Examples of Programs, Speakers, and Performers at Phillips Academy
Winter 2011
By
Aya S. Murata
2011: Asian and Asian American High School Conference, hosted by Phillips Academy
2011: Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls, and On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family — Asian Arts Festival keynote speaker
2010: Empowerment workshops for Asian and Asian-American students conducted by the Asian American Resource Workshop
2010: Yoon Byun, photojournalist and staff photographer for The Boston Globe
2009: Lela Lee — artist and creator of Angry Little Asian Girl — Asian Arts Festival Keynote Speaker
2008: Socheata Poeuv — filmmaker and director of New Year Baby
2008: Vivian Toy — journalist for The New York Times — Phillips Academy Alumni Event in NYC
2008: Phillips Academy Asian and Asian American Alumni Reunion and Student Gathering
2008: Vivian Louie, professor and author of Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity among Chinese Americans — student workshop and faculty development workshop, MLK, Jr. Day programming
2007: Kenji Yoshino, professor and author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights — student workshop and faculty development workshop for MLK, Jr. Day programming
2005: Chang-rae Lee, professor and author of A Gesture Life, Native Speaker, Aloft, and The Surrendered
2004: Frank H. Wu, professor and author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White — Asian Arts keynote speaker
2003: Ronald Takaki, scholar — Asian Arts Festival keynote speaker
2003: Ming Tsai, celebrity chef — Asian Arts kick-off event
2003: David Ho, AIDS researcher — Time Magazine Man of the Year 1996
2003: Empowerment workshop for Asian and Asian-American students conducted by the Asian American Resource Workshop
2002: Eric Liu, author of The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker — Asian Arts Festival keynote speaker
2000: B.D. Wong, actor — Asian Arts Festival keynote speaker
2000: Follow-up workshop based on the 1999 program offered
1999: Faculty development workshop addressing issues facing Asian and Asian-American students at Phillips Academy conducted by Jean Wu, professor, Tufts University
1999: Renee Tajima-Pena, filmmaker and director of My America… or Honk if You Love Buddha
1999: Nanda Shewmangal, director of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (Boston) to present “Domestic Violence in the Asian Community: Cultural Barriers Affecting Battered Women”