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Crossing to safety: Imei Hsu offers reassurance about the vaccine

January 7, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Cleaning out a relative’s house recently, Imei Hsu found a portrait of her grandfather. A Nationalist general, he is bedecked with medals.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 2 | JANUARY 9 - JANUARY 15

How Seattle Symphony cellist Nathan Chan brings classical music to social media

October 29, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Before he could read, let alone read sheet music, Seattle Symphony cellist Nathan Chan had already conducted an orchestra through Mozart’s Variations.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 44 | OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 6

Author of Bruce Lee biography discusses trip to Shaolin Temple, documentary

June 18, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Matthew Polly picked up karate when he was 12 years old, as a way to avoid being bullied.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 25 | JUNE 20 - JUNE 26

Bono to head response effort in Washington

April 9, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Born in the Philippines and raised in Texas, Navy Vice Admiral Raquel Bono is the Washington state director for COVID-19 Health System Response Management. She is the first, female, medical, three-star general in the U.S. Navy and is currently a senior fellow with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics […]

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 15 | APRIL 11 - APRIL 17

Living tales through food and culture

January 23, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

All across the world, including in the Pacific Northwest, Vietnamese communities gather together to celebrate Tết, otherwise known as Vietnamese Lunar New Year.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2020, Tet in Seattle, VOL 39 NO 4 | JANUARY 25 - JANUARY 31

Charlene Grinolds: What drives her to serve her community

November 22, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Live in the present and leave this life with no regrets.” That is the personal motto of Northwest Asian Weekly Top Contributor honoree Charlene Grinolds.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 48 | NOVEMBER 23 - NOVEMBER 29

Poverty to prosperity — Bobby Lee: Seattle’s Director of Economic Development

November 8, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Growing up in South Korea in the post-Korean War era, current Director of Economic Development Bobby Lee saw firsthand how different economic strategies can help pull people out of poverty and transition a country to prosperity. He said this experience had a formative effect on his career choices.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, Bobby Lee, VOL 38 NO 46 | NOVEMBER 9 - NOVEMBER 15

Asian Pacific Directors Coalition engages community leaders to dispel stereotypes

November 8, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“When the U.S. wants to exert force, they send the Seventh Fleet,” said Mark Okazaki, former chair of Asian Pacific Directors Coalition (APDC).

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 46 | NOVEMBER 9 - NOVEMBER 15

Disparities in the workplace for women of color

November 1, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“[Women of color] feel they can’t be themselves at work, feel like they need to downplay their ethnicity.”

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 45 | NOVEMBER 2 - NOVEMBER 8

Mariko Lockhart owning her identity

October 31, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Mariko Lockhart’s identity has always informed her work. A mixed race daughter of a Black father and a Japanese mother, Lockhart said she grew up in New York City “very aware of being biracial,” because it was so unusual at the time.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2019, Mariko Lockhart, VOL 38 NO 45 | NOVEMBER 2 - NOVEMBER 8

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