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MAY AAPI Heritage Month Event - Parent Discussion

by chaumei — last modified May 19, 2021 09:08 AM
May is AAPI Heritage Month. CAPA-MC has hosted various events for celebrating our diversity and inclusion, to combat AAPI Hate. One of them is this Friday, 5/21. Come to join us and listen to parents sharing their stories. AAPI Parents Panel Discussion Topic: Community Parents Talk - AAPI Parents and Neighbors Time: May 21, 2021 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/3508072928... Zoom Meeting ID: 350 807 2928; Passcode: capamc Panelists: 1. Ting Mei Chau, parent of an 8-year-old and a government budget professional. She is first generation immigrant from Hong Kong. She volunteers in various organizations and likes to build new friendship in her diverse neighborhood. 2. Janet Sanchez, a parent of 3 kids age 14, 16 and 19. Migrated from the Philippines in 1988 after graduating college. Currently, manages a clinical practice while volunteering and advocating for better mental health and public education policies. 3. Michelle Senk, parent of four children. Three girls ages 24, 22 and17 and a 12-year-old son. Also have four dogs. Came to Clarksburg 7 years ago from the Philadelphia area. Worked in IT prior to kids, took a ten-year break teaching SAT/ACT prep, started her own company Premier Prep, then leaped back to the corporate IT world. Involved in PTA in Pennsylvania and Maryland among other volunteer pursuits. Her mother is a daughter of Italian immigrants. Her father’s lineage goes back to the French first setting foot in Canada or sometime shortly thereafter. Her husband is of second-generation Polish heritage. 4. Mini Varughese, parent of elementary and high schooler. She is a scientist at NIH. Her family moved to the US from India when she was very young. She is a member of the MCCPTA and moderator of the MCCPTA COVID-19 Response Facebook group and an Admin for one of the local Buy Nothing Facebook groups. Questions: • What does your “race” mean to you? • What was your Asian/Non-Asian experience growing up/living in the USA? Do you feel your children will have the same experience you had? Why and Why not? • Do you identify as Asian, Indian, or what? What does Asian mean to you? • With the latest AAPI hate incidents, what do you see America in terms of race issues in next 5, 10 years or more?
When May 21, 2021
from 07:30 PM to 09:40 PM
Where Zoom Meeting ID: 350 807 2928; Passcode: capamc
Contact Name
Contact Phone 6462750565
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AAPI Parents Panel Discussion

CAPA-MC is inviting you to join a community parent discussion to celebrate

May AAPI Heritage month.

 

Topic: Community Parents Talk - AAPI Parents and Neighbors

Time: May 21, 2021 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/3508072928?pwd=eWtSbGlYS2YxS0l6THZGNGxMekI3dz09

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 350 807 2928; Passcode: capamc

 

 

Panelists:

  1. Ting Mei Chau, parent of an 8-year-old and a government budget professional. She is first generation immigrant from Hong Kong. She volunteers in various organizations and likes to build new friendship in her diverse neighborhood.

 

  1. Janet Sanchez, a parent of 3 kids age 14, 16 and 19. Migrated from the Philippines in 1988 after graduating college.  Currently, manages a clinical practice while volunteering and advocating for better mental health and public education policies.

 

  1. Michelle Senk, parent of four children. Three girls ages 24, 22 and17 and a 12-year-old son. Also have four dogs.  Came to Clarksburg 7 years ago from the Philadelphia area. Worked in IT prior to kids, took a ten-year break teaching SAT/ACT prep, started her own company Premier Prep, then leaped back to the corporate IT world. Involved in PTA in Pennsylvania and Maryland among other volunteer pursuits. Her mother is a daughter of Italian immigrants. Her father’s lineage goes back to the French first setting foot in Canada or sometime shortly thereafter. Her husband is of second-generation Polish heritage.

 

  1. Mini Varughese, parent of elementary and high schooler. She is a scientist at NIH.  Her family moved to the US from India when she was very young. She is a member of the MCCPTA and moderator of the MCCPTA COVID-19 Response Facebook group and an Admin for one of the local Buy Nothing Facebook groups.

 

Questions:

  • What does your “race” mean to you?
  • What was your Asian/Non-Asian experience growing up/living in the USA?  Do you feel your children will have the same experience you had? Why and Why not?
  • Do you identify as Asian, Indian, or what?   What does Asian mean to you?
  • With the latest AAPI hate incidents, what do you see America in terms of race issues in next 5, 10 years or more?

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