One Voice: College Access Pioneers
September 25, 2013
By: Susan Silbert, PhD Towards the end of the summer one of our students was ready to go to Stanford until his glasses were stolen. This isn’t a hurdle most incoming Cardinals have to face, but this ‘One Voice’ student wasn’t an ordinary Cardinal. One Voice students are exceptional minds who deserve the best education […]
Read MoreFinding The Way Home: An Artist's Journey
August 21, 2013
By Nuttaphol Ma Years ago, my father visited me when I was working in Hong Kong as a marketing manager for a US multinational. We took a road trip heading north to Shantou, an area where natives speak the same dialect as my grandfather. “Do we have relatives here?” I asked my father. He responded, […]
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Preserving Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles
May 29, 2013
By Leslie Ito In the heart of Little Tokyo stands a beacon to the history and culture of Japanese Americans: The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. It is the largest ethnic cultural center of its kind in the United States. The JACCC features a five-story office building, an 840-seat theater and a plaza. The […]
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Immigration Reform is About Empowerment
May 22, 2013
By Catherine Eusebio Kathy is an undocumented Thai-Chinese immigrant from Arizona. She wrote to me about her lifetime of isolation. The label “illegal” made her feel unwelcome despite living in the U.S. since childhood. And while her state is infamous for its antagonistic treatment of immigrants, Kathy did not know a single undocumented person in […]
Read MoreFinding Peace
May 8, 2013
H. Cooke Sunoo Growing up in San Francisco to Korean parents, I looked different than my classmates but in my home and heart, my family was unabashedly American. My father, now 95, has been an American citizen for almost 75 years and served in the American army. His love for America (which he calls home) […]
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