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Storytellers

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Serica Storytellers is a fireside-style blog & interview series featuring prominent raconteurs across artistic mediums who shed light on the breadth and depth of the Asian and American experience.

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FEATURED storytellers

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Asian AF

The nation's premier Asian American comedy variety show, founded in 2016 by comedian and actor Will Choi, with chapters in NYC, LA, and Hawaii + 7 spin-off shows

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Mariko Aratani

Translator and editor of "By the Shore of Lake Michigan" & Japanese instructor

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Sharda Cherwoo

Global business builder and Fortune 100 Board Director at The Carlyle Group and World Kinect

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Gish Jen

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

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Joanna Choi Kalbus

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

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Yue-Sai Kan

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

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Fred Le

Comedian and filmmaker, co-creator of the all-Vietnamese comedy showcase "Embarrassed by Night", and director and producer of "The Empathizer"

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Judy Lee

CEO of Dragonfly Capital, Managing Director & Co-Founder of Dragonfly, Independent Board Director of DBS Bank, Mapletree Logistics Trust, SMRT, and more

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Jane Li

Experienced public company board chair with 30 years of high-tech industry experience. Currently serving as Board Chair of Semtech, Board Director at Knowles Corporation, and more

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Mynette Louie

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

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Glen Loveland

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

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Michael Luo

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

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Yiming Ma

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

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Nancy Matsumoto

Award-winning writer & editor of "By the Shore of Lake Michigan", "Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System", and more

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Kyoko Miyabe

Translator of "By the Shore of Lake Michigan", Chair of the Humanities and Sciences Department at School of Visual Arts, New York, & artist

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Lisa Oberholzer-Gee

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

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Naomi Okubo

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

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Rachel Shi

CEO of CrazyLaugh and Chief Producer & Co-founder of CrazyLaugh Comedy, the first Chinese stand-up comedy club in New York, DC and LA

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Daniel Tam-Claiborne

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

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Calvin Tsao

Founding partner of Tsao & McKown Architects, an award-winning architect recognized as a leading voice in contemporary architecture and design

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Billie Tsien

Award-winning architect, educator, and founding partner of Studio Tsien and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects + former Chair of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

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BD Wong

Tony award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor famous for roles in "M Butterfly", "Law & Order: SVU", "Jurassic Park", "Mr. Robot", "Awkwafina is Nora from Queens", "Mulan", and more

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S. David Wu

President, Baruch College, CUNY

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Frank Wu

President, Queens College CUNY

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Michael Yamashita

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

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Janet Yang

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

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Eri F. Yasuhara

Contributor, "By the Shore of Lake Michigan", specialist in Japanese literature & Issei writing, and Dean Emerita, College of Arts and Letters at California State University, San Bernardino

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Rachel Yu

Comedian, content creator, and host of "Yu Up?" podcast

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Qin Zhang

Architectural historian and author of A Solitary Traveler in the Long Night

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LEARN FROM Storytellers

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Storytellers News

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With your support, we can empower the next generation of storytellers, to share more stories around the world.

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