Asian American Writer, Editor, Speaker, Activist, "Adventures in Multicultural Living," "Multicultural Toolbox," "Remembering Vincent Chin,"
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Poetry Reading at Next Chapter Books in Detroit
Saturday, April 20, 2024
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
Friday, April 19, 2024
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?
Monday, April 15, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
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
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Michigan lawmakers are considering a state-level MENA category. Here’s what that would mean | PBS NewsHour
My article for 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”
Monday, April 1, 2024
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 activismMonday, March 11, 2024
Activists tap a sweet Indigenous tradition to connect youth of color in Detroit with the outdoors | PBS NewsHour
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
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
What ‘uncommitted’ voters in Michigan want | PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-these-michigan-voters-are-choosing-uncommitted-in-the-primary
Friday, February 16, 2024
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.
Friday, February 9, 2024
1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 2 Feb. 9, 2024
My essay for 1990 Institute Newsletter
February 9, 2024
Volume 4, Issue 2
What will you stand up for in this Year of the Dragon?
https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol4_issue2
Monday, January 22, 2024
Speaking at 2024 Asian & Pacific Islander Graduation Celebration at the University of Michigan
Monday, January 8, 2024
Ohio University announces 2024 Kiplinger Fellows (me!)
Ohio University announces 2024 Kiplinger Fellows on immigration (including me!)
Eighteen veteran journalists with experience covering immigration and migration issues across the globe have been selected for the 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio University.
The Kiplinger Fellows will come to Columbus and then travel to Ohio University, April 14-20, for a weeklong fellowship aimed at improving immigration and migration reporting. The majority of the fellows this year are freelancers who extensively cover immigration and migration issues for large media outlets or for dedicated online sites.
Some of the fellows in this year’s class are also immigrants, moving from their original birth places because of economic or political strife, such as wars. The selection of these seven U.S. journalists and 11 international ones concludes a two-month review process of nearly 300 applications.
“We are again blessed with an amazing class of fellows from all over the world,” Kiplinger Program Executive Director Kevin Z. Smith said. “This topic is one of the most current and relevant anywhere you look in the world. Understanding immigration and migration issues and being able to convey the complexities of these stories is one of the most important jobs for a journalist in 2024, and we have an excellent class to take on the challenge.”
During the week at Ohio University, Fellows will have an opportunity to hear from leading experts on immigration and migration policies, from humanitarian organizations, as well as other journalists who cover the issues exclusively. The fellowship will consist of workshops and focus of themes like economic, climate, or political forced migration; border policies and immigration quotas, human trafficking and other related topics.
The fellows will meet daily at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in Schoonover Center.
The U.S. Fellows include:
Jordan Gass-Poorè, independent investigative journalist, podcast creator, New York City, N.Y.
Alexandra Locke, executive producer, The Take, an Al Jazeera English podcast, Cambridge, Mass.
Katie McQue, investigative freelance reporter, New York City, N.Y.
Sophia Qureshi, publisher, 285 South magazine, Atlanta, Ga.
Clavel Rangel, immigration communities freelance journalist, Miami, Fla.
Ralph Thomassaint, immigration journalist, Documented, New York City, N.Y.
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, communities correspondent, PBS Newshour, Dearborn, Mich.
International Fellows include:
Amir Hadi Azmi, correspondent, South China Morning Post, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Morgan Black, reporter/anchor, Global News, Edmonton, Canada
Alienor Carrieré, online freelance journalist, Lille, France
Francisco Javier Carrión, reporter, El Independiente, Madrid, Spain
Liz Cookman, freelancer British journalist, Kyiv, Ukraine
Mahmoud Elsobky, freelance journalist, Brussels, Belgium
Juan Luis Garcia Hernandez, reporter, Causa Natura, Mexico City, Mexico
Cristina Lai Men, producer, TSF Radio, Lisbon, Portugal
Erkinbek Kamalov, freelance immigration writer, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Magdalena Rojo, freelance journalist, Oaxaca, Mexico
Pierina Sora, founder, Cápsula Migrante, Lima, Peru
The April gathering marks the 51st year of the fellowship which was started in 1973 at Ohio State University following a generous gift from the Kiplinger family in honor of patriarch Willard Kiplinger, founder of the Washington Editors (WE). WE produced the Kiplinger Newsletter and Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine from 1920-2019.
The Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism moved to Ohio University in 2019.
In addition to the fellowship, the Kiplinger Program maintains a robust training schedule for professional journalists in the United States and abroad.
https://www.ohio.edu/news/2024/01/ohio-university-announces-2024-kiplinger-fellows
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Upcoming classes et al Winter 2024
2 Saturdays, Jan 20-27, 2024, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
10 Sundays, Feb 18-Apr 28, 2024, 12-2pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Telling the Stories of your Life through Food
3 Saturdays, Mar 9-23, 2024, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Guest Lecture Hawaiian Sovereignty
Mon., March 18, 2024, 10-11:20am EDT