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Starting on May 15th join us in honoring

the Chinese railroad workers during the150th Anniversary

Celebration.

It’s called the Silent Spike — the Chinese immigrants’ contributions to the building of the world’s � rst transcontinental railroad. � e story of these immigrants has been glossed over in history for far too long, until now.

Beginning in 1865, 12,000 Chinese laborers took on the monumental and dangerous task of completing the western section of one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the 19th century. Although they

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faced prejudice, low wages and social isolation, the Chinese railroad workers endured — connecting the nation and opening the door for massive economic expansion.

Recently, U.S. Secretary of Labor � omas E. Perez delivered long overdue recognition for the Chinese railroad workers by inducting them into the Labor Hall of Fame. Now, it is our opportunity to pay honor to these immigrants.

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the 150th Anniversary

It’s called the Silent Spike — the Chinese immigrants’ contributions to the building of the world’s first transcontinental railroad. The story of these immigrants has been glossed over in history for far too long, until now.

Beginning in 1865, 12,000 Chinese laborers took on the monumental and dangerous task of completing the western section of one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the 19th century. Although they faced prejudice, low wages and social isolation, the Chinese railroad workers endured — connecting the nation and opening the door for massive economic expansion.

Recently, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez delivered long overdue recognition for the Chinese railroad workers by inducting them into the Labor Hall of Fame. Now, it is our opportunity to pay honor to these immigrants.

of the Chinese Immigrants’ Building the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad

Starting on May 15th

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Celebration.

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Congresswoman Judy Chu

Congressman Mike Honda

Congressman Ted Lieu

Congresswoman Doris Matsui

Congresswoman Grace Meng

California State Treasurer John Chiang

California State Controller Betty yee

Board of Equalization Member Fiona Ma

California State Senator Jim nielsen

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson

San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee

Former Sacramento County

Supervisor Jimmie yee

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APAPA Founder & Chairman C.C. yin

McWong President & CEO Margaret Wong

Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Chairman Lin Jun

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Asian Pacifi c American News & ReviewMission StatementThe Asian Pacifi c American News and Review is a bi-monthly newspaper dedicated to providing a single, comprehensive publication, both in print and online, that seeks to raise awareness of issues of interest to Asians and associated ethnic groups in Northern California.

ObjectivesEducate — inform readers about the issues facing Asian Pacifi c Americans. And also to give a voice to the community for sharing and lauding accomplishments and concerns.

Participate — promote and encourage readers to take an active role in raising awareness of the Asian Pacifi c American community and its contributions and concerns.

Advocate — Ask readers to be an advocate for the community as an informed, involved member.While we most directly address the concerns of Asian Pacifi c Americans, our publication is not a racial or ethnic sorting. It is a gathering of all those who wish to gather.

PublisherDennis Lee(209) [email protected]

EditorFay A. Olympia

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Advocacy/OutreachCynthia Lau

Contributing WritersJodi KingMary Nicholson, PHC Jim ChongCami FerryScott TibbedeauxGrant DinMary Jo GohlkeBoyce HinmanChris Tan

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Next IssueMay/June

2015APA Heritage Month

� e month of March comes with a wide range of designations, including the bizarre (Panic Day on the 9th), the tongue-in-cheek (National Pi Day on 3/14 because the value of Pi is 3.14), and two of my favorites: National Goof O� Day on the 22nd, and Make Up Your Own Holiday Day on the 26th.

Levity aside, March is, more signi� cantly, National Women’s History Month, and the theme for this year’s celebration is “Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives.”

One of the 15 women being honored this year by the National Women’s History Project based in Santa Rosa, CA, is UC

Santa Cruz American Studies Professor Judy Yung.

She is best known for her groundbreaking work in documenting the immigration history of Angel Island and the life stories of Chinese American women.

Fittingly, this issue of APANR also features an Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation story by Melanie Tom, and the 150th anniversary celebration of Chinese immigrants’ contributions to the building of the US Transcontinental Railroad.

One woman we wish to honor on National Women’s History Month is our own Mary Nicholson who served as APANR Editor for many years, seeing the paper through many challenges, and helping take it to the next level and then some.

Mary is relinquishing her role as editor to focus on her life’s work, Healings in Motion, the organization she founded to serve survivors of stroke, brain injuries and brain attacks, supporting recovery and prevention, a� er surviving a life-

threatening brain condition herself.� e APANR family is deeply grateful

for Mary’s years of service as editor and will continue to partner with her to serve our community.

Taking on editorial duties starting with this issue is Fay A. Olympia, who brie� y helped with the paper in 2006. Fay has over 20 years experience in print and broadcast media as a writer, editor, presenter and producer. She had a successful run in business management, marketing and sales, and as a corporate trainer and facilitator of strategic planning for non-pro� ts. She is now a workforce investment professional, currently working as Career Advisor at a local Stockton college, where she has built a strong track record for helping business and accounting graduates secure gainful employment.


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Strengthen Ourselves Step By StepBy: S.B. Woo

Senator Hu� is apparently leading a concerted e� ort to court Asian American voters in California. He supported the STOP SCA 5 (Senate Constitutional Amendment 5) movement, aiming to halt a Democratic initiative to return “race-preference” college admissions to California. He also sponsored Senate Concurrent Resolution 10 (SCR 10) on February 9, 2015, and Senate Joint Resolution 23 (SJR 23) in 2014. What do these resolutions do?

SCR 10 “…recognizes the Lunar New Year Celebration.”

SJR 23 “…acknowledges the history of the Chinese in California, ... and would request Congress to adopt resolutions of apology to the Chinese American community for the enactment of the Chinese exclusion laws.” [In comparison, H. resolution 683 passed by the Congress in 2012, sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu expressed regret only.]

Let Buyers Beware!

It is good to have a major political party courting our votes in California. However, we shouldn’t give away our votes cheaply. 80-20 Initiative aims to help educate Asian American voters and to prod the two

political parties to compete to earn our votes -- with substantive deeds rather than “sweet words signifying nothing.”

Know the distinction between Resolutions and Bills

Resolutions are words, not laws. House Resolution 683, SJR 23 and SCR 10 are all resolutions. Very o� en resolutions are used by politicians, as cheap ways to win votes from the “uneducated voters,” because passing a resolution is very easy to do, owing to 3 reasons:

1) It is not a law but just sweet words;

2) It doesn’t require the appropriation of money nor does it set penalties for anyone who violates a resolution. In contrast, a law must set a penalty for anyone violating the law;

3) Politicians customarily pass each other’s resolutions.

As a former President of the Delaware Senate, I know. Bills, if passed, become laws. Passing a bill is normally hundreds of times harder than passing a mere resolution.

To illustrate the nature of resolutions: A� er the passage of SJR 23, did the US Congress issue an apology? NO!

Did the Congress even bother to react to SJR 23?

To illustrate the nature of 80-20’s work: In 2008, 80-20 induced then Senator Obama to agree to appoint more Asian American federal lawyers. � e result? Today the number of such judges has tripled. � e number of Asian American appeals court judges has increased from zero to four.

Step by Step We Will Strengthen Ourselves!

80-20 has worked tirelessly for 16 years to help strengthen the Asian American community. HELP us continue our trajectory!

S.B. Woo, a volunteerPresident, 80-20 Asian American National Educational Foundationwww.80-20EF.orgHelp us spread the word, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter !

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Celebrating Chinese New Year, healing and � nding home

� e Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation tells the stories of Paci� c Coast immigrants, both those who traveled through Angel Island when there was a U.S. Immigration Station there from 1910 to 1940, and more recent immigrants. Today we’re sharing a New Year’s story by Melanie Tom written a couple of years ago. You can read her whole story at www.aiisf.org/immigrant-voices.

“Growing up, I felt like an outsider. When holidays like Chinese New Year came around, I would panic. My Taiwanese friends would talk excitedly about how they would spend their New Year money and compare their plans for the holiday. As for me, I had nothing to say. Instead I would go home, wishing that my parents were hiding their special knowledge of how to be Chinese and that this was the year they were � nally going to teach me. � at never happened.

“As a child, celebrating Chinese New Year seemed like tangible ways to be authentically Chinese. Like a checklist, if I was able to acquire enough items, I would � nally gain membership in a special club. From my perspective, being ABC (American Born Chinese) was just too amorphous. I didn’t belong anywhere.”

Melanie wrote about her parents’ upbringing in Tucson and San Francisco when “it was dangerous to be Chinese” – immigration from China was severely limited and the Cold War and anti-Communism were in full swing. Her ancestors were “paper sons and daughters” who had to take on false identities and who were interrogated on Angel Island. Melanie’s generation had to � t in to the mainstream society and “celebrating holidays like Chinese New Year was something that we had to give up along the way.

“So my parents were quite surprised when I decided to go to China to visit our ancestral home through the In Search of Roots program. A� er learning how not to be ‘too Chinese,’ going to China was frightening—and it felt wrong. I felt like I was going to explode from anxiety on the plane. It ended up being one of the most healing experiences I’ve ever had—and not because I found a home in China but because I found a community of Chinese migrants around the world, the Chinese diaspora. I � nally found my home.

“I went back to Taishan, my hometown, where I learned that almost every country has at least one Taishan migrant who lived or is living there. In fact, one person observed that every family in that area probably has at least one relative living abroad. I also discovered the Chinese language to be incredibly inclusive and found that I could state

my identity as a Chinese American or member of the Chinese diaspora in words that everybody understood.”

Melanie went back and lived in China for nearly two years, and developed friendships with other young people with Chinese roots who were from Germany, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Canada and Peru, who helped her adjust to living in China.

Melanie concluded, “� is year I will be celebrating Chinese New Year with friends. Some are looking to form a queer-friendly lion dancing team and others are planning to watch the football playo� s while making dumplings. Together, all of us will bring our histories together—which are so di� erent and varied—as members of the Chinese diaspora.”

To contribute your or your family’s Immigrant Voices story, contact Grant Din at [email protected].

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In my journey, the most valuable education has been from the challenges in life. Even simple challenges like discovering a furniture placement

that works for an odd shaped � oor plan. Here are some simple steps for a solution for “working the room”.

De� ne the pathway. In this home, the pathway to the next room needed to be unobstructed. However, it is wide enough for a chair to � t comfortably. Placement of the chair is a nice transition to the seating area in the adjacent space.

Align with something. In this living space, I decided to align the seating with the � replace instead of the wall. Doing this draws the eye to the beautiful lakeshore view instead of obstructing it. Most people would place the furniture against the wall – however, that would have made

the small space feel crowded and unaligned.

Use an area rug to de� ne the space. When creating conversation areas, especially when the furniture is in the middle of the room, use area rugs to anchor the space, and make it feel complete and inviting.

Create a feeling of seamlessness with the adjacent space. By using similar colors, you can make the space feel larger by inviting both spaces to coexist! You can also do this with hallways by hanging artwork that works with the adjacent room.

As always, enjoy the challenge and the discovery of creativity! Embrace the space as odd as it is!

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EMBRACEE THE SPACE: FURNITURE PLACEMENT FOR THE ODD SHAPED ROOM

In my journey, the most valuable education has been from the challenges in life. Even simple challenges like discovering a furniture placement that works for an odd shaped floor plan. Here are some simple steps for a solution for “working the room”:

Define the pathway. In this home, the pathway to the next room needed to be unobstructed. However, it is wide enough for a chair to fit comfortably. Placement of the chair is a nice transition to the seating area in the adjacent space.

Align with something. In this living space, I decided to align the seating with the fireplace instead of the wall. Doing this draws the eye to the beautiful lakeshore view instead of obstructing it. Most people would be the furniture against the wall – however that would have made the small space feel crowded and unaligned.

Use an area rug to define the space. When creating conversation areas, especially when the furniture is in the middle of the room, use area rugs to anchor the space, and make it feel complete and inviting.

Create a feeling of seamlessness with the adjacent space. By using similar colors, you can make the space feel larger by inviting both spaces to coexist! You can also do this with hallways by hanging artwork that works with the adjacent room.

As always, enjoy the challenge and the discovery of creativity! Embrace the space as odd as it is!

� e personal is political for me… Inspired by the Asian Americanand women’s liberation movements in the 1970s, I began researching, interviewing, and writing about Chinese American womenin an e� ort to reclaim my history as a Chinese American woman, refute mainstream stereotypes of the China Doll and Dragon Lady, and set the historical record straight. And I haven’t stopped since. - Judy Yung Ph.D. Oral Historian, Author, and Professor

Judy Yung is best known for her groundbreaking work in documenting the immigration history of Angel Island and the life stories of Chinese American women.

As a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco Chinatown, Yung embarked on a lifelong mission to reclaim the history of Chinese Americans and to educate Americans about the lives, struggles, and contributions to this country.

Her � rst book, Island (1980), involved translating Chinese poems that were found on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station and conducting oral history interviews with former Chinese detainees.

In 1981, with a grant from the federal Women’s Educational Act Program, Yung researched and designed a pictorial exhibit on the history of Chinese American women that traveled throughout the country. In 1986, she wrote the � rst book on the same subject—Chinese Women of America: A Pictorial History.

Eager to delve deeper into Chinese American women’s history, Yung wrote Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1995), and Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1999).

Based on primary sources (Chinese newspapers, immigration records, oral history interviews, and personal

memoirs and writings), the books show how race, class, and gender discrimination shaped the lives of two generations of Chinese American women during a time of great social ferment in China as well as in the United States.

As a professor of American Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Yung taught courses in ethnic studies, Asian American studies, and women’s history, and helped develop an Asian American Studies Program.

Reprinted from the National Women’s History Project website, www.nwhp.org. ©NWHP 2014

Judy Yung one of 15 honorees for National Women’s History Month 2015



SACRAMENTO, CA — KVIE Public Television will air the three-part � lm, Cancer: � e Emperor of All Maladies, presented by Ken Burns, Monday, March 30 through Wednesday, April 1 at 9 p.m.

Cancer: � e Emperor of All Maladies tells the comprehensive story of cancer, from its � rst description in an ancient Egyptian scroll to the gleaming laboratories of modern research institutions. � e � lm interweaves a sweeping historical narrative with intimate stories of contemporary patients, and an investigation of scienti� c breakthroughs along the way. � e � lm, by � lmmaker Barak

Goodman and presented by Ken Burns, is based on the Pulitzer-

Prize winning book � e Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. A 40-minute excerpt of the six-hour � lm will be screened, followed by an expert panel discussion. RSVP

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladiesto Patti Robinson at 916-734-0823 or via email at [email protected].

More information on Cancer: � e Emperor of All Maladies, presented by Ken Burns is available at cancer� lms.org.

About KVIE Public Television: Broadcasting from California’s

capital, KVIE Public Television helps everyone explore the world through television experiences in history, current events, drama, nature, and science. And for the natural-born explorer, KVIE serves as a trusted guide for children with the best educational programming. Established in 1959, KVIE serves more than 1.4 million households in the nation’s 20th largest television market. With one of the largest

geographic signals in the country, KVIE can be viewed in 28 of California’s 58 counties. KVIE is one of the leading producers of public television programming in the country with series like America’s Heartland, KVIE Arts Showcase, Rob on the Road, Studio Sacramento, and ViewFinder. For more information, visit KVIE’s website at www.kvie.org.

Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, le� , author of “� e Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”

and Ken Burns

SACRAMENTO, CA — KVIE Public Television will host a screening of the American Experience � lm, Last Days in Vietnam, � ursday, April 16, at 5:30 p.m. at KVIE Studios. � is year, the � lm is nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. � is screening will feature local panelists who lived through the events depicted in the � lm.

Last Days in Vietnam chronicles the chaotic � nal days of the Vietnam War as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon. With the clock ticking and the city under � re, American o� cers on the ground faced a moral dilemma: follow o� cial policy and evacuate U.S. citizens and their dependents only, or ignore orders and save the men, women, and

Oscar-nominated documentaryLast Days in Vietnam premieres in April

children they had come to value and love in their years in Vietnam. At the risk of their careers and possible court-martial, some individuals took matters into their own hands.

Engaging in unsanctioned and o� en makeshi� operations, they waged a desperate e� ort to evacuate as many South Vietnamese as possible.

American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam will premiere on KVIE Tuesday, April 28 at 9 p.m. � is is director and producer Rory Kennedy’s � rst Academy Award nomination, and the ninth for the American Experience series. Kennedy is the youngest child of the late US Senator Bobby Kennedy.

Please RSVP for the screening and enjoy a preview of the � lm here: http://kvie.org/screening. For more information, contact KVIE Special Events at 916-641-3663 or at [email protected].



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Chronic pain can be caused or worsened by in� ammation. In fact, there is almost always in� ammation when there is pain.

In today’s world, no one has time for pain and so people o� en resort to purchasing over-the-counter (OTC) medications to alleviate pain, whether it is from an injury, arthritic joint pain or a headache.

When the pain becomes chronic, they turn to prescription pain relievers for relief.

Among the most popular are acetaminophen or non-steroidal anti-in� ammatory drugs(NSAIDS). However, since these drugs do not require a prescription, people assume they are safe and are not concerned about the side e� ects and are less than careful about dosing. Becoming educated about the use of these OTC’s is important.

Since it was � rst marketed in 1955, acetaminophen has become one of the most widely used analgesics in the United States. � is OTC can

have many serious side e� ects and there are approximately 15,000 hospitalizations each year from acetaminophen overdose and is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the US.

Ibuprofen and Naproxen also have adverse e� ects such as gastrointestinal bleeding, peptic ulcer disease, high blood pressure, edema, kidney disease and heart attack.

Aspirin, the most common OTC for the treatment of minor aches and pains, as well as being prescribed for heart protection and stroke prevention, can have such adverse side e� ects as bleeding, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, stomach ache, ringing in the ears, hearing loss and rashes.

Many of the prescription opioids that are prescribed for short term relief of chronic pain are not only known for the development of dependence, they also can cause constipation, excessive sleepiness, headache, and respiratory depression.

� ere are many ways to naturally

combat in� ammation. Eating the right foods that can lower in� ammation is very helpful. Choose foods rich in omega-3, healthy fats like that found in avocados, olives and nuts. Fruits and vegetables are excellent choices, being rich in antioxidants.

Getting enough sleep is also critical, helping your body repair injured tissues and replenish cells. Adequate sleep also helps lower stress levels, another important aspect to reducing in� ammation.

Pain and stress form a two-edged sword---pain causes stress and the resulting stress causes even more pain and so on. Relaxation techniques such as meditation and deep breathing can be very helpful in

breaking up the vicious cycle of pain and stress.

Massage is great for relieving stress and also for relaxing muscles which o� en tighten up from pain.

� en there are some supplements that are wonderful

for alleviating pain. Any supplement that addresses in� ammation will not only relieve pain temporarily, it will have long term bene� ts as well.

Health Food stores have wonderful natural products that address this problem and they can advise you on which product is right for you.

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Go for the win-win in business and life

Jim T. Chong

The philosophy of the “Win-Win” scenario has been around for many decades made famous by the late Stephen R. Covey in his internati onal bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Eff ecti ve People. The concept is an idealisti c way of making decisions and can serve as a great foundati on on which you can base your personal as well as business decisions on.

The idea is that if you help someone, by helping them, you are creati ng a “win” for them. In return, the hope is that a “win” is also created for you. Although this is a great concept, we don’t necessarily apply it in everyday life and business directly...or possibly don’t really look at this as a viable measuring sti ck for our decisions.

Soluti ons4Life is built on the platf orm of supporti ng and providing resources and soluti ons for conscious business owners as well as cause based professionals and organizati ons.

In most cases, cause based people are passionate about promoti ng what they perceive is some “greater good” and will in theory do anything to support their cause. Unfortunately, though well intenti oned, many of these same people (of which I include myself) do not really pay att enti on to the personal cost of supporti ng their cause.

Sadly, many will literally sacrifi ce their own personal ti me, fi nancial, and physical well being to support their cause. This is not an issue...except when they put their own livelihood at risk.

My default mindset, as an example, will tend to always be ready to serve in any way possible and then look, if I take the ti me later, to see what the sacrifi ces have really cost me. This is okay unti l the sacrifi ces have the unintended result of jeopardizing our own potenti al future.

What is the end result? Many people in this category end up not being able to sustain themselves, later costi ng them the ability to support what they were working to build in the fi rst place.

Here are 3 keys to help maximize your success in business and life as a whole:

1) ENSURE YOU CREATE A “WIN” FOR YOURSELF LONG TERM BY CREATING SHORT TERM “WINS” along the way. If you are creati ng a win for someone, ensure you are also creati ng a win for yourself long term.

2) BE AROUND THE RIGHT PEOPLE. Surround yourself with people that not only are devoted to your cause but also to your own personal well-being (people that “have your back”).

3) CREATE A STRATEGY. Create an eff ecti ve plan/strategy to help maximize your success by minimizing the uncertainty.

In the last issue of APANR, I wrote about the “Trajectory” that serves as a road map for your business and personal life. Creati ng a trajectory and applying these 3 keys are tantamount to your life’s success and business profi tability long term.

True community collaborati on can be achieved if we all live by the quote made famous by the three Musketeers, “All For One...and One for All!”

This is truly made possible with Soluti ons4Life’s mott o, “All For One...and WIN for All!”

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About The Author:

Jim T. Chong is an S4L Executive Speaker/Trainer/Writer/Published Author and specializes Navigator for LTC/Senior Benefi ts, Financial, Retirement, Life and Business Strategies, a published author & Executive Speaker/Trainer, and is on the Executive Team/Board of various Foundations and Organizations. He is also the founder of the upcoming “WokStar Productions”.

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WEALTHCARE: Jim T. Chong – LTC Navigator/Financial Soluti ons Professional & Host of “Cha-Ching with Chong: The Quest 4 The Cash Cow” / co-host of “Connecti ons: Relati onship Dynamics” calls and Internet radio shows, S4L Executi ve Speaker/Speaker Trainer, & Writer. Contact: 209.534.8000

WEALTHCARE: Jo Anna Wright – Real Estate Investment Mentor/Instructor, S4L Speaker. Contact: 209.346.1014

HEALTH CARE: Mary Nicholson – Health Coach, S4L Executi ve Speaker / Writer, Founder Of Healings In Moti on (http://www.healingsinmotion.org) Contact: 916.213.9407

HEALTH CARE: Cami Ferry – Healthy Lifestyles Advocate, S4L Speaker / Writer, Principal of In Moti on Theatre, Founder Of Cami’s Cardio: Advocati ng A Healthy Lifestyle. Contact: 916.663.9953

SELF CARE: Katherine Gerardi – Transformati onal Coach & host of the “Power Half Hour” calls and internet radio show, S4L Executi ve Speaker/Speaker Trainer. Contact: 207.319.8210

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STOCKTON – It is to an ancestral homeland � lled with ghosts that are as real as they are symbolic that Sothary Chea will reclaim a fading heritage, making the nearly 7,800-mile journey from her Stockton home as much for her family and community as for herself.

Chea, 24, born to refugees who as children � ed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that le� a � � h of their countrymen dead, has been accepted in this summer’s Cambodia Journey project, a service learning and cultural exchange led by the YMCA of Greater Long Beach. Inspired by birthright projects for Jewish youth whose families were scattered during the Holocaust, Cambodian Journey enables participants to re-engage with their culture while at the same time working with some of the poorest street children in Phnom Penh, the nation’s capital.

Chea will dedicate the trip to her grandfather, San Chea, a revered medicine man in Stockton’s Cambodian-American community who died at age 75 in 2013 and “symbolizes the strength, resiliency, and courage that all of us need to better ourselves and humanity,” she says. “I was glued to my grandfather’s hip. I think that’s where I got my leadership skills.” She’ll also try to seek out the fate of her mother’s birth father during a visit to the preserved school site that the communists used as a torture facility.

Sitting last week in south Stockton’s richly ornamented Wat Dhammararam, among the nation’s largest Cambodian Buddhist temples, Chea and her grandmother, Nga Pho, shared the story of how their family came to settle in the U.S.

Driven out of Battambang in 1975 in a massive forced evacuation like the one just before in Phnom Penh, Chea’s mother, Sry, was the youngest of three girls orphaned by the Khmer Rouge that Chea’s grandparents took in when they weren’t able to have children of their own. Nga Pho explained, before choking

up and having to stop, that her father was executed when it was discovered he had been a police o� cer; two of her elder brothers were slain as well.

� ey later � ed to a refugee camp in � ailand and from there were routed to a resettlement facility in the Philippines before arriving in Valley Springs, Utah, on Christmas Eve in 1981 – the � rst time any of them, coming from tropical Cambodia, had ever seen snow, Chea said. � ey made their way the following June to Stockton, where her grandfather served as a medicine man, using ancient healing herbs, coining and other techniques in a Cambodian community that grew to be the nation’s � � h-largest.

His loss was a wake-up call to Sothary, and one that led her to re-evaluate her purpose, she said. She had been following the Cambodia Journey program since its launch in 2011, but her participation in November’s Khmer Student Coalition Conference and an #IAmKhmer workshop at University of the Paci� c, coupled with her grandfather’s death and the Cambodian culture she saw fading away all around her, solidi� ed her resolve.

“I’m at the point where I almost feel like I’m obligated to,” says Chea, who speaks � uent Khmer learned from her grandparents. She is hoping to reignite cultural pride among local Cambodian-Americans by documenting her trip and sharing the experience with the entire community. “I want to be able to still continue with the culture. I don’t want to lose it.”

� rough her participation in November’s event, Chea met Khmerican founder Phatry Derek Pan, who recently partnered with Cambodia Journey as part of the program’s move to boost recruitment nationwide and to all ethnicities.

“Regardless of being Cambodian or not, we want to give that unique opportunity to be exposed to another culture,” says Pan, himself a child of refugees and who built Khmerican

from a small media company to a global enterprise with an audience of some 1 million. “It’s mind-blowing to see the country and the poverty and the children � rsthand, just transformative. � ese opportunities really get them connected to their roots. Back home in Stockton or Long Beach or Seattle or wherever they’re from, they become ambassadors of Cambodia.”

� at was certainly the case for Cambodian-American artist Kelley Pheng, a former San Joaquin Delta College student who now attends California State University, Long Beach, and took part in the program last summer. She’ll join the trip again this August.

“� e journey gave my life purpose when I started to feel that I didn’t have one,” she wrote in a � rst-person essay for � e Record about her experiences with A Cambodia Journey. “I just know that I have built a strong bridge to my home country and I plan to make sure I stay connected and I continue to cross it.”

Chea is hoping to use her organizational leadership skills to help the program, which grew out of Long Beach Y founder and vice president of community development Bob Cabeza’s e� orts to connect young Khmers in Long Beach to their home country. During a 2010 trip to the country, where many Cambodians live on less than $2 a day and are still struggling to recover from the devastating a� ermath of the genocide, Cabeza saw hundreds of children selling anything they could to survive, including themselves. But he also saw how their lives were transformed by something as simple as clean water or clothes – and by hope.

“It’s a very cool project and it’s something that’s really changed my life,”

Cabeza said. “I never knew it would grow the way it has.”

“I really want to go in and see what I can do to help,” said Chea, a Humphreys College grad and graduate student at National University who already works with youth through her job as instructional assistant at Aspire Public Schools and who hopes to pursue humanitarian work.

Part of her goal is involving the community in fundraising for her trip to give them not just a deeper awareness of Cambodian culture but also a stake in the journey and in the impact on the children whose lives she hopes to change. Another is erasing the image of gangs and violence that tarnished the community in past decades.

“It’s a new generation. We’re not in the ’90s anymore,” she said. “We need to really embrace our generation and not look just on the past, but really look forward.”

Reprinted with permission from � e Record. Contact Record reporter Elizabeth Roberts at (209) 546-8268 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @eroberts209.

How you can help

Cost for the 14-day A Cambodia Journey Trip is $4,000, 10 percent of which directly bene� ts the street children the program supports. If you would like to contribute, visityoucaring.com/sotharysacambodiajourney2015, call(209) 684-6554 or email [email protected] Learn more about the program at ymcacambodiaproject.org.

A Cambodia JourneyBy Elizabeth RobertsRecord Sta� Write



Washington, DC - Last week, the U.S. Department of Education concluded its request for public comments on proposed regulations for teacher preparation programs. Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) submitted recommendations for teacher preparation programs to better meet the needs of our diverse students, especially Southeast Asian American (SEAA) students. Our nation needs to recognize that student demographics are changing. For the � rst time in United States history, the majority of students in public schools are students of color. In addition, 4.5 million students nationwide participate in English Language Learner programs, including signi� cant numbers of SEAA students. Sixty-four percent of Asian American students speak a

language other than English at home, and 17% of Asian American students “speak English with di� culty,” a rate comparable to their Hispanic peers1.

Across the country, our teacher preparation programs are not producing a workforce that is responsive to our changing student demographics. While 3% of U.S. students are Asian American or Paci� c Islander, only 1% of teachers are Asian American. As long as the diversity of the teacher workforce does not match the diversity of the students, teacher preparation programs must address cultural competency in a more intentional and explicit manner. Every teacher preparation program should prepare teachers to work in educational settings that include English language learners, students with disabilities, and students of color.

Our recommendations include:Requiring “cultural competency”

training in all teacher preparation programs;

Expanding stakeholder meetings for

assessing and reporting on each program to include advocates for students of color, civil rights organizations, and Native American tribes;

Reporting the e� ectiveness of individual teacher preparation programs within a state rather than reporting a combined rating for all teacher preparation programs; and

Including outcomes of enrolled teacher-candidates by demographic data within teacher preparation program reports.

� ese are changes that would further strengthen teacher preparation programs to ensure that all students, especially our most vulnerable students, have access to highly quali� ed and prepared teachers throughout their education careers. SEARAC hopes the U.S. Department of Education will incorporate our recommendations, as teachers remain the single most important school-based in� uence determining the academic success of a student. To address the needs of an increasingly diverse student

body, it is essential that our teachers are culturally competent. Policymakers must also be intentional in reaching out to advocates and community members with limited English pro� ciency, who are o� en underrepresented in decision-making meetings, encouraging them to participate in stakeholder meetings about teacher preparation programs.

Every child deserves a highly quali� ed and highly e� ective teacher, and we look forward to working with the U.S. Department of Education and other public education stakeholders towards achieving that goal.

SEARAC is a national organization that advances the interests of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans by empowering communities through advocacy, leadership development, and capacity building to create a socially just and equitable society. Its o� ces are in Sacramento and Washington, DC.

SEARAC calls for teacher preparation programsthat refl ect student diversity

1Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities. U.S. Department of Education.2010.http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator2_8.asp

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