"Model? Minority?: Engaging with Asian American Students and Communities”
Join IEES and CSD for a viewing of a Transform Mid-Atlantic (TMA) Lunch & Learn Equity Conversation Series, "Model? Minority?: Engaging with Asian American Students and Communities" followed by an in-person discussion. Flyer is attached.
Wednesday, June 24
Administration Building Suite 2210 (the IEES Huddle Space inside the OIIE suite)
Speaker virtual presentation: 12 - 1pm
Discussion: 1 - 2pm
Space is limited. Lunch will be provided for those who register in advance.
About the Webinar Guest Speaker:
Phil Tajitsu Nash teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), and serves as Co-President of the Board of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). He previously served as Founding Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), Curator of the Asian Pacific American Program at the Smithsonian Institution’s 2010 Folklife Festival, and columnist for the N.Y. Nichibei and Asian Week newspapers.
Nash has taught law, urban studies, and APA history, art, oral history, and public policy classes at UMCP, Yale, New York University, The City College of New York, and CUNY and Georgetown law schools. He also is affiliated with the University of Maryland Latin American Studies Center, bringing study abroad students to an Indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon. He has done research on Japanese Brazilians and has decades of work with Native Americans in North America and Brazil on human rights, culture, and language issues.
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