密城的夏天是不可多得的好时光,密歇根湖畔各种户外活动更是应接不暇。遥想去年今日,湖畔公园内人头攒动,锣鼓喧天,龙舟竞渡,由密城华人社区 Milwaukee Chinese Community Center (MCCC)主办的一年一度的龙舟节好不热闹。与同事、家人、朋友一起参加赛龙舟,尝美食,看舞蹈,听音乐,成为了许多密城人的夏日高光时刻。
由Charles Benson 和Carole Meekins主持的这一节目旨在向密城观众介绍具有浓厚中国文化的龙舟节与印度风情的印度节,将两国独特的文化交替送进千家万户。为此,TMJ4特别邀请了代表National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP)的密城龙舟节组委会成员Lynnette Le Clair; 龙舟赛赞助代表Rockwell Automation的Harold G. Fallak;以及MCCC Youth Leadership Academy(YLA)现任主席Geoffery Xue通过Zoom Meeting现场连线直播间来介绍龙舟节及其中国文化。
Adrian Chan, PhD, Professor Emeritus. 中文名:陈康宁,二代移民,祖籍广东中山,在加州三藩市出生、长大。1968年至2000年就职于UW-Milwaukee,任多元文化咨询心理学副教授。行政职务包括UWM教育学院研究主任,副校长助理,UW院系种族与民族研究所所长等职务。八十年代后期参与全美范围内商业多元文化咨询培训,客户包括波音飞机公司。OCA-WI及AAPI成员。
Born & raised in Chinatown, San Franciso, CA where my mother and father had ancestry roots from Zhongshan District in Guangdong Province. My birth certificate says Adrian Hee, reflecting the paper name that my father immigrated with to the USA during the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943).
I came to Milwaukee, WI as an Assistant Professor at UWM in 1968 and retired in 2000. My field was Multicultural Counseling Psychology.
My administrative history showed that I was School of Education Director of Research (mid70s-mid80s), then Asst. Vice Chancellor (1991-95), and finally Director of the UW Systemwide Institute on Race & Ethnicity (1995-2000).
I have also been in the multicultural consulting business since the late 1980s with Kochman Mavrelis Associates (KMA) conducting organizational development and diversity training with public & private firms throughout the nation (ex: Boeing Aerospace from 2000-2016).
I am a member of OCA-WI and now active in the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Coalition of WI, a new statewide organization combating the anti-Asian fallout from Covid19, along with other issues.
Lorna Young
Lorna Young, MBA, 三代移民,University of Rochester历史学士,Cornell University MBA。1979年至1994年加入GE医疗设备公司,先后担任CT扫描市场部,CT市场开发,跨部门图像业务市场开发经理等职,成为首位加入该部门的少数族裔女性。过去的25年在IMV Medical Information Division任市场研发咨询,为图像领域的高端客户提供咨询服务。在OCA-WI义务工作15年,曾任OCA-WI主席,现任OCA-WI董事会常委,AAPI成员。
Third generation Chinese American. My father was born a century ago in Philadelphia, and his father ran a grocery store in Chinatown. My mother was born in San Francisco, and her parents both worked with Sun Yat-sen before they immigrated to the U.S.
My educational experience in a BA in History from the University of Rochester, in Rochester NY, and an MBA from Cornell University, in Ithaca NY, which I consider to be my home town.
I moved to the Milwaukee area in 1979 to join the CT Scanner Marketing team at GE Medical Systems (now called GE Healthcare), where I was the first female minority recruit into the marketing function from an MBA school, and certainly the first Asian American. I worked there for 15 years, where I had roles in CT Market Development and as the first market research manager across all of GEHC’s imaging modalities. For the last 25 years, I have been working as a market research consultant to the imaging industry for IMV Medical Information Division, where I work with all the top clients in the imaging industry, including GE, Philips, Siemens, and Canon.
I have been a volunteer with OCA-WI for over 15 years, and have served various roles, including President, and I am currently on its Board of Directors. I have gotten to know many MCCC folks through my involvement in organizing the Chinese New Year Gala for many years as well as supporting the Dragon Boat Festival. I too am now active in the newly formed Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Coalition of WI.
本次讲座的要点:
美国民主/投票制度的一般介绍。 (General introduction of the democratic/voting system in the US.)
投票的重要性。 ( Importance of the voting )
投票人的资格。(The qualification of a voter)
如何亲自或在线注册投票?(How to register for vote, in person or online?)
如何亲自或通过邮件投票?(How to vote, in person or via mail?)
什么是缺席选票?在选举日没有空时该如何投票?(What is absentee ballot? How to vote when you are not available on the Election Days?)
《密城快讯》(Milwaukee Chinese Express) 和《密城时报》(Milwaukee Chinese Times) 以及MCCC的FaceBook在疫情期间对华人社区的抗疫活动都有所报道。《密城快讯》主编陶瑜对快讯社的运作及下一步工作计划做了总结。今年五月份密城快讯社已经成立两年,虽然很多社区传统活动取消了,但是快讯社仍配合社区抗疫活动做了很多相关的报道。接下来,快讯社还是会继续结合社区最新动向报道社区热点和时事。同时快讯社也一直在积极发掘新人,希望责任心强、文笔好的同仁能加入一起把快讯社发扬壮大。
全美收集到的这数千例排华或排亚裔事件对我们亚裔社区的影响不容低估,我们对此现象深为担忧和不安。排外、种族歧视和仇恨不应在我们的社区存在,应坚决予以杜绝。为此,密城华人社区中心(MCCC)和本地各个亚裔的团体以威州亚太联盟- Coalition of Wisconsin, Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI)的名义向全社会发起倡议。目前有31个亚裔组织、6个AAPI在任成员、9个在任官员、54个合作伙伴组织以组织或个人名义支持、认可或签署了倡议书。