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YOUTH
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Patrick Aquino is a senior at Regis High School. A 3rd year pAPAYA, he enjoys rice cakes and ice fishing, as well as celebrating being Asian. On his quest for the Easter bunny, he frequently performs cartwheels blindfolded. Go, Magikarp, go!...Where's Linda?
Joseph Barana is a senior at Stuyvesant. This is his second year at APAYA, and his 18th year at living. Through all his experiences he has come to the conclusion that life is like great steak, it doesn't cook itself.
Daniel M. Capella is working on his last year in LaSalle Academy. He hopes to choose a suitable college according to his likes and hobbies. He likes an assortment of academic subjects, but plans to specialize in Mechanical Engineering. As for hobbies, Daniel likes to daydream about nearly everything and to read both articles and fantasy-fiction
novels.
Lauren Caponong is a senior at Dominican Academy. As a short-ass Filipino girl, she enjoys baking, drawing, and sleep -- drawing and sleeping being at the top of the list. With that, she likes to think she is "in touch" with her creative side (at most times). She's not usually quiet, but when she is, a few million things are going through her head, particularly about religion, philosophy, and Art History. She enjoys DAIRY QUEEN OREO BLIZZARDS also. =]
Devajyoti Chatterjee, also known as Dev Chatterjee goes to La Salle Academy and is proudly a senior there. Dev is an aspiring photographer and filmmaker, he enjoys film making as a passion. Dev loves art, although he lacks good drawing skills, he works hard every day to improve them, and learn. Devajyoti loves the world, and is proud to be a strong optimistic and cheerful person. He loves to spread happiness to all forms of people, and pick up people from depressed moods.
Karmen Cheung is currently a junior at Stuyvesant High School. This is her first year participating in APAYA and she is very excited for the forum. She likes running miles eating dumplings and watching corny Asian dramas.
Jenny Ha isn't quite fond of her junior year at Brooklyn Technical High School, but she is quite fond of her first year at APAYA. She enjoys sunsets, long walks on the beach, and frisky people. And, she also likes to use her ipod as a mirror.
novels.
Zi Lin Liang is an itty bitty junior from Brooklyn Tech with a huge appetite. She likes cupcakes, brownies, and hero sandwiches on the tennis court. She never sleeps on weekdays and sleeps like she's in a coma on weekends. Her favorite things in the world include tennis, cream puffs, Eileen's cheesecake, and boys who smell nice. Her biggest concern about APAYA is arriving at 6 am the morning of the forum to set up. Hopefully, this year, she will arrive on time.
Old enough to get her driving permit, Victoria Nghi is a junior from Brooklyn Tech who looks like she's five years old. She likes boys with white wall smiles and green apple slushies with lychee. Despite being Vietnamese, she is sick of pho (ha, Jun Wan). She stays up until the wee hours of night to talk to her nocturnal friends about how fabulous Patrick Aquino is.
Helen Ong is a jun-yah at Stuyvesant High School. She likes to play cool jams on the piano, sing in the shower, and cry watching Korean movies. Her favorite foods include eggplant, sushi, and kimbap. Got rice?
Erik Perez is currently a senior at La Salle Academy, I am both a mechanical engineer and a pyromaniac. Or at least I like to think so... I love Italian food and it could just be my most favorite type, yet I love eel so perhaps let's just leave it as myself liking food in general. My hobbies included playing cards, rebuilding or as I like to say "fixing" objects and reading an occasional comic like Johnny the Homicidal maniac. Jhonen Vasquez is a genius. If you disagree, sleep with an eye open. Nah, kidding. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. In any case that's me in a nutshell. It's been a pleasure.
Mark Justin Santos is a Filipino junior currently attending LaSalle Academy. He enjoys playing baseball, basketball, and paintball. He likes learning new things from others. He is energetic and enthusiastic no matter what the situation. He is left-handed and is proud of it, he cares so much about his sneakers that he makes them his most prized possession, he probably sleeps with them. Overall he seems like a nice kid, he's still young. He's sometimes annoying but he's cool. He has much to learn.
Abraham Song is a junior at Brooklyn Tech who enjoys long train rides with his mp3, a good book once in a while, pool, singing and being a gigantic teddy bear.
Jeffrey Ta is a senior at La Salle Academy. He is someone you do not want to mess with. He comes from a traditional Vietnamese family, whose mom always nags on him and his father urging him on to get his driver's license. His favorite food of all time is PHO. He likes to play soccer or Futbol for the real Futbol players. His favorite team is Manchester United. He also enjoys a good game of handball and maybe a little bit of basketball. He currently lives in Elmhurst Queens temporarily; he wants to move back to the city.
Jun-Wan Tong is a senior at the Browning School. He loves eating Chinese food in Chinatown, taking long walks under the moonlight, and sleeping on the beach while soaking up the sun. He plays beast beats on the drums and will nutmeg you any day with his soccer skills. He may be shy at first, but is funny and laid back. This is his second year at APAYA.
Julia Watanabe is your average upper schooler trying to make it through junior year at Loyola School alive. A downtown girl stuck in an uptown world, Julia enjoys wandering around the downtown area sometimes singing (screaming) random songs really loudly while sipping on a cherry coke. She also enjoys art, writing, chilling with close friends and wreaking havoc everywhere she goes. Facebook: Cherry coke.
Chris Ullauri is a 17 year old senior at LaSalle Academy. His interests include hanging out, acting like a clown and making jokes to lighten the mood; he is quite fashionable and is pretty down to earth (sometimes even philosophical), and is chill with anything. He is also half Ecuadorian and half Trinidadian and lives in Brooklyn.
Ricardo Urena is a young hollarable white/Hispanic guy from the Lower East Side who attends La Salle Academy and recently found out he may have Asian ancestors. He is the strong silent type but don't be mistaken. He also loves to laugh and is always as a junior looking to make new friends.
Jenny Ye is a track superstar who eats carrots and celery sticks dipped in bleu cheese at APAYA. She loves the color purple, especially on rain boots. She has a proclivity for intellectual extracurriculars and stacks her schedule up with nerd agendas. She aspires to change the world, one sandwich at a time.
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ADVISORS
Daichi Takeda Ebato is a die hard Manhattanite; and can be found walking on the island at all heights of the sun and moon. He can haz cheezburgers. This will be his 4th APAYA forum and hopes everyone will have fun & learn something great. He also enjoys working with other APIA organizations such as Asian CineVision (ACV) and the Chinatown Youth Initiatives (CYI).
Anne Kim is an alumna of New York University and received her Master's degree in social work at Columbia University with a concentration in aging. Anne is a social work supervisor for a community senior services program in lower Manhattan.
Stanley Pradel is a recent NYU alumnus in his seventh year in involvement in APAYA as both a member and advisor. An avid supporter of city of New York he is optimistic for change. He believes hipsters are evil and possibly skrulls.
Chris Chan Roberson is the Co-Founder of Etc... productions, a performance and web production company. He's been with the troupe ever since it was created in the Fall of 1998 and has served over the years as a writer, performer, director, and producer. Besides a monthly sketch show, Etc... produces web-based content such as myPod, The Party, Hump Day, and Co-Workers ____ing. Chris also worked as an editor with Robert Small Entertainment, and has worked on Comedy Central's Stand Up Nation with Greg Giraldo and TV Land's Top 10 series where he won a Telly Award for Editing. Independently, Chris' short films have screened locally as well as on the West Coast and have won numerous awards. His short film "The Fraymaker" was a winner of the Pioneer Film Slam 2001, an official selection in the Freight Film Festival 2002, and the New York Independent International Film Festival 2002. His follow up film, “The Indestructible Brothers,” was an official selection at the Arlene's Grocery Film Festival 2003, screened at the Godzookie Arts Festival 2003, and was a Screener's Club Selection 2004. Chris' most recent edit work can also be seen on www.theburg.tv and www.theallfornots.com
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MENTORS
Alexandra Chang is the events coordinator at A/P/A Institute at NYU. She is an arts writer, filmmaker and independent curator. She has curated exhibitions and written on contemporary art, graffiti, design and architecture. Her book Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives, published by Timezone 8 Editions and project partner Asian / Pacific / American Institute at New York University, is forthcoming fall 2008. Her monograph on artist Tomokazu Matsuyama Found Modern Library: Tomokazu Matsuyama was published by Gingko Press in 2007. She is a regular contributor to ArtKrush and Asiance magazine. She has served as the managing editor for Art Asia Pacific magazine, features editor for amNew York, and her writing and reviews have appeared in Time Magazine, Time Out New York, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe among other publications. She holds a Master's from the NYU John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's program in Humanities and Social Thought with a concentration in Asian American Art History.
ManSee Kong is a native New Yorker and documentary filmmaker/community activist groupie. She is a member of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities' Chinatown Justice Project and coordinates the youth program, which focuses on building the leadership of immigrant youth to organize low-income Chinatown tenants and fight against displacement caused by gentrification. In her spare time, she works on projects for Third World Newsreel's Call for Change series, is a media educator at Global Action Project, and an associate producer on a documentary film about immigrant families and their experiences with language barriers. This is her first time back at APAYA since she was a high school student attending APAYA, x amount of years ago...
Sam Krueger is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Museum of Chinese in America and a 2007 appointee to Manhattan's Community Board 3. His interests and work involve culture, education, and community development. He is a founding member of City at Peace (a national nonprofit that integrates performing arts with youth development) and SLAAAP! (Sexually Liberated Arts Activist Asian People, a NYC-based queer activist project in the late 90s). He also managed community partnerships with the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Book Foundation, and New York Historical Society. In 1998, Sam received a National Service Fellowship from the United States Corporation for National and Community Service (the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps programs). His fellowship focused on the integration of art with community service.
Born in Vietnam, he and his family left during the final week of American airlifts from Saigon in 1975. He has lived in NYC since 1995 and is the oldest of four children.
Antonio Lee is currently the Mandarin language teacher at The Dalton School, a coed K-12 independent school on Upper East Side of Manhattan. Prior to his current position, Antonio was the Associate Director of Admissions for Grades 6-12 and a middle school Spanish teacher at the Trevor Day School. Prior to working in independent schools, he worked at the Louis D. Brandeis High School, a public school in New York City, and public schools in Berkeley, California. Antonio is a member of the New York State Association of Independent Schools' Diversity Committee and a founding member of Asian Educators Alliance New York. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in Spanish and a M.A. in Bilingual / Bicultural from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago, his debut poetry collection from CavanKerry Press. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in New York City. His work has appeared in numerous journals, online publications and anthologies. A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Mas Yamagata is a New York based multi-instrumentalist. He has been actively involved in many aspects of music for the past 10 years.
Dylan Yeats is a PhD student in US History at NYU. He is a certified archivist, exhibit curator, and author of the visual essay "Yellow Peril: Collecting Xenophobia" published by the A/P/A Institute, where he was the first Graduate Assistant in Archives from 2005-2007.
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LEADERSHIP TRAINERS
Sheelagh Cabalda currently works with Gilda's Club Worldwide, an organization committed to providing emotional and social support for anyone touched by cancer, on strategic growth and development as it relates to Gilda's Club affiliates in North America. An educator for the past 14 years, Sheelagh is an advisory board member of Chinatown Youth Initiatives (CYI). She has consulted with several community groups including Sumisibol, Filipino American Human Services Inc. (FAHSI), Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), Arab-American Family Support Center and The Academy of Saint Aloysius School for girls. A firm believer in using art as a social tool, Sheelagh's heart warms when advocating for youth, diversity, and women's issues.
Candice Uy is an NYU '06 graduate. This is her fourth year at APAYA.
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