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Homecoming The Homecoming Podcast
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Welcome to Homecoming, a podcast that features the diverse stories, experiences, and insights of Asian, Asian American, and mixed heritage Asian folks. I'm your host, Angelreana, an Asian American college student trying to understand and process this crazy world we live in. Each week, I'll bring on guests to discuss topics like affirmative action, international politics, being Asian and LGBTQ+, interracial solidarity, and everything in between. New episodes out every Saturday! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/homecomingpod/support
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38. The No-Code Movement, Entrepreneurship, and Music with Arun Saigal, Cofounder and CEO of Thunkable
In Homecoming’s Season 2 finale, Arun Saigal, the Cofounder and CEO of Thunkable, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows anyone to build their own mobile apps without any coding experience, joins me on the podcast! Previously, he’s held a variety of leading roles at tech companies including Quizlet (where he built and launched the first version of the Quizlet Android app), Khan Academy, Aspiring Minds, and Google. He was also named to Forbes 30 under 30 in consumer technology. And if that isn’t cool enough, Arun conducts orchestras like the San Francisco Civic Symphony, plays viola and mridangam (a South Indian classical drum), and beatboxes in several San Francisco-based music groups.
In this episode, Arun talks about his upbringing in Boston, his time at Phillips Academy and MIT, Thunkable and how it got started, the future of the no-code movement, his music, and important lessons about starting a company and staying optimistic that he’d want to pass on to the listeners.
Also listen to the very end of the episode for my brief Season 2 recap!
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You can also find resources from all of our episodes so far here: https://linktr.ee/homecomingpod.
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Thunkable’s website: https://thunkable.com/
Follow Thunkable on social media: https://twitter.com/thunkable, https://www.instagram.com/thunkable/, https://www.youtube.com/thunkable, https://www.facebook.com/thunkable/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/thunkable/
Connect with Arun: https://twitter.com/aksaigal?lang=en, https://www.linkedin.com/in/aksaigal/, https://www.youtube.com/user/aksaigal
San Francisco Civic Symphony website: https://www.sfcivicmusic.org/
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Asian American Community and Justice Organizations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CGLrII9ycdPPcavGkatzGpoqGsdwJm46AgDXVWla3H8/edit
GoFundMe links for the victims of the Atlanta shooting: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/atlanta-area-spa-shootings-fundraisers
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Thank you to mariokhol and Pixabay for the music!
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37. Asian, Queer, Trans, and Disabled Intersectionality with Sydney Ji (Part 2)
In part 2 of my conversation with Sydney Ji (go listen to part 1 from last week if you haven’t yet!), hear them talk about their orientation to and from whiteness and their Asian identity, invisible disabilities, intersectionality, and the work they hope to do in the future.
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You can also find resources from all of our episodes so far here: https://linktr.ee/homecomingpod.
Season 2 of Homecoming is wrapping up next week! Thank you all for listening and for your support!
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Follow Sydney: https://www.facebook.com/sydney.y.ji, https://www.instagram.com/kumoshii/
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Asian American Community and Justice Organizations to donate to/volunteer at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CGLrII9ycdPPcavGkatzGpoqGsdwJm46AgDXVWla3H8/edit
GoFundMe links for the victims of the Atlanta shooting: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/atlanta-area-spa-shootings-fundraisers
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Thank you to mariokhol and Pixabay for the music!
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36. Growing Up in Cupertino, Transitioning to UC Berkeley, and Distancing From Asian Identity with Sydney Ji (Part 1)
In part 1 of my conversation with Sydney Ji, UC Berkeley ‘17 and an international customer service assistant at the Berkeley International Office, listen to them talk about their experiences grappling with their racial identity and class privilege as they were growing up in Cupertino, CA and transitioning to UC Berkeley.
*CW: Sydney talks about their mental health during their time growing up in a pretty toxic environment and discusses suicide.
Next week, in part 2, Sydney will talk more about their time at Berkeley, invisible disabilities, their work at the international students’ office, and more!
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You can also find resources from all of our episodes so far here: https://linktr.ee/homecomingpod.
Season 2 of Homecoming is wrapping up at the end of this month! After this episode, there are just two more left...and then on to Season 3! :) Thank you all for listening and for your support!
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Follow Sydney: https://www.facebook.com/sydney.y.ji, https://www.instagram.com/kumoshii/
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Thank you to mariokhol and Pixabay for the music!
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35. Race & Public Health, Diversity & Equity in USA Water Polo, and Poetry as Healing with Mariko Rooks
In this episode, Yale University senior Mariko Rooks joins me on the podcast! Mariko is majoring in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and is a dual Master of Public Health candidate at the Yale School of Public Health in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is involved with a number of organizations like USA Water Polo, the Japanese American Citizens League, and Changing Womxn. Today, she talks about her Black, Japanese American, and Asian American identities; her research and thesis work in public health; her work in all of the organizations that I mentioned above; and...BTS??? Mariko also reads one of her amazing poems at the end of the episode!
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You can also find resources from all of our episodes so far here: https://linktr.ee/homecomingpod.
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Follow Mariko: https://www.instagram.com/marikorooks/
Mariko’s recent article about BTS: https://www.itsyozine.com/posts/bts-story?fbclid=IwAR003OEb-895VYyqMb0cEK_qliI8oChGXtX-vbaBFY2mn972XTLB0l1fu7k
Her recent poem for The Young Buddhist Editorial: https://www.youngbuddhisteditorial.com/articles/squirrels-and-foxes?fbclid=IwAR1bsdc3LLzWoB7_axcH3sbGJY7pO1Opoa9lO-jCmisQIVcFJWXSKdU3VIE
Mei Chen’s article on Mariko in The Yale Symposia: https://www.yalesymposia.com/history-lp/2020/5/22/black-yonsei-a-superheroine-origin-story
USA Water Polo Racial Equity & Reform Task Force: https://usawaterpolo.org/news/2020/7/16/general-usa-water-polo-announces-appointments-to-racial-equity-reform-task-force.aspx
Japanese Americans Citizens League: https://jacl.org/
Changing Womxn Collective: https://changingwomxncollective.org/index
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Thank you to mariokhol and Pixabay for the music!
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34. Diversity in Pageantry with Miss Washington Teen USA 2020 Marianne Bautista
Today, Miss Washington Teen USA 2020 Marianne Bautista joins me on the podcast! Marianne talks about her experiences as an Asian American/Filipina American in the pageant world, what she’s been up to during her reign as Miss Washington Teen USA, racial + body type + class diversity within pageantry, what she thinks the future holds for pageants, and so much more!
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You can also find resources from all of our episodes so far here: https://linktr.ee/homecomingpod.
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Follow Marianne: https://www.instagram.com/mariannebautistaa
Follow Miss Washington Teen USA: https://www.instagram.com/misswateenusa
Learn more about Miss Washington USA/Miss Washington Teen USA: https://www.misswashingtonusa.com/
History of pageants resources I referenced in the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ySl20yfzrbue9hLJpCSIAqM6kEzrfhVrTny-sNRmhWQ/edit?usp=sharing
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Thank you to mariokhol and Pixabay for the music!
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33. Transracial Adoption, Faith, and Learning About His Korean & Asian American Identities with K.J. Roelke from “The Janchi Show”
This Saturday, I welcome K.J. Roelke, a fellow member of the Springfield, Missouri community and cohost of the Korean adoptee podcast “The Janchi Show”! K.J. talks about his identity as a Korean adoptee, Asian American, and disabled person; his journey of learning about what being Korean American and Asian American means to him; how his faith and racial identity intersect; and, of course, his podcast! K.J. and I also bond over being Asian Americans in the majority-white Springfield, Missouri. (P.S. One of the funniest moments from the episode is at 32:14...hear K.J. make the most artistic metaphor of all time.)
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You can also find resources from all of our episodes so far here: https://linktr.ee/homecomingpod.
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KJ’s website (contains links to his social media, SoundCloud, and YouTube): https://kj.roelke.info/about/
Please go support “The Janchi Show”! The hosts K.J., Nathan Nowack, and Patrick Armstrong (3 Korean American adoptees) interview other adult adoptees, eat/drink Korean cuisine, and celebrate everyone's unique identities! Listen to and learn more about “The Janchi Show” here: https://janchishow.com/
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Thank you to mariokhol and Pixabay for the music!
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/homecomingpod/support
Customer Reviews
So. Good.
This podcast is really incredible. I love that Angelreana puts in so much effort to highlight diverse topics, voices and perspectives. I like falling asleep to podcasts, but this is one that I can’t ever listen to at night because I am too interested in the topics and what the speakers have to say.
Highly recommend!
WONDERFUL PODCAST
I love this. Talks about so many interesting topics that are relevant today.