Novelist Kermit Roosevelt on the Internment of Japanese Americans
The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development and the American Constitution Society invite you to join us for a conversation with novelist and University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt.
Professor Roosevelt will discuss his acclaimed new novel, Allegiance, which explores the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, arguably one of the most shameful civil rights violations committed by the U.S. government.
Date
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Time
5:30 p.m.
Location
St. John’s School of Law
Belson Moot Court Room | Second Floor
We’re proud to foster an ongoing dialogue on civil rights at St. John’s Law and we hope you’ll join us and add your perspective to this vital community conversation.
More Information
You don’t need to RSVP to attend this event. If you have any question, please contact Professor Elaine Chiu at chiue1@stjohns.edu.
Asian Stereotypes: Understanding How Microaggressions Impact Professionals & Youth
What do Asian stereotypes have to do with the way we’re treated in schools and the workplace? How do the “model minority” and “perpetual foreigner” images influence our academic and professional careers – and how do we overcome the “bamboo ceiling”?
On Oct. 27, leadership consultant Gloria S. Chan and psych expert Kevin Nadal will lead us in an illuminating discussion about the impact of Asian stereotypes on our everyday lives and how we can effectively address them to achieve growth and success.
Event Details:
Tues., Oct. 27, 6-8 PM
505 8th Ave., 20th Floor
RSVP:
Seating is limited. To RSVP, please CLICK HERE.
PRESS RELEASE: Navdeep Singh Appointed as NAPABA’s Policy Director
For Immediate Release
Oct. 14, 2015
For More Information, Contact:
Brett Schuster, Communications Manager
bschuster@napaba.org, 202-775-9555
Navdeep Singh Appointed as NAPABA’s Policy Director
WASHINGTON — The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) has named Navdeep Singh as its new policy director, announced NAPABA Executive Director Tina Matsuoka. As policy director, Singh will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies and programs to support NAPABA’s policy priorities.
An expert in strategic legal policy and civil rights, Navdeep Singh brings important experience as a policy advocate to NAPABA. Prior to joining NAPABA, Singh served as policy director at the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), where he co-authored “Turban Myths” – the first study on implicit bias and the Sikh American community – with researchers from Stanford University, advised the FBI on the implementation of expanded hate crimes categories, and developed the first national Sikh American television public service announcement. Singh is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the George Washington University Law School.
“Navdeep Singh is a proven leader in the Asian Pacific American community and I am excited to bring him on board as NAPABA’s new policy director,” Matsuoka said. “We look forward to working with Navdeep to enhance NAPABA’s national presence and expand our coalitions within the legal profession and the broader community to support diversity and inclusion.”
“It is a tremendous honor to join NAPABA,” said Singh. “I am excited to support NAPABA in its continued efforts to address the civil rights issues confronting Asian Pacific American communities, and to help ensure a robust, dynamic, and successful future for NAPABA and the Asian Pacific American community.”
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The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) is the national association of Asian Pacific American attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students. NAPABA represents the interests of almost 50,000 attorneys and approximately 75 national, state, and local Asian Pacific American bar associations. Its members include solo practitioners, large firm lawyers, corporate counsel, legal services and non-profit attorneys, and lawyers serving at all levels of government.
NAPABA continues to be a leader in addressing civil rights issues confronting Asian Pacific American communities. Through its national network of committees and affiliates, NAPABA provides a strong voice for increased diversity of the federal and state judiciaries, advocates for equal opportunity in the workplace, works to eliminate hate crimes and anti-immigrant sentiment, and promotes the professional development of people of color in the legal profession.
To learn more about NAPABA, visit www.napaba.org, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter (@NAPABA).
Press Release: AABANY Applauds Appointment of Peggy Kuo as United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 2015
Contact: Yang Chen, Executive Director
(718) 228-7206
NEW YORK – October 14, 2015 – The Asian American Bar Association of New York (“AABANY”) is proud to announce that Peggy Kuo has been appointed United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Kuo was sworn in on October 9, 2015.
Before her appointment as United States Magistrate Judge, Peggy Kuo was Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel of the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. Before that, Ms. Kuo was Chief Hearing Officer at the New York Stock Exchange, counsel at WilmerHale, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and Acting Deputy Chief of the Civil Rights Division Criminal Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1998 to 2002, Ms. Kuo was a prosecutor with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where she investigated and prosecuted war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ms. Kuo is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. She clerked for Hon. Judith W. Rogers, then Chief Judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals. She is President-Elect of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court. In 2010 she was honored by AABANY at its Annual Dinner.
“AABANY congratulates Ms. Kuo on her selection as a Magistrate Judge of the Eastern District of New York and is proud to have supported her candidacy,” states AABANY President William Wang. “With her appointment, Ms. Kuo joins the growing number of distinguished Asian Pacific Americans who are serving in our Federal courts. Although Asian Pacific Americans remain under-represented at all levels in the judiciary, AABANY commends the Eastern District of New York for its efforts to increase diversity on the Federal bench. Ms. Kuo’s appointment represents a step forward in creating a judiciary that reflects the diversity of the communities that it serves.”
For more information, please contact Yang Chen, AABANY Executive Director, at (718) 228-7206, or direct any inquiries to main@aabany.org.
The Asian American Bar Association of New York is a professional membership organization of attorneys concerned with issues affecting the Asian Pacific American community. Incorporated in 1989, AABANY seeks not only to encourage the professional growth of its members but also to advocate for the Asian Pacific American community as a whole. AABANY is the New York regional affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).
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East Meets West – Manhattan Luxury Real Estate Connect
The rise of Asian economies, and in turn Asian investors, has proven to
be on the most significant developments in global real estate over the last decade. Enormous sums of money are flowing across borders in all
directions. According to the Knight Frank Wealth Report, in 2014, New
York was the number one city globally for cross-border investment. In
2013, Asians investors spent $92.9 billion. According to the Wealth X
Global Luxury Residential Real Estate Report real estate is an investment,
an asset and a lifestyle. East Meets West explores these topics.
Date: Monday, November 2, 2015
Venue: The Waldorf Astoria, 301 Park Avenue, New York NY 10022
Speakers:
- Ilan Bracha
(Founder, Keller Williams, NYC), - Mary
Chan (Managing Director & Relationship Manager, First Republic Bank), - Lawrence Cohen (Partner &
Hospitality Group Leader, Marks Paneth), Martin - A. Edelstein (Senior Tax Manager, Marks Paneth),
- Nikki Field (Sr. Global Advisor & Associate Broker, Sotheby’s
International Realty), - Jeffrey M. Finn
(Founding Partner, Pavonia Group), - Louise
Phillips Forbes (Associate Broker, Halstead Property), - David Friedman (Co-Founder & President, Wealth-X),
- Gordon H. Hoppe (Executive Vice
President, Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group – Corcoran), - Kenneth S. Horn (Alchemy Partners),
- Gang Hu (Executive Director of Construction & Marketing, Greenland
Forest City Partners), - Michael P.
Kerchaval (CEO Emeritus, International Council of Shopping Centers), - Kathy A. Korte (President & CEO,
Sotheby’s), - Pamela Liebman (President
& CEO, Corcoran), - Janice Liu (Vice
President & Client Service Manager, East West Bank), - Michael Meyers (President, F&T Group),
- Shaun Osher (Founder & CEO, CORE),
- Raj Rajpal (Mortgage Consultant, Wells Fargo),
- Diane M. Ramirez (CEO, Halstead Property),
- Lezley Shad (CEO, Keller Williams NYC),
- Leonard Steinberg (President & Corporate Broker, Compass),
- Kevin Swill (COO, The Carlton Group),
- Sam Suzuki (CEO, Suzuki Capital LLC),
- Clem Turner Esq. (Homeier & Law,
P.C.), - Mandy Wong (Branch Manager,
Cathay Bank), - Stephen Yale-Loehr
(Miller Mayer LLP), - Susi Yu
(Executive Vice President of Development, Forest City Ratner Companies), - Christina Zhang (Bank of China) and
others
Attendees: CEO’s of Real Estate Firms, Luxury Real Estate Brokers and Associates,
Commercial Brokers, Developers, Attorneys, Lenders, Accounting Firms,
Architects and Design Professionals, Economists, National and Local
AREAA Members, Press and Media.
AREAA: Founded in 2003, the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA)
is a national professional trade organization dedicated to promoting
sustainable homeownership opportunities in the Asian American
communities by creating a powerful national voice for the housing and
real estate professional that serve this dynamic market.
Sponsors: Marks Paneth
REGISTRATION:
PLEASE NOTE: THE CURRENT PROMOTIONAL REGISTRATION FEE OF $99 WILL INCREASE TO $149 BY NEXT WEEK – Register now!
NAPABA Focus Group: The Portrait Project
The Portrait Project: A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law
“The Portrait Project: A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law,” is the first comprehensive study of its kind examining how Asian Americans lawyers and law students are situated within the legal profession. The Portrait Project – led by California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu, Yale law professor Ian Ayres, and three Yale law students – will be conducting focus groups during the annual NAPABA Convention this year from Nov. 5-8, 2015, in New Orleans.
As of now, 100 of you have volunteered your time to participate in these focus groups sessions. We would love to hear from more of you, and we especially encourage legal academics, public defenders, prosecutors, and nonprofit attorneys to sign up for these sessions. Each focus group will last one hour and engage participants in conversations about law school experiences, career choices, and experiences as lawyers. These small-group conversations of about eight to ten participants each will yield rich insights into the opportunities for and obstacles to advancement of Asian Americans in the legal profession. Your narratives and experiences will help us create a comprehensive portrait of what it means to be an Asian American in the legal profession today.
As a token of our appreciation, we will be giving away the choice of a 4th Generation Apple TV (to be released in October) or a Keurig K45 Elite Brewing System to one randomly selected participant in each focus group.
If you are willing to participate in a focus group, please fill out this form by Monday, Oct. 12.
This is our last call for participants, and we hope to hear from more of you soon. Please free to reach out to us by email at portraitprojectresearch@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
The Portrait Project
Justice Goodwin Liu
California Supreme Court
Professor Ian Ayres
Yale Law School
Eric Chung, Xiaonan “April” Hu, Christine Kwon
Yale Law School Class of 2017
Upcoming Multicultural Events
AABANY members are encouraged to attend the following fun events happening in this month and November. Big thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Multicultural Audience Development Initiative (MADI) for sharing these events with us.
Upcoming Events:
Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom
MADI Viewing and Reception
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6:30 – 8:30 PM
RSVP: madiegypt.eventbrite.com
Teen Night: Teens Take the Met! (Ages 13–18)
Friday, October 16, 2015
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Vijay Iyer – Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project
Performance in the Met’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Thursday, November 12, 2015
7:30 PM
Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom
College Group at the Met Viewing and Reception
Thursday, November 12, 2015
8:00 – 11:00 PM
Diwali Family Festival
Sunday, November 15, 2015
12:00 – 5:00 PM
2:30 PM – East-West School of Dance will tell the Story of Diwali The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium