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Welcome
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Multicultural Toolbox
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Next Upcoming Talk:
Friday, June 19, 2009, at 11 am
Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, in Madison Heights
State Bar of Michigan 34th Legal Milestone for Vincent Chin case dedication ceremony, "From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry."
A bronze plaque memorializing what occurred will be unveiled
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Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a second-generation Chinese American from California who now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawaii. She is currently the acting editor for www.IMDiversity.com Asian-American Village, where she writes most frequently on culture, family, arts, and lifestyles topics. She also writes the syndicated column Adventures in Multicultural Living which appears every month at www.annarborchronicle.com, Japanese American Citizens League's Pacific Citizen (www.pacificcitizen.org), www.rainbowkids.org, IMDiversity.com Multicultural Villages, and is available for your favorite newspaper or magazine.
She is also the Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice/ Asian American Center for Justice, the landmark nonprofit civil rights advocacy group formed after the beating death of Vincent Chin. She has been nominated for the Michigan Governor s Advisory Council on Asian Pacific American Affairs. She team-teaches a course in Asian Pacific American History and the Law at the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Dearborn. She is the Outreach Coordinator for the Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan and works in partnership with several university, city, community, cultural, and arts groups, helping to link these institutions to the community.
She is a dynamic and engaging speaker for teacher workshops, parenting seminars, school assemblies, and more. She writes and lectures widely on race, diversity, multiculturalism, civil rights, Asian Pacific American history and identity, Chinese cultural topics, and Raising our Children with Culture(s) and Pride.
Ms. Wang is also active in the wider Asian Pacific American community. She is the Outreach Coordinator of the Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan, a former Board member of the Chinese American Society of Ann Arbor, and a board member of American Citizens for Justice. She is also a member of The United Coalition of Asian and Pacific Islander American Independent Arts, Culture and Media Professionals; Michigan Taiwanese American Association; Council of Asian Pacific Americans, and the Ann Arbor Public Schools Strategic Planning Taskforce. She has worked in partnership with the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, the University Musical Society, and various Families with Children from China. In 2008-2009, she was a member of the University of Michigan ChinaNOW Theme Year Committee, the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads Committee. In 2006, she organized a town hall meeting for the first official visit to Michigan by the White House Presidential Advisory Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Affairs.
This website accesses and connects Ms. Wang's writing, speaking, multicultural education, and community activism.
Contact Ms. Wang's office now for your school or parents' group! Email multiculturaltoolbox AT gmail DOT com or go to www.IMDiversity.com to read her articles.
This website is still under construction. Please pardon the wierd formatting symbols hanging around in all the wrong places.
copyright Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, 2009
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