Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance

Please join the Massachusetts Asian American Commission at its

Sixth Annual Unity Dinner:  Celebrating Emerging Asian American Entrepreneurs

Keynote Speaker & Recipient of 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award

Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School

Wednesday, May 16, 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Boston University, Metcalf Hall at George Sherman Union

775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA  02215

Honorees:

Joe Chung, Managing Director & Co-Founder of Redstar Ventures

Chiang J. Li, MD FACP, CEO & Founder of Boston Biomedical Inc.

Niraj Shah, CEO & Co-Founder of Wayfair

Jo Tango, Partner & Founder of Kepha Partners

Sushil K. Tuli, CEO & President of Leader Bank

Register online

or visit us at www.aacommission.org

We are excited to conclude a year of momentum with an open call for leadership for this upcoming year. Positions on our executive leadership team as well as committee-specific positions are available. Please reach out to me directly (judith.li@gmail.com) if you are interested.

• General Boston chapter leadership (co-heads, membership chair)
• Vice presidents of Culture, Social, and Careers

On Sunday, Feb 26^th at 3pm, we will also host a leadership round table open to all members at Ticknor Lounge on Harvard campus to give a brief description of each role, as well as hear your thoughts on chapter events for this year. Tea and refreshments will be provided.

All the best for the new year.

H4A would like to cordially invite you to our joint winter reception event with Harvard Association of Asian and Asian American Faculty and Administrators (HAAAAFA). Following the reception, we will head to the American Repertory Theatre for the viewing of the spectacular production of "Wild Swans." The event will take place Wednesday, February 29th, at the Phillips Brooks House Parlor Room, Harvard Yard, from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m., followed by the performance at A.R.T at 7:30 p.m if you are going to the show.  We will also have the opportunity to meet the cast and have a post-performance discussion. 

As a benefit to our members, we've reserved tickets at a discounted rate of $33 per ticket.  The reception is free, food compliments of the Office of the Assistant to the President.  Please complete the form below by February 22 to RSVP and indicate number of tickets you wish to purchase - first come, first served!  Payments will be collected during the event.

http://tinyurl.com/wildswanevent 

“Wild Swans” is based on the bestselling book "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang:  http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/wild-swans

Through the generous efforts of H4A alumni, the first permanent position in the new Ethnic Studies program was endowed in 2010 and filled in the 2011-2012 academic year by Ju Yon Kim. Her bio and a description of the courses she is teaching this year follow: 

Professor Ju Yon Kim has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in English and the first permanent faculty member in the Ethnic Studies program. A 2002 Yale summa cum laude BA in English and Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Kim wrote her dissertation on “Disappearing Acts and Uncanny Materializations: Performances of the Racial Mundane." She has experience as a Teaching Fellow in courses on Asian American literature as well as on Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, and she submitted syllabi for “The Transnational Imaginings of Asian American Theater” and “Set in Motion: An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction.” She knows French, Korean, and some Japanese.