Profile
M.A., George Washington University, 1996 B.A., Brandeis University, 1992
Research Specialties
- Collections Manager: September 11 Collection (in December 2001 Congress charged NMAH with collecting and preserving objects, images, and stories from the event)
- Collections Manager: Japanese American Internment Era Collection (related to the A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution exhibition, 1987)
- Asian Pacific American Culture and History
Projects
Current Projects:
- Project Director: Barriers to Bridges: Asian Immigration after Exclusion exhibition, opening November 2008
- Co-Chair Asian Pacific American Initiatives Committee, 1999–Present
Past Projects:
- Collections Manager for Whatever Happened to Polio? exhibition, opening, 2005
- Co-Chair Asian Pacific American Heritage Committee, 2000–2003
Public Programs:
- "The Aloha Boys: Contemporary Hawiian Music" performance, July 2005, The Mall
- "Asian Americans and Brown v. Board of Education:Equal Opportunities in Education," lecture and discussion, May 2005, Carmichael Auditorium, NMAH
- A Most Unlikely Hero, documentary film screening and rountable discussion (of 1994 race discrimination case against U.S. Marine Corps), July 2004, Carmichael Auditorium, NMAH (co-sponsor)
- D.C. APA Film Festival Night, October 2003, 2004, 2005, Carmichael Auditorium, NMAH (co-sponsor)
- Searching for Asian America, documentary film screening and roundtable discussion (of what it means to be American from a contemporary Asian American perspective) September 2003, Carmichael Auditorium, NMAH (co-sponsor)
- Korean American centennial commeroration, discussion and roundtable (on Korean American adoptees), July 2003, Carmichael Auditorium, NMAH (co-sponsor)
- "Icons of the Hawaiian Renaissance: Eddie Aikau and the Hokule'a," lecture, book reading, and discussion, March 2003, Information Age Theater, NMAH (co-sponsor)