Rising Tides: Voices of Asian America

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Rising Tides: Voices of Asian America is a podcast featuring stories of path-breaking AAPI leaders and allies, aimed at promoting AAPI civic engagement.

  1. Leana Wen

    27/08/2024

    Leana Wen

    Dr. Leana Wen is a practicing physician, healthcare executive, and op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. She previously served as President of Planned Parenthood, as well as Baltimore’s Health Commissioner, leading the nation’s oldest continuously operating health department to fight the opioid epidemic, address disparities and mental health access, and improve maternal and child health.

    24 min
  2. Lily Qi

    20/08/2024

    Lily Qi

    Lily Qi represents the 15th legislative district in the Maryland House of Delegates. Born in Shanghai amidst the Cultural Revolution, she is the first Chinese-born state legislator in Maryland. Prior to entering elected politics, she worked under Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, becoming the first Asian American to serve as Assistant Chief Administrative Officer of Montgomery County.

    27 min
  3. Vanna Howard

    13/08/2024

    Vanna Howard

    Vanna Howard serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 17th Middlesex District, which includes portions of Lowell and Tewksbury. She was born in Cambodia but in 1979 fled the Cambodian genocide and immigrated to the United States. She is the first Khmer woman to serve in the Massachusetts General Court.

    31 min
  4. Saud Anwar

    07/05/2024

    Saud Anwar

    Dr. Saud Anwar is a Connecticut State Senator representing the 3rd District. He was previously the Mayor of South Windsor from 2013-2015 and 2017-2019, when upon being elected, he became Connecticut’s first Muslim mayor. He is a pulmonary physician by training and has served as Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine with Manchester Memorial and Rockville General Hospitals.

    24 min
  5. Chuen-Chin Bianca Chang

    30/04/2024

    Chuen-Chin Bianca Chang

    Chuen-Chin Bianca Chang is a member of the Maryland State Board of Education. Her record of public service has included serving as President of the National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools; serving as a member of the Howard County Human Rights Commission; and managing the Health Alliance Pediatric Clinic, a free clinic serving under-privileged children in Howard County.

    28 min
  6. Ganesh Sitaraman

    12/03/2024

    Ganesh Sitaraman

    Ganesh Sitaraman teaches and writes about constitutional law, the regulatory state, economic policy, democracy and foreign affairs. He joined the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2011 and was named to the New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law in 2021. He was a longtime adviser to Elizabeth Warren and has been profiled in The New York Times and Politico for his work at the nexus of politics and ideas.

    30 min
  7. Alex Wan

    05/03/2024

    Alex Wan

    Alex Wan is the District 6 member of the Atlanta City Council, where he chaired the Finance-Executive, Zoning, and Utilities committees, and served as Council President Pro Tempore in 2015. He also serves as the executive director of Horizons Atlanta, a nonprofit that provides tuition-free summer enrichment programs to K-8 students in the metro Atlanta area. He has served as Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Emory University, and before that as Director of Development at Jerusalem House, Atlanta’s largest HIV housing provider.

    22 min
  8. Annika Sharma

    27/02/2024

    Annika Sharma

    Annika Sharma is an agented and published writer of romcoms. Her first book, a women's fiction novel called The Arranged Life, was published in 2015. She is currently working on a three-book romcom series called The Chai Masala Club focused on a fictional group of friends and their travails in love. She is also the host of a podcast called That Desi Spark, which explores stigmatized social issues from a South Asian, first-generation, millennial lens.

    28 min
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