| STAFF:
Ramon Gil - Publisher
Active in the New York APA community since 1993, having served as president for the Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, the largest Pan-Asian outdoor event on the East Coast. By day, Ramon runs his own advertising and graphic design company and organizes the Asian-American Entrepreneurs Network.
BinYun Zheng - Editor-in-chief
Ms. Zheng is a senior at Barnard College majoring in East Asian Studies with a concentration on China. She's been a DJ at WKCR NY, a Chinese folk dancer and a student of sign language. In 2006 she received the Foreign Policy Association Nancy Hoepli-Phalon Award and also works with Asthma Free School Zone.
Deborah Wan - Webmaster
AIA's webmaster appreciates that wildflowers have the strength to blossom even when they receive next to no care. She also respects penguins because although they don't have the ability to fly, they will still compensate for this inborn dissimilarity by learning how to swim instead.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Joyce Caoile - Writer
Joyce is a tax consultant in San Francisco, California. She is also a volunteer at the Zeum, a hands-on museum with educational exhibits and interactive programs for children and families.
Erika Cheng - - Writer
Erika is a native Californian, through and through. After earning degrees in Biology and World Literature, she currently works in AIDS clinical research in San Diego. Most of her spare brain cells are dedicated to treatises on comic books and animation, both Western and Japanese, which she will some day commit to Word files.
Eurie Chung - Writer
Eurie is master's student in Asian American Studies and Social Welfare at UCLA. A native New Englander, the sunshine, abundant Korean food and freeway systems are a shock to the system, but she finds herself adjusting well. Eurie splits her time between academic endeavors and the appeal of trashy cable television.
SuJ'n Chon - Writer
SuJ'n resides in the Pacific Northwest where she peacefully lives with her two cats. A social worker by trade and by passion, SuJ'n also volunteers for Asian Pacific Islander Woman and Safety Center in Seattle's International District and Quest Ministries, a multiethnic, social justice-oriented Christian community. In her spare time, she plays online Scrabble and writes unpublishable poetry.
Lorial Crowder - Writer
Lorial Crowder was born in the Philippines and arrived in the United States when she was adopted by an American family at the age of five years. She was raised in Connecticut and bounced back and forth between the Midwest and Northeast during the last 10 years. She is presently working on her Master's in Social Work (Community Organizing and Planning) at Hunter College in Manhattan and will be graudating in May 2005. Her main interest is working with the immigrant population as well as the child welfare system.
Ann Cruz - Writer
Ann is an undergraduate at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA where she majors in English and Psychology. Her work has been published in the anthology YELL-Oh Girls. She now works as a gopher intern for any company willing to pay her more than minimum wage. Following her graduation in May, she will relocate to San Francisco and finally escape the erratic southern weather.
Yvonne Hortillo - Writer
An editorial assistant for the Associated Press, Yvonne is also editor of The Philosophy Newsletter at Loyola University Chicago's department of philosophy, editor of Web sites for Loyola's Panta Rei Web Development Internship Center, and editor of state Web sites for CFC Youth for Christ Illinois. She has also worked as a web producer for MSNBC and NBC 5.
Connie Huynh - Writer/Editor
Originally from Southern California, Connie has traveled the U.S. chasing adventure and wisdom. She is now settled in the unlikeliest of places and enjoying each moment in Oklahoma City. She currently works in the medical staffing industry, but hopes to one day work in the field of Civil or Human Rights.
Yiuwing Lam - Writer
Yiuwing is a graduate of the USC School of Cinema and winner of the 2002 VC New Visions Award. His work as a screenwriter and director has been screened in film festivals world-wide. He recently was awarded with the 2003 ABC Television New Talent Development Grant and the 2002 VC Armed With a Camera Fellowship. He is currently in post-production for his ABC Television sponsored short film, Rupture.
Robert Lee - Researcher
Robert is an undergraduate at Columbia University majoring in Operations Research. He is originally from Southern California and desperately misses the sunny weather. He is also a brother of Pi Delta Psi, an Asian Cultural Fraternity. Robert hopes to someday find a job in Los Angeles so he never has to deal with snow again.
Lynda Lin - Writer
Lynda hails from the San Gabriel Valley, an inconsistent geographic location that disappears from the L.A. horizon on a smoggy day. She did her fair-share of suburbia hopping by heading south, past the Orange Curtain, to graduate from UC Irvine with a degree in English. She served her artistic expatriate duty in Wellington, New Zealand consuming meat pies and the world's best licorice. Her work has appeared in Tearaway (New Zealand) and The Movie Insider (.com).
Armi Macaballug - Writer
Armi is a freelance writer and a proud resident of Jersey City, NJ. A graduate of Rutgers University, she volunteers her time to work with Filipino youth and women.
Ashwini Mate - Writer
Ashwini is a 22 year old resident of Walltownship New Jersey. She has recently graduated as a double major in American Studies and English from Wesleyan University where she had been a member of two seperate, but linked, student-run organizations to fight for Asian American and Ethnic Studies programs. The organizations also attempted to raise campus awareness about issues concerning the Asian American community within and beyond campus ground. Ashwini hopes to continue this activism in the coming years.
Melissa Nolledo-Christoffels - Writer/Photographer
Melissa is a photographer, artist, writer, and community leader and events coordinator/organizer. A Filipino-American who lives in Oregon with her husband and three children; is co-owner of Lilwing Digital, Inc. A sporadic poet now working on her first collection of poems. She also writes for the Manila Bulletin-USA and is owner/moderator of the Filipino-American Network Yahoo group.
Jannette Nguyen - Researcher
Jannette got her BS degree in Psychology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA and is excited to be a volunteer with the Houston Dragon Boat Association. She currently works in the sales department in a financial corporation and lists cooking as her favourite of many hobbies.
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