Heritage By Design Heritage By Design

Join us for a chat with Tram Nguyen, founder and co-executive director of New Virginia Majority, as she shares how her Vietnamese-American background led her to a career in advocacy and community leadership. Find out how her refugee background and heritage perspective on major life and world events helped her find her voice. This episode is sure to leave you inspired and energized to take any small step towards social empowerment!

Join Gaby, Meagan, and Jade as they discuss their paths from speaking heritage languages to teaching them to others. What does one have to study in order to do that? Have they always wanted to teach language? Listen and find out! 

Join us for a chat with Haʻalilio Solomon to honor and celebrate Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi - Hawaiian Language Month! From the history of revitalization and maintenance efforts, ways towards allyship, and grassroots efforts and organizations in Hawaiʻi, Haʻa shares his own background and gives us a little peek at how aloha can change the world. Don't miss him in the Hula Olympics April 4-6, 2024, streaming online in Hawaiian and English!Some of the orgs and events mentioned in this episode: https://www.ahapunanaleo.org/Merrie Monarch Festival (Hula Olympics): https://www.merriemonarch.com/

Join us for the second episode in our "Returning to the heritage country" series! Raymond Pai tells us about his travels back to Indonesia - language, food, family, and lots of nostalgia - and his new motivations to return again soon. :) With a nod to our Cantonese-speaking listeners, too! 

In this episode, Alejandra Gutierrez joins us to cover the "no sabo" trend that has hit social media. She talks about the issues that "no sabo," or similar terms like "juk sing" in Chinese, have on heritage communities and how we're claiming the term as our own. 

Join us this episode as we hear from Paula Gobbi, a diplomat's daughter and Argentine heritage speaker of Spanish. Paula shares how she has experienced her heritage language and culture in the different countries and the adaptability and resilience she has developed as a result of her global citizenship.