Category: Asian American Guests
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S4 E1: Soo Jin Lee was never she was undocumented, but she somehow knew. Also: therapy isn’t the only way to heal.
Soo Jin Lee was never told she’s undocumented, but she somehow knew. The licensed therapist and author also shares how healing trauma does not have to come from western methods of achieving health & wellness.
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Podcast Recs – Part 1: 6 Degrees of Cats!
Hi everyone. I hope you enjoyed season 3 of Nuances. I just came back from a much needed break and am thrilled to get back to work on our limited series on queerness in pre-modern Asia, as well as the upcoming season 4 of Nuances. If you’d like to participate in the limited series or…
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Amanda B. on 6 Degrees of Cats, gender-based violence prevention, and her experience as a transnational & transracial adoptee.
Amanda B. hosts the delightful podcast 6 degrees of cats, where she finds impressive ways bridging science, culture, human and feline kind. We also talk about her work in gender-based violence prevention, and her experience as a Korean transracial & transnational adoptee, amongst other things.
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S3 E09: Rita Phetmixay: No such thing as boundaries in Asian culture – the Lao diaspora, owning the narrative, and healing intergenerational trauma with compassion.
Rita Phetmixay on the secret war in Laos, healing in community, and the power of naming our struggles in order to heal from them. We talk about intergenerational trauma, growing up in the South, moving to L.A., and healing with self compassion.
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S3 E08: Kiran Kaur Gill on fighting Turban Myths with occupationally relevant training programs at the TSA, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies.
Kiran Kaur Gill shares how overnight, Sikh Americans became feared and presumed terrorists because they happen to wear turbans that reminded Americans of Bin Laden. Ever since, the Sikh American Legal Defense & Education Fund (SALDEF) has been countering hate and ignorance with education programs nationwide, training over 135,000 officers nationwide, from local & federal…
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S3 E07: Scott Okamoto on losing faith and becoming an English professor at an evangelical school.
Author Scott Okamoto talks about deconstructing his faith as he taught in an evangelical school. We touch on his family’s history in the Japanese Incarceration camps, patriotism, and winning people over through genuine care and relationship, not facts and arguments. Scott also shares his thoughts on Oppenheimer (2023)
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S3 E06: Travis Nguyen, interpreter & translator, on working with the deaf & deaf/blind communities, how intergenerational trauma manifests in day-to-day life, and more.
Travis Giuse Nguyen (he/él) is an interpreter and translator born and raised in Southeast Texas. We talk about how trauma responses manifest in refugee communities, how the deaf do not benefit from incidental learning like hearing folks, and the struggle of being LGBTQ in an Asian American family.
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S3 E02: Cherie Hu on music, culture and technology, and why you can’t copy/paste deployment strategies across cultural contexts. We also talk about AI, ChatGPT and deepfakes in music & media.
Interview with Cherie Hu, founder of music-tech research organization Water & Music. Her writing has been featured in Billboard, Forbes, Pitchfork, Variety & more. She has taught as a guest lecturer at Harvard, NYU, and others.
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S3 E01: DJ Mimi Chen on knowing her worth, standing up for herself, and having a blast doing it.
This week, I had the privilege of talking to Mimi Chen. I was so excited when I first saw Mimi’s Instagram because how cool is it that an Asian American woman has been killing it in the radio industry for decades? Mimi Chen is a Chinese American career DJ, who has been a trailblazer in…
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Programs supporting AAPI and POC creatives
Have you ever wondered whether things like AAPI Heritage Month move the needle for individuals like you and me? From personal experience, if the events aren’t performative tokenism, but truly have a community-centered approach, these events can lead to meaningful connections. Below, you’ll find a list of opportunities I came across today in one of…