Here is my first podcast on local Portland events/groups. It’s an interview with Victoria Yu, the Executive Director of the Asian Education Foundation. You can download the podcast here, and you can hear it here:
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According to their website:
The Asian Education Foundation (AEF) is dedicated to the education of Asian languages and cultures in order to embrace new opportunities and challenges in the wake of the rise of emerging Asian economies. AEF promotes the advancement of cultural understanding and international collaboration so as to ensure peaceful global development and transformation.
The podcast is around ten minutes, and Victoria speaks about her organization, the purpose of her organization, and some of the key members of her group. As of right now, the main program of the AEF is a scholarship program for American students who are looking to study Asian languages. Check them out!
Incidentally, this is the first bigWOWO podcast to focus on local Portland people and organizations. I hope to do more of this in the future. If you are in Portland and would like to be interviewed for a bigWOWO podcast, please send me an e-mail or leave me a message.
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Haha, I thought I’d just throw these out
Maybe you’ll be pro-active this way. Har Har. (Not to say that you’re not..but anyways..)
APA Compass (of course)
PACCO-Kabataan
You can always try to get in touch with the PSU or UP student groups see if they’re doing anything good.
Claire Oliveros (I think she’s in APA Compass too)
Also the Keynote at the 2008 NWFASAlliance Conference at Gonzaga University.
She’s got plenty of other credits too.
You can explore some of the hip-hop scene, if you may, as there are a few local artists there involved with Social Justice.
Wow, I should be able to think of a few more…but I guess not.
Jason,
Thanks for the recs! I was actually hoping to interview APANO and hadn’t thought of the other two, so thanks for suggesting them! They’re defintely on my to-do list.
Claire and PCC were actually a sponsor for the Frank Chin event! She too knows the two local young leaders that you and I discussed.
You definitely should get in touch with nskripchun from the 44s. He’s a teacher, and he’s into hip-hop. I’ll send out that e-mail right now to introduce you two!