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Chair Sharon S. Lee Doctoral Student, Educational Policy Studies, UIUC; AAS Staff Associate, 2000-2002; AAS Assistant Director, 2002-2005 Speakers Richard W. Chang Esq., Partner, Wasserman, Mancini & Chang, P.C., UIUC alum 1994 Clark Cunningham Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Clark Cunningham's (D. Phil., Oxford University, 1963) scholarly interests have concerned social structure and culture change, medical anthropology, symbolism, traditional architecture, religion, ethnicity and minority problems, migration, impact of development projects, and social problems, health care, and the growth of social sciences in developing nations. His ethnographic work has been in Indonesia, Thailand, and the U.S. He has taught courses such as Medical Anthropology, Social Structure, Peoples and Cultures of Insular Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Civilizations (with F. K. Lehman), War and Peace in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Religion in Asian Societies, and the Introductory courses to Cultural Anthropology and Social Anthropology and Ethnology. He also introduced the first course on campus to deal with Asian American Experiences and taught Indonesian language on various occasions. Vida Gosrisirikul Shareholder, D'Souza & Gosrisirikul, Ltd.; 1994 B.S. Journalism, College of Communications, UIUC; 1997 Juris Doctor, College of Law, UIUC George T. Yu Professor Emeritus of Political Science; Founding director of the Asian American Studies Program George T. Yu (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1961) was the Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and Asian American Studies Program. Professor Yu's academic interests include contemporary Chinese politics and foreign policy. Chair Jennifer Chung Doctoral Student, Educational Policy Studies, UIUC Speakers Diem-My Bui Doctoral Student, Institute of Communications Research, UIUC Paula Kim Katten Muchin Rosenman; 2001 B.S. History and Political Science, College of LAS, UIUC; 2005 Juris Doctor, College of Law, DePaul University Jimmy Lee Executive Director the Office of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Mr. Jimmy D. Lee, of Chicago, Illinois, was appointed by President George W. Bush on January, 2006 to serve as the Executive Director of the White House Initiative for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The Office of the White House Initiative was established under Executive Order 13339 to increase economic opportunities and improve the quality of life of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through greater participation in federal programs where they may be underserved. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Lee was a Commissioner on the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and serve as Executive Director of the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and a Board Member for the Asian American Alliance, a small business development center dedicated to improving and expanding business opportunities in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the State of Illinois. Mr. Lee previously served as the Assistant to the Governor for Asian American Affairs. Mr. Lee is a strong advocate of community service and working with the youth of the community. He serves on a number of boards and commissions around the country and is an active youth group leader for his church in Chicago where he still goes back weekly to be a mentor and counselor for 150 students. Martin Manalansan Associate Professor of Anthropology Martin Manalansan's (Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1997) broad research interests include the following: sociocultural anthropology, sexuality and gender, immigration and globalization, cities and modernity, food and culture, critical theory, performance, public health, Filipino diaspora, Asian Americans, North America, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines.

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