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FEATURED storytellers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Daniel Tam-Claiborne
Multimedia writer, Author of “Transplants”, and Deputy Director at The Serica Initiative

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

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

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

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"

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


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