Rising COVID cases causing turmoil for Michigan schools as flu season arrives | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour

Rising COVID cases causing turmoil for Michigan schools as flu season arrives | PBS NewsHour

WATCH: How some school districts are coping with staff shortages, other pandemic disruptions | PBS NewsHour

My first time on the broadcast on PBS NewsHour with Gabrielle Hays talking about

How some school districts are coping with staff shortages, other pandemic disruptions | PBS NewsHour

Schools across the country are struggling to find staff. Here’s why | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour with our Communities Initiative team

Schools across the country are struggling to find staff. Here’s why | PBS NewsHour

1990 Institute Newsletter: Vol 1 Issue 21

My essay and curated news for 1990 Institute newsletter: How does diversity in representation show us new ways to lead?
1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 21

For Detroit’s Japanese Americans, oral histories key to preservation of history, future solidarity | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour

For Detroit’s Japanese Americans, oral histories key to preservation of history, future solidarity | PBS NewsHour

Quebec Artist Series | Arts Midwest

Finally found them! Check out these two feature articles I wrote for Arts Midwest about Quebec artists Annabel Soutar and Webster (click on the pink bars). these must have been published sometime in October 2021.

Quebec Artist Series | Arts Midwest

Aging Infrastructure Highlighted By Benton Harbor’s Continued Water Crisis | One Detroit

I'm talking w Bill Kubota on his story re Benton Harbor on One Detroit for Detroit Public Television 

Aging Infrastructure Highlighted By Benton Harbor’s Continued Water Crisis | One Detroit

Here's the whole program

11/11/21: Benton Harbor Crisis / Low Voter Turnout / Mariam Noland / Gabriel Duran Performance | One Detroit

Panel: ENGAGE: The Rise of Anti-Asian American Sentiment and Community Resiliency , 11/11/2021 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST | University of Michigan School of Social Work

I'll be a panelist for University of Michigan’s Social Work’s ENGAGE virtual discussion, "The Rise of Anti-Asian American Sentiment & Community Resilience," happening Thursday, November 11th, 2021, at 12-1 pm EST/ 9 am PST/ 7 am HST. Open to the public, come join us!

ENGAGE: The Rise of Anti-Asian American Sentiment and Community Resiliency , 11/11/2021 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM | University of Michigan School of Social Work

Reading: You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids at Detroit Writing Room

Excited to have just scheduled the first reading of my book tour, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids, at Detroit Writing Room book club virtual event and Asian Pacific American Heritage month on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 7-8 pm EDT

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/you-cannot-resist-me-when-my-hair-braids

You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids | Wayne State University Press

Join the 2022 Book Club — The Detroit Writing Room

1990 Institute Newsletter: Vol 1 Issue 20

My essay and curated news for 1990 Institute newsletter, Vol 1 Issue 20: Want to write (or get your elders to write) the Great Asian American Memoir?

1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 20

Cancelled: Writing from the Heart & Telling the Stories of Your Life but 2 new classes in December

Sorry these two classes have been cancelled by WCC for low enrollment, but I have two new classes starting on Saturdays in December

Cancelled: Saturday 11/6/2021

Writing from the Heart - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

Cancelled: Monday 11/8/2021

Telling the Stories of Your Life - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

Coming 3 Saturdays December 4, 2021 at WCC

Ethical Wills: Writing a Love Letter to Your Family 10am-12pm

Writing to Change the World 1-3pm

Arab American and Muslim mayors sweep local elections in Detroit suburbs | PBS NewsHour

My article for the PBS NewsHour

“Because [of] the lack of Census data on the Arab American community, there are debates about its size, but after the election of three Arab American mayors in the region yesterday, there is no debate about its growth and impact.” Matthew Jaber Stiffler, a research and content manager at Dearborn’s Arab American National Museum, told the PBS NewsHour after the election.

Arab American and Muslim mayors sweep local elections in Detroit suburbs | PBS NewsHour

Rep. Hammoud mentioned on the Broadcast at 6:52 mark

November 3, 2021 – PBS NewsHour full episode | PBS NewsHour

And don't forget this older article from 9/20/2021

Decades after ‘the Arab problem,’ Muslim and Arab Americans are leading political change in Metro Detroit | PBS NewsHour

Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and ‘magic mushrooms.’ Here’s what that means | PBS NewsHour

My article for the PBS NewsHour

“Detroiters voted in high numbers in support of further decriminalization,” Michigan State Sen. Adam Hollier of Detroit told the PBS NewsHour after the election. “The war on drugs was a war on Black and brown communities and it’s good to see Black communities pushing back.”

Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and ‘magic mushrooms.’ Here’s what that means | PBS NewsHour

Here's much more background from before the election from 11/2/2021

Why the push to decriminalize psychedelics is growing in Michigan | PBS NewsHour

Why the push to decriminalize psychedelics is growing in Michigan | PBS NewsHour

My article on the PBS NewsHour

“It is important to recognize that, while we need to learn from the past, the current era of psychedelic research is well regulated and scientifically rigorous.”

“We should view this research in the same way that we do for other drug classes or disease states — we should neither stigmatize psychedelic research, nor should we romanticize it,” he said.

Why the push to decriminalize psychedelics is growing in Michigan | PBS NewsHour

Here's the follow up after election day 11/3/2021

Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and ‘magic mushrooms.’ Here’s what that means | PBS NewsHour

Classes: Writing from the Heart and Telling the Stories of Your Life at WCC this Nov

Write with me this November at Washtenaw Community College! 3 Saturdays or 3 Mondays on Zoom.

Saturday 11/6/2021

Writing from the Heart - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

Monday 11/8/2021

Telling the Stories of Your Life - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

UPDATE 11/5/2021: Sorry these classes have been cancelled by WCC for low enrollment.

And coming up in December, 3 Saturdays December 4, 2021 at WCC

Ethical Wills: Writing a Love Letter to Your Family 10am-12pm

Writing to Change the World 1-3pm