August 2016 - Young Women's Leadership Program

On August 1, Yuriko Koike took office as the governor of Tokyo, officially sealing her mark as Tokyo’s first female governor in history. She won a three-way race, defeating her closest opponent, Hiroya Masuda, by over a million votes, according to the preliminary tallies by the …

August 30, 2016

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Opinions

Why I Chose the STEM Field as an Asian American Woman

From an all-girls high school to a male-dominated field in college, one can definitely say I did a complete flip. Going into college, I knew engineering was a male-dominated major, but it was shocking to actually see it with my own eyes and experience it. The …

August 26, 2016

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Weekly Links Roundup

Weekly Links Roundup #3

Happy Friday! Check out these articles as you try to beat the rising humidity this weekend! Huma Abedin On Her Job, Family, and the Campaign of a Lifetime http://www.vogue.com/13464218/huma-abedin-family-job-hillary-clinton-campaign-strategist/ Born to a Pakistani mother and an Indian father, Asian-American Muslim Huma Abedin can most easily be described …

August 25, 2016

by tabitha

Lifestyle

5 Tips to Survive the School Year

Ah, I can tell when the end of August is nigh — every check-out counter at Target is at least 10-feet deep, there’s a massive influx of drivers at IKEA, and Staples has their annual $1 notebooks sale (not that you can actually buy any …

August 22, 2016

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Opinions

Sexism in Olympics Coverage

As mentioned in the previous blog article featuring THE Asian American Olympians to look out for, women made up more than half of the U.S. team of 292 athletes. Unsurprisingly, women also received more than half of NBC’s prime-time coverage, approximately 58 percent, while the men …

August 21, 2016

by Sharon Tong

Opinions

The Blindness That Remains

It was a Saturday night. I was walking in Nolita, a neighborhood proximate to Chinatown, with a Chinese-American friend on a fairly quiet street. We were chatting when a group of young white men passed us and exclaimed, “Ni hao ma?” If you didn’t already know …

Monthly Archives: August 2016

#WCW: Yuriko Koike

Why I Chose the STEM Field as an Asian American Woman

Weekly Links Roundup #3

5 Tips to Survive the School Year

Sexism in Olympics Coverage

The Blindness That Remains