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BLOG: Lunch with Deputy Mayor Kim

July 16, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim of Seattle invited Northwest Asian Weekly’s summer youth leadership program to have lunch at City Hall this summer. Our kids have no social status. They still have to do something to prove their worth. Yet, Kim sent me an email to invite our kids this summer back in March! I was […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Cho, Asian American, Bob Santos, City Hall, Connie So, Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim, Hyeok Kim, Justice Mary Yu, Lori Matsukawa, Martha Choe, Mayor Ed Murray, Northwest Asian Weekly, Publisher's Blog, SYLP, Seattle, Vol 34 No 30 | July 18 - July 24, gary locke

Fundraiser for Nepal

May 22, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NAAAP-Seattle had a unique celebration of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month and helped raise funds for the earthquake victims of Nepal on May 15. The event started off with a mixer at Eastern Café. Afterwards, Dr. Connie So, Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington’s American Ethnic Studies department, presented on stereotypes of API Americans in […]

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2015, American Ethnic Studies, Connie So, Nepal, US, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 22 | May 23 - May 29

BLOG: Make her proud

November 6, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Former educator Carol Simmons knows how to express gratitude.

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2014, Betty Patu, Carol Simmons, Claudia Kauffman, Connie So, King County Executive Dow Constantine, Publisher's Blog, Sam Kelly, Seattle City Councilman David Della, Seattle Public School Board, UW, Vol 33 No 46 | November 8 - November 14

Race, place, and culture

October 27, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On October 14 (at Naked City Brewing in Greenwood) and October 22 (Royal Room in Columbia City) Humanities Washington presented a program entitled Loud and Proud, Washington State’s Asian American Civil Rights Movement. 

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2014, Asian American Civil Rights Movement, Connie So, Think Drink, Tonya Mosley, Vol 33 No 44 | October 25 - October 31, Washington State, culture

PICTORIAL: All the Pomp and Circumstance

June 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On June 15, over 40,000 Huskies, friends, and family members crowded CenturyLink Field to take part in the pomp and circumstance of the graduation of the Class of 2013. The stadium was a sea of academic robes, carefully — and some not so carefully — decorated caps, and the graduates’ hopes and dreams. Over 5,000 […]

Filed Under: Features, Education, Community News, Pictorials Tagged With: 2013, Connie So, John Webster, Professors Julia Herschensohn, Saya Li, Serena Wu, Tetsu Kashima, Third Andersen, Vol 32 No 27 | June 29 - July 5

IDENTITY: Being half Asian

September 1, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Addison Wright SYLP student This year, I participated in the Summer Youth Leadership Program, which is run by Northwest Asian Weekly. I am going to be a senior at Newport High School next year. I play tennis and I dabble in other sports as well. It was really fun to get to know people […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: Chinese, Connie So, Newport High School, Northwest Asian Weekly, SYLP, SYLP 2011, Summer Youth Leadership Program

RACISM: Beyond the skin

September 1, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Chloe Choi SYLP student The Summer Youth Leadership Program focuses on educating, empathizing, and empowering the youth of today. One of our main focuses was on the discrimination against minorities, primarily the Asian population. Our group discussed different forms of discrimination that Asian Americans face and ways to respond to these. As we sat […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: Asian Americans, Connie So, Northwest Asian Weekly, SYLP, SYLP 2011

MODEL MINORITY: Stereotypes … can we put this flame out?

September 1, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Chris Lee SYLP student Stereotypes … now where do I begin? Stereotypes are extremely common in our culture. Whether you are judged by your race or by how you act, stereotypes will be difficult to stop. Our culture has been adapted to judge someone based on their appearance. What we can control is making […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: African Americans, Andrew Cho, Asian Americans, Connie So, Jonathan Chin, Northwest Asian Weekly, Officer Chin, Rich Cho, SYLP, SYLP 2011, Summer Youth Leadership Program, Whether Black, culture

MODEL MINORITY: Emerging as an Asian American

September 1, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Harrison Lo SYLP student Asian Americans were thought to be ninjas, to be seen and yet unseen in society. We are seen as the minority group that has it best. We can take the racist remarks and comments as if they are nothing. Why has this become the image of Asians today? We hardly […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: African American, Asian Americans, Cesar Chavez, Civil Rights Movement, Connie So, Kollaboration, Martin Luther King Jr., Northwest Asian Weekly, SYLP, SYLP 2011, Summer Youth Leadership Program, culture

BLOG: How many have had their lives touched by NW Asian Weekly?

September 1, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Since the founding of our Summer Youth Leadership Program (SYLP) in 1995, more than 500 students have benefited. The Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the newspaper, created the three-week, all-expenses-paid leadership and community-building training camp to benefit more than 30 greater Seattle area […]

Filed Under: Education, Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: Andrew Cho, Bob Santos, Connie So, Danny Woo Garden, Genevieve Lin, ID, International District Chinatown Community Center, Loving Hut, Mary Yu, Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation, Publisher Ng's blog, SYLP, SYLP 2011, Seafair Chinatown, Seattle, Yolanda Eng, reunion

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