I’m so excited for my great friend Ashley Alvarado, who’s heading to Texas soon as the new president and CEO of Texas Public Radio, which broadcasts from San Antonio to the Valley! (For my California peeps, that’s the Rio Grande Valley, not SoCal’s San Fernando Valley.)
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Will Yu, the creator of activist movements #StarringJohnCho and #SeeAsAmStar, daily tweets, “Representation matters today.”
If that’s true – and I’m of the opinion that it is – then the award-winning indie film For Izzy matters as much as anything I’ve seen in years. It’s a heartbreaking, yet hopeful story that presents several types of characters rarely seen in other productions.
Back from a weekend of speaking, connecting, and schlepping in D.C.!
Collage top left: Speaking on a panel about blogging as a means of advocacy for OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates‘ national conference
Top right: With friends old and new! Panel organizer and moderator Aryani Ong, who has served on the staff and boards of numerous AAPI advocacy orgs; research scientist and author of Reappropriate (the longest-running Asian-American feminist blog), Jenn Fang; and campaigns and communications expert Tonia Bui, author of the Politics Within Politics blog
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