Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with the Cornell Asian Alumni Association

CAAA Is Hosting Five Events for AAPI Heritage Month. Please Join Us!

May is Asian-American / Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Please join the Cornell Asian Alumni Association (CAAA) is celebrating all month with these remarkable programs. Special thanks to our incredible Vice President of Programming, Moyouri Bhattacharjee ’15, for assembling and coordinating all these events for us!

Let’s list them all, and then take a longer look at each.

1.???Thursday, May 12, 7PM EDT -- AASP & A3C: A Spotlight Panel Discussion with CAAA Campus Partners https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/cc/club.aspx?sid=1717&gid=62&pgid=25171&cid=40072&ecid=40072&crid=0&calpgid=6347&calcid=15050

2.???Saturday, May 14, 6:30PM EDT -- NY Mets Game: AAPI Heritage Night at Citi Field https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/cc/club.aspx?sid=1717&gid=62&pgid=25004&cid=39842&ecid=39842&crid=0&calpgid=6347&calcid=15050

3.???Tuesday, May 17, 6PM EDT -- Retrospective: 50th Anniversary of President Nixon’s 1972 Trip to China https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/cc/club.aspx?sid=1717&gid=62&pgid=25177&cid=40080&ecid=40080&crid=0&calpgid=6347&calcid=15050

4.???Wednesday, May 25, 8PM EDT -- Restoring Family Bonds through Storytelling and Vulnerability https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/cc/club.aspx?sid=1717&gid=62&pgid=25150&cid=40044&ecid=40044&crid=0&calpgid=6347&calcid=15050

5.???Tuesday, May 31, 12PM EDT -- Virtual Book Reading: Permission to Come Home by Dr. Jenny Wang https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/cc/club.aspx?sid=1717&gid=62&pgid=25174&cid=40076&ecid=40076&crid=0&calpgid=6347&calcid=15050

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Thursday, May 12, 7PM EDT

AASP and A3C: A CAAA Campus Partners Spotlight Panel

Join the Cornell Asian Alumni Association and our campus partners the Asian and Asian American Center (A3C), and the Asian American Studies Program (AASP) at Cornell for a spotlight panel as we kick off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

Have you ever wondered about the work that goes on behind the curtain that the A3C and AASP do to help Asian and Asian American students thrive on campus? Learn about the history of these two programs, as well as the projects and initiatives that they are working on currently, followed by an audience Q&A. This event will feature the Program Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Dr. Christine Bacareza Balance, and the Kent G. Sheng ’78 Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Asian and Asian American Center, Dr. Nancy Martinsen. Moderated by Marvin Chang MBA ’98.

Prior to the event, please send in questions to [email protected].

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?Saturday, May 14, 6:30PM EDT:

NY Mets Game: AAPI Heritage Night at Citi Field

?Join the Cornell Asian Alumni Association as we celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Night at Citi Field! Enjoy festive pre-game programming before the New York Mets take on the Seattle Mariners. The ticket includes Promenade seating, and a limited-edition AAPI baseball cap. Alumni will meet at 6:30PM EDT. Upon registration, please send your phone number to [email protected] so that we can contact you on the day of the event.

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Tuesday, May 17, 6:00PM

50th Anniversary Retrospective: President Nixon Visits China

The Cornell Club-NY is partnering with the Cornell Asian Alumni Association (CAAA) to present a very special program: a retrospective on the 50th?anniversary of President Richard Nixon's 1972 trip to China.?

Come hear an extraordinary panel to discuss not only "the week that changed the world," but also the aftermath of President Nixon's visit to?Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. How has this visit changed the U.S., China, and the world? What is the "Shanghai Communique," and is there more than one? Have there been any effects on the Asian-American communities? If so, what are they? After 50 years, do we know whether re-opening China was a good idea, or are we still unsure? Does the current war in the Ukraine affect matters in Hong Kong and Taiwan??

• Counselor Edward F. Cox accompanied his father-in-law, President Nixon, on his trip to China. He will discuss his personal perspectives on the proceedings and their impact.
• Zhenyu Huang, President of the Committee of 100, will address how Richard Nixon's trip has affected the AAPI communities.?
• Charles Wang has been a leader of the Asian-American community since the mid-1960s. He will recount some of his domestic and international experiences that have flowed from President Nixon's trip, such as: his creation of the Asian-American community in Flushing, Queens; choreographing Deng Xiaoping's 1979 U.S. visit; trying to thread the needle for a consensus response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident; and even the legalization of acupuncture.?

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?Wednesday, May 25, 8PM EDT:

Restoring Family Bonds through Storytelling and Vulnerability

?Virtual Screening:?May 18th to 25th before the panel discussion, and till May 30th, 2021after panel ($10 per person ticket price)

https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/journeyof1000milescornell

Join the?Cornell Asian Alumni Association and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business?as we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in partnership with?Bamboo Shoots Productions. We will be presenting a discussion panel exploring family estrangement and reconciliation, intergenerational family relationship and caregiving, through the act of authentic storytelling and vulnerable conversations about loss, grief, and parent-child relationship.

Speakers featured are Director/Producer of?Journey of a Thousand Miles, Dr.?Zhu Shen?沈竹 (Cornell Johnson MBA ‘98), and?Daphne Kwok, Vice President, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, AAPI Audience Strategy at AARP. The discussion will be moderated by?Leezel Tanglao?of the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA).

We invite alumni to watch the scenes from the documentary on their own time before the event and come hear from the filmmaker about the experience of growing with the film-making process, available to stream from May 18th to May 30th,?here.

Virtual Screening Content: Exclusive scenes from Zhu’s personal documentary film - Journey of a Thousand Miles, edited by her son Perry Chen, which documents her journey from a “Tiger Mom” to a “Zen Mom” and their Mother-Son relationship from tug of war to best friends and creative partners with unconditional love and trust.?Janet Yang, the legendary The Joy Luck Club Executive Producer and Governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures, called Zhu’s documentary sample “an ode to the bond between mother and son, told with radical vulnerability and honesty," and “a deeply moving look into the love that binds a family."

Film?trailer?here.

Oscar-qualified animation -?Changyou’s Journey, which Zhu produced that her son Perry Chen wrote and directed while in high school.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 12:00PM EDT

Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

Please join the Cornell Asian Alumni Association for our final event of APIDA Heritage Month.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jenny Wang, founder of the @asiansformentalhealth community, as she releases her first book, Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans. Dr. Wang will be doing a book reading, followed by a Q&A session.

https://www.amazon.com/Permission-Come-Home-Reclaiming-Americans/dp/1538708000

Dr. Jenny Wang?is a Taiwanese American clinical psychologist and national speaker on Asian American mental health and racial trauma in Asian American, BIPOC, and immigrant communities. Her work focuses on the intersection of Asian American identity, mental health, and social justice. She is the founder of the @asiansformentalhealth Instagram community, in which she discusses the unique experiences of the Asian diaspora and immigrant communities. She spearheaded the Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian American Therapist Directory and its companion Canadian directory to help Asians seek culturally-reverent mental health providers.