Poetry Reading at Next Chapter Books in Detroit

So excited to be reading with Zilka Joseph and Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month on Friday, May 24 at 6:30 pm at Next Chapter Books, 16555 E. Warren Ave. Detroit. Mark your calendars! https://www.nextchapterbkstore.com/ 

2024 Kiplinger Fellowship

Big thanks to the Kiplinger Program and Ohio University in Athens for a great week of fellowship and discussion and deep thoughts about immigration and migration with an incredible group of journalists from around the world. I learned so much from everyone. And so much bright green bobcat swag. 

https://www.ohio.edu/news/2024/01/ohio-university-announces-2024-kiplinger-fellows 

1990 Institute newsletter April 19, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 4 How do you think about community for AANHPI Heritage Month?

My essay for the 1990 Institute newsletter,  April 19, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 4

How do you think about community for AANHPI Heritage Month?

https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol4_issue4?wvpId=3472bc42-b4b5-46d4-8347-f928d14e9f4f

What’s in Michigan’s push to expand voting rights | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour

What’s in Michigan’s push to expand voting rights

Poetry reading Friday April 12 7pm Booksweet with Zilka Joseph

I'll be reading Friday 4/12 7pm with Zilka Josep at her Sweet Malida book launch at Booksweet book store on Plymouth Road and Murfin, Ann Arbor

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/412-poetry-night-with-zilka-joseph-alise-alousi-frances-kai-hwa-wang-tickets-850125878387

Michigan lawmakers are considering a state-level MENA category. Here’s what that would mean | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour

Michigan lawmakers are considering a state-level MENA category. Here’s what that would mean | PBS NewsHour

“And when you are invisible in the eyes of data, then you are invisible in the eyes of policymakers who rely on that data to make decisions”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/michigan-lawmakers-are-considering-a-state-level-mena-category-heres-what-that-would-mean 

Speaking at the MAASU spring conference at Univ of Michigan April 6

Looking forward to speaking at the 2024 The Midwest Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Students Union (MAASU) Spring Conference, Transforming our Futures: Storytelling and the Pathway towards Generational Change & Healing, April 5th-7th, 2024, University of Michigan  

I'll be presenting two workshops, Writing to Save the World and The stories of Hawaiian sovereignty and activism

Curtis Chin will be the keynote. And lots of other cool speakers!

https://www.spring24.maasu.org/

Activists tap a sweet Indigenous tradition to connect youth of color in Detroit with the outdoors | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour re the Detroit Sugarbush Project

Activists tap a sweet Indigenous tradition to connect youth of color in Detroit with the outdoors

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/activists-tap-a-sweet-indigenous-tradition-to-connect-youth-of-color-in-detroit-with-the-outdoors

What ‘uncommitted’ voters in Michigan want | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour

What ‘uncommitted’ voters in Michigan want

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-these-michigan-voters-are-choosing-uncommitted-in-the-primary

A new program in ‘prescribes’ monthly payments for the first year of an infant’s life | PBS NewsHour

My article at PBS NewsHour

A new program in Flint Michigan ‘prescribes’ monthly payments for the first year of an infant’s life

The program is “about a new vision of how we fundamentally should be caring for each other,” said Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, one of the program’s co-directors.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/a-new-anti-poverty-program-in-flint-michigan-gives-cash-to-new-moms