a graduate of the "FBI Citizens Academy" at the FBI San Diego Field Office during Spring 2019. Liberty is currently on the Dean's List at American Military University while pursuing her Master of Arts in Homeland Security with a concentration in Counterterrorism. Guest Bio Liberty Zabala Reporter & Weather Anchor, FOX 5 San Diego Liberty Zabala is a 4x Emmy-winning Reporter & Weather Anchor for FOX 5 San Diego. She was awarded the Vada and Colonel Barney Oldfield National Security Reporting Fellowship by the Radio Television Digital News Foundation for her work covering Marines, sailors, active duty service members and veterans in the nation's largest military town, San Diego. Some of her most memorable stories include leading breaking news coverage of the Central American immigration crisis, covering devastating firestorms that burned across San Diego County, covering the San Bernardino terrorist attacks and most recently, the Las Vegas mass shooting. Her coverage also earned two San Diego Press Club awards. In November 2016, Liberty was honored as one of 100 Comcast NBCUniversal employees selected from across the country to take part in (Morning Joe) Mika Brzezinski's "Know Your Value" program in association with MSNBC. Prior to that, she was one of four reporter trainees selected from across the country for the NBC Reporter Development Program. Under the program, she went through intensive multimedia training workshops alongside NBCUniversal's top media executives, talent and coaches at NBC 5 Dallas, NBC 10 Philadelphia, and NBC 4 New York under the direction of The Poynter Institute's Al Tompkins. She has conducted several high profile interviews including presidential candidates Rand Paul, Ron Paul & Newt Gingrich, Senator Kamala Harris, 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps General Robert B. Neller, world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, comic creator Stan Lee and media mogul Oprah. She is a graduate of California State University, Northridge with a degree in journalism and collateral in political science with an emphasis in international relations. She is a dedicated member of Asian American Journalists Association where she served as a board director for the Los Angeles chapter and currently serves the San Diego chapter as president. Liberty is a graduate of the "FBI Citizens Academy" at the FBI San Diego Field Office during Spring 2019. Liberty is currently on the Dean's List at American Military University while pursuing her Master of Arts in Homeland Security with a concentration in Counterterrorism. Links To learn more about Lead With Your Brand and the Career Breakthrough Mentoring program, please visit: LeadWithyYourBrand.com To book Jayzen for a speaking engagement or workshop at your company, visit: JayzenPatria.com

(1:18) Single's Day in China (11/11)(2:39) Siyuan shares her experience with the Chinese Storytellers community and her journey to become a journalist(6:33) Jin shares her own journalism journey and why diversity in journalism is important(14:16) Jin's experience with the Asian American Journalists Association and her personal experience embracing her identity as a Chinese immigrant and Asian American(23:00) Why are Chinese Gen Z obsessed with camping and the "lying flat" movement?(27:25) The creation of Chinese Storytellers as a community for Chinese journalists abroad and how its grown(36:28) Jin's experience understanding her gender through the lens of Chinese and American culture.(46:00) Jin's DC area restaurant recommendation! (Find out where it is on our food map below)NOTESChinese Storytellers SubstackAsian American Journalists AssociationBund to Brooklyn's Guest Food MapFollow us on IG: @bundtobrooklynFollow us on Twitter: @bundtobrooklynQuestions? Requests? E-mail us @ b2b@1990institute.orgLearn more about the 1990 Institute

In this eighth episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation with Hannah Bae, on being a generous community member, fighting the impulse to hoard resources, and the permission to take a break once in a while. And we talk about food a little bit, as well as many of the writers who inspire us. Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. She is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She is a 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. Her work has been published in books including “(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, 2018). She is focused on stories about Korean American culture and identity, and in 2019, several of her essays received nominations for The Pushcart Prize. She was a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at Asian American Writers' Workshop. Through 2018 and 2019, Hannah served as president of Asian American Journalists Association's New York chapter, for which she was named AAJA National's Chapter President of the Year in 2019. Find out more about Hannah Bae here: https://www.hannahbae.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Michelle Ye Hee Lee, President of the Asian American Journalist Association and the new Tokyo + Seoul Bureau Chief of the Washington Post joins Jerry to share her story of growing up in Guam, how she found her love of journalism, and what she's learned about our community covering the stories of the past year. Support Michelle and the work of AAJA at AAJA.orgMeet Michelle, in her own words:I'm a reporter on the foreign desk at The Washington Post, where I've worked since 2014. I'm the incoming Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan and the Koreas, beginning in August 2021. Previously, I was a reporter on The Post's national politics desk, covering diplomacy and the State Department, campaign finance, lobbying, election administration, voting rights, political influence operations and other topics. I was formerly a reporter on The Washington Post Fact Checker, with a focus on fact-checking the 2016 presidential campaign, the Obama and Trump White Houses and congressional leadership. Before joining The Post, I was a government accountability reporter at the Arizona Republic. In my free time, I volunteer as president of the Asian American Journalists Association, which I joined as an 18-year-old aspiring journalist. I've been on the national board of AAJA since 2013, as national secretary, senior vice president and now going on my second term as president. I was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to Guam when I was 7, and was raised there until I went to Emory University for college.Connect with MichelleInstagram @myhleeTwitter @myhleeAbout AAJAAAJA is a professional nonprofit that was founded in 1981 to create a network for AAPI journalists and to make sure AAPIs are accurately and fairly represented in media coverage. Today, we're an organization of 1,800+ across the U.S. and in Asia, dedicated to our mission to advance diversity in the news industry and ensure fair and accurate news coverage of communities of color. We not only make sure that media outlets tell our communities' stories, we also hold them accountable for offensive and incomplete coverage and provide resources so that they tell our stories thoughtfully, accurately and comprehensively. Through AAJA Studio, our speakers bureau of AAPI subject matter experts, we make sure that newsrooms have no excuse of excluding AAPIs as a source on any topic they cover. In everything we do, AAJA aspires to carve a larger space for AAPI journalists and our communities in this country. Connect with AAJAwww.AAJA.orgInstagram @aajaofficialTwitter @ajja// Support Dear Asian Americans:Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/dearasianamericans/Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jerrywonLearn more about DAA Creator and Host Jerry Won:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrywon/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerryjwon/// Listen to Dear Asian Americans on all major platforms:Transistor.fm: http://www.dearasianamericans.comApple: https://apple.dearasianamericans.comSpotify: https://spotify.dearasianamericans.comStitcher: https://stitcher.dearasianamericans.comGoogle: https://google.dearasianamericans.com  Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dearasianamericans Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dearasianamericans Subscribe to our YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/dearasianamericans // Join the Asian Podcast Network:Web: https://asianpodcastnetwork.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianpodcastnetwork/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianpodcastnetwork/Dear Asian Americans is produced by Just Like Media:Web: http://www.justlikemedia.comInstagram.com: http://www.instagram.com/justlikemedia

JJ Green and guest host, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post national security reporter, talk with Michelle Lee, President of the Asian American Journalists Association. They discuss the difficult year Asian American journalists have experienced both professionally and personally; and how the nation can move forward after a year of racial strife.

Diane Parker  For the past 20 years, Parker served as Director, Staffing, Global Diversity and Inclusion for the Associated Press (AP), where she created training, education, leadership development, onboarding, and orientation programs, and redesigned the AP's global news internship program with a key focus on diversity and inclusion. She established strategic alliances with professional industry organizations, such as the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Association of LGBTQ Journalists. She also partnered with the AP's News and Revenue divisions to create and enhance their diversity and inclusion initiatives. Before joining the AP, she served as a human resources manager for both Harrah's Entertainment and BJC Healthcare in the St. Louis area.

Korean American journalist CeFaan Kim joins us to share his story of growing up in Philadelphia, what drove him to choose a career in journalism, and what principles guide him in his work as he has worked tirelessly for 20+ years in sharing stories, giving a voice to the voiceless. Congratulations to CeFaan on joining the ABC News team as a correspondent!Meet CeFaanSince joining WABC-TV in 2015, CeFaan has covered a wide range of important stories. During the pandemic shutdown, he reported nightly from the streets of New York City, speaking with health care workers, gravediggers, farmers and others impacted by the health crisis. CeFaan also reported daily on the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the murder of George Floyd. He covered the 2020 presidential election recount in Pennsylvania, the Chelsea terrorist bombing and protests of President Trump’s travel ban at JFK airport. CeFaan has consistently reported on poverty within the AAPI community, including an exclusive report in 2016 on Asian-American seniors who were riding casino buses to help make ends meet and how the pandemic has impacted Chinatown in NYC.Throughout the pandemic CeFaan has been at the forefront covering the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes, interviewing and telling the stories of countless victims. His reporting helped spark a national conversation on anti-Asian hate and led to the NYPD reversing its posture on how it communicated its investigatory process on anti-Asian hate crimes. CeFaan has contributed to multiple primetime specials on the topic including, the ABC News Live special “Stop the Hate: The Rise in Violence Against Asian Americans,” the 20/20 special “Murder in Atlanta” and most recently, ABC Owned Television Stations’ news special, “Our America: Asian Voices” which rebroadcasts across the station group’s owned channels this weekend, and is set to air on National Geographic on May 20 and available on Hulu at the end of the month.Before joining WABC-TV, CeFaan was a reporter for News12 Westchester/Hudson Valley and NY1 News, where he extensively covered local politics and breaking news. CeFaan is also a veteran who served as a U.S. Army Reserve Sergeant. He is currently the co-chair of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Media Watch Committee.Connect with CeFaanTwitter: https://twitter.com/CeFaanKimInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cefaan/ABC 7 NY: https://abc7ny.com/about/newsteam/cefaan-kim/NYC Seniors Casino Story: https://abc7ny.com/news/exclusive-riding-long-hours-on-casino-buses-not-to-gamble-but-to-make-ends-meet/1632754/ABC PR: https://abcnewspr.tumblr.com/post/651166455209033728/abc-news-announces-cefaan-kim-as-a-correspondent// Support Dear Asian Americans:Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/dearasianamericans/Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jerrywonLearn more about DAA Creator and Host Jerry Won:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrywon/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerryjwon/// Listen to Dear Asian Americans on all major platforms:Transistor.fm: http://www.dearasianamericans.comApple: https://apple.dearasianamericans.comSpotify: https://spotify.dearasianamericans.comStitcher: https://stitcher.dearasianamericans.comGoogle: https://google.dearasianamericans.com  Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dearasianamericans Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dearasianamericans Subscribe to our YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/dearasianamericans // Join the Asian Podcast Network:Web: https://asianpodcastnetwork.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianpodcastnetwork/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianpodcastnetwork/Dear Asian Americans is produced by Just Like Media:Web: http://www.justlikemedia.comInstagram.com: http://www.instagram.com/justlikemedia

The advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate had already documented more than 3,000 anti-Asian incidents of racism before the Atlanta murders. Worse, the March 16 murders of eight spa workers - six of them Asian women - did not stem the tide of anti-Asian racist animus. Instead, the reported episodes of physical and verbal assaults spiked. Now, Asian Americans and allies are pushing for increased awareness and demanding legal protections. Is this recent spate of racist attacks against Asians, history repeating itself? And after years of xenophobia amplified by COVID 19, which way forward? Guests: Cecilia Lei – associate producer for Vox's “Today, Explained,” and board president of the Asian American Journalists Association's San Francisco chapter. Janelle Wong – professor of American Studies and core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. Rev. Young Ghil Lee – senior pastor at The Korean Church of Boston. Later in the Show: How do the Americans who live in small towns and cities see the places they live? Thousands of residents eagerly answered that question, posed by award-winning Atlantic magazine journalist James Fallows. Fallows and his wife Deborah traveled across the country for five years, visiting with local residents. What the Fallows documented in their travels resulted in a 2019 book, “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America.” Eight of the towns and cities they highlighted in their book are featured in a new HBO documentary, called “Our Towns,” which premieres on HBO and HBO Max, on Tuesday, April 13, at 9 p.m. Guests: Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan - Academy Award-nominated filmmakers, who directed, produced, shot and edited Our Towns. SHOW CREDITS: Under the Radar with Callie Crossley is a production of GBH, produced by Wes Martin and engineered by Dave Goodman. Angela Yang is our Intern. Our theme music is FISH AND CHIPS by #weare2saxys', Grace Kelly and Leo P.

Maria and Julio discuss the aftermath of the tragic violence in Georgia this week which left 8 people dead, the majority of whom were Asian women. They get into the need for mainstream media and authorities to call this casualty what it is: a hate crime. They also unpack the latest on immigration, including the dehumanizing language used by the Biden administration and mainstream media when referring to refugees. And lastly, they talk about the Senate hearing on the proposed Equality Act.ITT Staff Picks:In light of the violent targeted attack this week, the Broadcast Advisory Council of the Asian American Association of Journalists released a statement urging newsrooms to empower and recognize the work and expertise of their AAPI journalists. The Asian American Journalists Association also released guidance via Twitter and their website for newsrooms reporting on this topic. "The beliefs have been shaped by legal code, America's history of imperialism and the prevailing culture," historian Ellen Wu told Kimmy Yam in this article for NBC News, "one factor that helps explain the toxic environment for Asian women is the type of labor they were relegated to in the U.S. beginning in the 19th century, she said."Kate Sosin, LGBTQ+ reporter at The 19th, reported on a new poll which found that "70 percent of the country supports the Equality Act, the watershed nondiscrimination protections bill for LGBTQ+ people that is heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee." Photo credit: AP Photo/Candice Choi See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the nation reels from the Atlanta mass shooting, Vox’s Cecilia Lei, an Asian American Journalists Association president, speaks with Heather Knight about how the rise in anti-Asian attacks has affected her and her family, and about how journalists and news organizations can better cover this type of violence.  | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jin Ding is the vice president of finance at the Asian American Journalists Association and the cofounder of Chinese Storytellers. She also oversees grants, awards, and emergency response programs at the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). In this episode of the NüVoices podcast, Jin and Cindy talk about the importance and efficacy of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, how journalists can and should be supported in addition to funding, digital safety measures we should all adopt, and how sports and (identity) politics are intertwined.Digital safety to-do list:How to dox yourself on the internetDoxxing training overview Data broker opt-out listRecommendations:Jin: Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.Cindy: The Investigation on HBO; The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee; and Stray, a documentary by Elizabeth Lo.

The Twin Cities JACL commemorates the 79th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 with a "Day of Remembrance" program that includes a screening of "Conscience and the Constitution." This is the audio of the video presentation on February 21, 2021 (viewable here: https://youtu.be/M6q6tM6gfgg). Due to copyright limitations, it includes the introduction of the panelists and the post-film discussion but does not include the film itself. You may order your own copy of the film from: https://resisters.com/conscience-and-the-constituion/orders/. It can also be viewed on Amazon with a Prime subscription. "Conscience and the Constitution" is an hour-long, award-winning PBS documentary that tells the story of the draft resistance movement at Heart Mountain during World War II. A conversation following the film focuses on the contemporary significance of this story. Participants include Frank Abe, the film's writer, producer, and director, Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Japanese American and Muslim students from the University of Minnesota. Our speakers: Frank Abe (he/him) is a journalist, reporter, writer, producer, director, actor, and a founding member of the Asian American Theater Workshop in San Francisco and of the Asian American Journalists Association in Seattle. His involvement with producing the two original "Day of Remembrance" events in Seattle and Portland gave media attention to the campaign for redress. He received the 2019 American Book Award for "John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy," and has written a new graphic novel, "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration," coming in March. Jaylani Hussein (he/him) is the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His family emigrated from Somalia to Minnesota in 1993. Hussein holds degrees in community development and city planning from St. Cloud State University and political science from North Dakota State University. He has collaborated with the Twin Cities JACL on various programs to discuss the relevance of the Japanese American incarceration in the present day and to foster understanding within the broader community. Haruka Yukioka (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary, shin-nisei Japanese American. They are a student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities studying Music Education, Asian American Studies, and Racial Justice in Urban Schooling. Haruka also serves as the 2020-2021 External Vice-President of the Asian American Student Union. Haruka is passionate about racial and queer/trans justice, and is constantly looking to learn more about Asian American activism and cross-racial solidarity. Ismahan Ali (she/her) is a Muslim, Somali American First-Generation student at the University of Minnesota-TC. She's receiving her B.S in Developmental Psychology and minor in Communications. She's also serving as the Events Coordinator for the Al-Madinah Cultural Center at the U for the 2020-21 Academic Year. Some areas of passion for her are pursuing Muslim, Immigrant, and Racial Justice as well as ensuring Children's Welfare. This program is funded by the Karen and Les Suzukamo Fund, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Season 6, Episode 11 - On Reimagining Purposeful Policing In The US, Barbara ChenBarbara Chen is an independent consultant and writer who has held major communications roles at the NYPD, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Columbia University. She currently co-directs “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” an empathy-through-improvisation training that convenes communities and police in a multi-week workshop and public performance created by the Brooklyn-based Irondale Ensemble Project. Formerly an ABC News producer and New York chapter vice president of the national Asian American Journalists Association, Barbara graduated cum laude from California State University Fullerton, where she was commencement speaker for the College of Communications in 1999, and inducted into its Alumni Wall of Fame in 2017. She is an alumna of Columbia Business School's Police Management Institute, and of the Minority Writers Seminar hosted by the Freedom Forum Institute at Vanderbilt University. Barbara provided pro bono marketing communications and brand strategy to nonprofits in New York City for 10 years through the Taproot Foundation.Connect + learn more about Barbara: LinkedIn.Today's episode is SPONSORED by Mateo Records. Be sure to purchase Joshua Mateo's new single, "Let's Dance Together" on iTunes HERE and album "In Session" wherever you buy music.Individual Sponsors:Adriane Birt, MDJames J. RollinsWant to support the show through a monetary donation? Feel free to donate via PayPal.ALSO, we are stoked to welcome sponsorship at the Corporate, Community Partner or Individual levels. Please use the email below to connect us to any potential opportunities. Thank you. More Please, in advance.Thank you for listening! Share your thoughts and follow Klay on your favorite social media: @PlanAwithKlay and use the hashtag #PlanA101. Want more Plan A? Subscribe to Klay's website: KlaySWilliams.com. Support the show (https://paypal.me/PlanAEnterprises?locale.x=en_US)

Season 6, Episode 9 - On Reimagining Purposeful Policing In The US, Barbara ChenBarbara Chen is an independent consultant and writer who has held major communications roles at the NYPD, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Columbia University. She currently co-directs “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” an empathy-through-improvisation training that convenes communities and police in a multi-week workshop and public performance created by the Brooklyn-based Irondale Ensemble Project. Formerly an ABC News producer and New York chapter vice president of the national Asian American Journalists Association, Barbara graduated cum laude from California State University Fullerton, where she was commencement speaker for the College of Communications in 1999, and inducted into its Alumni Wall of Fame in 2017. She is an alumna of Columbia Business School's Police Management Institute, and of the Minority Writers Seminar hosted by the Freedom Forum Institute at Vanderbilt University. Barbara provided pro bono marketing communications and brand strategy to nonprofits in New York City for 10 years through the Taproot Foundation.Connect + learn more about Barbara: LinkedIn.Today's episode is SPONSORED by Mateo Records. Be sure to purchase Joshua Mateo's new single, "Let's Dance Together" on iTunes HERE and album "In Session" wherever you buy music.Individual Sponsors:Adriane Birt, MDJames J. RollinsWant to support the show through a monetary donation? Feel free to donate via PayPal.ALSO, we are stoked to welcome sponsorship at the Corporate, Community Partner or Individual levels. Please use the email below to connect us to any potential opportunities. Thank you. More Please, in advance.Thank you for listening! Share your thoughts and follow Klay on your favorite social media: @PlanAwithKlay and use the hashtag #PlanA101. Want more Plan A? Subscribe to Klay's website: KlaySWilliams.com. Support the show (https://paypal.me/PlanAEnterprises?locale.x=en_US)

It’s been about a month since the Chinese Communist Party forced a national security law on Hong Kong. This new law made it illegal for anyone anywhere in the world to promote democratic reform in the region. Recent arrests of top media and political figures have made it clear that Hong Kong's relatively free political system is over. Plus, the risk of space attacks against U.S. satellites is growing. And, some hopeful pandemic parenting advice from Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Guests: Axios' Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, and Miriam Kramer and special thanks to Dr. Sanjay Gupta and the Asian American Journalists Association. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Carol Alderman, Cara Shillenn, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Naomi Shavin and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: China's iron curtain descends on Hong Kong The U.S. is at risk of attacks in space Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

June 15, 2020 - Over the months journalists have worked tirelessly to provide reliable and up to date information on COVID-19. Timothy Martin, Korea bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, is among these journalists. His reporting has shed light on the outbreak in South Korea, giving U.S. readers an in-depth account of the situation in the country and the actions taken to stem the spread of the virus. In this webcast, Timothy speaks with AAJA - NY chapter president, Frank Bi, on his experience covering the coronavirus pandemic in South Korea. He also gives us a look into his career in journalism, and shares his advice for journalists entering the field. The Korea Society is excited to present this Young Professionals’ Night webcast in partnership with the Asian American Journalists Association’s New York chapter. AAJA's New York chapter is the largest chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association with more than 770 members in New York and the surrounding region. Its mission is to advance the representation of Asian American and Pacific Islanders in newsrooms as well as in the fair and accurate coverage of AAPI issues. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/special-events/item/1409-young-professionals-night-with-timothy-martin

Melissa Lewis is a data reporter for Reveal, a Python teacher, the  organizer of PyLadies Portland and the Portland chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.  Melissa is here to share her work as a data journalist who uses Python on the job. By the end you'll understand: What is data journalism? Why are Python and SQL great languages for data journalism? What skills does a data journalist need? Who is doing some of the best data journalism these days? Episode Show Notes and Full Transcript  The Learn to Code Podcast is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and YouTube. Follow One Month on Facebook and Twitter.   

Today's podcast is with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, journalist and author of “Sarong Party Girls” (William Morrow, 2016) as well as “A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food & Family“ (Hyperion, 2011). She is the editor of the fiction anthology “Singapore Noir“ (Akashic Books, 2014). She was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine and the Baltimore Sun. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Bloomberg Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, The (Portland) Oregonian, The (Topeka) Capital-Journal and The (Singapore) Straits Times among other places. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, where she wrote “A Tiger in the Kitchen,” Hawthornden Castle, Le Moulin à Nef, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Ledig House and the Studios of Key West. In 2012, she was the recipient of a major arts creation grant from the National Arts Council of Singapore in support of her novel. Born and raised in Singapore, she crossed the ocean at age 18 to go to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Unsure of whether she would remain in the U.S. after college, she interned in places as disparate as possible. She hung out with Harley Davidson enthusiasts in Topeka, Kan., interviewed gypsies about their burial rituals in Portland, Ore., covered July 4 in Washington, D.C., and chronicled the life and times of the Boomerang Pleasure Club, a group of Italian-American men that were getting together to cook, play cards and gab about women for decades in their storefront “clubhouse” in Chicago. An active member of the Asian American Journalists Association, she served on its national board for seven years, ending in 2010. She started her full-time journalism career helping out on the cops beat in Baltimore — training that would prove to be essential in her future fashion reporting. Both, it turns out, are like war zones. The difference is, people dress differently.

Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. Her work has been published in books including “(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation on Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, 2018). She is focused on stories about Korean American culture and identity, and in 2019, several of her essays received nominations for The Pushcart Prize. She was a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Through 2018 and 2019, Hannah served as president of Asian American Journalists Association’s New York chapter, for which she was named AAJA National’s Chapter President of the Year in 2019. Hannah has worked full-time for organizations such as CNN Business, Newsday and the U.S. State Department. She started her journalism career in Seoul on a Princeton-in-Asia fellowship that led to full-time editor positions at some of South Korea’s largest news organizations and freelance work with CNN, Monocle, Eater, The Associated Press and other clients. She serves as a reader for the literary journal Pigeon Pages, as a co-director of AAJA’s national mentoring program and as a volunteer with Womankind, a nonprofit that serves survivors of gender-based violence. Hannah is also an illustrator whose work can be found on Goldthread, Tricycle.org, SupChina and EatDrinkDraw.com, the website she runs with her husband, Adam Oelsner. She and Adam live in Brooklyn with their dog, Ramona.

Today's podcast is with Professor Ying Chan, an award-winning journalist, educator, e-learning advocate, and media strategist. She is a board member of the Media Development Investment Fund, and a member of the World Economic Forum Future Council on Information and Entertainment. She served on the Global Board of Open Society Foundations from 2013-17. A Hong Kong native, Chan spent 23 years in New York City, covering immigration, campaign finance and US China-relations for both Chinese and English language media, including the New York Daily News and NBC News. Since returning to HK in 1998, she has created two journalism schools as the founding director (1999-2016) and professor of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong, and the founding dean (2003-2012) of the journalism school at Shantou University in China. Both programs are early adopters of convergent media, data, and enterpreneurial journalism, while being grounded in the best international professional standards. She is a founding member of the the International Consortium for Investigation Journalists. Her honors include a Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism, a CPJ International Press Freedom Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Asian American Journalists Association, and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. She currently mentors media startups in relation to China and cross-border projects, while conducting research on media in China and transitional societies.

When the red light goes on and I'm on the air, I don't think about the thousands of people who are watching me. I just try to connect with one person. -Joy Lim Nakrin Words of wisdom from NBC 10 & NECN Boston news anchor Joy Lim Nakrin. She has spent much of her professional life in front of the camera, not just here in the United States, but on ESPN and MTV Asia and as the host of a reality show in Malaysia. Joy moved through television markets, most recently from Fox 25 in Hartford, Connecticut to Boston, and along the way, has been grateful for every opportunity she has had to learn her craft. The child of immigrants, Joy grew up in rural North Carolina and is of Chinese, Filipino and Jewish decent. When her relatives had a hard time understanding English, it was Joy who stepped in as their interpreter. Education was held in high regard in Joy's home and she recalls getting punished if she didn't get straight A's in school. She began her college experience as a pre-med major, only to shift to philosophy when she realized she just couldn't stand the sight of blood! Faced with what her next step in life would be, Joy applied to Duke University Law School and became one of college's youngest graduates. That law degree has served Joy well, giving her an extra dose of confidence and legal knowledge when it comes to pointed questions. A passionate advocate for the Boston area's Chinese and Filipino population, Joy volunteers her time on behalf of the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, is a spokesperson for the MSPCA's Clear The Shelters Campaign and serves on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association of New England.     @BWME   #storybehindhersuccess    #16LifeLessons    #mydoveproductions

Yvonne Leow, president of the Asian American Journalists Association and co-founder of By The Bay, joins us to share her experience in journalism, why she founded By The Bay, and some expert advice on how...

These Violent Delights with Victoria NamkungFor nearly 20 years, Victoria Namkung has been a Los Angeles-based author, journalist, essayist, and cultural commentator. Her writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, VICE, Washington Post, USA Today, InStyle, and Los Angeles magazine, among other publications. As a speaker and panelist, she's appeared at the AAAS Conference, Mixed Remixed, and the Asian American Journalists Association. http://victorianamkung.comHelloflo ,The Guild, Period with Naama BloomNaama Bloom is the founder of HelloFlo.com a modern day health site for girls and women. Her mission for HelloFlo was to create a place where women and girls could learn about their bodies in an open and honest environment without any shame and with a healthy dose of humor. HelloFlo's first two videos, “The Camp Gyno” and “First Moon Party,” have been viewed over 50 million times and show girls that while puberty can be a fun and awkward time, it can also be empowering. http://naamabloom.com

  See Emil's latest at http://www.aaldef.org/blog This podcast on Emil's DACA take, plus clips from the news call of UC President Janet Napolitano on the lawsuit seeking to protect DACA recipients.  Also Tom Wong of UCSD talks about his survey of DACA recipients And Luis Quiroz, one DACA recipient hints at how Trump's action has bred a new distrust. A betrayal of Trump?  Emil thinks it may be Trump's ruse to slap down another Obama legacy an rebrand DACA as the Trump Action for Childhood Arrivals.  From DACA to TACA? A prediction. Listen to the podcast for what you need to know about DACA and the upcoming Oct. 5 deadline for eligible renewals. Even with the UC lawsuit, the deadlines aren't apt to change for now.  For DACA help go to http://www.aaldef.org for information Read Emil's latest at http://www.aaldef.org/blog   Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was an Ivy Orator and class humorist.

Come by  the I-Hotel/Manilatown Center, 868 Kearney St. SF,CA Friday, Aug. 4 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the eviction. Emil will moderate a panel and Curtis Choy will screen his film. 6pm - 9pm. PDT   See more at http://www.aaldef.org/blog See more about Curtis Choy, director of "The Fall of the I-Hotel." http://www.chonkmoonhunter.com/Asian-American-History.html   Emil Bio:   Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was an Ivy Orator and class humorist. Find out what he's up to at www.amok.com.  

See more info at http://www.aaldef.org/blog Eddie Huang at the Asian American Journalists Association convention.  Speaks candidly on race and identity. See previous story on Huang: http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-is-fresh-off-the-boat-historical-or-the-taming-of-eddie-huang.html Emil bio: Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was an Ivy Orator and class humorist. Find out what he's up to at www.amok.com.

See more about my conversation with B.D. Wong at http://www.aaldef.org/blog           Emil's bio: Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was Ivy Orator and class humorist. Find out what he's up to at www.amok.com.  

Show log  Emil Amok’s Takeout Ep. 15 :00  Emil’s opening rap 1:46 San Diego Fringe Festival and SF Marsh shows 2:30 Coming up intros of top stories 5:05 What made me go amok this week 6:25 Martial Law in the Philippines? Oh, just “Partial Martial”? 18:12 Intro Celestino Almeda, the 100-year old  Filipino WW2 Vet still Fighting for his equity pay 24:12 Interview with Almeda 42:28 Intro and interview with Association of Asian American Studies President-elect Theo Gonzalves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 1:30:00 MY NBA FINALS PICK ---- Emil Guillermo: Emil Amok's Takeout Podcast - No rest on Memorial Day for a WWII Filipino Vet; and a conversation with AAAS President-elect Theo Gonzalves on APAHM May 26, 2017 7:36 PM Memorial Day always winds up the annual observation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. And what better way to remember the one story (along with the Japanese American Internment) that lingers as the moral compass of the community. For that reason, this Memorial Day will be a special one for Filipino WWII Veteran Celestino Almeda. Despite many vets seeing an equity pay windfall in 2009, a handful like Almeda are still in appeals. His fight for justice with the U.S. government has been the bureaucratic version of the Bataan Death March. hat's no disrespect to the survivors of that historic event 75 years ago. Almeda certainly will remember deceased friends like retired U.S. Air Force Major Jesse Baltazar, a former POW who survived the Bataan Death March in 1942, and died just last year at age 96.   Baltazar often accompanied Almeda, fighting side by side in the latter's bureaucratic battle with the VA over equity pay. Almeda was a young soldier in the Philippine Army reserve, when he answered the call of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to protect the Philippines with the U.S. Armed Forces of the Far East. The added lure was full benefits as a soldier, including U.S. citizenship. As you'll hear in my interview with him on Emil Amok's Takeout, Almeda, the reservist, was made active for a year.  He was then made inactive when Gen. MacArthur retreated to Australia as the Japanese took over Manila. Almeda has official Philippine Army documents signed by U.S. officers to document all that. What he doesn't have is the record that he served in the guerrilla forces, which Almeda says were only verbal orders. Once the war was over, he was made active again and served side-by-side Americans. There would be no problem until President Truman signed the Rescission Act of 1946. which stripped the Filipino veterans of any right to the benefits that had been promised for their service. Ever since then--for more than 70 years--Filipinos like Almeda have been fighting piecemeal for a restoral of all the benefits due them.    Almeda's service has been good enough to help get him U.S. citizenship in 1990. He's even been given a VA card for medical benefits.  But it wasn't until President Obama in 2009 finally came through with a lump sum payment of $15,000 to Filipino veterans living in the U.S., and $9,000 for those still in the Philippines, that Almeda found himself in the bureaucratic battle of his life. The VA has approved more than nearly 19,000 cases, according to its website. The payout has been more than $220 million. But it's also rejected close to 24,000 cases.  There's about $56 million left in the pot. But that doesn't mean the VA is willingly giving it out, at least not to Almeda. The VA wouldn't honor his Philippine Army documents, though he has kept the originals in pristine condition. He's still currently in appeal, but in the meantime, he's taken to public protests like one last year when Robert McDonald, the VA Secretary under Obama appeared in public. In the Q&A part of the program, Almeda tried to appeal to McDonald but had his mic turned off. MacDonald's reaction got a stern rebuke from retired General Antonio Taguba, the general who led the investigation into Abu Ghraib.  Taguba additionally pointed out that updates to the law--PL 111-5, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation)--directed the Secretary of VA to consider all forms of evidence of service and not just those originally considered.  "This amendment has not been fully executed by the VA," Taguba complained to Mc Donald. Now a year later, McDonald's out, a new VA head is in, and Almeda is still fighting for justice, seemingly locked in the Bataan Death March of appeals, hoping to get approved for his lump sum before he turns 100. It's Memorial Day, but his taste for justice has not died. Listen to him tell his story on Emil Amok's Takeout. Days before his 100th birthday, Almeda's still got a lot of fight left.   AAAS President-elect Theo Gonzalves on the relevance of Asian American Studies today On my recent trip to Washington, DC, I was able to talk to an old friend, Theo Gonzalves of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the president-elect of the Association for Asian American Studies. What are they doing? How has Asian American Studies stayed relevant? How valuable is the AAS degree? Use the fast forward and listen to Gonzalves, where he thinks Asian American Studies is going, and the importance of APAHM.   And if you want to read my Emil Amok column on Martial Law https://usa.inquirer.net/4026/martial-law-not-needed-can-stop-dutertes-destiny   Contact Emil at http://www.aaldef.org/blog, the site of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.  If you like what you see, consider clicking the "DONATE" button.  AALDEF is a 501 C3 and your contribution is tax-deductible.  Give us your feedback there, or at www.amok.com Leave a voice message on Speakpipe.  We might use it in a future show. Consider subscribing for free on iTunes, where you can rate and review. You'll also find us on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.      BIO Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His columns are seen in Asia and around the world, on Inquirer.net.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was named Ivy Orator as the class humorist. Thanks for listening to Emil Amok's Takeout! http://www.twitter.com/emilamok http://www.aaldef.org/blog

Links to columns touched on by Emil in Podcast No.14: http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-last-fable-day-asian-americans-emmy-snub-fresh-off-the-boat-easter-xua.html   http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-is-fresh-off-the-boat-historical-or-the-taming-of-eddie-huang.html http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-wong-kim-ark-gop-anchor-baby-suzanne-ahn-award.html   http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-asian-americans-no-1-by-2065-immigration-pew-report.html *     *     *     Emil Guillermo PODCAST: Randall Park at the APAICS gala for AAPI Heritage Month talks about Asian American representation in the media May 22, 2017 10:19 AM On Emil Amok's Takeout, I corner Randall Park at the gala dinner of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS). a/k/a Asian Prom. Listen to my short conversation with the "Fresh Off the Boat" star, as well as an excerpt from his speech accepting the 2017 APAICS Vision Award. Oddly, I forgot to ask him if politics was in the cards for him. Writing and producing was. But politics? He does play a governor in HBO's "Veep."  As I flew into D.C., I noticed at the airport magazine racks the conservative National Review trying to make the case for a presidential bid by "The Rock"--a Republican. President Rock? Dwayne Johnson hosted the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" this past weekend, and was joined by Tom Hanks. Hanks said if they ran as a ticket, he'd "get them the senior vote because he fought in WWII--in ten different movies. The Rock added that he'd get the minority vote, "because everyone just assumes, I'm, well, whatever they are."   It got a big laugh.    It sounds like a joke, but given the rise of a reality show star to the presidency and the immense popularity of Johnson and Hanks, you never know. And with that, the SNL banners unfurled to reveal the slogan "Johnson Hanks 2020." Considering that The Rock and Hanks seem like stable personalities with decent vocabularies, anything would be an improvement over the present White House occupant.                       Emil Guillermo is an independent journalist/commentator.   Updates at www.amok.com. Follow Emil on Twitter, and like his Facebook page. The views expressed in his blog do not necessarily represent AALDEF's views or policies. Contact Emil at http://www.aaldef.org/blog, the site of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. If you like what you see, consider clicking the "DONATE" button.  AALDEF is a 501 C3 and your contribution is tax-deductible. Give us your feedback there, or at www.amok.com Leave a voice message. We might use it in a future show. Consider subscribing for free on iTunes, where you can rate and review. You'll also find us on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.     BIO Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His columns are seen in Asia and around the world, on Inquirer.net.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was named Ivy Orator, the class humorist. Thanks for listening to Emil Amok's Takeout! http://www.twitter.com/emilamok http://www.aaldef.org/blog    

Ep. 13  Emil Guillermo: "Mommy, I need you," a Mother's Day podcast memory; plus Trump grows more Nixony by the day May 12, 2017 3:04 PM   From the AALDEF blog:  http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-mommy-i-need-you-mothers-day-podcast-trump-nixon.html I wrote an essay about my mother that was in my collection of Emil Amok columns in my book Amok back in 2000.   I read it here, along with a preamble on the podcast, because I've too often given short shrift to my mom's story, in favor of my dad's.   But my mother's story was pretty incredible too. She survived the Japanese occupation of Manila during WWII and found her way to the U.S. with the help of an angel, a Spanish aristocrat who was unrelated, and whom I remember as having so much makeup on her face that she she looked like a ghost. I only knew her as Lola Angelita, world traveler. My mom is in this picture, on the left. Another one of her comadres, my Lola Rosie, is holding me. I'm just horribly disoriented looking for the right nipple. And probably crying.   All that and more on the podcast for Mothers Day in May, which is also AAPI Heritage Month.   Here's a shoutout to The New Yorker for its funny, satirical cover, the positive yellowfacing of Dr. David Dao, who is replaced by the ousted FBI chief James Comey. It's funny, not racist, as some have suggested. It's a recognition of how we felt about Dao, and how we should all feel about what's happened to Comey. In Trump-speak, the Comey thing is as important as the Russia thing, and so much more important than any email thing.    In the firing, Trump as Nixon was pretty obvious from Day 1. But Trump doesn't leave well enough alone. He's compounded it with subsequent steps that only create a growing credibility gap between his White House and the American public.   Where is the Truth about the firing of Comey? We have several versions, at this point. One too many for a real democracy.   And if Trump isn't getting really Nixony, why did he tweet about the possibility that conversations with Comey were taped?   Follow Donald J. Trump   ✔@realDonaldTrump James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! 5:26 AM - 12 May 2017         So our democracy under Trump is getting shakier and shakier, especially when Trump feels his people must be loyal to him and not the American people.            King Donald?            It leaves us with motherhood to hang on to for now, while we can.   Show Log: 00:    Opening :20     About our show 1:15   My theater performance 1:56   This episode 3:17   New Yorker spoof: Comey as David Dao 4:29    More on Trump 10:26  Preamble on my Mom, followed by the "Mom's Sundae" commentary from my Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective *     *     * Emil Guillermo is an independent journalist/commentator. Updates at www.amok.com. Follow Emil on Twitter, and like his Facebook page. The views expressed in his blog do not necessarily represent AALDEF's views or policies.     Contact Emil at http://www.aaldef.org/blog, the site of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. If you like what you see, consider clicking the "DONATE" button.  AALDEF is a 501 C3 and your contribution is tax-deductible. Give us your feedback there, or at www.amok.com Leave a voice message. We might use it in a future show. Consider subscribing for free on iTunes, where you can rate and review. You'll also find us on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.     BIO Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His columns are seen in Asia and around the world, on Inquirer.net.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was named Ivy Orator, the class humorist. Thanks for listening to Emil Amok's Takeout! http://www.twitter.com/emilamok http://www.aaldef.org/blog  

SHOW LOG: :00 Opening rap 3:25 Health care vote 8:15 Duterte and Trump 11:42 Corky Lee intro 18:20 Corky Lee interview   From the blog at http://www.aaldef.orgblog By Emil Amok My late mother, the wise Filipina, would always say, "Your health is your wealth." And when her health failed, she was thankful for her health care through Medicare. And now after today, we're a step closer to the danger zone. I talk about #TrumpNoCare on the podcast. But we won't let the threat to health care mar Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And if you're wondering, yes, Donald Trump did tweet about it. His proclamation mentioned Dr. Sammy Lee, the great Olympic diver and the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal in the 1948 Olympics. He also mentioned Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, who embodied the spirit of this month. In 1932, she was the first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot license at a time when only one percent of all pilots in the U.S. were women. Trump, of course, likes any One-percenter of any kind. Trump's proclamation was fairly boilerplate, as you'd expect from a man who thinks diversity is identity politics and not a hallmark of a nation that believes in equality. Trump even cites Public Law 102-450, which makes May each year "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month." He's not going to try to repeal it like, say, Obamacare. (Listen to the podcast for my take on that.) "I encourage all Americans to learn more about our Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage, and to observe this month with appropriate programs and activities," Trump proclaimed Let's see if he takes his own advice, and learns how many Asian Americans will be threatened by his #TrumpNoCare. Or we can just go back in history with that legendary picture of the railroads and the Golden Spike uniting America by rail. You've seen it, right? Photographer Corky Lee saw it when he was a kid growing up in New York. It was the first mention of any Chinese people that he saw in his history books. The text said Chinese people helped build the railroad. But Corky didn't see any Chinese in the picture. On the AALDEF podcast, Emil Amok's Takeout, Corky said he bought the best magnifying glass he could find at Woolworth's. And he still couldn't see any Chinese. "We were excluded again," he told me. May is quite a month. May 6 is the 135th Anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882.    Important, no doubt. But May 10 is the 148th anniversary of the photographic exclusion that has been bothering Corky since he first saw that picture of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, Utah. On May 10, Corky will stage a flash mob photo, hoping for people coming in period dress to do what people have done for years. Only Corky wants to make a picture with actual Chinese people--like the people who built the railroads.   He's been doing it as a matter of tradition for the last few years, his build-up to a grand 150th anniversary shot.  But every year, there's something special besides "the picture." One year, it was the Buddhist ceremony at the Chinese Arch, believed to be the first one ever.  Go ahead, make a pilgrimage to Utah for AAPI Heritage Month. I doubt if The Donald will be there.  Find out more by going to Corky Lee's Facebook page. Listen to the podcast on how Corky developed his sense of "photographic justice," and how the activist's heart merged with the photographer's eye to produce some of the most memorable photographs of modern Asian American life ever taken.  Corky talks about his first camera and his father's style of teaching. And several times throughout, he talks about the picture that has been his driving force to include Asian Americans in everything he sees through the lens.    Contact Emil at http://www.aaldef.org/blog, the site of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.  If you like what you see, consider clicking the "DONATE" button.  AALDEF is a 501 C3 and your contribution is tax-deductible.  Give us your feedback there, or at www.amok.com Leave a voice message. We might use it in a future show. Consider subscribing for free on iTunes, where you can rate and review. You'll also find us on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.      BIO Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His columns are seen in Asia and around the world, on Inquirer.net.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was named Ivy Orator, the class humorist. Thanks for listening to Emil Amok's Takeout! http://www.twitter.com/emilamok http://www.aaldef.org/blog  

  Emil Guillermo: Dragged United passenger Dr. David Dao is no Rosa Parks, but he could be a poster boy for all consumers April 13, 2017 4:45 PM When the U.S. drops the "mother of all bombs" on Afghanistan as a worldwide message, it's time for a little sobering perspective. Maybe we could take a little more time to treat all people with a little more respect, fairness and dignity in our everyday lives. Person to person. And certainly, corporation to consumer.  Which brings us to the viral bombshell of a story that won't die.  If United, or anyone else, thought the dragging of Dr. David Dao was a short-term headline that would go away with a simple apology, they were sorely mistaken. Dao's tale is bigger than anyone thought. It's soon to become the last stand for the modern global consumer.  Dao, the 69-year-old man dragged off a United flight so that the airline could seat its own employees, has hired Thomas Demetrio, a top-notch personal injury lawyer based in Chicago. At a press conference Thursday, Demetrio made it clear how he saw things. Demetrio didn't think the case was about race, even though Dao in one of the now numerous cell phone videos could be heard asking if United was asking him to leave the plane because he was Chinese. (At the press conference, Dao's daughter, Crystal, clarified that Dao immigrated from Vietnam.)   To further his point, Demetrio shared with the media an e-mail he'd received from someone suggesting that Dao was the "modern day Asian Rosa Parks." "I don't think that's the case at all," Demetrio said. "What happened to Dr. Dao could have happened to any one of us." Demetrio said Dr. Dao "has come to understand that he's the guy to stand up for passengers going forward." In other words, he's the universal little guy.  But race did come into play in one significant way when Dao told Demetrio how he felt about the dragging. On one of the phone videos released, Dr. Dao was seen crying out, "just kill me, just kill me." A reporter asked what Dao meant by that?   "I asked him that question; here's what he told me," said Demetrio. "He said that he left Vietnam in 1975 when Saigon fell. And he was on a boat. And he said he was terrified. He said that being dragged down the aisle was more horrifying and harrowing than what he experienced in leaving Vietnam." If there's a lawsuit coming, and indeed there is, I don't think United stands a chance. As a writer on race issues in America, I've often wondered what one factor in our society could become our common ground and end the pain of discrimination. Twenty years ago, I thought age would allow us to see beyond race. The ageists of the world have proved me wrong. In Dao, a 69-year old loving father with multiple grandchildren, I think we have the answer.  He's the battered consumer in this angry, short-tempered society, standing up to the corporation.  Race? Not primary. It may have helped the Chicago Airport cops to see him as an "other" so they could drag him away with zeal. But basically, race is irrelevant.   Dao was a seated ticket holder, a profit center to the corporation. And when it didn't need him anymore, it violently bullied Dao and treated him like crap.  We can all relate to that. It's what I thought on Monday when I first heard the story.   Now Dao is poised to become the one who fights for what all consumers deserve.  Demetrio said there were three things every consumer should demand:  fairness, respect, and dignity. "That's it," Demetrio said. "I hope [Dao] becomes the poster child for all of us."  It's not the position that most Asian Americans willingly seek out. Most hold on to the stereotype--unless you are chosen, and it's beaten out of you. And then there's no other option but to speak up. You take a stand, and become what I've long called since my Asian Week days: a "Public Asian." Dr. Dao wasn't at the press conference.  Demetrio said he was at a secure location and appreciated if the media would leave him alone. Ultimately, Dao will return to Louisville, but probably by car. Said Demetrio: "He has no interest in ever seeing an airplane."  Hear bits of the media conference in Ep.9 of the ALDEF podcast, Emil Amok's Takeout. I also interview an Asian American from Kentucky, Mimi Hwang. She talks about the local reaction to Dao, who lives in the Louisville area, and gives her own perspective as a business owner and as someone who has experienced what it feels like to be bullied due to her Asian background. It happened to her family in 2015. She also says that while the Dao story is empowering, the micro-community of Asians has little voice and no support from social justice organizations. I even mention if the community has heard from Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation, who happens to be the wife of Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell. No, Hwang said. But she'd welcome Chao's support in the community.   Show notes Opening 1:54 The Shriek 5:08 “I am not going…” 5:34 Thomas Demetrio, Dao’s lawyer 5:53 Rosa Parks? 6:13 Opening of Press conference 11:58 Dao’s the guy 12:25 On United CEO’s Apology 14:20 Crystal Pepper, Dao’s daughter 15:46 On seeing Dad dragged on video 16:00 Dao’s injuries 17:41 “Just kill me.” 19:06 The first 20 minutes of the whole conference (including a repeat of the first 6 minutes). 39:00  End of conference 41:48 Mimi Hwang at her martial arts studio, talk about the Louisville community where Dr. Dao is from and about her own experiences with racism. 1:06:51 Emil’s conclusion. Contact Emil at http://www.aaldef.org/blog, the site of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.   If you like what you see, consider clicking the "DONATE" button.  AALDEF is a 501 C3 and your contribution is tax-deductible.   Give us your feedback there, or at www.amok.com Leave a voice message. We might use it in a future show.   Consider subscribing for free on iTunes, where you can rate and review. You'll also find us on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.      BIO Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S. His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.  His columns are seen in Asia and around the world, on Inquirer.net.  His early columns are compiled in a book "Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective," which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. Guillermo's journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted "All Things Considered" from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.  As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.  After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK. Guillermo's columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. "NCM-TV: New California Media" was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable. Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California's Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California's sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards. In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was an Ivy Orator and class humorist. Thanks for listening to Emil Amok's Takeout!

Singapore Noir (Akashic Books) Skylight Books is excited to welcome Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan as she presents the latest installment in Akashic Books' excellent Noir series. Tonight's event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association. From the introduction by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan: "Say Singapore to anyone and you'll likely hear one of a few words: Caning. Fines. Chewing gum. For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore—a modern Southeast Asian city-state perched on an island on the tip of the Malay Peninsula—has been marked largely by its government's strict laws and unwavering enforcement of them . . . As much as I understand these outside viewpoints, I have always lamented that the quirky and dark complexities of my native country's culture rarely seem to make it past its borders . . .  Beneath its sparkling veneer is a country teeming with shadows . . . And its stories remain. The rich stories that attracted literary lions W. Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling to hold court at the Raffles Hotel (where the Singapore Sling was created) are still sprinkled throughout its neighborhoods. And in the following pages, you'll get the chance to discover some of them . . . You'll find stories from some of the best contemporary writers in Singapore—three of them winners of the Singapore Literature Prize, essentially the country's Pulitzer: Simon Tay,  writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho, tells the story of a hard-boiled detective who inadvertently wends his way into the underbelly of organized crime, Colin Cheong shows us a surprising side to the country's ubiquitous cheerful “taxi uncle,” while Suchen Christine Lim spins a wistful tale of a Chinese temple medium whose past resurges to haunt her . . . As for mine, I chose a setting close to my heart—the kelongs, or old fisheries on stilts, that once dotted the waters of Singapore but are gradually disappearing. I have a deep sense of romance about these kelongs, along with the many other settings, characters, nuances, and quirks that you'll see in these stories. They're intense, inky, nebulous. There is evil, sadness, a foreboding. And liars, cheaters, the valiant abound. This is a Singapore rarely explored in Western literature—until now. No Disneyland here; but there is a death penalty." About Singapore Noir: Launched with the summer ‘04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. BRAND-NEW STORIES BY: Colin Goh, Simon Tay/Donald Tee Quee Ho, Philip Jeyaretnam, Colin Cheong, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Monica Bhide, S.J. Rozan, Lawrence Osborne, Suchen Christine Lim, Ovidia Yu, Damon Chua, Johann S. Lee, Dave Chua, and Nury Vittachi.  Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is the New York–based author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family. A native of Singapore, she is working on her second book, a novel. A former staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, her work has also appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. 

This week, we have comedian Leslie Small as our in Frotquarters guest, we get some more Hot Goss from Burnsy, we review the Oscars, listen to The Dictator spill ashes on Seacrest, play some Tracy Morgan from Totally Awesome, review the DANGER ZONES associated with Linsanity, and get very Inside Indie with Leslie. 00:01:15 - Special guest Leslie Small is introduced. Vince got gleefully drunk by himself playing the FilmDrunk Oscar Drinking Game. Emmy Award winning Lights Camera Jackson appeared on Leno to discuss the Oscars. Brendan makes his acceptance speech for the Frotty Lifetime Achievement Award. 00:13:00 - The clip of The Dictator spilling Kim Jong Il's ashes all over Ryan Seacrest gets played. This leads to a discussion about improvisors reading from material or being let loose. The outtakes of Tracy Morgan from Totally Awesome is an example. A Kenyan listener calls in to talk about the Jar Jar Binks old slave vibe. 00:25:11 - Hot Goss with Ashley Burns: now with sponsors. Burnsy gives us some of the juicy gossip from Oscar Weekend: Gabourey Sidibe's favorite Girl Scout cookie, Demi Lovato is a birthmark chaser, Omar Epps and Robin Givens are working on a hip hopera, Davey Jones' new t-shirt line, and a Whitney Houston tribute album is in the works. 00:46:10 - Oderus Urungus of Gwar voices his opinion on the political campaign. The Asian American Journalists Association sent out a press release of Danger Zones when writing about Linsanity. Vince plays a clip from his search for the perfect judge show. 01:12:00 - The guys get to know Leslie. There is some talk about open mics at laundro mats. Leslie headlines the new segment Inside Indie where you can about all the new underground bands. Drunk On! - Adam For movie news you can make fun of, go to www.filmdrunk.com.

How 'bout those Republican's?Hogan's Heroes.Indian Winter.Fact of Crap - Two right for Dan one each for John.Mail Bag:Two from Mike:1) The Darwin's are out.2) How smart is your right foot?Al from New Jersey for one: The old golfer.Three from Pete:1) New Jersey robber dies after trying to steal phone from former High School wrestler.2) 18 arrested in Texas Christian University drug bust.3) Supreme Court limits police use of GPS tracking.Some humor from Peter.The Rest of the Show:1) Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks, journalists, racism and the Asian American Journalists Association.