Diversity and the Bar – March/April 2016
Diversity and the Bar – March/April 2016
Congratulations to Austin So and the rest of the Minority Corporate Counsel 2016 Rising Stars! Not only is Austin our In House Counsel Committee Co-Chair and NAPABA Northeast Regional Governor, he is an exceptional attorney and champion of diversity.
According to So, “In-house lawyers should take the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. We do harm when we slow down the business, or when we say ‘no.’ A good in-house lawyer finds a way to say ‘yes’ while minimizing risk.”
To read a little more about the wild ride that Austin has had at Heraeus and advice that he would give to aspiring attorneys, open the article or grab a hard copy of MCCA’s Diversity & the Bar: 2016 Rising Stars.
Volunteers Needed for the ActionNYC Immigration Legal Clinic, Apr. 23
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) seeks volunteers for the ActionNYC Immigration Legal Clinic scheduled for April 23. This event will support immigrants in receiving free legal screenings and consultations; Temporary Protect Status (TPS), Employment Authorization, and Request for Fee Waiver application/form assistance; and information about IDNYC services and various social, educational, health and financial resources. ActionNYC is a program of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and The City University of New York.
Date:
Saturday, April 23
(see online volunteer form for shifts)
Location:
Hostos Community College
475 Grand Concourse (Gym)
Bronx, NY 10451
Volunteer Teams/Roles:
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Team
- Application/Form Assistance Volunteers
- Legal Review Volunteers
Interpretation & Logistics Team
- Interpretation Volunteers
- Logistics Volunteers
KALAGNY – 2016 NAPABA Northeast Regional Conference
KALAGNY – 2016 NAPABA Northeast Regional Conference
Please save the date:
2016 NAPABA
Northeast Regional Conference
Hosted by National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York (KALAGNY)!
August 19-21, 2016
New York City
SUBMIT YOUR CLE or PROGRAMMING PROPOSALS TODAY
Submission deadline is April 29, 2016!
Stay tuned for more information on registration, programming and sponsorships!
2016 NAPABA Convention – Housing Open!
2016 NAPABA Convention
San Diego, November 3-6, 2016
Housing for the 2016 NAPABA Convention is now open! Reserve your room at the official NAPABA Convention Hotel, the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.
Hilton San Diego Bayfront | 1 Park Blvd.
Standard Room: $239 single/double plus applicable taxes & fees
Online Reservations | Reservation by phone: 1-800-HILTONS (identify yourself as a NAPABA attendee)
- Cut-off date for the NAPABA block is October 10, 2016.
- After the cutoff date or after the block has been filled, rooms may still be available, but will be sold at the prevailing rate.
- All rates include complimentary in-room internet access.
- A periodic review of the room block will be conducted to ensure that attendees do not reserve multiple rooms. Any attendee that reserves 2 rooms or more may have their additional reservations removed with notice.
- Guests may cancel their own reservations directly with the hotel at least 72 hours prior to arrival in order to avoid a charge of one night’s room and tax.
Check-In Time: 4:00 pm | Check-Out Time: 12:00 pm
Self Parking: $28/day | Valet Parking $40/day
Screening of Lucky Chow with Danielle Chang
Screening of Lucky Chow with Danielle Chang
The Screening of Lucky Chow with Danielle Chang is part of the program series, “Living Memory: The Culture and Heritage of Chinese New Yorkers,” created by Queens Library and The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA). The mission of this program is to preserve the stories, traditions, and cultural contributions of the Chinese community in New York and share them with the rest of the city.
Event Description:
How has Asian Cuisine transformed the landscape of food in the United States? Follow Lucky Rice culinary festival founder Danielle Chang as she tastes, explores, and learns about a variety of Asian food – from ramen, to kimchi, to dim sum. Signed copies of Danielle Chang’s cookbook, Lucky Rice, will be available for purchase at the screening.
Tues. April 19, Flushing, NY.
For more details about this free event follow the link in the title.
Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy — Application Now Available!
June 26-28, 2016 – Seattle, Washington
NAPABA is currently seeking applicants for the fourth annual Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy (CBLA) in Seattle, Washington, from June 26-28, 2016 (Sunday afternoon through Tuesday morning).
The CBLA is intended for up-and-coming bar leaders who have been in practice for 5-15 years and have served as officers of a NAPABA affiliate and/or co-chair of a NAPABA committee. It is a collaborative effort among the American Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Bar Association, National Native American Bar Association, and NAPABA. Beginning this year, the National LGBT Bar Association has joined as a collaborative partner. The purpose of CBLA is to strengthen the pipeline of diverse bar association leaders through leadership training and professional development programs. This is an excellent opportunity to foster collaborative relationships across national bar associations at the local or regional level, share best practices, and develop potential business opportunities and friendships.
If you have attended a previous CBLA, please consider joining us at CBLA this year for robust alumni programming.
Application Deadline | Friday, May 13
- Applications can be found HERE.
- Deadline to submit an application is Friday, May 13 by 8 p.m. EDT.
- Applicants will be asked to submit a brief essay of 250-500 words; a CV/resume; and two letters of recommendation, at least one of which should be from a NAPABA member.
More information about the program can be found on the CBLA website. Please contact CBLA Steering Committee member Daniel Sakaguchi with any questions at dsakaguchi@ArmstrongTeasdale or at 314-342-4178.
Harvard China Forum 2016 | 哈佛中国论坛 2016
Harvard China Forum 2016 | 哈佛中国论坛 2016
Harvard China Forum
April 8 – 10th, Boston Hynes Convention Center
Harvard China Forum (HCF) is North America’s largest student-run China conference. For 18 years, the Forum has provided an unrivaled platform for world leaders to debate and address China-related issues. With over 100 speakers and 1,200 attendees, the conference will help you to not just enhance your understanding of China, but also forge valuable connections and access life-changing opportunities.
Click on the link in the title for more details
Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Myth
Friday Evening Lecture Series
Please join us for a talk on, Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Myth, on Friday, April 1, 2016, from 6pm to 8pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, Room 6304.01, Manhattan. This talk is free and open to the general public, and is co-sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center – Immigrant Seminar Series.
Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The mainstream discourse has drawn on many generic concepts to describe the prototypical Asian family, which have given rise to two versions of the Asian immigrant family myth. The first celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideology of the “normal (white) American family” based on a hard-working male breadwinner and a devoted wife/ mother who raises obedient children. The other demonizes Asian families around these very same cultural values by highlighting the dangers of excessive parenting, oppressive hierarchies, and emotionless pragmatism in Asian cultures. In her new book Saving Face, Angie Chung shatters these one-dimensional portrayals of Asian families and reveals the emotional complexities of family relations in a changing economy through the eyes of adult-age Korean and Chinese Americans.
Based on the moving narratives of daughters and sons of immigrant families, Chung explores how the family roles American-born children assume in adaptation to their specific family circumstances have informed the way they view ethnicity and practice culture as adults. Although they know little about their parents’ lives, the author reveals how Korean and Chinese Americans assemble fragments of their childhood memories, kin-scripted narratives, and racial myths to make sense of their family experiences. Chung argues that this process of managing their feelings helps them to ease the emotional and economic strains of immigrant family life and to rediscover love and empathy through new modes of communication and caregiving. However, the book ultimately finds that these adaptive strategies come at a considerable social and psychological cost that do less to reconcile the racial contradictions and economic strains that minority immigrant families face today.
Angie Y. Chung is an Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Albany. Dr. Chung has served as visiting professor at Yonsei and Korea University and is currently the 2016 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her areas of expertise include immigration and the second generation, community and urban sociology, gender and family, race and ethnicity, Asian American studies, and qualitative methods. She is currently working on an NSF-funded research project on the politics of economic growth and urban redevelopment in Koreatown and Monterey Park, Los Angeles.
To RSVP for this talk, please visit www.aaari.info/16-04-01Chung.htm. Please be prepared to present proper identification when entering the building lobby.
If you are unable to attend the talk, streaming video and audio podcast will be available online the following week.
Thanks to CUNY AAARI for sharing this announcement.