Asian Heritage Month
Reflections
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For Part 1 of this year’s Asian Heritage Month series, guest author Auston Chhor 蔡健俊 sits down with Dominic Lai 黎憲榮, Senior Development, Marketing, and Operations Director at Dragon Boat BC.
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On the heels of hua foundation’s month long Pacific Islander and Asian Heritage Month social media reflections, Jamison Schulz-Franco (from the Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network) and christina lee (hua foundation manager of operations + special projects) chat about empathy, shifting dynamics, and bringing our loved ones into our work, in a landline heart to heart. This conversation has been edited for clarity and flow.
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This week we’re sharing some reflections from our special projects team, who take on a lot of critical solidarity work, through direct engagement with the community.
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Today, we’re sitting down with nelli agbulos, past Race & Food cohort member, and a former New Yorker and an honorary New Jerseyan. The following interview has been edited for clarity and flow.
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As an organization, hua foundation has been engaging in an exciting period of growth over the last few years. Earlier this year, we embarked on a journey to expand our board of directors and we are excited to welcome Crecien Bencio, Joanne Li 李亚君, Jessica Wang 王衍華, and Yara Younis to the team!
This week for Asian Heritage Month, they are sharing some reflections and aspirations for their upcoming term on the hua foundation board, based on conversations facilitated by kevin and christina. These interviews have been edited for clarity, and brought together in conversation here.
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Heritage is a complicated word, loaded with mixed feelings. I am writing this from my family home in Taipei, Taiwan, where 12 years ago, I stayed to study Chinese and improve my Mandarin. It was on that trip that I realized how much of my heritage I had shunned while growing up in Canada.