Posted on 13 July 2011. Tags: 2011, Chris Lu, Christina Lagdameo, Christopher Lu, Daphne Kwok, Debadutta Dash, Hyeok Kim, Kamuela Enos, Murthy Kalkura, Ronnie Chatterji, Toby Chaudhuri, Umni Song, Vol 30 No 29 | July 16 - July 22
Guests at the summit included, from left: Daphne Kwok, chair of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPI’s; Christina Lagdameo, Deputy Director, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Ronnie Chatterji, Senior Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisors; Christopher Lu, Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary; Umni Song, member of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs; Kamuela Enos, member of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs and director of enterprise at MA’O Organic Farms; and Hyeok Kim, member of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs and executive director of Interim Community Development Association (Photo by Rebecca Ip/SCP)
By Janelle Wetzstein
UW News Lab
Sustainability is no longer just about the environment, according to White House Cabinet Secretary Chris Lu, who spoke in Seattle last weekend. Read the full story
Posted in Community News, Vol 30 No 29 | 7/16-7/22
Posted on 29 July 2010. Tags: 2010, Daphne Kwok, Vol 29 No 31 | July 31 - August 6
Daphne Kwok (Photo from www.apidisabilities.org)
On July 26, President Barack Obama appointed Daphne Kwok of San Francisco as chair of his advisory commission on Asian American and Pacific Islanders. The commission was re-established last year by the president as part of a White House initiative to improve the lives of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) as communities that are underserved by federal resources.
White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders Executive Director Kiran Ahuja said Kwok’s more than two decades of experience as a community leader at both the national and state levels make her an invaluable asset to the commission. Read the full story
Posted in Briefs, Vol 29 No 31 | 7/31-8/6
