玛丽·罗斯·黄 将会呈现, “Building Tradition: The Legacy of Seattle’s Chinatown and the Single-Room Occupancy Residential Hotels” at 4月10日晚上7点 在 冬季教育中心(WEC) 在209号演讲厅.

Marie Wong joined the Institute of Public Service faculty in January 2002. Prior to joining Seattle University, she taught at Texas A&M, Iowa State University, CalPoly-San Luis Obispo, and the University of Washington.

Marie’s teaching and research interests are in Urban Studies, 包括住房, 城市和建筑史, 土地利用发展, 可持续性, 以及亚裔美国人研究. She has a number of presentations and publications on Chinese American settlements and urban preservation of ethnic communities that include a book on Portland, 俄勒冈州第一个华人社区 Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon 最近发表的一篇文章 entitled Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels.

原产自中西部, Marie received her Bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University in Community and Regional Planning. She holds a Master’s degree in Planning and Community Development from the University of Colorado and has a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning with specialty areas in 城市和建筑史, 美籍华人历史, and a Certificate in Preservation Planning from the University of Washington. 除了教学, Marie has over twenty-five years of experience in public and private sector urban planning and has worked for agencies such as the Puget Sound Regional Council, 金郡交通规划, 圣地亚哥市, 以及丹佛的金律师事务所. She is currently on the Board of InterIm Community Development Association and is President of the Board of the Kong Yick Investment Company.

肖恩黄 将会呈现, 《我是如何理解多样性的, 股本, 和包容性(DEI)在短短50年的时间里 四月十一日上午十一时 为香港的社区 大学教堂. A Q&会议将于下午12时举行 在联谊会大厅 大学教堂 在他的演讲之后. 提供午餐. 

肖恩黄是两本小说的作者, 本垒和美国膝盖, the later was adapted into an award-winning feature film.  He is also the editor and co-editor of six anthologies of Asian American and American multicultural literature, 包括标志性的选集, 北京! 《亚裔美国作家选集》.  He is currently a Professor of English and the Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities 在 University of Washington where he has served as Director of Creative Writing Program, 英语系主任, 大学荣誉项目主任.

弗兰克·安 将会呈现, “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” at 4月11日晚上7点 在 冬季教育中心(WEC) 在209号演讲厅.

FRANK ABE是一本漫画小说的主要作者, WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration (Chin 音乐 Press, 2021), named a Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for the Washington State Book Award. 他写了, 生产, and directed the award-winning PBS documentary Conscience and the 宪法 on the largest organized resistance to the camps.

He won an American Book Award as co-editor of JOHN OKADA: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press), in which he authored the first-ever biography of Okada and traced the origins of his novel. He is currently co-editing The Penguin Book of the Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Penguin Classics, 2024).

Abe helped produce the first-ever “Day of Remembrance” in Seattle in 1978 with Frank Chin and Lawson Inada, and together they invented a new Japanese American tradition to reclaim the history of wartime imprisonment and publicly dramatize the campaign for redress. He was an original member of Chin’s Asian American Theater Workshop in San Francisco and studied 在 American Conservatory Theater.

Abe worked as a reporter for KIRO 新闻radio in Seattle, and as communications director for King County Executives Gary Locke and Dow Constantine, 以及金郡议会.