Category: 2022 Convention News

第三届UCA美国华人大会亮点 | 国会参访团

自2016年UCA举办首届大会以来，大会的一个重量级议程就是拜访美国国会。这对于UCA成员和大会参与者来说是一个重要的机会。他们可以登上国会大厦的台阶，与我们国家的领导人和立法者讨论重要问题。

今年，随着我们的国家从新冠疫情中复苏，反亚裔仇恨犯罪是UCA和我们的国会参访团最关心的问题。自2020年以来，这场疫情制造了大量错误信息，导致亚裔和太平洋岛民成为被针对的目标。联邦调查局数据显示，2020年，反亚裔仇恨犯罪增加了73%以上。从2020年到2021年，为阻止AAPI仇恨，有9000多起反亚裔仇恨事件是受害者自己主动报告的。政府官员的反华言论和仇外言论进一步助长了对美国人和其他华裔的种族歧视。可悲的是，许多人在自己的社区正感到不受欢迎，安全感与日俱减。

当UCA国会参访团与国会代表会面时，我们和他们将就一系列对社区有广泛影响力的社会话题和政治话题开展坦诚的对话。我们也将鼓励国会议员将UCA视为一个合作伙伴和资源，一起努力解决存在于国家和社区的关键问题，并领导前进的道路。

备注: 参加UCA国会参访团名额有限, 只限之前预先注册的会员。

7月14日国会参访团行程表
  • 首先，Omni Shoreham Hotel的帝国宴会厅将举办一场简短的介绍会。预计开始时间为美国东部时间下午1点，可能会有变动。
  • 介绍会后，UCA国会参访团将有机会与各自选区的代表以及其他国会领导人和工作人员会面。
  • 由于新冠疫情的限制，今年的国会会议预计将采用虚拟形式，但将每个办公室提供一些面对面会议。
  • 会议结束后，UCA国会参访团和我们的代表被邀请参加UCA欢迎和国会招待会，预计开始时间为美国东部时间晚上7:30-9:30,  现场提供茶点及有Cash  Bar服务。

2022美国华人大会和青年大会指南

波士谈｜UCA美国华人大会特别系列专访正在进行中……欢迎锁定频道准时收看 https://youtube.com/channel/UC_7lCBcgyFvhUJLw0YOXmvA 

我们期待各界华人有识之士，UCA的新老朋友们和各地家长孩子们前往华府参加本次UCA美国华人大会和UCA全国青年大会。我们相信，这必将是改变您或您的孩子人生最有意义的三天！另外，今年夏天机票价格预计会猛涨，也请大家尽早订票（万一需要退票，票款可在下一次购机票时使用）。

UCA 2022 Chinese American Convention Agenda
2022 UCA National Youth Convention Agenda
7月17日(周日)大会圆桌会议议程确定:

🌟2022年UCA青年大会欢迎高中生和大学生及研究生参加(需十五岁或以上）的积极报名参加 。高中生来参会前需要家长签署同意书（大会组委会会在报名后给家长发出信函）。 

🌟 COVID预防措施：强烈鼓励所有与会者接种新冠疫苗，在大会期间建议戴口罩，充分休息和多吃水果，在新冠病例上升期间保持最佳的免疫系统。

DC COVID POLICY
UCA全国青年大会暑期套票购票链接
美国华人大会暑期套票购票链接

会议地点：Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008。Omni Shoreham Hotel 被指定为我们的会议酒店。它位于首都，交通便利，房间数量有限，因此请尽快预订。组委会会帮助参加全美青年大会的同学们, 提供拼房服务。

预订酒店请复制粘贴链接或扫描二维码, Link to Hotel Reservation: https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/washington-dc-shoreham/meetings/2022-uca-convention-07132022

预订酒店请扫描二维码

2022 UCA Convention partner

2022 UCA Convention Diamond Sponsor

Gene & Sharon Chang Family Charitable Fund

2022 UCA Convention Platinum Sponsor

iHealth Unified Care

2022 UCA Convention Gold Sponsor

Hong Liu / MAHA

Marathon Ginseng

Clinical scholar

美华商联（UCBP）

Powermax USA / Nerville Lin

Windfall Group (Eddie Ni)

Chicago Expert Importers (Linda Bi)

2022 UCA Convention Silver Sponsor

Karina Hou

Duke Printing

FRI Future Reimagined Initiative

UCA Illinois
Helen Woo (Honorary Steering Committee Member)
The Le Family Foundation

Connie Jing Li
Jimmy He

Communities MHACC / Elaine Peng
Wine sponsor: 德宾
Dr. Bin Ran

2022 UCA Convention Bronze Sponsor

Mandarin Playground 心悦汉语

AARP / Daphne Kwok

Alec Wang
Boston Paragon LLC (Qing Liao)
Evelyn Su (Hardy' Alumnus)
Qian Ge
Jessie Liang, Aijia Liang, Chung-Hao "Jonah"
Liang and Family
Liang-Qi "Shelly" Yu, Tina Liang and Family
Ning Mosberger
齐飞
Steven Lin

Amsino (Richard Lee)
Guang Yang (NYC)
Leon Zheng and Family
卢文斌
岳东晓

2022 UCA Convention Friendship Sponsor

Veritas Education | Tech ( Dr. Yuhsien Wu & Richard Wang)
Atlanta International Education Group
MX Finance
New Bright Law Group
US Education Without Borders
Jinhua Yang

UCA-MA (COVID supplies)
Aritas Collegiate Academy
厉平 American Scholars 美思高教育
范敏
劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA)
Lee Deng
Karina Hou
Lily Lee Chen
西雅图魏董
林应章 世界金融集团
李琪 YD Home 建材& Ramblei漫悠学生一条龙服务
大费城连江同乡会
艾伦赵琼
Peter Song

Individual Sponsors

To be our Individual Sponsor, please visit: http://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/united-chinese-americans/youthconvention

1. 张冰 $200
2. Hong mei Li $100
3.孙晓光 $200
4.薛海培（Haipei Shue）DC $400
5.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area $200
6.Dr. wan 3 hotel nights for youth
7.梁瑞风 西弗 $200
8.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area
9.Dr. wan there hotel nights for youth
10.姜博 UCA outreach ，Three Hotel nights for youth and others
11.Lily Chen 陈健 🎫 $200
12.Qing Liao $300
13.🌸李惠瓊🌷Sophia 350
14. Steven Pei 白先慎 $200
15. Meina Liu Three nights for 2 attendee
16. Linda 跃玲 二个房间三个晚上
17. Qi, Hong $200
18. Qian Wen $200
19. 齐飞 $200
20.郑桥雲 Victoria $200.00
21. Alec Wang $200
22. Zach Wu $500
23.Tycoon International $700
24.Chunyan Liu $500 (Zella paid)
25. Anonymous $500（Chicago）by mail
26. Charles Tsui 徐国富 $400
27. Shuqiao Chen $200 (Zelle paid)
28.亞特蘭大的馮先生$400
29.威斯康星商会捐 $500
30. Wenbin Yuan $300
31.许兰兰 $200
32.郭欣欣 $300
33.陈峥 Sunny Chen$400 Paid through online link
34. Bonnie Liao $500 ZellePay
35. Tong 张彤 $400 Paypal
36.劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA) 4 Students two nights two hotel
37. Christina Li Wang $200
38. Jun Lin $200
39.王军$300
40. Charles Li $200 41.陈茁$200
42.谢锋 $300
43. Bing Li $400
44.孟愚$500
45. Simon Li $500.
46.孙澜涛律师 $500
47.邓丽萍 $500
48.韩鹏一链家地产，$500
49. 秦立新 $500
50.肖宇 $200

为什么来参加UCA美国华人大会 —— 采访《我的杨帮日记》导演陈清

陈清（Ching Juhl）女士是一位电影制作人、影像记者、音乐教授和中提琴家。她有着超过20年关于制作纪录短片、现场演出视频、采访影片等的经验。她成立的媒体工作室，Juhl Media，已经在全网发布了800多个关于社会议题、教育、现场采访、音乐制作等主题的视频，引起了社会的广泛关注。

2021年，她用iPhone拍摄并独立制作了纪录片《我的杨帮日记》（My Yang Gang Diary）。这部90分钟的纪录片讲述了她和其他志愿者在一年时间中，帮助彼时的总统候选人杨安泽进行2020年总统大选的故事。这部影片获得了多伦多纪录片电影节、曼哈顿国际电影节、罗马国际电影节的最佳长片奖。今天，我们邀请到了陈清女士，和她聊聊这部纪录片背后的故事。

这部纪录片讲述了您作为杨帮（Yang Gang）一员，在2020年的总统大选中帮助杨安泽先生拉选票的经历。您现在回想起来有什么比较触动的瞬间吗？

其实这一切的开始都是一个非常偶然的机会，在2019年的时候，听朋友介绍，我在纽约去了杨安泽的一个演讲活动，一开始是被杨安泽竞选团队的几位老师的热情打动，后来阅读了杨安泽的书《为普通人而战》（The War on Normal People），书中提到了他的一些关于医疗、全民基本收入等政策看法，我觉得他的论证很有说服力，就决定支持他的总统竞选，这同时也是我第一次参加政治活动。像在纪录片中讲述的，我从2019年中旬到2020年杨安泽退出总统竞选之间，和其他志愿者一起帮杨安泽拉选票。我自己之前也遇到过这种宣传，当时会不理解他们的工作，但现在觉得游说非常辛苦，一天大约要敲70户人家。我想通过这个纪录片来向大家展示最真实的拉选票过程，以及亚裔和其他族裔的义工对参与政治活动的热情。

当时在爱荷华为党团会议（Caucuses）的投票拉选票时，是我这近一年经历中的最高潮。我在爱荷华遇到了来自全国各地的杨帮，包括姜铭涛博士（注：姜铭涛博士是UCA的元老，可以查看往期采访对他的采访），也是经他介绍和UCA结缘。当时是2020年初，是中西部最冷的时候，我们就像参加冬令营一样，一起吃住，一起开车出去挨家挨户拉选票。我大部分情况是负责开车的，有时也会下车去敲门。我们有一个规定是，一般是三个人一组，两个人下车去敲门，一个人负责开车和留在车里，如果下车的人5到10分钟内不回来，我们就要立刻联系他，防止意外发生，这些我们都有专门地培训过。其实无论是三人成组，还是我们所有志愿者相聚在爱荷华，这些都体现出团队的力量，我们为了共同的目标在一起努力。

从影片中可以看出，很多杨安泽先生坚定的支持者都有着不同的职业和背景，您觉得是什么原因让你们不约而同地选择支持他？

我个人支持杨安泽主要是三个原因。第一，像我刚才提到的，我看了杨安泽写的《为普通人而战》这本书，我被这本书的逻辑性和强有力的数据和细节支撑所吸引，觉得他是一个有思想且能有效地输出自己观点的人。第二，他是台湾后裔，也是我知道的第一位竞选总统的亚裔候选人，这是亚裔群体在美国的主流政治中历史性的一步，我作为亚裔是肯定要大力支持的。第三，其实我已经有几十年的拍摄影片的经验，所以在帮杨安泽拉选票时，我很自然地就想用镜头来记录下这段经历，一开始拍了一些短视频放到我自己的YouTube频道（@Juhl Media），没想到吸引了很多关注，而且通过互联网也让我知道有这么多杨安泽的支持者，所以我也更受鼓舞地继续参加活动和拍摄。

那当时是什么契机让您开始拍摄这部纪录片？您又是如何构思和梳理出影片的框架的？

我一开始参加活动时并没打算拍这部记录片，当时只是出于兴趣想把这一段经历用镜头记录下来，所以都是用手机拍一些短片，这样可以很快地捕捉过程，不过内容也相对粗糙。杨安泽在2020年2月退选之后，一切就突然结束了，这让我思绪万千，回家后也一直在回忆和怀念这段经历。转眼三月因为疫情在家隔离，我就想到要不要把这些片段组成一个连贯的故事，于是我就开始回顾这200多个小时的素材。我可以说如果没有疫情，我可能不会有时间和精力去做这件事情。

我首先想出了片名，也就是“我的杨帮日记”，之后围绕这个主题，我开始梳理每个片段的地点、人物、故事，写在一张张小卡片上。除了一些随行拍摄，我当时还采访了50多个人，每个时长是5到30分钟不等，我就把全部的片段都看了一遍，记了很多笔记。在串联故事的时候，我主要是根据时间和地点，以及故事的精彩程度来取舍和排列。最后历经八个月，我剪成了初稿。大概2021年1月的时候，我们几个Yang Gang成员在网上聚会聊天，我就提到了我的这个片子，他们看了之后建议我加一些自己的经历，比如我为什么来美国、我为什么要讲这个故事等等，因为毕竟主题是“我”的日记，所以我后来又多做了一些补充，最后呈现出大家看到的版本。

除了作为志愿者拉选票，您还用自己的艺术专长创作了这部纪录片，同时也在自己的自媒体频道上推出了很多和教育、政治议题等有关的视频和采访，积极投身社会活动。您觉得对于有兴趣参与社会和政治活动的人们，可以用什么方式来参与？

首先，我觉得凡是美国公民，既然被给予了投票权，就应该善用这个权利去投选候选人。那么首先要对候选人有全面的了解，比如其推崇的政策、自身的履历、人格品质等等，我们应该自己去做详尽的调查。再进一步，如果你想亲身参与政治活动，可以上网搜索，每个候选人都有自己的活动网站，可以加入做志愿者，报名基本都会要的。其实大到总统选举，小到社区委员会，参加这些活动的途径总是有的，主要看你有没有兴趣去做。我平时也会带着我的儿子去做这类志愿活动，比如在投票站检票，这些小事会逐渐积累，让他在实践过程中认识到公民责任感，为社会做出贡献。像今年的UCA大会和青年大会，我就会带着他去参加，利用UCA这个平台来结识其他有识之士。

您的纪录片也会在今年的UCA大会播放，您希望这个影片带给观众什么样的信息？

没错，在7月14号晚上九点半，这部纪录片将在大会上播放，希望届时大家都来观看。其实这个影片主要的故事就是作为选民，如何去帮自己支持的候选人来拉选票，我以前也被敲过门，也听人家宣传，但是现在位置互换了，我的体验和心境是完全不同的。这份工作需要很强的沟通能力，你要在一到两分钟内，让对方从完全没听过这个人，到了解这个人，再到考虑为这个候选人投票，而且你有时候甚至都还没开口，就会被别人拒绝或者轰走，碰壁是经常会发生的。我想起来之前和姜博士拉选票的经历，他拉票是无时无刻而且非常有热情，看到陌生人就聊天。我们之前在路上遇到一个流浪汉，他就上去攀谈，和他介绍杨安泽，聊了一会那个人说饿了，因为很长时间没吃东西，于是我们就带他到附近的餐馆去吃饭，到餐馆我们继续在聊，希望他到时候可以为杨安泽投票，我在旁边就用手机记录下了这一幕。

在整个华人群体中，其实大部分人目前可能选择不参与政治和社会活动，也不会觉得这与自己有关系。我希望通过这个影片去打动他们，让他们了解选举是如何每时每刻发生在我们身边的，是一个多么辛苦的工作。我们在美华人是有这个责任去参与投票，参与这样的活动，这是每个公民的权利和义务。

2022美国华人大会和青年大会指南

波士谈｜UCA美国华人大会特别系列专访正在进行中……欢迎锁定频道准时收看 https://youtube.com/channel/UC_7lCBcgyFvhUJLw0YOXmvA 

我们期待各界华人有识之士，UCA的新老朋友们和各地家长孩子们前往华府参加本次UCA美国华人大会和UCA全国青年大会。我们相信，这必将是改变您或您的孩子人生最有意义的三天！另外，今年夏天机票价格预计会猛涨，也请大家尽早订票（万一需要退票，票款可在下一次购机票时使用）。

UCA 2022 Chinese American Convention Agenda
2022 UCA National Youth Convention Agenda
7月17日(周日)大会圆桌会议议程确定:

🌟2022年UCA青年大会欢迎高中生和大学生及研究生参加(需十五岁或以上）的积极报名参加 。高中生来参会前需要家长签署同意书（大会组委会会在报名后给家长发出信函）。 

🌟 COVID预防措施：强烈鼓励所有与会者接种新冠疫苗，在大会期间建议戴口罩，充分休息和多吃水果，在新冠病例上升期间保持最佳的免疫系统。

DC COVID POLICY
UCA全国青年大会暑期套票购票链接
美国华人大会暑期套票购票链接

会议地点：Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008。Omni Shoreham Hotel 被指定为我们的会议酒店。它位于首都，交通便利，房间数量有限，因此请尽快预订。组委会会帮助参加全美青年大会的同学们, 提供拼房服务。

预订酒店请复制粘贴链接或扫描二维码, Link to Hotel Reservation: https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/washington-dc-shoreham/meetings/2022-uca-convention-07132022

预订酒店请扫描二维码

2022 UCA Convention partner

2022 UCA Convention Diamond Sponsor

Gene & Sharon Chang Family Charitable Fund

2022 UCA Convention Platinum Sponsor

iHealth Unified Care

2022 UCA Convention Gold Sponsor

Hong Liu / MAHA

Marathon Ginseng

Clinical scholar

美华商联（UCBP）

Powermax USA / Nerville Lin

Windfall Group (Eddie Ni)

Chicago Expert Importers (Linda Bi)

2022 UCA Convention Silver Sponsor

Karina Hou

Duke Printing

FRI Future Reimagined Initiative

UCA Illinois
Helen Woo (Honorary Steering Committee Member)
The Le Family Foundation

Connie Jing Li
Jimmy He

Communities MHACC / Elaine Peng
Wine sponsor: 德宾
Dr. Bin Ran

2022 UCA Convention Bronze Sponsor

Mandarin Playground 心悦汉语

AARP / Daphne Kwok

Alec Wang
Boston Paragon LLC (Qing Liao)
Evelyn Su (Hardy' Alumnus)
Qian Ge
Jessie Liang, Aijia Liang, Chung-Hao "Jonah"
Liang and Family
Liang-Qi "Shelly" Yu, Tina Liang and Family
Ning Mosberger
齐飞
Steven Lin

Amsino (Richard Lee)
Guang Yang (NYC)
Leon Zheng and Family
卢文斌
岳东晓

2022 UCA Convention Friendship Sponsor

Veritas Education | Tech ( Dr. Yuhsien Wu & Richard Wang)
Atlanta International Education Group
MX Finance
New Bright Law Group
US Education Without Borders
Jinhua Yang

UCA-MA (COVID supplies)
Aritas Collegiate Academy
厉平 American Scholars 美思高教育
范敏
劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA)
Lee Deng
Karina Hou
Lily Lee Chen
西雅图魏董
林应章 世界金融集团
李琪 YD Home 建材& Ramblei漫悠学生一条龙服务
大费城连江同乡会
艾伦赵琼
Peter Song

Individual Sponsors

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United Chinese Americans Announced 2022 Chinese American Convention Awards Winners

United Chinese Americans (UCA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Chinese American Convention Awards. There were two categories of the awards, national and community. The national awards winners were nominated, verified and selected by a nomination committee consisting of 19 community leaders, journalists and UCA Board members. The community award winners were selected by the UCA Board.

The National Awards winners are:

  1. Chinese American Lifetime Achievement Award: Mae Yih叶梅
  2. Advancing Justice Award: Anming Hu胡安明, A Philip Lomonaco and Jamie Satterfield
  3. Civic Leadership Award: Li Lu 李录
  4. Iris Shun-Ru Chang Award for Humanity: R Gregory Nokes
  5. Champion of Chinese Cultural Heritage Award: Ellen Qiongzhao Schicktanz 赵琼 and Vincent Zhou 周知方
  6. Youth Leadership Award: Christina Lu
  7. Chinese American Corporate Citizen Award: Eddie Ni 倪举凌
  8. Chinese American Charitable Giving Award: Agnes Hsu-Tang 徐心梅 and Oscar L Tang 唐骝千
  9. Congressional Champion Award: Jamie Ben Raskin

The Community Awards winners are:

1. UCA Outstanding Volunteer Award:

    • Dr. Bing Zhang/Linda Li/Ching Juhl
    • Shirley Xiaohong Ma 马晓红
    • Ren Li 栋梁妈妈
    • Jian (Lily) Chen 陈健
    • Gary Guoliang Yu 俞国梁
    • Vicky Cheng 程以克
    • Hong Liu

2. Outstanding Chinese American Organization Award

          WeChat User Alliance/Keliang(Clay) ZHU

  •      Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL)
  •      New Egnland Chinese American Alliance (NECAA)
  •      Los Angeles Chinese Musicians Ensemble Chorus
  •      Civic Leadership USA
  •      United Chinese Americans of Washington
  •      Austin Chinese-American Network
  •      UCA WAVES
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3. Outstanding Community and Public Service Award:

    • Tony XiaoJun Hu 胡晓军
    • Dong Xiao Yue 岳东晓
    • Melanie Lin 林小梅
    • Qian Ge 葛倩
    • Mealey Tom
    • Joel Wong

The President’s office of UCA has also named four distinctive recipients of the President’s Special Awards for their outstanding service and contribution to the Chinese American community. They are:

1. President’s Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice

    • Michael Makoto “Mike” Honda
    • Steven Pei 白先慎

2. President’s Award for Community Contribution

    • Elaine Peng
    • Karina Hou

The 2022 Chinese American Convention & UCA National Youth Convention will be held in Washington DC from July 14 to July 16 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008. The awards will be presented to the winners during the Convention Gala and Award Ceremony on July 16. 

The 2022 UCA Awards Committee members include Gene Chang* (chair), Jing Bi (secretary), Jinliang Cai*, Lily Jan Chen, Diana Ding, Xiaomin Dong*, Shuiwen Song James*, Mintao Jiang, Tao Jiang, Steven Lin*, Steven Pei*, Haipei Shue*, Wai-Yin Tsang, Sophia Wen, Jan Xie*, Mingdi Yang, Gary Yu*, Bing Zhang and Xiao Yan Zhang* (names with “*” are UCA board members).

Congratulations to all award winners! Many thanks to Awards Committee members and volunteers for your great work and valuable time!

Bios of the 2022 UCA National Award Winners

1. Chinese American Lifetime Achievement Award
Mae Yih 叶梅

Bio: Yih was born Chih Feng Dunn on May 24, 1928 in Shanghai, China. She went to St. John’s University in Shanghai. In September 1948, she transferred to Barnard College in New York City, graduating in 1951 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. She went to Columbia University for a master’s degree in accounting but did not complete. In 1953 she married Stephen Yih and later moved to Albany, Oregon with Stephen.

In Albany, Yih volunteered at her children’s school, eventually running for the local school board. She started service on the Clover Ridge Elementary School board in 1969, moving to the Albany Union High School board in 1975. In 1976, the local Democratic Party chairperson asked Yih to run for the Oregon State House. Yih won the election, defeating a Republican opponent who had 14 years of incumbency. Yih took office in 1977. She went on to serve three two-year terms in the House. In 1982, Yih decided to run for a seat in the Oregon State Senate. She won this election, and was re-elected in 1986, 1990, 1994, and 1998. Yih was elected Senate President Pro Tempore for the 1993–1995 session. Yih decided not to seek re-election in 2002 and retired at the end of her term in January 2003.

Known as a conservative Democrat, Yih’s many accomplishments included passage of laws establishing Enterprise Zones to promote job creations; Office of Oregon Trade Representative in Shanghai to enhance trade between Oregon and China; child support legislation to expedite child support and reduce public assistance; equal property tax relief for Linn County residents by correcting a legislative drafting error permanently; appropriation for regional Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center; school curriculum to encourage sexual abstinence to reduce teen pregnancy; lottery funds for the rehabilitation and preventive maintenance of covered bridges and a study for assessing the health of the Willamette River. Yih was also known as a strong supporter of field burning because it is a more effective control of disease and insects than the use of chemicals. Yih introduced and passed legislation to establish sister state relationship with Fujian province, China in 1983. She accompanied Oregon governor Atiyeh to sign the agreement with Governor of Fujian province in 1984. Yih organized legislative leadership trade delegation to visit Fujian province and other cities in China in 1992, 1997, 2000, and 2002. Yih was awarded Honorary Citizen of Fujian Province in 1994.

Following her retirement in 2003, Yih received the Distinguished Service Award from the Albany Chamber of Commerce. This is the same award that her husband received in 1968. The Albany street Yih Lane, where her district office was, is named for her family.

2. Advancing Justice Award
Anming Hu

Bio: Dr. Anming Hu is a Chinese-Canadian who had worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville since 2013 and was promoted to tenured associate professor at July, 2019. On February 27, 2020, after 18 months of surveillance, he was arrested for not disclosing his association with a Chinese university and was terminated by the University of Tennessee. However, Professor Hu refused to plead guilty and decided to fight his case at the court. His case was the first academic tried under the “China Initiative.” With his determination and courage and support of his family and friends, one and half years later, on September 9, 2021, the trial resulted in acquittal and Hu was cleared of all charges. So far this is the only academic case that the court dismissed all charges. However, he could not win the case without the strong support of his defense attorney A Philip Lomonaco and former Knox News reporter Jamie Satterfield.

A Philip Lomonaco

Bio: Phil Lomonaco attended the University of Tennessee College of Law and was admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District in 1985 and the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1986. He is the founding and managing partner of the Law Offices of A. Philip Lomonaco, starting the firm in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1987. He was selected as one of the Best Lawyers in Knoxville for many years, and selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America in 2009 – 2010, 2013 – 2015, 2017 – 2020. Phil is more than Professor Hu’s defense attorney. He and his wife Yanli Du provided support to Hu’s family as personal friends through these two difficult years.

Jamie Satterfield

Bio: Jamie Satterfield is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years of experience. Honors include a Scripps Howard Award for uncovering the poisoning of the workforce of the nation’s largest coal ash spill and induction into the East Tennessee Writer’s Hall of Fame. She built a reputation as a prolific and hard-nosed crime and courts reporter, but in recent years added environmental reporting to her beat following the 2008 disaster at the Kingston coal-fired power plant.

When University of Tennessee professor Anming Hu became the first academic to go to trial under the “China Initiative” in Knoxville, TN, most media coverage simply repeated the accusations made by the prosecutors. However, a week before the trial started on June 7, 2021, the clerk of U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Varlan called and suggested Jamie Satterfield to KnoxNews to cover Dr. Hu’s trial.

Satterfield’s coverage of the trial brought Dr. Hu’s case under national spotlight. In particular, her five reports starting on June 7 revealed the false accusations made by federal agents in their zeal to find a spy for China and the mishandling of the case by the University of Tennessee. After the judge declared a mistrial on June 16, Satterfield published four additional reports analyzing Dr. Hu’s case between June 23 and August 2 when the government requested the second trial, which was dismissed by Judge Varlan on September 9, 2021.

Satterfield’s reports also played a pivotal role in changing the public opinion about how the University Tennessee mishandled Dr. Hu’s employment and the reinstallation of his tenured position after Dr. Hu was acquitted of all charges.

Three of the awardees together won a big case for the Asian American and scientific community, which might have also contributed to the end of the “China Initiative” in Feb. 2022.

3. Chinese American Civic Leadership Award
Lu Li

Bio: Li Lu, is the founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital, a multi-billion-dollar investment firm that primarily focuses on long-term investment opportunities in Asia and the U.S. He founded the firm in late 1997 and has been running its principal fund ever since.

Li Lu was born and raised in China. Li Lu attended Columbia University where he received three degrees simultaneously: B.A., J.D., and M.B.A. from Columbia College, Law School, and Business School.

Li Lu is the co-founder and board Chair of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). He co-founded the Guardians of the Angeles Charitable Foundation to combat the global COVID-19 crisis and now serves as its board Chair. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University and a member of the Board of Trustees of California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Li Lu is a member of the Committee of 100, the Council on Foreign Relations, and an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow. He is featured in the Smithsonian Institute’s Family of Voices, part of the ongoing Many Voices, One Nation exhibition at the National Museum of American History. He is the author of Moving The Mountain: My Life in China (1990 in English) and Civilization, Modernization, Value Investing—and China (2020 in Chinese). Li Lu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

4. Iris Shun-Ru Chang Award for Humanity
R. Gregory Nokes

Bio: R. GREGORY NOKES is the author of Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory and Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon. He traveled the world as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press and the Oregonian. A graduate of Willamette University, he attended Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. His reporting on the 1887 murders of more than thirty Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon resulted in a formal designation of the site as Chinese Massacre Cove and was the basis for an Oregon Public Broadcasting documentary. Greg and his wife, Candise, live in West Linn, Oregon.

“Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon” traces the Nokes’ long, personal journey to expose details of the massacre and its aftermath to understand how the crime was kept in the dark for so long. In the book, he tells of the experience of the tens of thousands of Chinese who journeyed across the Pacific to mine gold and build railroads throughout the American West and how hostility toward the Chinese resulted in Congress enacting the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. The book is the first authoritative account of the long-forgotten 1887 massacre of as many as 34 Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon.

5. Champion of Chinese Cultural Heritage Award
Ellen Qiongzhao. Schicktanz

Bio: Ellen Qiongzhao is a professional artist (oil painting and sculpture) and a senior curator of international art events, a doctor of literature and art history. President of the American Goddess Art Museum and Deputy Secretary of the Rodin International Artists Foundation. She graduated from Kyoto University of Art and design in Japan, Northwest University Writer Class in China and Tokyo Waseda University in Japan. She has participated in many international art exhibitions and her work has been collected or used as urban art landscape by many institutions, such as Fuji Art Museum of Japan, the Museum of the American Revolution, The National Constitution Center ，The American Chinese Museum and World Foundation of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and other institutions. She immigrated to the United States in 1997 as a distinguished artist and later became a U.S. citizen. In 2018 Ellen Qiongzhao received the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor” at the American Multicultural Supreme Immigration Awards.

In 2019, as the first Asian artist, she successfully held a personal oil painting and sculpture art exhibition at the National Memorial of the Federal Hall in New York ( where the first US President George Washington was inaugurated ). The Chinese Cultural Foundation of the United States and the Rodin International Artists Foundation co-sponsored, supported by the National Memorial of the Federal Hall in New York and provided exhibition venues. She has earned the highest honor and excellence award at the 43rd New York Art expo 2021. At the same time, the New York Times Square NASDAQ big screen broadcast Ellen’s award-winning information and her oil painting sculpture series.

Vincent Zhou

Bio: Vincent Zhou is an American figure skater. He is a 2022 Olympic Games team event silver medalist, a two-time World bronze medalist (2019, 2022), the 2021 Skate America champion, and a three-time U.S. national silver medalist (2017, 2019, 2021).

Vincent, US National Olympic Team Skater, proudly demonstrated his Chinse Heritage in the Olympics as well as other worldwide competitions. Recognized that “this Olympics is going to be the most significant competition of my career” as a US athlete, he selected the traditional Chinese style garments, used Chinese music from Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger in his programs, and greeted the audience with a traditional Chinese greeting of clenching his hands (抱拳）. He presents his Chinese heritage and culture in the broadest world theater with pride.

6. Youth Leadership Award
Christina Lu

Bio: Christina Lu is an 18-year-old senior at Central High School in Philadelphia. On Wednesday, Nov. 17 2021, Christina was riding home from school when she noticed a group of Black girls “tormenting” another group of Asian-American students who attend Central. When she tried to intervene, the group of harassers turned on her, injuring her to the extent that she required hospitalization. The attack has reignited fears in Philly’s Asian communities about racially motivated violence. Two days after the attack, YLin Chen and Michael Chen, the mother and brother of Christina, set up a GoFundMe for her, entitled “Support Christina in Advocating for Public Safety”, to campaign against Asian hate crimes and advocate for the safety of students when taking public transportation. The campaign raised more than $700,000 with more than 13,000 donors.

7. Chinese American Corporate Citizen Award
Finalist: Eddie Ni

Bio: Own importing & exporting businesses for building materials; President & Chairman of Real Estate Development Companies, develop high rise & sky scraper buildings, commercial & residential buildings in United States & China; shopping center development in U.S

Eddie Ni is a Chinese-American business leader and entrepreneur, social activist and philanthropist. As CEO of Windfall Group, where his global empire was based, his financial and political influence as derived from his diverse holdings which included the catering industry, building material, real estate, and biotechnology led Crain’s Business Magazine, Plain Dealer, and many Chinese Newspaper and Magazines to call him ‘one of the most excellent Chinese-American business models.

8. Chinese American Charitable Giving Award
Finalist: Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar L. Tang

Bio: Oscar Liu-Chien Tang (唐騮千) is a Shanghai-born American financier who co-founded Reich & Tang, an asset management firm. He graduated from Yale and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. Tang was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Prior to this, he was appointed to the New York State Council on the Arts from 2000 to 2004 and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities from 1990 to 1993. He also co-founded the Committee of 100 with Yo-yo Ma, I.M. Pei and others in 1989.

Dr. Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu-Tang (徐心眉) is a Taipei-born archaeologist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese art and archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hsu-Tang was a Mellon fellow at Cambridge and an assistant professor of Chinese archaeology at Brown. She is Chairwoman of the New-York Historical Society board of trustees and a Distinguished Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Dr. Hsu-Tang works in cultural heritage protection and rescue and has advised UNESCO and the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

Just over the past ten years, they have co-founded the Hsu-Tang Library for Classical Chinese Literature at Oxford University, the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies at Berkeley, and the Tang Center for Early China at Columbia University. In addition, they have also donated to the New-York Historical Society, New York Philharmonic and many other institutions to support Chinese arts and East Asian cultures including the $125 million – the largest ever capital gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in November 2021 – to fund the renovation of the Modern and Contemporary Wing at The Met. In honor of their generosity, The Met has renamed the modern and contemporary galleries to the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing.

During the COVID pandemic, they co-founded The Yellow Whistle campaign to combat anti-Asian violence and historical discrimination against Americans of Asian descent. The campaign distributed 500,000 free customized yellow whistles emblazoned with the slogan “WE BELONG” at rallies and through a national alliance of activist organizations and has received extensive national press coverage to raise awareness.

9. Congressional Champion Award
Jamie Raskin

Bio: Jamin Ben Raskin is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district since 2017. The district is located in Montgomery County, an affluent suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extends through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016.

In Congress, Raskin is the chair of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus. He was also the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.Prior to his election to Congress, he was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.

Representative Raskin openly denounced ethnic profiling in DOJ’s investigations of scientists of Chinese descent under China Initiatives, saying: “That is not acceptable in the United States of America, which was founded on principles of equality and justice. We reject guilt by association, we reject notions of collective guilt or ethnic or racial guilt. The United States is a welcoming place, it is open to people of all backgrounds and to creative ideas, and to scientific research and inquiry. That is how we established ourselves as a world leader in innovation and technology, by allowing for free-flowing thoughts and theories. By targeting people who are ethnically Chinese, without evidence, we are hampering our ability to be that world leader and we are harming an entire community.”

Bios of 2022 UCA Community Awards Winners

UCA Outstanding Volunteer Award
Dr. Bing Zhang/Linda Li/Ching Juhl

Bio: Dr. Bing Zhang is a professor of Biological Sciences at University of Missouri. Ching Juhl is a producer, director, DP, editor as well as a music professor and concert violist. Juhl has been creating documentary shorts, videos of live performance, audition, interview and web-videos for more than 20 years.

After UCA 2018 convention, Dr. Bing Zhang and Linda Li launched Yang Gang support groups in with over 800 members, which became the leading force for many Chinese Americans to participate in a Presidential primary and made our presence felt in grass root engagements such as Iowa and New Hampshire. Ching Juhl, a media producer from NY, spent one year documenting the Yang Gang movement from New York to Iowa and New Hampshire, which won 5 awards in film festivals and put Andrew Yang and his Humanity First movement in public focus.

Shirley Xiaohong Ma

Bio: Shirley Ma is a founding member, board director and long-term volunteer of UCA. She is a senior scientist working in the area of drug development for cancer immune-therapy in the SF Bay Area after her Master’s degree study in SFSU in 2000. Shirley received her medical education in China Medical University in 1991.

Shirley joined the UCA national board in 2017 and has been an active and dedicated founding member of this organization. She has been serving as the Secretary of the Board and leading the committee of UCA Donors and Members Services. She has been the key member supporting UCA national operations and programs, UCA conventions and local outreaching activities, UCA donor database management and donor following up services.

Lily Jian Chen

Bio: Jian (Lily) Chen is a registered nurse and Certified Nurse Educator by the National League of Nursing. She currently teaches community health nursing and elder care nursing at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Lily is a long-time volunteer in her local communities and was part of the core team instrumental in helping to elect the first Chinese American State Representative in Illinois. She was one of the founders of UCA and a key organizer for two Chinese American conventions. She has also successfully coordinated multiple national and local programs, including the UCA Youth Mental Health Collaborative WAVES (Wellness, Advocacy, Voices, Education, Support) since 2016. Lily was previously the Executive Director of UCA, as well as founding President and Board Chair of UCA Illinois Chapter. She serves as the project director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholar leadership development program and the Nursing Student Peer Mentoring Program at NCCU. She is a certified Mental Health First Aid MHFA instructor.

Lily has played critical roles in organizing three Chinese American conventions and coordinating multiple UCA programs, such as WAVES.

Gary Yu

Bio: Gary Yu is the founder and chairman of Boston International Media Consulting Inc and Boston Asian Radio & TV Station, president of North America Hangzhou Association. president of North America Nanning Association. president of APAPA Boston chapter. Has worked as a reporter for Sing Tao Daily, World Journal and other media. Gary is an at large UCA board member and also serves as a team member of UCA Executive Team. Gary has worked tirelessly to deliver the UCA news.

Ren Li Dongliang Mama

Bio: Ren is the founding member of UCA IL, and instrumental in implementing EVERY UCA IL as key organizers.

She was indispensable in organizing the first event Jiaozhi festival in 2017, and two more thereafter – the most labor intensive events with hundreds participating and tens of thousand dollars raised for UCA IL . Jiaozi festival helped UCA IL in a unique position in connecting with local organizations and community members. Ren also is passionate about sharing Chinese culture through food, music, and arts with local communities. She was often found in festivals and school events.

As a former teacher in China, her heart has always been on developing our next generation. She not only has the most effective way of connecting with our youth and being trusted and well respected by every youth intern working with her, she also knows how to work with all agencies, organizations, and state legislators such as Rep Theresa Mah creating a positive environment for our youth. Under her leadership, UCA IL youth summer internship program was offered three full time positions (college students) by the State of Illinois Central Management System this summer, and UCA IL was recognized by the mayor of City of Aurora (the second largest city in Illinois) with outstanding community service award (we had intern there). Overwhelming positive feedback from interns, their parents and government agencies including Illinois State.

Ren participated in both UCA convention mental health sessions, and helped organize the 2017 Asian Parents, American Children youth mental health conference in Chicago and it drew 250 participants nationwide. She continues to help organize many webinars, and became a Mental Health First Aid – youth trainer in Jan, 2021 so she can better serve youth. She has been a strong advocate and frequent speaker to decrease stigma and increase mental health knowledge in our community. She is parent ambassador leaders at WAVES-UCA Youth Mental Health Collaborative.

Ren singly handly organized her students and parents and raised $241, 599 to buy PPES, arranged logistics, contacted five Chicago hospitals and clinics, and transported them. She helped organize a UCA IL team and participated in UCA’s Food of Love.

Ren is the outreach sponsor for 2018 UCA convention, bringing over 12 participants (brought multiple participants as well), and currently organizing UCA IL youth and showcase teams to the convention (team of 7-10 people) . She donated to UCA thousands of dollars, and continued to help fundraise for UCA IL for convention.

Vicky Cheng 程以克

Bio: Vicky Cheng is a senior IT professional with over 30 years’ experience, an author of 20+ Children books for pre-teen published in China and USA, the chief editor of “It’s My Book, which is the first Chinese Guided Reading series” published Level 1-8 in the USA. She is also a host of Dr. Zhang DaoLong’s talk show series on Popular Psychology/Personality Disorders. Vicky has engaged local Chinese community activities as one of key persons to help the management of several large-scale concerts/performances in Chicagoland. Vicky Cheng is a member of UCA Executive Team.

Vicky has been supporting many UCA events and projects. Since she joined UCA a few years ago, she has been helping managing data and collecting important informations for different events and have been delivering high quality results. She exemplified what an unsung hero is.

Hong Liu

Bio: Ms. Liu is one of the founding members of UCA -MA. She has been a generous donor to many important causes taken up by United Chinese Americans and other non-profit organizations. She has supported the campaign for Lindy Li, and was the biggest donor for Sherry Chen in MA. She has given a lot to the local communities and has led several organizations herself. Recent few years she has donated $5000+ to UCA. She and her husband will come to this convention and donate $4000. She has also done a lot community volunteer work and helped Chinese people with employment and internship at the hotels she owns.

Outstanding Chinese American Organization Award
WeChat User Alliance/Keliang (Clay)

Bio: Mr. Keliang “Clay” Zhu’s practice specialties include cross-border merger & acquisition, export control and corporate compliance, commercial litigation, and international tax planning in the U.S. He earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree and has practiced law in the U.S. since 2000. He is licensed in both California and Oregon. He used to serve as a senior legal counsel to the World Bank and the U.N. Food & Agriculture Organization on their projects in China. He currently is the Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley Office.

As the Founder of WeChat User Alliance, Clay and fellow lawyers quickly formed the US WeChat User Alliance shortly after the Trump administration issues order to ban WeChat in the United States.

USWUA successfully defended the rights and defeated the US to ban WeChat in the United States for millions of its users.

Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL)

Bio: Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and has been proudly serving Lexington and its Chinese-American community for the past 39 years since 1983.

With the rapid influx of Chinese families, CAAL has doubled its efforts to work with the town, the school system and a host of community organizations. Most recently CAAL has undertaken an epic $280,000 Covid relief campaign for the Lexington community and beyond. CAAL has been recognized as the most impactful town level community organization in the US.

Among the many events CAAL organized, Lunar New Year celebration is CAAL’s tradition of decades. Known as the best party in town, it draws hundreds of in-person participants, to tens of thousands of online audiences.

CAAL’s other tradition of decades is Candidate Forum where they invite town wide candidates to meet with the community. CAAL continues to encourage Chinese Americans to participate town activities and increase civic participation. There are more Chinese Americans decided to run town meeting and participated various town committees. As of 2021, there are 16 Chinese American town meeting members, and 30 people joined various town committees

CAAL has worked with the town and AAPI Youth Team on a series o celebration events for the May AAPI Heritage Month to promote AAPI culture, unity, solidarity and belonging. In each week of May, they feature a different aspect of AAPI including history, art, food and a cumulative festival celebration and 5K Run on Memorial Day May 30th. Please reference the link below:
https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=ab8bcf0a24386dc1b866bd168&id=4b1897a507

New England Chinese America Alliance(NECAA)

Bio: NECAA journey started with fighting with the pandemic. Established at the beginning of 2020, NECAA is dedicated to fairness, justice, peace, and humanity. More than 50 Chinese American associations in New England united to support China in fighting COVID-19. The Alliance was rapidly formed to collect donations and send the urgently needed medical supplies to the hospitals in China. Most medical supplies were sent to the temporary hospitals, known as FangCang, and permanent hospitals in Wuhan, the city that suffered most in China.

As the pandemic has spread to the U.S., NECAA is now focusing on supporting the U.S. by collecting donations, procuring medical supplies from China, and distributing them to hospitals, police stations, senior homes, and other places with urgent needs. The initiative also includes but not limited to watching the discriminatory situation for and offering support to the Chinese Americans and help the Chinese American businesses survive during the pandemic. It also shares verified pandemic-related information with the community.

After the pandemic tapers off, many members of the NECAA started a new chapter. NECAA, New England American Alliance is dedicated to promoting civic engagement and social welfare of New England Chinese Americans.

As one of the few 501C4 organizations in the New England area, NECAA has done a lot of outstanding work in encouraging Chinese people to participate in politics, such as pushing for legislation to include Asian history in U.S. elementary and middle school textbooks, organizing over 80 rallies of various ethnic organizations, calling for an end to racial discrimination and hate crimes, participating in UCA food drives, etc.

Los Angeles Chinese Musicians Ensemble Chorus

Bio: LACMEC was founded 25 years ago. Since its inception, LACMEC has been promoting Chinese American cultural heritage and serving the multi-ethic community in Southern California uninterruptedly, performed more than 150 concerts.

Civic Leadership USA

Bio: The Civic Leadership USA is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2013. It was the vision of Mr. Sandy Chau, chairman of the board. The Foundation is headquartered in San Mateo California.

Civic Leadership USA has been doing all the years to create a pipeline for Civic Leaders for a fair and harmonious society, to strengthen the status, image, participation, influence, and collaboration in the civic engagement of Asian Americans.

United Chinese Americans of Washington

Bio: UCAWA is a local chapter of United Chinese Americans in Washington State founded in 2018. UCAWA has been actively taking the leadership to serve the local Chinese American community. Since its inception, it has organized and led the local Chinese American community to donate money and medical equipment to local hospitals during the pandemic, raise relief fund for people in-need, rally for Stop Asian Hate and Chinese Expulsion Remembrance, and celebrate Chinese cultural heritage, etc. UCAWA was one of two winners of the UCA membership development pilot program.

Austin Chinese-American Network

Bio: Austin Chinese-American Network (ACAN) is a leading Chinese community organization in Austin TX. ACAN devotes itself to serving the Great Austin community and to promoting Chinese-American solidarity. It organizes active community services, raises awareness of Chinese culture, encourages civic engagement and incubates young leaders.

Over the years, ACAN has been doing amazing amount of volunteering work. It has a great youth program. Few Chinese American community organization has as much as ACAN has and won so much acclaim from local community and media.

Outstanding Community and Public Service Award
Tony XiaoJun Hu

Bio: Tony (Xiao Jun) Hu is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, culinary teacher and mentor, and community leader. Hailing from China’s Sichuan province, Chef Tony graduated from The Culinary Institute of Sichuan, China’s premier culinary institute, in 1989. In 1993, he immigrated to the U.S. as a special technician chef, establishing himself in Chicago as a trailblazer for introducing authentic Sichuan cuisine to a Chinese culinary scene largely dominated by Canton cuisine.

Chef Tony’s unwavering passion for promoting and elevating Chinese culinary culture in the United States and China-US Relationship. Nicknamed Chicago’s “Mayor of Chinatown,” Chef Tony shaped Lao Sze Chuan into one of America’s most beloved Chinese restaurants with a nationally-acclaimed reputation for providing traditional Sichuan cuisine with high-quality ingredients.

Dong Xiao Yue

Bio: Dongxiao was a physicist by training and software engineer in 1990s. In 1997 Ana Mae He was given to temporary custody to a TN Baker’s family due to extradentary hardships what ensured was a custody battle that lasted 8 years and all the way to the Supreme Courts of Tennessee and The US. Anna was eventually reunited with her family in 2007. Through it all, Dong Xiao was the De facto legal counsel and instrumental in the custody battle with strong logic and understanding of the law that eventually helped the Hes reunited. Dongxiao’s personal conviction and courage despite all odds deserve recognition from our community. Dongxiao has been actively providing legal advice to the Chinese American community through writings and seminars. He took an active role in U.S. WeChat Users Alliance’s campaign against Trump Administration’s executive order on use of WeChat.

Melanie Lin

Bio: Melanie has been tirelessly serving the town and Chinese community over the past decade. She is currently the co-president of CAAL, Chair of CAAL Civic Engagement Committee, and Board Member of the Cary Library Foundation. Melanie is one of the most recognizable faces representing the Chinese community in Lexington, MA.

Melanie has been an active member of the Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL) for the past decade. She has served CAAL in different capacity including Chair of Civic Engagement Committee, Secretary, Vice president of Communications and Operations. She currently serves as Co-president of CAAL. She has also served in numerous town committees including Town Celebrations Committee, 300th Anniversary Celebrations Committee, Town Manager Search Committee, and most recently the Cary Library Foundation Board.

Melanie has been a key leader for Chinese American Association of Lexington over the past decade. With the rapid influx of Chinese families, CAAL has doubled its efforts to work with the town, the school system and a host of community organizations. Most recently CAAL has undertaken an epic $280,000 Covid relief campaign for the Lexington community and beyond. CAAL has been recognized as the most impactful town level community organization in the US! CAAL was also known for its massive CAAL for Cary fundraising of $75,000. Lunar New Year Celebration and Candidate forum each year are CAAL traditions of decades.

Melanie co-founded Community Task Force in 2011 with a mission to promote Chinese American civic engagement. In 2011, Melanie wrote a touching letter to the Chinese community after attending a town wide community conversation where she saw very few Chinese faces in the event and asking the community to engage more with the broader community. The letter drew very positive responses from the community. A group of people decided to work together to make a change, which is the start of the Community Task Force (CTF) which draw many new blood and later become leaders for CAAL

Under Melanie’s leadership, the civic engagement committee (former CTF) and the town joined effort on “push and pull”, successfully engaged more Chinese Americans for civic participation. As of 2021, there are 16 Chinese American town meeting members, and over 30 people joined town committees. Melanie also organized many CAAL candidate forums.

Qian Ge

Bio: Qian Ge is the Co-president of NECAA, president of WeStar, a Chinese association in Westom, Massachusetts, entrepreneur. Qian Ge has been enthusiastic about public welfare and has been serving the community for a long time. She has spared no effort in donating money and led the community to do many meaningful things, such as donating money to buy PPE and donate to China and the United States, and participating in promoting the writing of Asian history into the textbooks of primary and secondary schools in Massachusetts.

Mealey Tom

Bio: Maeley Tom Trailblazer in Asian American politics. Maeley Tom’s 20-year career in the State Legislature of California (1974-1994) was during an era when Asian Americans were struggling to find a voice in politics and public policy. During this period she was able to break the glass ceiling twice in the State Capitol by becoming the first woman and ethnic minority to serve as the Chief Administrative Officer of the State Assembly and subsequently serve as the Chief of Staff to the President of the State Senate.From 1994 – 2000, she became one of the first Asian American woman to serve as a Senior Vice President of a prominent Washington D.C. lobbying firm, Cassidy and Associates. Subsequently, she and her husband formed their own California public affairs firm, Tom & Associates in 2001 until her retirement in 2014. Mealey Tom is recognized for her contributions to the empowerment of the Asian American voice in politics and government at the state and national level for more than 4 decades. She has set a great example to Asian women and our next generations on What does American Dream mean to us and how to serve the community as a contributor and an outstanding leader.

Joel Wong

Bio: Joel Wong retired as a scientist/engineer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2000 where he was the Division Leader of the Environmental Safety and Health Division. He was the founder and CEO of the Environmental Safety Services, a private consultation firm.

Currently, Joel is the President of the NAAPAC (formerly 80-20 PAC) and NAAUnited organizations. He served on the National Governing Board and the Public Policy and Issues Committee of APAPA and chaired the CLUSA (Civic Leadership USA) Editorial Committee. He is an Advisor on APIA issues for DingDingTV .Asian Pacific Affairs Council; the President of the CAPA (Chinese American Political Association); and the CAPA Public Affairs Education Fund.

Joel has been a volunteer in many organizations: Asian Pacific Affairs Council; Chinese American Political Association; CAPA Public Affairs Education Fund; NAAPAC (formerly 80-20 PAC); APAPA; Civic Leadership USA; Silicon Valley Community Media and more. He full time devoted himself serving the community for over 20 years. He wrote articles weekly, Empowering Asian Americans & Promoting Better Relations with China and Asian Pacific countries. Not like other well recognized Asian Americans, he is Unsung Hero that need to be known by our community.

UCA WAVES

Bio: UCA WAVES is a youth mental health collaborative that seeks to provide support particularly among Asian American families. Chinese/Asian American youth often suffer “silently” with stress, anxiety, and other mental health issues. Stigma against mental illness, social isolation, cultural expectations, identity issues, low mental health literacy, and lack of available Chinese-speaking or culturally sensitive mental health professionals – these are only some of the barriers that stand in the way of getting help. In response, we as a collaborative community are here to stand together and work towards Wellness, Advocacy, Voices, Education, and Support (WAVES).

Since 2016, WAVES has served thousands of community members in the U.S. and abroad through “Asian Parents American Children,” a free, open series of mental health educational seminars. In 2020 and 2021, WAVES webinars drew over 5,000 participants from all 50 states. Amidst a rise of anti-Asian hate during the pandemic, WAVES organized educational webinars, including a Self-Defense and Empowerment training and an Op-Ed writing workshop titled “Silent No More: We Rise Up and Write Up.” In 2021, the UCA WAVES Program (WAVES) sponsored the training of five Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) instructors. In 2022, WAVES released documentary film “Silent War: Asian American Reckoning with Mental Health,” which features four Asian American families and their grappling with mental health issues. WAVES is currently creating an educational toolkit for Asian American parents, which will focus on youth voices, general mental health knowledge, communication skills, and self-compassion.

UCA President’s Special Awards

Special Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice
Michael Makoto "Mike" Honda

Bio: Michael Makoto “Mike” Honda was a member of the Democratic Party, he served in Congress from 2001 to 2017. Over the course of his 16-year career in Congress, the affable Mike Honda quietly attained positions of authority in the House Democratic Caucus, serving on the party’s Steering and Policy Committee and rising to a seat on the House Appropriations Committee. An advocate of tolerant and inclusive policies, Honda led the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and helped found the LGBT Equality Caucus. According to a political scientist based in Honda’s hometown of San Jose, Honda “really puts the K in ‘Kumbaya.’”

For more than four decades, Congressman Honda has been a stalwart champion of civil rights for the AAPI. In 2016, at a hearing of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations, U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, the lead Democrat on the subcommittee, questioned Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. He specifically asked about the shameful treatment of Sherry Chen, a NOAA employee, and Dr. Xiaoxing Xi, Chairman of the Physics Department at Temple University, and called on Comey to apologize for the treatment of Xi and Chen.

Steven Pei 白先慎

Bio: Steven Pei is an Electrical Engineering Professor, the Executive Director of the Southwest Public Safety Technology Center founded by the Congress and a member of the faculty senate at the University of Houston. He was born in Guilin and grew up in Taiwan. Prior to joining academia, he was a department head at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. In Houston, he co-founded the first Asian American PAC in Texas in 2000 and served as its president. He was also a member of the founding boards of several APA and environmental organizations including the founding chair of United Chinese Americans. Steven Pei is an at large UCA board member, the Chair of UCA Governance Committee.

Steven Pei has made great contribution to UCA’s effort to fight against anti-Asian hate crimes, civil right violations of Asian Americans, and racial profiling and surveillance of Asian American scientists, particularly of Chinese descent, by DOJ under its China Initiatives program.

Special Award for Community Contribution
Elaine Peng

Bio: Elaine, Founder & President, National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Chinese Chapter /Mental Health Association of Chinese Americans. Elaine is an incredible advocate on all fronts of civic engagement: community service (mental health services, housing, food of love), voter registration, Chinese American rights (plaintiff for Trump’s WeChat ban that successfully won), anti-Asian hates (organizing hundreds of volunteers for transportation needs of seniors, and patrolling China town 350 days of a year), advocating rights of the most vulnerable such as people with mental illness and language barrier. She is recognized nationally by NAMI national with “culture award”, and her organization was recognized the “Best Non-profit of the Year” in 2019 by California Governor. She is a UCA founder, and faithfully supported UCA.

Karina Hou

Bio: Karina Hou is a renowned artist, musician, and educator. She studied piano and founded Fantasia Music Studio. Also, she has studied Chinese paintings and has hosted several art exhibitions. She is familiar with Eastern and Western culture, as she was born in China, grew up in Hong Kong, settled in Montgomery County, Maryland for many years, and has traveled to over 60 countries.

Karina is a keen social activist and currently is Montgomery International Film Festival Chairman and Co-Founder, Montgomery County Executive Business Advisory office Advisor, Chinese American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Washington President, Organization of Chinese American Women President (Maryland Chapter) and U.S. Congressman David Trone’s Office of Asian American Pacific Islander Business Advisory Committee Member. Karina is a senior advisor of UCA and a key organizer of the 2022 UCA Chinese American Convention and National Youth Convention.

Alan Z —— 一个为亚裔说唱的年轻人

2022年7月14-16日，美国华人联合会（UCA）将举办第三届“美国华人大会” （Chinese American Convention）和第一届“全国青年大会” （UCA National Youth Convention）。届时，国会议员、民选官员和各界关心社区发展的华人朋友将聚集一堂，共商美国华人大计。

全国青年大会荣幸地请到了一个年轻的嘉宾——一个为亚裔说唱的音乐人Alan Z.

谁是Alan Z

Alan Z是一位来自亚特兰大的多面艺术家。他是一名说唱歌手、歌手、词曲作者和演员。他的音乐结合了R&B、流行和说唱的元素，形成了一种打破障碍和刻板印象的蒙太奇。他已经在音乐行业建立了自己的影响力，并在社交媒体上吸引了一大批粉丝。作为一个追求非传统职业的亚裔美国人，Alan因为偏见和歧视经历了许多挑战。他用自己的音乐为AAPI社区发声，并希望成为亚裔美国人的代表。去年亚特兰大枪击案发生后不久，他与Jason Chu共同创作了一张说唱专辑《Face Value》，其中包含AAPI历史和反仇恨主题。他的歌曲还解构了以欧洲为中心的审美标准、亚洲男性的男子气概、模范少数民族神话和永久外国人的刻板印象。Alan毕业于埃默里大学。他的音乐曾出现在诸如“Wu Assassin”、“iZombie”、“Being Mary Jane”和“Star”等电视节目中。

亚裔或华裔的身份对你意味着什么？

我认为，亚裔的身份意味着我们不仅仅受某些国籍的限制。无论我是东南亚人、南亚人还是东亚人，别人看我们都是亚裔，我们都是一样的。这也是件好事，我们可以站在一起面对不同的问题和创伤，作为一个社区团结起来，为我们所有的问题找到解决方案。

你在成为音乐人的路上，受到了哪些影响呢？

我在成长过程中，最喜欢的说唱歌手是Eminem。其他喜欢的人有Michael Jackson, Prince, the Weekend, Chris Brown, Rakim, Chino, XL, Ras Kass。我特别喜欢的音乐风格是nerdy lyrical和说唱。我喜欢这类的东西就像是90年代到2000年代的地下说唱。我也是古典音乐的忠实粉丝，我想成为像前面提到的Michael Jackson，Ginuwine，R&B这种类型的音乐家。同时，我还在向表演过渡，因为我是个超级电影迷。所以我进入娱乐圈是为了提供一种不同的声音。如果你有一个平台，你就有机会做出一些改变。因此，我认为成为一名艺人是我一直想做的事情。

是什么成长经历激励你成为一名说唱歌手，特别是创作与亚裔经历相关的歌曲?

我12岁就开始做音乐了。在我长大之前，我对亚裔身份并没有深刻的了解。年轻的时候，我只是想被人们当做一个音乐人。因为我觉得那时候，如果你说出了自己的身份，那就会被贴上老土的标签，这种代价让你自己无法接受。直到最近，我的内心深处开始想为我们亚裔做些什么。因为我总是在媒体上看到对我们亚裔这种形象的负面描述。我想到有一种方法可以抵消这种影响，就是要从另一个角度发出声音，可以让我们被认真对待和倾听。去年，我和我的另一位合作艺人Face Valley合作了一张关于亚裔美国人历史的音乐专辑，我在其中投入了很多研究，这是我非常自豪的作品。

你的父母对你追求音乐和演艺事业怎么看？他们支持你吗？

我在很小的时候就说出了我想成为一名艺人的想法。当我进入亚特兰大的埃默里大学，开始和音乐圈建立真正的联系，比如大唱片公司开始联系我之后，我的父母说：“哦，这是真的。这不像你在卧室里做音乐。”从那时起，他们才开始注意到我是认真的。他们在我的职业生涯中看到了很多很酷的事情，并在音乐和表演方面都非常支持我。我认为我非常幸运。

你能谈谈亚裔与其他BI POC社区的联系吗？特别是考虑到说唱音乐植根于非裔文化，作为一名亚裔说唱歌手可能会有争议。

我觉得这对我来说是很自然的，因为我是在一个多元化的社区中长大的。这就像在外面的社区交个朋友一样简单，听着人们的故事，像朋友一样了解彼此。听他们说什么，他们也会听你说什么。

你能谈谈你认为从漫画到韩国流行音乐的亚裔美国人形象和流行文化之间的联系吗？这对亚裔男子气概的认知意味着什么？

我认为亚裔形象有提升。因为我在成长过程中，看到了很多可怕的形象。比如Long Duk Dong和The Hangover，亚裔形象在里面看起来非常没有人性。我认为动漫和韩国流行音乐有好的一面，对我们来说，重要的是要站在这方面的最前沿。我喜欢动漫，我参加过动漫大会之类的活动。我们需要去那里，提醒大家这是我们的东西。这些东西来自日本，就像韩国流行音乐和武术一样，让我们展示我们的东西。我们不应该为此感到羞耻，我不想看到我们的东西被曲解成其他人的文化。你可以成为一个亚裔书呆子，一个滑板少年，一个痞子，或者任何你想成为的人。我觉得这才是展示我们是谁的关键。

你对年轻的Z世代创作者有什么建议？

我认为他们做得很好，他们是带着一种非常天真的态度进入这个行业的，没有任何包袱。不要让别人阻止你，不要听未经请求的意见，倾听自己的心声。他们所处的时代可以给他们更多的机会。

你对于今年在华盛顿举行的UCA华人大会有什么期待？有没有什么特别的话题是你希望和其他亚裔谈论的？

我一直对媒体很感兴趣。我喜欢和其他亚裔讨论，我们在媒体面前的哪些方面是正确的，我们如何改变这一点，我们需要改进什么。不管你从事艺术家、演员、编剧还是别的什么行业。这就是我所期待的。

2022美国华人大会和青年大会指南

波士谈｜UCA美国华人大会特别系列专访正在进行中……欢迎锁定频道准时收看 https://youtube.com/channel/UC_7lCBcgyFvhUJLw0YOXmvA 

我们期待各界华人有识之士，UCA的新老朋友们和各地家长孩子们前往华府参加本次UCA美国华人大会和UCA全国青年大会。我们相信，这必将是改变您或您的孩子人生最有意义的三天！另外，今年夏天机票价格预计会猛涨，也请大家尽早订票（万一需要退票，票款可在下一次购机票时使用）。

UCA 2022 Chinese American Convention Agenda
2022 UCA National Youth Convention Agenda
7月17日(周日)大会圆桌会议议程确定:

🌟2022年UCA青年大会欢迎高中生和大学生及研究生参加(需十五岁或以上）的积极报名参加 。高中生来参会前需要家长签署同意书（大会组委会会在报名后给家长发出信函）。 

🌟 COVID预防措施：强烈鼓励所有与会者接种新冠疫苗，在大会期间建议戴口罩，充分休息和多吃水果，在新冠病例上升期间保持最佳的免疫系统。

DC COVID POLICY
UCA全国青年大会暑期套票购票链接
美国华人大会暑期套票购票链接

会议地点：Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008。Omni Shoreham Hotel 被指定为我们的会议酒店。它位于首都，交通便利，房间数量有限，因此请尽快预订。组委会会帮助参加全美青年大会的同学们, 提供拼房服务。

预订酒店请复制粘贴链接或扫描二维码, Link to Hotel Reservation: https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/washington-dc-shoreham/meetings/2022-uca-convention-07132022

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2022 UCA Convention partner

2022 UCA Convention Diamond Sponsor

Gene & Sharon Chang Family Charitable Fund

2022 UCA Convention Platinum Sponsor

iHealth Unified Care

2022 UCA Convention Gold Sponsor

Hong Liu / MAHA

Marathon Ginseng

Clinical scholar

美华商联（UCBP）

Powermax USA / Nerville Lin

Windfall Group (Eddie Ni)

Chicago Expert Importers (Linda Bi)

2022 UCA Convention Silver Sponsor

Karina Hou

Duke Printing

FRI Future Reimagined Initiative

UCA Illinois
Helen Woo (Honorary Steering Committee Member)
The Le Family Foundation

Connie Jing Li
Jimmy He

Communities MHACC / Elaine Peng
Wine sponsor: 德宾
Dr. Bin Ran

2022 UCA Convention Bronze Sponsor

Mandarin Playground 心悦汉语

AARP / Daphne Kwok

Alec Wang
Boston Paragon LLC (Qing Liao)
Evelyn Su (Hardy' Alumnus)
Qian Ge
Jessie Liang, Aijia Liang, Chung-Hao "Jonah"
Liang and Family
Liang-Qi "Shelly" Yu, Tina Liang and Family
Ning Mosberger
齐飞
Steven Lin

Amsino (Richard Lee)
Guang Yang (NYC)
Leon Zheng and Family
卢文斌
岳东晓

2022 UCA Convention Friendship Sponsor

Veritas Education | Tech ( Dr. Yuhsien Wu & Richard Wang)
Atlanta International Education Group
MX Finance
New Bright Law Group
US Education Without Borders
Jinhua Yang

UCA-MA (COVID supplies)
Aritas Collegiate Academy
厉平 American Scholars 美思高教育
范敏
劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA)
Lee Deng
Karina Hou
Lily Lee Chen
西雅图魏董
林应章 世界金融集团
李琪 YD Home 建材& Ramblei漫悠学生一条龙服务
大费城连江同乡会
艾伦赵琼
Peter Song

Individual Sponsors

To be our Individual Sponsor, please visit: http://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/united-chinese-americans/youthconvention

1. 张冰 $200
2. Hong mei Li $100
3.孙晓光 $200
4.薛海培（Haipei Shue）DC $400
5.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area $200
6.Dr. wan 3 hotel nights for youth
7.梁瑞风 西弗 $200
8.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area
9.Dr. wan there hotel nights for youth
10.姜博 UCA outreach ，Three Hotel nights for youth and others
11.Lily Chen 陈健 🎫 $200
12.Qing Liao $300
13.🌸李惠瓊🌷Sophia 350
14. Steven Pei 白先慎 $200
15. Meina Liu Three nights for 2 attendee
16. Linda 跃玲 二个房间三个晚上
17. Qi, Hong $200
18. Qian Wen $200
19. 齐飞 $200
20.郑桥雲 Victoria $200.00
21. Alec Wang $200
22. Zach Wu $500
23.Tycoon International $700
24.Chunyan Liu $500 (Zella paid)
25. Anonymous $500（Chicago）by mail
26. Charles Tsui 徐国富 $400
27. Shuqiao Chen $200 (Zelle paid)
28.亞特蘭大的馮先生$400
29.威斯康星商会捐 $500
30. Wenbin Yuan $300
31.许兰兰 $200
32.郭欣欣 $300
33.陈峥 Sunny Chen$400 Paid through online link
34. Bonnie Liao $500 ZellePay
35. Tong 张彤 $400 Paypal
36.劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA) 4 Students two nights two hotel
37. Christina Li Wang $200
38. Jun Lin $200
39.王军$300
40. Charles Li $200 41.陈茁$200
42.谢锋 $300
43. Bing Li $400
44.孟愚$500
45. Simon Li $500.
46.孙澜涛律师 $500
47.邓丽萍 $500
48.韩鹏一链家地产，$500
49. 秦立新 $500
50.肖宇 $200

Full WAVES Program Book

Full WAVES Program Book!

To view our full WAVES program book with more details, and the flyers included in this email, scan the QR code or click here.

We hope to see you there!

3rd Chinese American Convention | 1st National Youth Convention

July 14-16

Omni Hotel, Washington D.C.

Register Here

Community Showcase

There will also be a Community Showcase organized by the Youth Convention and WAVES! This session will be available Friday, June 15 11:30am – 12:30pm, 3:15 – 4:30pm, and Saturday, June 16 1:00 – 1:30pm. 

Various national and local nonprofit organizations will be present. Topics include mental health education, trilingual services, innovative technology and apps, authors, University AAPI centers and researchers, advocacy groups, funding agencies and more. Come visit their booths!

Featured Speakers

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars: Breaking Silence Team

(from left) Dr. Juliana Chen, Dr. Weiyang Xie, Dr. Justin Chen, & Lily Chen

Juliana H. Chen, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH), and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She serves as Associate Director of the MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness and has special interest in supporting Asian American students and families.

Weiyang Xie, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago. She worked as the Clinical Psychologist & served the Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Health & Wellness Unit at the University of Notre Dame, IN. She also serves as a consulting psychologist for UCA WAVES Program for Asian American youth mental health.

Justin A. Chen, MD, MPH, is Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry Services and Co-Director of Primary Care Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is also the Director of the MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness and the Co-Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in the treatment of adult mood and anxiety disorders and is dedicated to teaching and mentorship.

Jian (Lily) Chen, MA, RN, CNE, is a lecturer at North Carolina Central University Department of Nursing. She is a certified Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) instructor. Lily is a community organizer and has published multiple OpEds that have been featured in major US news outlets. Lily is UCA WAVES Project director, Senior advisor and previous Executive Director of UCA, and the founding President for UCA Illinois Chapter.

The Clinical Scholars Breaking Silences Team will be hosting our session Breaking Silences: Youth Mental Health & Parent-Child Communication. This parent education session will focus on improving parent-child communication, as well as supporting youth and their mental health.

Click here for more info about the Clinical Scholars and their project!

Daphne Kwok: WAVES Guest Speaker

Daphne Kwok is the Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Asian American & Pacific Audience Strategy at American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). 

A 1984 graduate of Wesleyan University, Ms. Kwok is the first Asian American to serve on its Board of Trustees.

Previously, Ms. Kwok was the Executive Director of Asians & Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California. She was also the Executive Director of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation in San Francisco. For 11 years, she was the Executive Director of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), a national membership based civil rights organization. She was the first elected Chair of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, a network of national APA organizations. She also served as Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. 

Ms. Kwok was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010 to chair his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The Commission served as the “eyes and ears” of the community advising the President and the federal government about the issues impacting the AAPI community.  
 
Ms. Kwok will be one of the panelist in our Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Mental Health & Advocacy session. This session will exploring current mental health disparities in AAPI communities, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

UCA 2022 Convention Updates – WAVES Mental Health Track!

Register today for UCA’s 3rd Chinese American Convention and our 1st National Youth Convention! 

The convention is being held at Omni Hotel in Washington, D.C. from July 14th-16th. Please click here for registration, hotel bookings, and programming information.

UCA WAVES will be presenting a mental health track with four breakout sessions, a community showcase, AND a movie screening!

To view our full WAVES program click here.

Breakout Sessions

Our mental health track will feature four unique breakout sessions exploring a variety of current mental health topics.
? Breaking Silences: Youth Mental Health & Parent-Child Communication– Parent education session on improving parent-child communication and supporting youth mental health.
? Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Mental Health & Advocacy – Exploring current mental health disparities in AAPI communities. 
? Demystifying Medications – Educational session on purpose and importance of psychiatric medications in mental health.
? LGBTQ+ Workshop: What Coming Out Means – Exploring queer identities and mental health challenges, and howto be an active ally.
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为什么来参加UCA美国华人大会 —— 采访UCA WAVES 精神健康项目大使Jennifer Tu

2022年7月14-16日，美国华人联合会（UCA）将举办第三届“美国华人大会” （Chinese American Convention）和第一届“全国青年大会” （UCA National Youth Convention）。届时，国会议员、民选官员和各界关心社区发展的华人朋友将聚集一堂，共商美国华人大计。

今天为大家推出的人物采访是UCA WAVES项目大使Jennifer Tu。

谁是Jennifer Tu?

Jennifer Tu是医学博士、精神病专家顾问、UCA WAVES精神病学家顾问和前WAVES协调员，目前是加州大学洛杉矶分校塞梅尔研究所的精神病学住院医师。她以神学、医学和文化研究员的身份获得杜克大学医学院的医学博士学位和杜克大学神学院的神学研究硕士学位。她毕业于哈佛大学，获得神经生物学和全球健康/健康政策学士学位。2016年，她被选为台北的卢斯学者（Luce Scholar），了解和研究照顾痴呆症患者。

Jennifer Tu致力于促进心理健康和健康，防止自杀，特别在少数族裔社区倡导反种族主义。

心理健康通常不是许多亚裔关注的领域。您早先是怎么对这个领域感兴趣的？

老实说，我在上大学之前都没怎么想过心理健康问题。后来，我的一个很好的朋友自杀身亡，这件沉重的事件让我意识到很多人遭受抑郁、焦虑和其他精神疾病的折磨。

从那以后，我从生活中又不断看到了拥有心理健康的意识非常重要，以及心理健康专业人员对患者的深刻影响。

我已经踏上了医学生涯的道路，而精神病学为我提供了最有意义的做医生的契机。这个专业可以让我与病人建立起联系，并为我追求更广泛的兴趣提供平台。无论是在个人还是在专业上，我都非常感激能够走上心理健康这条道路。

在您看来，亚裔在心理健康方面最大的挑战是什么？

我认为从广义上讲，缺乏心理健康意识对亚裔来说是一个巨大的挑战。有太多的因素导致了这种意识的缺乏。

一方面，移民面临语言障碍。在本已十分艰难的移民过程中，他们了解心理健康的机会又非常有限。他们可能很难融入一个新的国家并打造稳定的生活，而这可能会转化为一场互相“攀比”的情况，从而通过埋葬创伤和心理健康问题来挽回面子。

然而，就我所了解的情况来看，很多家长要么亲眼目睹，要么亲身经历过精神疾病未能得到治疗而带来的灾难性影响。

现在为了孩子，他们迫切地想多了解一些这方面的知识。在充分认识到已经降临到我们社区的心理健康悲剧的同时，我认为不同年龄段的亚裔人士都有很大的动力，解决这个挑战。我仍然希望我们能够共同努力，不断填补关于心理健康的知识空白。

您为UCA WAVES（Wellness, Advocacy, Voices, Education, Support——健康，宣传，声音，教育，支持）心理健康项目做了不少工作。在您做过的项目中，有没有一个项目，您觉得特别自豪，或觉得它对我们的社区很重要？

能与 UCA WAVES 合作是我的荣幸，特别是我们的主任Lily Jian Chen是一位优秀的开路先锋。我认为， WAVES 的一个重点是弥合第一代移民和他们的孩子之间的差距。

我们通过与其他组织和专业人士合作，举办各类教育活动，提供反种族主义方面的资源，以及家长与孩子如何沟通等活动来实现这一目标。

所有这一切都发生在疫情期间，当时各地的组织都在学习如何在家中帮助人们。在某种程度上，我为 WAVES 所做的这些系统工作而感到骄傲。

因为我们能够适应并利用有限的资源来服务华人社区和我们的邻居。我特别高兴地看到青少年和家长支持团体在继续发展和壮大，为建立更密切的人际关系和更广泛的个人影响方面创造更多的机会。

2022美国华人大会和青年大会指南

波士谈｜UCA美国华人大会特别系列专访正在进行中……欢迎锁定频道准时收看 https://youtube.com/channel/UC_7lCBcgyFvhUJLw0YOXmvA 

我们期待各界华人有识之士，UCA的新老朋友们和各地家长孩子们前往华府参加本次UCA美国华人大会和UCA全国青年大会。我们相信，这必将是改变您或您的孩子人生最有意义的三天！另外，今年夏天机票价格预计会猛涨，也请大家尽早订票（万一需要退票，票款可在下一次购机票时使用）。

UCA 2022 Chinese American Convention Agenda
2022 UCA National Youth Convention Agenda
7月17日(周日)大会圆桌会议议程确定:

🌟2022年UCA青年大会欢迎高中生和大学生及研究生参加(需十五岁或以上）的积极报名参加 。高中生来参会前需要家长签署同意书（大会组委会会在报名后给家长发出信函）。 

🌟 COVID预防措施：强烈鼓励所有与会者接种新冠疫苗，在大会期间建议戴口罩，充分休息和多吃水果，在新冠病例上升期间保持最佳的免疫系统。

DC COVID POLICY
UCA全国青年大会暑期套票购票链接
美国华人大会暑期套票购票链接

会议地点：Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008。Omni Shoreham Hotel 被指定为我们的会议酒店。它位于首都，交通便利，房间数量有限，因此请尽快预订。组委会会帮助参加全美青年大会的同学们, 提供拼房服务。

预订酒店请复制粘贴链接或扫描二维码, Link to Hotel Reservation: https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/washington-dc-shoreham/meetings/2022-uca-convention-07132022

预订酒店请扫描二维码

2022 UCA Convention partner

2022 UCA Convention Diamond Sponsor

Gene & Sharon Chang Family Charitable Fund

2022 UCA Convention Platinum Sponsor

iHealth Unified Care

2022 UCA Convention Gold Sponsor

Hong Liu / MAHA

Marathon Ginseng

Clinical scholar

美华商联（UCBP）

Powermax USA / Nerville Lin

Windfall Group (Eddie Ni)

Chicago Expert Importers (Linda Bi)

2022 UCA Convention Silver Sponsor

Karina Hou

Duke Printing

FRI Future Reimagined Initiative

UCA Illinois
Helen Woo (Honorary Steering Committee Member)
The Le Family Foundation

Connie Jing Li
Jimmy He

Communities MHACC / Elaine Peng
Wine sponsor: 德宾
Dr. Bin Ran

2022 UCA Convention Bronze Sponsor

Mandarin Playground 心悦汉语

AARP / Daphne Kwok

Alec Wang
Boston Paragon LLC (Qing Liao)
Evelyn Su (Hardy' Alumnus)
Qian Ge
Jessie Liang, Aijia Liang, Chung-Hao "Jonah"
Liang and Family
Liang-Qi "Shelly" Yu, Tina Liang and Family
Ning Mosberger
齐飞
Steven Lin

Amsino (Richard Lee)
Guang Yang (NYC)
Leon Zheng and Family
卢文斌
岳东晓

2022 UCA Convention Friendship Sponsor

Veritas Education | Tech ( Dr. Yuhsien Wu & Richard Wang)
Atlanta International Education Group
MX Finance
New Bright Law Group
US Education Without Borders
Jinhua Yang

UCA-MA (COVID supplies)
Aritas Collegiate Academy
厉平 American Scholars 美思高教育
范敏
劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA)
Lee Deng
Karina Hou
Lily Lee Chen
西雅图魏董
林应章 世界金融集团
李琪 YD Home 建材& Ramblei漫悠学生一条龙服务
大费城连江同乡会
艾伦赵琼
Peter Song

Individual Sponsors

To be our Individual Sponsor, please visit: http://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/united-chinese-americans/youthconvention

1. 张冰 $200
2. Hong mei Li $100
3.孙晓光 $200
4.薛海培（Haipei Shue）DC $400
5.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area $200
6.Dr. wan 3 hotel nights for youth
7.梁瑞风 西弗 $200
8.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area
9.Dr. wan there hotel nights for youth
10.姜博 UCA outreach ，Three Hotel nights for youth and others
11.Lily Chen 陈健 🎫 $200
12.Qing Liao $300
13.🌸李惠瓊🌷Sophia 350
14. Steven Pei 白先慎 $200
15. Meina Liu Three nights for 2 attendee
16. Linda 跃玲 二个房间三个晚上
17. Qi, Hong $200
18. Qian Wen $200
19. 齐飞 $200
20.郑桥雲 Victoria $200.00
21. Alec Wang $200
22. Zach Wu $500
23.Tycoon International $700
24.Chunyan Liu $500 (Zella paid)
25. Anonymous $500（Chicago）by mail
26. Charles Tsui 徐国富 $400
27. Shuqiao Chen $200 (Zelle paid)
28.亞特蘭大的馮先生$400
29.威斯康星商会捐 $500
30. Wenbin Yuan $300
31.许兰兰 $200
32.郭欣欣 $300
33.陈峥 Sunny Chen$400 Paid through online link
34. Bonnie Liao $500 ZellePay
35. Tong 张彤 $400 Paypal
36.劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA) 4 Students two nights two hotel
37. Christina Li Wang $200
38. Jun Lin $200
39.王军$300
40. Charles Li $200 41.陈茁$200
42.谢锋 $300
43. Bing Li $400
44.孟愚$500
45. Simon Li $500.
46.孙澜涛律师 $500
47.邓丽萍 $500
48.韩鹏一链家地产，$500
49. 秦立新 $500
50.肖宇 $200

为什么来参加UCA美国华人大会 —— 采访麻省总医院精神病科医生Justin Chen

2022年7月14-16日，美国华人联合会（UCA）将举办第三届“美国华人大会” （Chinese American Convention）和第一届“全国青年大会” （UCA National Youth Convention）。届时，国会议员、民选官员和各界关心社区发展的华人朋友将聚集一堂，共商美国华人大计。

今天为大家推出的人物采访是UCA WAVES项目的重要参与者和推动者Justin Chen医生。

谁是Justin Chen?

Justin A. Chen是医学博士，公共卫生硕士，RWJF临床学者研究员，MGH跨文化学生情绪健康中心主任，麻省总医院(MGH)流动精神病学服务的医学主任和初级护理精神病学的联合主任。在临床上，他擅长治疗成人情绪和焦虑障碍。他还致力于教学和指导，担任哈佛医学院(HMS)精神病学医学生教育的联合主任，HMS心理、大脑和行为临床前神经科学课程的联合主任和核心教员，以及MGH/McLean精神病学住院医生的纵向社会文化精神病学课程的联合主任。哈佛医学院助理教授，主要研究跨文化精神病学、病耻感、种族/民族差异的精神卫生服务利用和医学教育。

心理健康通常不是许多亚裔关注的领域。您早先是怎么对这个领域感兴趣的？

我最初也不知道我会专攻精神病学。事实上，在医学院的第一次轮换实习中，我首先要求完成精神病学，是因为我觉得这对临床实践来说更容易“热身”，感觉会更容易。

但我真正开始做了这个工作之后，我很惊讶的发现非常喜欢这个领域。尽管缺乏血液检查或脑成像扫描来诊断患者的疾病，但我被病人所忍受的强烈痛苦而感动。精神病学使用多种方法，将临床神经科学、心理学和人文主义相结合，我也很喜欢这种综合研究和治疗的方法。

后来，虽然我很喜欢临床轮岗的所有岗位，尤其是内科学，但我觉得了解人类，以及他们的动机，人际关系和他们的行为，对我来说，精神病学是最有价值和最有趣的职业道路。

我后来又意识到，我决定进入精神病学也可能是出于一种愿望，即帮助像我自己的家庭和社区中那些缺乏精神病治疗工具，无法理解和沟通他们内心想法和感受而深陷持续痛苦的人。这些挣扎极大地影响了我在麻省总医院精神病学中心所做的工作。

在您看来，亚裔在心理健康方面最大的挑战是什么？

五年前，我会说，在我们的社区谈论心理健康是一种耻辱——这仍然是一个问题。但我现在认为一个更大的问题是难以获得高质量、负担得起、对族裔文化比较关心的治疗。

令人难过的是，即使有患者能够克服他们对寻求帮助的恐惧和羞耻感，往往也得不到应有的帮助。几十年来，精神健康一直没有被足够重视，存在资金不足，没有足够训练有素的临床医生的问题。

疫情爆发以来有两年多了，全球的精神健康状况更加恶化，尤其是年轻人。此外，我们还面对种族关系紧张、枪支暴力、气候变化以及其他许多增加创伤、恐惧和压力的因素。

医疗保险对心理健康的报销也不足，迫使许多高技能的临床医生转向私人执业，而没有支付能力的病人则无法接受这些服务。

作为一个社会，我们必须在精神健康方面做得更好，将心理健康纳入整体健康的范畴，并创造和资助创新方法来应对我们所面临的挑战，包括寻找更好的方法来衡量和跟踪心理健康结果。

您为UCA WAVES心理健康项目做了不少工作。在您做过的项目中，有没有一个项目，你觉得特别自豪，或觉得它对我们的社区很重要？

我很荣幸能与 UCA WAVES青少年心理健康项目合作。这些年轻人的勇气和呼吁每天都在激励着我。WAVES  是我们Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars一个项目的重要参与者。该项目的名字是“打破模范少数族裔的沉默：提高亚裔移民家庭的心理健康意识和减少耻辱感的国家项目”。我们期待在华盛顿召开的UCA全国大会上分享更多我们这个项目的资源。

2022美国华人大会和青年大会指南

波士谈｜UCA美国华人大会特别系列专访正在进行中……欢迎锁定频道准时收看 https://youtube.com/channel/UC_7lCBcgyFvhUJLw0YOXmvA 

我们期待各界华人有识之士，UCA的新老朋友们和各地家长孩子们前往华府参加本次UCA美国华人大会和UCA全国青年大会。我们相信，这必将是改变您或您的孩子人生最有意义的三天！另外，今年夏天机票价格预计会猛涨，也请大家尽早订票（万一需要退票，票款可在下一次购机票时使用）。

UCA 2022 Chinese American Convention Agenda
2022 UCA National Youth Convention Agenda
7月17日(周日)大会圆桌会议议程确定:

🌟2022年UCA青年大会欢迎高中生和大学生及研究生参加(需十五岁或以上）的积极报名参加 。高中生来参会前需要家长签署同意书（大会组委会会在报名后给家长发出信函）。 

🌟 COVID预防措施：强烈鼓励所有与会者接种新冠疫苗，在大会期间建议戴口罩，充分休息和多吃水果，在新冠病例上升期间保持最佳的免疫系统。

DC COVID POLICY
UCA全国青年大会暑期套票购票链接
美国华人大会暑期套票购票链接

会议地点：Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008。Omni Shoreham Hotel 被指定为我们的会议酒店。它位于首都，交通便利，房间数量有限，因此请尽快预订。组委会会帮助参加全美青年大会的同学们, 提供拼房服务。

预订酒店请复制粘贴链接或扫描二维码, Link to Hotel Reservation: https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/washington-dc-shoreham/meetings/2022-uca-convention-07132022

预订酒店请扫描二维码

2022 UCA Convention partner

2022 UCA Convention Diamond Sponsor

Gene & Sharon Chang Family Charitable Fund

2022 UCA Convention Platinum Sponsor

iHealth Unified Care

2022 UCA Convention Gold Sponsor

Hong Liu / MAHA

Marathon Ginseng

Clinical scholar

美华商联（UCBP）

Powermax USA / Nerville Lin

Windfall Group (Eddie Ni)

Chicago Expert Importers (Linda Bi)

2022 UCA Convention Silver Sponsor

Karina Hou

Duke Printing

FRI Future Reimagined Initiative

UCA Illinois
Helen Woo (Honorary Steering Committee Member)
The Le Family Foundation

Connie Jing Li
Jimmy He

Communities MHACC / Elaine Peng
Wine sponsor: 德宾
Dr. Bin Ran

2022 UCA Convention Bronze Sponsor

Mandarin Playground 心悦汉语

AARP / Daphne Kwok

Alec Wang
Boston Paragon LLC (Qing Liao)
Evelyn Su (Hardy' Alumnus)
Qian Ge
Jessie Liang, Aijia Liang, Chung-Hao "Jonah"
Liang and Family
Liang-Qi "Shelly" Yu, Tina Liang and Family
Ning Mosberger
齐飞
Steven Lin

Amsino (Richard Lee)
Guang Yang (NYC)
Leon Zheng and Family
卢文斌
岳东晓

2022 UCA Convention Friendship Sponsor

Veritas Education | Tech ( Dr. Yuhsien Wu & Richard Wang)
Atlanta International Education Group
MX Finance
New Bright Law Group
US Education Without Borders
Jinhua Yang

UCA-MA (COVID supplies)
Aritas Collegiate Academy
厉平 American Scholars 美思高教育
范敏
劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA)
Lee Deng
Karina Hou
Lily Lee Chen
西雅图魏董
林应章 世界金融集团
李琪 YD Home 建材& Ramblei漫悠学生一条龙服务
大费城连江同乡会
艾伦赵琼
Peter Song

Individual Sponsors

To be our Individual Sponsor, please visit: http://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/united-chinese-americans/youthconvention

1. 张冰 $200
2. Hong mei Li $100
3.孙晓光 $200
4.薛海培（Haipei Shue）DC $400
5.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area $200
6.Dr. wan 3 hotel nights for youth
7.梁瑞风 西弗 $200
8.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area
9.Dr. wan there hotel nights for youth
10.姜博 UCA outreach ，Three Hotel nights for youth and others
11.Lily Chen 陈健 🎫 $200
12.Qing Liao $300
13.🌸李惠瓊🌷Sophia 350
14. Steven Pei 白先慎 $200
15. Meina Liu Three nights for 2 attendee
16. Linda 跃玲 二个房间三个晚上
17. Qi, Hong $200
18. Qian Wen $200
19. 齐飞 $200
20.郑桥雲 Victoria $200.00
21. Alec Wang $200
22. Zach Wu $500
23.Tycoon International $700
24.Chunyan Liu $500 (Zella paid)
25. Anonymous $500（Chicago）by mail
26. Charles Tsui 徐国富 $400
27. Shuqiao Chen $200 (Zelle paid)
28.亞特蘭大的馮先生$400
29.威斯康星商会捐 $500
30. Wenbin Yuan $300
31.许兰兰 $200
32.郭欣欣 $300
33.陈峥 Sunny Chen$400 Paid through online link
34. Bonnie Liao $500 ZellePay
35. Tong 张彤 $400 Paypal
36.劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA) 4 Students two nights two hotel
37. Christina Li Wang $200
38. Jun Lin $200
39.王军$300
40. Charles Li $200 41.陈茁$200
42.谢锋 $300
43. Bing Li $400
44.孟愚$500
45. Simon Li $500.
46.孙澜涛律师 $500
47.邓丽萍 $500
48.韩鹏一链家地产，$500
49. 秦立新 $500
50.肖宇 $200

UCA美国华人大会采访系列 —— UCA全国理事、公共政策委员会主任王华教授

王华教授是波士顿大学系统工程系副主任。他十多年来热心领导社区，现任美国华人联合会（UCA）全国理事，UCA公共政策委员会主任，UCA麻州分会（UCA-MA）共同会长、新英格兰华人联盟(NECAA) 的共同主席、麻州莱克星顿华人协会（CAAL）共同会长、图书馆基金会董事、历史协会董事等多项职位。

在镇级、州级、新英格兰地区、和全国四个层面的华人协会中担任领导职责，这让王华教授感受到了不同层级组织的一体化，各个组织彼此响应、通力合作，在一定范围内服务华人社区、为华人群体发声、提高华人的形象地位，并且和其他族裔联合，在美国社会展现华人的贡献与力量。

今天为大家推出的人物采访是UCA公共政策委员会主任王华教授.

麻州莱克星顿华人协会（CAAL）是一个扎根于社区的华人组织，在其推动下，华人在莱克星顿的归属感和公民参与度极高，是全美镇级社区组织的典范。您和林小梅女士作为共同会长，是如何领导CAAL做到今天的成就的?

其实在1983年成立之初，莱克星顿的华人人口并不多，在几波新移民涌入之后，CAAL才在最近十几年活跃起来。CAAL最初有两类主要活动，春晚和竞选者论坛，分别从文化传承和公民政治参与的角度来带动莱克星顿的华人社区发展。春晚从最开始的聚餐，发展到现在一票难求的大型演出，而且疫情期间利用线上平台直播，还吸引了其他地区的关注；竞选者论坛则会邀请当地行政组织的候选人，比如学区委员会，来和选民见面，讲述自己的竞选理念。这些活动都是鼓励华人参与社区建设，利用空余时间进行志愿服务。

现在CAAL组织了更多让亚裔居民有参与和归属感的活动，同时也让其他族裔看到我们为社区的贡献。比如，十几年前的华人协会曾组织过图书馆翻新的捐款活动，让图书馆的四个区域被冠上华协和华裔捐款家庭和个人的名字。几年前我们又组织了新的图书馆捐款活动，并做到让本地的50%华人家庭捐款，又增加了四个由华协和华人家庭命名的区域，共计八个区域。这不仅让社区内所有华裔增强了身份认同和归属感，更让其他族裔的居民在踏入图书馆时，认识到华人对社区建设的热情和贡献。此外，在疫情期间，CAAL共筹集到约28万美元的善款用于购买PPE等疫情防护用品，这样的数额在镇级别的筹款是非常巨大的。

在刚刚过去的五月亚裔月(AAPI Month)，我们举办了AAPI 5千米跑和健走活动，500个跑号全部售空，成为了莱克星顿历史以来在亚裔月规模最大的活动。相比之前关于亚裔的展览和讲座活动，这次的五千米跑更具健康意义，吸引到了更多当地和波士顿地区的其他族裔居民来参与，同时我们还设有文化展台，展示了中国、韩国、印度等亚洲地区的文化。而且青少年志愿者也都在积极参与这类活动，比如这次的文化展台都是他们帮忙联系和布置的。总的来说，CAAL是一步步积累经验，通过多元活动把社区内的亚裔力量集结起来，不仅让莱克星顿成为自己第二个有归属感的家乡，更是跨越年龄、族裔、阶层等，让主流社会看到亚裔的贡献。

除了镇级社区组织，您还积极活跃在麻州和新英格兰地区的华人组织中。作为新英格兰华人联盟(NECAA) 的创始成员和共同主席，您对NECAA的定位是怎样的？它和CAAL所举办的活动在意义和影响上有何不同？

NECAA是在2020年下半年成立在跨地区的WeStar 联盟的基础之上，疫情期间WeStar联盟共有50多个华人组织一起筹款援助医疗防护用品打全场抗疫。当抗疫告一段落后，我们觉得可以把已经搭建起来的平台利用起来，为亚裔发声，提升亚裔的社会地位，而要做到这些就必须参与政治领域。于是我们将NECAA注册为501(c)(4)的组织，它和501(c)(3)组织，如CAAL和UCA-MA，最大的不同是可以进行政治候选人背书，参与竞选活动，而且也可以做501(c)(3)组织能做的公益活动。因此，NECAA可以把各华人组织协调起来，与市和州政府、州议会等行政立法机构打交道。

目前是我和葛倩女士作为NECAA共同主席来组织一些背书亚裔竞选人和为亚裔发声的活动。在政治竞选中，最成功的就是我们帮助吴弭女士竞选成为波士顿市长。从2020年9月到2021年11月的整个竞选过程中，我们帮助她在波士顿和全国范围内筹得巨大的政治捐款，并在当选后把她的英文竞选网站翻译为中文，扩大她的政治影响力。

近期，NECAA还在麻州的州级选举中背书了五位候选人，来竞选州长、总检察长等职位。此外，我们还在努力提升整个亚裔群体的社会影响力。在刚刚过去的亚裔月中，我们召集了80多个各族裔组织，包括40余华人组织和40余亚裔和其他族裔组织，举行了波士顿沿线的马拉松接力活动，并在波士顿公园举办大型集会，邀请吴弭市长和多位麻州政治人物演讲，旨在呼吁亚裔历史走进中小学的课堂，而如此空前盛况是麻州历史上最多个族裔组织参加的庆祝亚太传统月的活动。对于这样的地区性活动，类似CAAL的镇级华人组织也是积极作为协办方来参与，自下而上地响应NECAA的号召，由此可以彰显出NECAA的优势在于，可以联合各个地区的华人和其他族裔组织，举行更大规模的活动，在社会和媒体中为亚裔发声。(撰稿 : Shaonan Wang)

您还在UCA的麻州分会和俞国梁先生共同担任会长，那么UCA-MA和上述两个组织有什么联系？对于今年的UCA大会，您期望从中收获什么？

从我的角度来说，UCA-MA和NECAA除了政治竞选上的限制不同，其他活动都是一起组织和发声的。再加上CAAL, UCA等，这几个组织在镇级、州级、新英格兰地区和全国的层面上都是垂直一体化的，比如有时UCA会在全国发起活动倡议，其他三个组织就会在各个层面上响应和落实，而当各个组织自己举行活动时，其他组织也会进行支持。在UCA-MA主导的活动中，我印象比较深的是由UCA在全国倡议的”Food of Love”全美华人爱心中餐日活动，UCA-MA在麻州进行牵头，CAAL也在莱克星顿镇积极加入。我们在疫情期间的2020年五月某一天，联合各地的华人餐馆，为奋斗在疫情一线的医护人员、警察、消防员等公务人员提供免费的中餐，不仅是帮助到餐厅商家和一线人员，更是借此提高华裔在社区的形象。

在过去十几年的公益生涯中，我在不同的组织都担任着不同的领导职责，我觉得最大的挑战就是投入。我们都说志愿服务需要三个T：Time（时间）、Talent（才能）、Treasure（资金），用中国老话说就是“出钱出力”，但是这些付出总会有回报并带来成就感。而且，参与社区的服务建设也是为了我们和我们的后代，我们说“吾心安处是我乡”，同样地，参与这些活动就是在建设自己的家乡。而且，我认为美国有两种文化是国内的文化没有或人们较少接触过的：义工文化和捐赠文化。像我之前提到的图书馆捐款就是一个例子，还有学校家长教师联合会和社区公益组织都会举办筹款活动，用来回馈社区和社会。所以，华人要想真正融入美国主流社会，就必须要接纳和融入这两种文化。

对于今年的大会，身为UCA全国理事会和委员会的一员，我和其他成员在一起参与组织策划今年UCA大会的活动，同时我们也通过NECAA和UCA-MA呼吁大家注册参加此次大会。非常值得骄傲的是，在我们的推动下，目前麻州是本次大会所有州的注册人数第一名，占所有注册人数的1/5 到 1/4。在今年的大会上，我们NECAA和CAAL都会进行社区活动展示 （community showcase），希望能借此机会和全国各个社区组织互相学习和交流，将经验带回家，之后举办更多活动来彰显亚裔群体的力量。

2022美国华人大会和青年大会指南

波士谈｜UCA美国华人大会特别系列专访正在进行中……欢迎锁定频道准时收看 https://youtube.com/channel/UC_7lCBcgyFvhUJLw0YOXmvA 

我们期待各界华人有识之士，UCA的新老朋友们和各地家长孩子们前往华府参加本次UCA美国华人大会和UCA全国青年大会。我们相信，这必将是改变您或您的孩子人生最有意义的三天！另外，今年夏天机票价格预计会猛涨，也请大家尽早订票（万一需要退票，票款可在下一次购机票时使用）。

UCA 2022 Chinese American Convention Agenda
2022 UCA National Youth Convention Agenda
7月17日(周日)大会圆桌会议议程确定:

🌟2022年UCA青年大会欢迎高中生和大学生及研究生参加(需十五岁或以上）的积极报名参加 。高中生来参会前需要家长签署同意书（大会组委会会在报名后给家长发出信函）。 

🌟 COVID预防措施：强烈鼓励所有与会者接种新冠疫苗，在大会期间建议戴口罩，充分休息和多吃水果，在新冠病例上升期间保持最佳的免疫系统。

DC COVID POLICY
UCA全国青年大会暑期套票购票链接
美国华人大会暑期套票购票链接

会议地点：Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008。Omni Shoreham Hotel 被指定为我们的会议酒店。它位于首都，交通便利，房间数量有限，因此请尽快预订。组委会会帮助参加全美青年大会的同学们, 提供拼房服务。

预订酒店请复制粘贴链接或扫描二维码, Link to Hotel Reservation: https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/washington-dc-shoreham/meetings/2022-uca-convention-07132022

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2022 UCA Convention partner

2022 UCA Convention Diamond Sponsor

Gene & Sharon Chang Family Charitable Fund

2022 UCA Convention Platinum Sponsor

iHealth Unified Care

2022 UCA Convention Gold Sponsor

Hong Liu / MAHA

Marathon Ginseng

Clinical scholar

美华商联（UCBP）

Powermax USA / Nerville Lin

Windfall Group (Eddie Ni)

Chicago Expert Importers (Linda Bi)

2022 UCA Convention Silver Sponsor

Karina Hou

Duke Printing

FRI Future Reimagined Initiative

UCA Illinois
Helen Woo (Honorary Steering Committee Member)
The Le Family Foundation

Connie Jing Li
Jimmy He

Communities MHACC / Elaine Peng
Wine sponsor: 德宾
Dr. Bin Ran

2022 UCA Convention Bronze Sponsor

Mandarin Playground 心悦汉语

AARP / Daphne Kwok

Alec Wang
Boston Paragon LLC (Qing Liao)
Evelyn Su (Hardy' Alumnus)
Qian Ge
Jessie Liang, Aijia Liang, Chung-Hao "Jonah"
Liang and Family
Liang-Qi "Shelly" Yu, Tina Liang and Family
Ning Mosberger
齐飞
Steven Lin

Amsino (Richard Lee)
Guang Yang (NYC)
Leon Zheng and Family
卢文斌
岳东晓

2022 UCA Convention Friendship Sponsor

Veritas Education | Tech ( Dr. Yuhsien Wu & Richard Wang)
Atlanta International Education Group
MX Finance
New Bright Law Group
US Education Without Borders
Jinhua Yang

UCA-MA (COVID supplies)
Aritas Collegiate Academy
厉平 American Scholars 美思高教育
范敏
劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA)
Lee Deng
Karina Hou
Lily Lee Chen
西雅图魏董
林应章 世界金融集团
李琪 YD Home 建材& Ramblei漫悠学生一条龙服务
大费城连江同乡会
艾伦赵琼
Peter Song

Individual Sponsors

To be our Individual Sponsor, please visit: http://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/united-chinese-americans/youthconvention

1. 张冰 $200
2. Hong mei Li $100
3.孙晓光 $200
4.薛海培（Haipei Shue）DC $400
5.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area $200
6.Dr. wan 3 hotel nights for youth
7.梁瑞风 西弗 $200
8.Shirley Ma SF Bay Area
9.Dr. wan there hotel nights for youth
10.姜博 UCA outreach ，Three Hotel nights for youth and others
11.Lily Chen 陈健 🎫 $200
12.Qing Liao $300
13.🌸李惠瓊🌷Sophia 350
14. Steven Pei 白先慎 $200
15. Meina Liu Three nights for 2 attendee
16. Linda 跃玲 二个房间三个晚上
17. Qi, Hong $200
18. Qian Wen $200
19. 齐飞 $200
20.郑桥雲 Victoria $200.00
21. Alec Wang $200
22. Zach Wu $500
23.Tycoon International $700
24.Chunyan Liu $500 (Zella paid)
25. Anonymous $500（Chicago）by mail
26. Charles Tsui 徐国富 $400
27. Shuqiao Chen $200 (Zelle paid)
28.亞特蘭大的馮先生$400
29.威斯康星商会捐 $500
30. Wenbin Yuan $300
31.许兰兰 $200
32.郭欣欣 $300
33.陈峥 Sunny Chen$400 Paid through online link
34. Bonnie Liao $500 ZellePay
35. Tong 张彤 $400 Paypal
36.劉美嫦 Michelle Lau (AAOA) 4 Students two nights two hotel
37. Christina Li Wang $200
38. Jun Lin $200
39.王军$300
40. Charles Li $200 41.陈茁$200
42.谢锋 $300
43. Bing Li $400
44.孟愚$500
45. Simon Li $500.
46.孙澜涛律师 $500
47.邓丽萍 $500
48.韩鹏一链家地产，$500
49. 秦立新 $500
50.肖宇 $200

UCA邀请您参与美国华裔青年调查问卷

美国华人联合会(UCA)是一个学习型的全国性联盟和公民运动组织，为配合首届全国青年大会的召开, UCA组织开展这项调查是为了探索当代华裔青年人的行为，并评估他们对多个话题的看法。

UCA将于今年7月14日至7月16日在首都华盛顿特区举行的UCA华人大会和全国青年大会上, 向公众发布这项调查结果。由于目前还没有针对美国华裔青年的大规模、多主题、普遍性的调查，本次调查的意义十分重大。我们希望得到青年、家长、教育工作者和社区领袖的帮助，以便在未来几周内，我们至少能找到1000名受访者。

由于本次调查旨在了解青年，我们请求年龄段位于12-30岁的参与者填写该调查问卷, 并传播出去。

本调查所收集的资料将会严格保密，并只会以汇总形式使用，不会显示个人身份信息。如果您想在第一时间了解调查结果，请在留言区输入您的电子邮件地址。

UCA负责此项调查项目的高晓虹女士说, “作为移民家庭下一代，我们的孩子面临着许许多多的挑战。作为家长我们其实对他们在许多方面的看法和感受了解的远远不够。我们想通过这次问卷调查倾听一下他们的心声，这也有助于促进家长和孩子们的沟通。希望UCA能够坚持做下去，为我们的下一代提供更多、更好的服务。”

感谢您及您的孩子花时间帮助完成这项调查, 参与这次首开华人社区先河的行动。

请扫描二维码填写调查问卷

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