Past Events

Spring 2022

April 13

No-No Boy Performance 

Performer:

Julian Saporiti: Portland based singer, songwriter, and scholar researching in Asian American History.

Emilia Halvorsen: musician, embroidery artist, and law student in Portland, Or. 

March 22

Discussing "The Border Within" By Dr. Phi Su 

Speakers:

Dr. Phi Su: visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Williams College. Previously, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Division of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. In the research and teaching, I draw on these threads to think about im/mobilities, intersectional identities, and inequality.

Feburary 24

CPP Day of Remembrance with Frank Abe 

Speakers:

Frank Abe: author, advocate and storyteller.

Fall 2021

October 15

How We Got Here: Awareness. Advocacy, and Allyship with Transgender Athletes 

Speakers:

Jenna Weiner, Ryan Socolow, Emet Marwell, Shane Diamond, and Yeja Dunn.

Spring 2021

May 4

Interethnic Solidarity and Civil Rights: A Discussion and Performance about the Real History of Cinco de Mayo as an American Tradition

Speaker:

Dr. Jessie Vallejo: Associate Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, Music Department, Ethnonusicologist and Mariachi Muscian.

CPP Mariachi Los Broncos: student performers 

April 25

Representation and Advocacy in Music

Speaker:

Maestro Anthony Parnther: music director and conductor.

April 16

Bad ASS Aunties: Auntie Sewing Squad Caring for Communities in Need and Building Community During a Pandemic

Speaker:

Kristina Wong, Valeria Soe, Dr. Karen Chow, and Dr. Chissy Lau

April 13

Navigational Leadership and Climate Justice

Speaker:

Dr. Maya Soetoro: consultant on the International Team at the Obama Foundation and a Faculty Specialist at the University of Hawai'i. 

April 7

Navigating Leadership: An Internal Journey in Context 

Speaker:

Dr. Sharon J. Washington: consultant, Education Leader. 

March 18

Racial Microaggressions: Using Critical Race Theory to Respond to Everyday Racism 

Speaker:

Dr. Daniel G. Solorzano, Dr. Lindsay Perez Huber, Dr. Luis G. Garcia, Dr. Jose M. Aguilar-Hernandez

Feburary 25

Being an UndocuAlly

Speaker:

Dr. Belinda Lum: Sociology professor at Sacramento City College.

Feburary 23

Controlling the Image of the Black Swan: Race, Gender, Class and the Discours around Black Women's Bodies in Ballet 

Speaker:

Sekani Robinson PhD candidate at the University of Santa Barbara.

Feburary 19

BLM and JLA: Redress Campaigns Continue 

Speaker:

Phil Tajitsu Nash, Esq.: Joins from the Asian Americans Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. 

Fall 2020

November 10

Post Election Conversations: Now What?

Speakers:

Julia Huang: CEO of Intertrend 

Kristina Wong: Comedian, Elected representative

Sedelta Oosahwee: Senior Program/Policy Analyst/Specialist National Education Association

October 23

Cold War 2.0?: Historical Perspecctive on Chinese American Scientists and US-China Relations

Speaker:

Dr. Zuoyue Wang: Department of history professor at Cal Poly Pomona.

October 15

The Continuing Significance of Affirmative Action

Speakers:

Dr. Janelle Wong, professor at University of Maryland, and Dr. Mary Kunmi Yu Danico, professor at Cal Poly Pomona, discuss the stigma and challenges of fighting for equality. 

October 9

Race is More Than Checking a Box on a Form: How Filipino Americans Navigate Racial Identity

Speaker:

Dr. Anthony Ocampo: will share findings from his book The Latinos of Asia: How Americans Break the Rules of Race, which has been cited in The New Yorker, NBC, NPR, Public Radio International, and a variety of local and international news outlets. 

October 6

Latino Males, Violence and Healing in the Barrio 

Panel Speakers/Moderator:

Dr. Ismael Huerta: a committed educator, youth advocate, mentor, consultant and motivational speaker. 

Dr. Hector Verdugo: is an Associate Executive Director of Homeboy Industries, which provides training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women.

Dr. Alvaro Huerta: moderator and an Associate Professor in Urban & Regional Planning and Ethnic & Women's Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Spring 2020

Feburary 6

Pau Hana Sessions Cal Poly Pomona 

Guests:

Pau Hana Sessions:  creative media platform run by three social scientists that focuses on curating place-based educational experiences between artists and communities

G ala Rae: also known as Jasmine Rae Gatdula, is a Cal Poly Pomona student who is majoring in Music

Fall 2019

September 28

Live Podcast of  They Call Us Bruce with Helen Zia

Panel Speakers:

They Call Us Bruce:   a podcast run by Jeff Yang, who is an Asian American writer, journalist, and businessman and Phil Yu a Korean American blogger  also known as "Angry Asian Man"

Helen Zia: a Chinese American journalist and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights

Spring 2019

March 29

Resistance, Resiliance, & Action

Panel Speakers:

• Jonnie Owens: Community Relations Coordinator at Cal Poly Pomona

• Faye Wachs: Sociology Professor at Cal Poly Pomona

• Shayda Kafai: Ethnic and Womens Studies Professor at Cal Poly Pomona 

Fall 2018

October 16

Does my Voice Matter? The Paradox of the American Dream

Panel Speakers:

• Melina Abdullah: Professor at Cal State University of Los Angeles

• Jorge Guiterrez: Trans Queer Liberation Movement

• Chris Lapining: Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Los Angeles 

Fall 2017 

Nocember 9

OutRun   Screening and Q&A

OutRun  film screening in the BSC, followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

Winter 2015

February 19 

Memory's WARrants

Panel Speakers:  

• Dr. Viet Le

• Phi Hong Su

Fall 2014

October 28  

Weglyn Lecture Series: Social Justice and Identity Politics

Panel Speakers:  

• Phil Yu

• Dan Mathews

Winter 2014

Feburary 18

Day of Remembrance: Commemorating the Japanese American Internment

Panel Speakers:  

• Dr. Franklin Odo

• Dr. Cathy Schlund-Vials

• Dr. Steven Shiematsu

Feburary 26

Indigenity in Motion: Impact of and Response to Globalization by Indigenous Communities in the Americas, North Africa, and   Pacific  Islands.

Panel Speakers:  

• Fatima Sadiqi

March 4 

Asian American in Film, Food, and Marketing

Panel Speakers:  

• Shilpa Dave

• Robert Ku

• Bill Imada  

Spring 2014

April 18 

Women in Motion: Border Exchanges at the Intersections of Home and Diaspora, the Global and the Local, Urban and Rural

Panel Speakers:  

• Fatima Sadiqi

April 29

Asian Americans in Higher Education

Panel Speakers:  

• Doris Ching

• Anna Gonzalez

• Henry Gee

• Bob Suzuki 

April 29

Asian  American Literature

Panel Speakers:  

• Gary Pak

• Andrew Lam 

Winter 2009

Spring 2009