Moriah Balingit, reporter for the Washington Post who covers national education issues joins the podcast to talk about her latest long piece on Affirmative Action, mixed-race identity, and her advocacy work for more Asian America…
114: From Rejecting To Accepting [Guest: Eileen Guo]
- April 7, 2019
- Tagged as: black panther, eileen guo, identity, radio
Eileen Guo, an independent print journalist and audio producer, who has published in the New York Times, Wired, New York Magazine, HuffPost, NPR, South China Morning Post with her reporting from Afghanistan, China, Mexico, and…
113: No More Hyphen! [Guest Co-Host: Jenn Fang]
- March 30, 2019
- Tagged as: AP, associated press, jenn fang, joe biden, karaoke, mueller, reappropriate
Jenn Fang, founder of Reappropriate.co, returns to the podcast to co-host this episode, where Tony delivered a karaoke rendition of Cold Play’s “The Scientist” to fulfill our podcast’s karaoke promise, we discussed AG Barr’s incompetent summary…
Madalene Mielke, President and CEO of Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) and political campaign veteran, joins the podcast to share how she got started in politics to the new initiatives she’s carrying…
111: Equal Treatment? [Guest: Kumar Rao]
- March 17, 2019
- Tagged as: kumar rao, popular democracy, racial justice
Kumar Rao, senior staff attorney for racial justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, joins the podcast to share his work in the criminal and racial justice space as a trial attorney and policy advocate,…
Frankie Huang, writer and storyteller whose writing appeared in Foreign Policy, Asian Articulation, Sup China, and many others, join the podcast to talk about her upbringing (which mirrored in many ways to Kevin’s), her various…
Kathleen Burkinshaw, author of “The Last Cherry Blossom“, a historical fiction loosely based on her mother’s first-hand experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the Second World War, shares her incredible personal story from…
Jenn Fang, founder of Reappropriate.co, returns to the podcast to co-host this episode where we discuss the latest news of sex trafficking in Florida in the larger context of human trafficking globally, and how DNA…
107: No More Cages! [Guest: Anoop Prasad]
- February 17, 2019
- Tagged as: 2020 census, andrew yang, anoop prasad, elizabeth warren, roger lau
Anoop Prasad, staff attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus who specializes in the intersection between immigration and mass incarceration in the criminal system, joins us to share his career in immigration…
106: Never Say Never [Guest: Tina Maharath]
- February 9, 2019
- Tagged as: green new deal, ohio, state senator, tina maharath
Tina Maharath, State Senator of Ohio recounts her campaign journey as a first time candidate going up against her own party’s write-in endorsed candidate and a mountain of negative ads from her Republican opponent to…
105: Representing the Hmong Community [Guest: Kaohly Her]
- February 3, 2019
- Tagged as: aapi, AAPI Caucus, Anthony Nagatani, Democrats, Hmong, Kaohly Her, Kevin Xu, Minnesota, Politics, Tony Nagatani
Kaohly Her, newly inaugurated member of the Minnesota House of Representatives joins Kevin for an awesome interview! Kaohly shares her personal story of her family immigrating to the US, and how she built a career…
104: Capitulation Nation [Guest Co-host: Jenn Fang]
- January 27, 2019
- Tagged as: 2020, Bernie Sanders, candidate, Democratic, jenn fang, Kevin Xu, reappropriate, shutdown, Tony Nagatani
Jenn Fang of https://reappropriate.co guest hosts! Kevin is away on business, so Tony and Jenn react to Trump’s shutdown capitulation, while Jenn shines a light on the Trump administration redefining Domestic Violence. Plus, we get…
Brad Jenkins, former Executive Producer and Washington D.C. Bureau chief for FunnyOrDie.com stops by for a long interview. Kevin and Brad talk about Brad’s biracial background growing up in New Jersey. They also talk about…
102: “Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump!” [Guest: Do Nguyen Mai]
- January 13, 2019
- Tagged as: do nguyen mai, republicans, shutdown
Do Nguyen Mai, author/poet/researcher joins the podcast to discuss her research into Asian-American political candidates in the 2018 midterm election, her upcoming book “Battlefield Blooming”, and how she talks to her Republican parents about politics….
101: Road to Liberation and Justice [Guest: Stephanie Cho]
- January 6, 2019
- Tagged as: aaaj atlanta, georgia, shutdown, stephanie cho, voter suppression
Stephanie Cho, Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta joins the Model Majority conversation to share her story growing up as a Korean adoptee, coming out as queer, life-long devotion to activism, current…
100: Hard Look at AAPI Solidarity [Guest Host: Jenn Fang]
- December 23, 2018
- Tagged as: deportation, multilingual outreach, reappropriate
Jenn Fang of Reappropriate *co-hosts* this special episode 100, joining Tony and Kevin to discuss a wide-ranging set of hard questions: – Intersectionality between AAPI support for equal pay and mainstream feminism – Scaling multilingual…
099: From Tentpole to the Soccer Field [Guest: Sunkyu Bin]
- December 15, 2018
- Tagged as: aca, athlete, soccer, sunkyu bin, unversity of maryland
Sunkyu (Paul) Bin, star soccer player at the University of Maryland, shares his experience as an Asian athlete at an American college, becoming aware of the Asian-American identity, and his journey through depression. Tony and…
098: Awareness of East Asian Privilege [Guest: Frank Shyong]
- December 8, 2018
- Tagged as: food, frank shyong, la times
Frank Shyong, reporter at the LA Times joins the podcast to share his upbringing from Michigan and Tennessee to LA, reporting on food and Asian-American culture, and his take on how “Crazy Rich Asians” brought…
097: From Zine to New Yorker-ing [Guest: Hua Hsu]
- December 2, 2018
- Tagged as: affirmative action, george hw bush, hua hsu, new yorker
Hua Hsu, associate professor at Vassar College and writer at the New Yorker, talks to Kevin about the genesis of his writing career, to the unique aspects of writing for the New Yorker, to his…
Chang Chiu, co-founder of Chinese American Progressive Action, joins this podcast this week to talk about his story growing up in Texas to progressive politics. They talk about Chang’s unconventional entrance into the realm of…