Award-winning Author of "Who's Irish?", "Mona in the Promised Land", "Typical American", and her newest novel,"Bad Bad Girls"

Activist & Author, "The Boat Not Taken: A Memoir"

Emmy-winning Television Host and Producer, Entrepreneur, Fashion Icon, Best-selling Author, & Humanitarian

Award-winning, Emmy and Critics Choice-nominated producer of ROSEMEAD

Coach, Explorer, & Author of "Beijing Bound: A Foreigner Discovers China"

Executive Editor, The New Yorker & Author, "Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America"

Prize-winning Author of  These Memories Do Not Belong To Us whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, and The Florida Review

Floral Designer & Lived-experience storyteller dealing with family members struggling with Mental Illness

Decorated Contemporary Visual Artist featured globally in galleries and in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Financial Times.

Multimedia writer, Author of “Transplants”, and Deputy Director at The Serica Initiative

President, Baruch College, CUNY

President, Queens College CUNY

Award-winning Nat Geo + Commercial Photographer, Author of 16 books, including "Marco Polo", Zheng He,
The Great Wall of China, and Shangri-La"

President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences & Award-winning Producer