Asian American Life: Premiere

Asian American Life is a new monthly series featuring the Asian American community in the tri-state. The first show is an overview of the tri-state's Asian Americans. It will feature a roundtable discussion with several prominent members of the community: Sayu Bhojwani, New American Leaders Project; Larry Lee, Asian Women's Center, Vanessa Leung, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families and Kyung Yoon, Korean American Community Foundation. We profile the oldest Asian immigrant enclave in the country, Manhattan's Chinatown, which will include a visit to the Museum of Chinese in America. We also introduce viewers to photographer Corky Lee, whose photographs have captured the Asian immigrant experience for more than four decades and world renowned physicist Michio Kaku. Host, Ernabel Demillo also learns how to make the perfect dim sum dumpling.

For More Information:

Museum of Chinese in America http://www.mocanyc.org

The Red Egg Restaurant http://www.redeggnyc.com

Coalition for Asian American Children and Families http://www.cacf.org

Korean American Community Foundation http://www.kacfny.org

New American Leaders Project http://www.newamericanleaders.org

Asian Women's Center http://www.nyawc.org

Ernabel Demillo is the host of Asian American Life, a monthly half hour series about the fastest-growing immigrant group in the country, focusing on Asian Americans in the tri-state area from over 40 countries who speak more than 150 different languages and dialects. Every month, an Asian enclave and neighborhood within the tristate area is featured. Cutting edge issues like racial profiling and stereotyping are examined and explored. Successful Asian Americans who are forging new identities in business, politics and the arts are also be profiled. Asian American Life is reaching new frontiers in the quest for understanding and acknowledgment among tri-state Asian Americans.

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