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Mariko Lockhart owning her identity
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Mariko Lockhart’s identity has always
informed her work. A mixed race daughter of a Black father and a Japanese mother, Lockhart said she grew up in New York City “very aware of being
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biracial,” because it was so unusual at the time. “I had a lot of continual questioning of who I was, and where I was from … so racism was a regular conversation that we had in my family,” Lockhart recalled. “That background laid the foundation for me to become interested in how to support people who were … on the receiving impact of racism and systemic oppression.” Now, several decades removed from her younger self, the 61-year-old Lockhart has settled into and owned her mixed heritage, and calls on her experience, as well as her upbringing that centered children of all races in a nurturing and supportive environment, to help guide her decisions as the Director for the City of Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights. Mayor Jenny Durkan appointed Lockhart
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Networking, sharing of ideas, solutions, and best practices. That was the goal of the Northwest Asian Weekly’s Inaugural Entrepreneurs Award and Roundtable on Oct. 25 at China Harbor Restaurant. Approximately 170 people attended the event, emceed by Tanya Woo, to support the 14 local business owners who were honored. The event was inspired by one of the honorees, Tien Ha, the president of HACT Construction. He approached the Asian Weekly’s publisher Assunta Ng and asked, “How come Asian American entrepreneurs are so afraid to talk about failures?” It’s a topic that can be taboo among Asian Americans, for fear of “losing face.” Along with Ha, John Chen, Min Christ, Beth Johnson, Hao Lam, Yen Lam-Steward, the Le Brothers, Tim Lee, Synthia Melton, Dr. Xiao Ming, Ezhilarasan Natarajan, James Wong, Andy Yip, and Mei Young were also honored.
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Yip was absent due to an injury.
Challenges and solutions
Google the word “entrepreneur” and you will find that it is defined as “a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.” Leslie Lum, a Bellevue College business professor, moderated two panels. She asked the first round of panelists about the challenges they faced as entrepreneurs, and any solutions they came up with. Lam-Steward, the former owner of Lam’s Seafood, said one of her biggest challenges, going from a small to mid-sized business, was attracting talent. “It’s hard when you’re competing against the ‘big boys’ like Microsoft and Amazon.” Lee, a real estate broker and owner of Real Homes Network, echoed Lam-Steward’s comments on see API ENTREPRENEURS on 12
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■ NAMES IN THE NEWS Judge of the Year Marcine Anderson
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Marcine Anderson—the first female and Asian American elected as a judge of the Shoreline District Court—was named Judge of the Year at the Asian Bar Association of Washington’s annual gala. The event was held on Oct. 25 at
the Sheraton Grand Seattle. Anderson was the first Asian American member of the Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association when she was sworn-in in 2004, and she is a current board member of the Japanese American Citizens League – Seattle chapter. Also at the gala was Simon Tam who gave the keynote speech. Tam is the founder and bassist of the Slants, an all-Asian American dance rock band. Tam helped expand freedom of speech through a unanimous decision at the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case, Matal v. Tam.
Gary Locke gives Chamber speech
Former Gov. Gary Locke gave the keynote speech at the 137th Annual Meeting of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce last month at the Seattle Westin Hotel, an event attended by close to 1,000 people. In a recorded interview with CEO Marilyn Strickland, Locke discussed leadership and making enduring, positive impacts. One of the topics discussed was the Seattle City Council races, with four incumbents not running for re-election. Locke’s advice to new Seattle City Councilmembers when they are seated in January was to meet with stakeholders. “Develop relationships. Focus on priorities for the cities instead of trying to do too many things. It’s always been my motto that government can never do it all—no matter the
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type of revenues, how much money we have, we can never satisfy everyone’s wish list. Just focus on a few things and do them really well, instead of in a mediocre fashion.”
Koh is the new operations leader at ICHS
International Community Health Services (ICHS) announced on Oct. 28 that Rachel Koh—vice president of pharmacy and business development—is its new chief operating officer. Since 2018, Koh has overseen the operation of three ICHS pharmacies, including the successful rollout of advanced technology applications and the delivery Rachel Koh of services to boost patient access to high quality treatments and medication. Previously, she served as vice president of clinical product strategy for ZeOmega, where she helped develop new product and market strategies. Prior to that, Koh was the associate vice president of pharmacy services for Community Health Plan. Koh has more than 20 years of pharmaceutical and health
Executive Development Institute (EDI) held its 26th anniversary celebration on Oct. 26 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. The annual event which raised $125,000 was attended by 220 people, dubbed “Inclusion Fusion.” Marci Nakano was honored with the Ted Marci Nakano Yamamura Leadership Excellence Award for her many contributions to communities and the tremendous difference she has made for the EDI family. Nakano has been with EDI for over 13 years and became the executive director in 2015. EDI is the only Pacific Northwest nonprofit organization that focuses on leadership training for multi-ethnic professionals.
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More than 500 seniors attended the Seniors in Action Foundation (SIAF) annual dinner at Seattle’s House of Hong on Oct. 26. SIAF was founded in 2006 to promote civic involvement and community service among the Chinese seniors.
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“[Women of color] feel they can’t be themselves at work, feel like they need to downplay their ethnicity.” Sage Ke’alohilani Quiamno is the cofounder of Future for Us, a self-described “platform dedicated to advancing womxn of color at work.” Future for Us is partnering with Riveter for the State of Womxn of Color Roadshow in Seattle and nationwide. “We were both frustrated…We were tired of not being invited to events. We needed something to build community, to build fellowship, to share resources,” said Aparna Rae, Future for Us co-founder. “We want to see women of color getting great jobs…and ultimately, positions of power, where they lead decision-making in organizations.” The event, scheduled for Nov. 8 in Seattle, is part of the Womxn of Color Roadshow 2019, and includes seven cities around the United States. Speakers currently slated for the Seattle event are Michele Storms, executive director of the ACLU of Washington; Raquel Sanchez of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Yasmin Ali of Skillspire; and Nikita Oliver of the Seattle People’s Party.
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Yasmin Ali, founder of Skillspire, will speak at the Riveter event in Seattle on Nov. 8.
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According to the McKinsey & Company 2019 Women in the Workplace report, while some improvement has been made over the past five years in terms of representation of women of color in the workplace, there remains much to be done. As recently as last year, progress was considered stalled, and even with some small repairs, women still find
that gender and color are barriers to their advancement and they continue to experience pay inequities, as well as microaggression from their colleagues. “The State of Womxn of Color: The Future of Work Belongs to Us” will address the situation and offer an inclusive space for discussion of the challenges women of color face today.
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The event aims to provide examples to the community of strong women of color leaders, and act as a springboard for further action together. One of the speakers, Ali, is such a leader. She started her company, Skillspire, to offer coding classes to immigrants. see RIVETER on 5
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final report on that accident is several months away, but preliminary findings highlighted remarkable similarities to the disaster in Indonesia.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian investigators found plenty of blame to go around for a Boeing 737 Max crash that killed 189 people a year ago. They faulted design decisions by Boeing that made the plane vulnerable to failure of a single sensor. They criticized U.S. safety regulators who certified the plane. And they pointed fingers at one of their country’s own airlines, Lion Air, for inadequate pilot training and maintenance lapses. Investigators said in a report issued on Oct. 25 that a combination of nine main factors doomed the brandnew Boeing jet that plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on Oct. 29, 2018. “If one of the nine hadn’t occurred, maybe the accident wouldn’t have happened,’’ chief investigator Nurcahyo Utomo said at a news conference. Many of the problems had been previously disclosed in a preliminary report that Indonesian authorities issued last year and in recent findings by U.S. and global safety experts who were privy to the investigation. Still, release of the final report is likely to put more pressure on Boeing, which is under investigation by the Justice Department and Congress. Boeing is still working to fix its best-selling plane seven months after all Max jets were grounded following a second crash on March 10 in Ethiopia, which killed 157 people. The
Some key takeaways from the Indonesian report:
Boeing’s design of a critical flight-control system was a key factor in the crash, repeatedly pushing the plane’s nose down. The system, called MCAS, relied on a single sensor to measure direction of air flow, making it vulnerable if the sensor misfired—which it did. Boeing also made incorrect assumptions about how quickly pilots could respond to a malfunction and didn’t inform pilots of the existence of MCAS until after the Lion Air crash, making it harder for Lion Air’s pilots to save the plane and its passengers. Lion Air pilots who experienced problems on a previous flight failed to properly note it in the plane’s log, so maintenance crews couldn’t make necessary repairs. Pilots on the fatal flight failed to perform the correct emergency procedure for a nose-down pitch of the plane. The co-pilot failed to understand the situation and was preoccupied running the wrong emergency checklist. Oversight by safety regulators who certified the plane could have been much better. A malfunction of MCAS was considered a “major’’ safety issue but not “hazardous’’ or “catastrophic’’—classifications that would have prompted a deeper review. Boeing assumptions about how quickly pilots would respond to
a problem proved too optimistic, but they met Federal Aviation Administration guidance. Budget carrier Lion Air’s flight 610 vanished from radar after air traffic control was told the plane had altitude and air speed troubles. It plunged into the sea just 13 minutes after takeoff. The plane had been flying for only two months but began having problems a few days before the crash. A new “angle-of-attack’’ sensor, which measures the plane’s direction relative to oncoming air, was installed while the aircraft was on the Indonesian island of Bali a day before the crash. The sensor wasn’t properly calibrated during an earlier repair, leaving it out of alignment, and might not have been tested correctly. On a flight the day before the crash, pilots were bombarded by warnings about airspeed, altitude, and an impending stall. The captain and co-pilot regained control of the plane by manually overriding the automated system with help from a third Lion Air pilot who was hitching a ride in the cockpit jump seat. The plane made it to Jakarta safely, but pilots did not fully report the problems they had experienced, which prevented maintenance crews from investigating, according to the report. “Let’s just say, that flight from Bali to Jakarta was very lucky,’’ said Indonesian aviation expert Gerry Soejatman, who put most of the blame for the crash the next day on Boeing. see LION AIR on 13
$1.84 million diamond stolen from Japan jewelry fair TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police are investigating a $1.84 million diamond allegedly stolen from an international jewelry trade show near Tokyo. The 50-carat diamond was last seen sitting inside a glass showcase at 5 p.m. on Oct. 24. An hour later, just after closing time, the diamond was gone and the jewelry case was unlocked, according to police.
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The 2019 International Special Review District (ISRD) Board election will be held on Nov. 19, from 11 a.m.–6 p.m. at the Bush Hotel in the plaza-level meeting room. Three board positions are up for election: Position 1 for a Business Owner, Property Owner or Employee, and Positions 2 and 4 for Resident, Tenant, Community Participant. Nominations closed on Oct. 22 and seven candidates
were nominated. Position 1 for a Business Owner, Property Owner or Employee: Tuyen Than, Russ Williams, and Tanya Woo. Position 2 for Resident, Tenant, Community Participant: Lizzy Baskerville and Matt Chan. Position 4 for Resident, Tenant, Community Participant: M. Faye Hong and Henry Liu. In 1973, the ISRD Board was created to preserve,
protect, and enhance the cultural, economic, and historical qualities of the Chinatown-International District. The Board is made up of seven members—five elected by the Chinatown-International District community and two appointed by the mayor. To learn more about the election and the ISRD, visit seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/id.htm.
Seng charged in ‘98 killing of ex-girlfriend SEATTLE (AP) — A 62-year-old Kent man has been charged with killing his ex-girlfriend more than two decades ago, though her body has never turned up. The Seattle Times reports that videosurveillance footage from a Tukwila casino that was recently reviewed by a detective led to the arrest of Phan Kim Seng, a retired car salesman. Seng was arrested on Oct. 27 and
has been charged with second-degree murder. He is being held on $2 million bail. Investigators had long suspected Seng, who they say had previously assaulted Anna Nguyen and had threatened her new fiance, and who had used her debit cards after she vanished. While he maintained over the years that Nguyen had moved to Vietnam, authorities say, a long search turned up
no trace of her, and she was declared dead in 2015. Cold case investigators began taking another look at the evidence and reviewed nearly 300 hours of video footage, collected by the King County Sheriff’s Office at the time of Nguyen’s disappearance in 1998. They say it showed that Seng was at the casino where her car was found. They said he had denied going there.
■ NATIONAL NEWS Woman in ‘total control’ of boyfriend charged in his suicide By Associated Press Boston
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BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston College student who had “complete and total control” over her boyfriend has been indicted on an involuntary manslaughter charge for encouraging him to take his own life, Boston’s top prosecutor said on Oct. 28. Inyoung You, 21, was “physically, verbally and psychologically abusive” to fellow Boston College student Alexander Urtula during an 18-month relationship, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said at a news conference.
RIVETER from 3 “When they come here, they are kind of lost,” said Ali. “They don’t know what to do. They don’t have a mentor who can guide them. They don’t have affordable education. Universities take a long time—if they don’t have the money.” Ali set out to provide a bridge to better jobs. An immigrant herself from India, Ali acknowledged with a smile that, while she undoubtedly experienced difficulties when starting her company, “I take that as a challenge and keep marching on.” Ali remembered that when she was seeking funding for Skillspire, she was often turned down, most likely because she was a woman and a woman of color. Luckily, she had the grit to keep going, yet women’s qualifications are constantly challenged. “Work wasn’t designed for women,” suggested Rae and Quiamno. “Work wasn’t designed for Black and brown women…Work is designed for white men. For women at large to navigate those spaces is a challenge. White men get the benefits without having to show credibility. Women of color are most likely to be seen as not credible.”
Because of this, women of color often believe they have to act like men to get ahead. Ali remembered when her son, who is 17, said to her, “Mom, you’ve got to be ruthless to be a business woman, to make it in the startup world.” Ali responded with a confident, “No. I’m going to be me. I’m going to do what resonates with me. I’m going to be my genuine, authentic self. I don’t have to be somebody different.” As everyone involved in the event agrees, women should not have to compete with men on a playing field that is uneven. In fact, our whole concept of competition and work in the United States could use some revamping, Rae explained. “We’re doing…things we see men do to be successful, pushing people off the ladder, because we want to be at the top, [but this is] largely not a feminine style of leadership…we’re all struggling to overcome a construct that values individual growth over collective empowerment.” Ali added, “We bring some skills to the business world, like empathy, emotional intelligence, and trying to understand how to work with teams. Those are things that women excel in and we need to capitalize on those things.”
You sent Urtula, 22, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than 47,000 text messages in the last two months of the relationship, including many urging him to “go kill himself” to “go die,” Rollins said. You also tracked Urtula and was nearby when he died in Boston on May 20, the day of his Boston College graduation. “Many of the messages display the power dynamic of the relationship, wherein Ms. You made demands and threats with the understanding that she had complete and total see YOU on 14
It is expected that by the year 2025, white people will be in the minority in the United States. “We’ll have a country that will be mostly people of color versus white folks,” explained Riveter’s Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, JodiAnn Burey. “This ceiling of holding people of color back—there will be a swell. You can’t continue to keep people of color in the lower level of work. There are a lot more women running for and in office and running businesses. We can celebrate those things, but it’s still not enough…people are continuing to push barriers. We’re still breaking into new spaces. That’s already a signal, [and] even though we’re trending in the right direction, it needs to happen at a faster rate.” For information about Skillspire and its courses offered in Bellevue or Renton, visit skillspire.net. To learn more about the State of Womxn of Color, visit theriveter.co/events/state-of-womxn-of-color-the-futureof-work-belong-to-us. Kai can be reached at editor@nwasianweekly.com.
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Iced in Paradise: A Leilani Santiago Hawai’i Mystery By Naomi Hirahara Prospect Park Books, 2019
After a few years in Seattle, Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. She’s helping out with the family business, a shave ice shack, as her mother has fallen ill. One day, when she goes into work, she stumbles across a dead body. If that weren’t bad enough, the body belongs to a young pro surfer her estranged father had been coaching. And due to a recent argument, Leilani’s father becomes the No. 1 suspect. So Leilani sets off to find the real killer. All the while, she has to help take care of her mother, younger sisters and grandmother, as well as run the shave ice shack. She’s also working on keeping her long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in Seattle alive. Needless to say, there’s a lot going on for Leilani. “Paradise” is a fun mystery with enough twists and turns to keep readers (at least this one) guessing until the very end. Hirahara does a great job of planting clues throughout the story so while you may be surprised with who the killer is, it makes sense. In addition, maybe more so, “Paradise” is a story about family and community. Now that she’s back on the island, Leilani works to figure out her place in the family and among people she has known her entire life. Readers get a glimpse into a tight-knit community in which everyone knows each other (which may or may not be a good thing) and looks out for one another. Hirahara also gives readers a glimpse into the multicultural world that is Hawaii. Leilani’s family is a mix of Japanese,
Filipino, and white, with different members favoring one side more than the other. And while this may get second looks on the mainland, on the island, it’s quite common and not a big deal. This serves to show readers that it doesn’t matter what anyone’s background is: family is family.
Wonton Terror: A Noodle Shop Mystery By Vivien Chien St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2019
Lana Lee is back on the case and this time, things are off to an explosive start. On the first evening of Cleveland’s Asian Night Market, Wonton on Wheels, a food truck run by her parents’ old friends, blows up at the end of the night, leaving one man dead. Lana narrowly misses getting caught up in the flames as her family’s restaurant, Ho-Lee Noodle House’s own food truck was parked nearby. And even though her boyfriend, Det. Adam Trudeau, has been planning a birthday trip for the two of them, Lana
once again puts on her amateur sleuth hat to figure out who is behind the explosion. And if that weren’t enough, Lana’s aunt Grace—her mother’s sister—is in town, kicking up the family drama by several notches. With this being her fourth mystery in her Noodle Shop series, Chien continues to build strong, multi-faceted characters. And not just with Lana. At this point, readers have gotten to know recurring characters, from Lana’s lawyer-to-be-sister, Anna May, to the various shopkeepers and business owners at the Asia Village shopping plaza, to the Mahjong Matrons who frequent her family’s restaurant. In addition to the mystery, “Wonton” also focuses on sisterhood—mainly with the appearance of Lana’s aunt Grace. Lana and her sister’s bickering and arguing are nothing compared to their mother and aunt’s. The two older women can turn even the simplest conversation into an allout war of words. As much fun as this was to read, it also made me grateful that my relationship with my own sister is not as
volatile. Chien also highlights the role friendships play in our lives. As Lana digs deeper into the mystery, she learns more about her mother’s friendship with Sandra, the widow of the man killed in the explosion. We see that even though people may drift apart over the years, it doesn’t mean they stopped caring about each other.
Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune By Roselle Lim Berkeley, 2019
When Natalie Tan’s mother dies, she returns home to San Francisco’s Chinatown for the first time in seven years. The two hadn’t spoken since Natalie left for culinary school against her mother’s wishes. Upon her arrival, Natalie is shocked to see the old neighborhood fading, with families moving away and businesses failing. An even bigger see SHELF on 12
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A new citizenship roadblock
Various immigrant rights groups filed suit on Oct. 30, on behalf of organizations and communities who will be irreparably harmed by new rules for citizenship applicants. Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, Protect Democracy, and Mayer Brown LLP said the new rules, announced on Oct. 25, will make it much harder to qualify for a fee waiver. It is $725 to apply for citizenship and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) currently waives the fee for those who cannot afford to pay it, which is approximately 40 percent of applicants. AAJC President and Executive Director John Yang said, “This rule change is about changing the complexion of future immigrants from Black and brown to white and furthers a class-based society that is discriminatory and unwelcoming.” Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of USCIS was grilled by lawmakers in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 30 about Trump administration’s immigration policies. Addressing Cuccinelli, Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz of Florida said, “You and Mr. Trump don’t want anyone who looks or talks differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country.” To which Cuccinelli responded, “That’s false.” Should poor people be allowed be allowed to become U.S. citizens? Apparently Donald Trump doesn’t think so. Recent research from Stanford University’s Immigration Policy Lab suggests that the new rules could reduce the number of applications filed each year by as much as 10 percent, and make it impossible for some poor lawful permanent residents to apply at all. USCIS defended the move as a way to cut costs and standardize the criteria for who is eligible for a fee waiver, given that means-tested benefit eligibility varies substantially from state to state. But advocates have called it another attack on legal immigration. The executive director of OneAmerica, Rich Stolz said the rules “create a two-tiered immigration and naturalization system—a ‘fast track’ for the wealthy and a much more difficult path for everyone else.”
Immigrants are typically not eligible to naturalize until they have lived as lawful permanent residents in the United States for five years, speak English, understand U.S. history and civics, and demonstrate a commitment to the U.S. Constitution. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said, “Wealth is not and should never be a requirement of being an American citizen. Seattle will fight for the promise of America and against a pay-to-play approach to citizenship… Immigrants and refugees are part of Seattle’s heritage, and they will continue to make us the city of the future.” The new rule is set to take effect on Dec. 2. If you’re not a big fan of Donald Trump and his policies, take steps to become eligible to vote before November 2020. Between now and then, hundreds of thousands of immigrants are expected to receive their U.S. citizenship and also become eligible to vote. Your voice matters and you have the power to make a change. For free assistance with your citizenship application, go to wanewamericans.org or text or call (206) 926-3924.
■ COMMENTARY
Public charge fear
By Teresita Batayola PRESIDENT AND CEO, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES On Oct. 11, 2019, three federal courts issued nationwide preliminary injunctions against Teresita Batayola the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), stopping it from putting their expanded “public charge” rule into effect. While this is a heartening turn of events, International Community Health Services (ICHS) knows fear and confusion still ripples through immigrant communities here and across the country. For two years, the federal government has been trying to expand the definition of public charge, seeking to turn the U.S. immigration system into one based on race and wealth. For two years, immigrants and refugees—whether subject to the policy or not—have lived in fear, confusion, and uncertainty. This continues to cause harm today, especially at community health centers like ICHS. The Urban Institute found in 2018 that about one in seven adults in immigrant families reported that they or a family member did not participate in a non-cash benefit (programs like Medicaid or food stamps) for fear of risking future green card status. New York City reported greater declines in food stamp enrollment among eligible noncitizens than
among citizens between January 2018 and January 2019. California’s health insurance exchange reported a greater decrease in new enrollments among non-English speakers than among individuals for whom English was the preferred spoken language. Both governments believed this was due to fears about public charge. Across the country, declines in public health and nutrition program participation can be traced to public charge, and the fear of its impacts on immigration status. More alarming is that so many years of misinformation, leaked drafts of the proposed changes, and uncertainty has left people who would not be impacted by
the rule, or who use programs not being considered in the new rule, afraid about their future. ICHS knows this is true. Our patients live in fear every day, whether they use programs included in the final policy or not, or have an immigration status not subject to public charge. A patient enrolled in our sliding-fee scale requested to cancel her mammogram through a state-funded breast cancer program. State health programs and ICHS’s sliding-fee scale would not affect a public charge decision, yet this patient cited fear of impacts to her green card application for cancelling. Another patient, a refugee, cancelled all appointments to see her health
providers out of fear of a public charge impact. Refugees are not affected by public charge. ICHS providers hear the fear and uncertainty from our patients every day. If my child uses this program, can I still get my green card? My U.S. citizen parents sponsor me, but I used Apple Health while pregnant, will I be able to apply for citizenship? I’m a refugee, is it safe for me to see my doctor? DHS’s public charge rule may have been temporarily stopped by the courts, but people are still afraid. To help push back against the fear and harm, please visit protectingimmigrantfamilies.org and onenationaapi.com.
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attracting talent, along with coming up with a good product, funding, and daily operations. All those, he said, are problems that can be overcome. What he could not solve, he said, was government corruption in China. “If you go with it (corruption), you lose. And if you don’t, you also lose by losing business and opportunities.” Lee said his solution was to focus on what he could control—implementing his core values of honesty, integrity, and fairness. Beth Johnson, the co-founder of Flynn Family Lending, called herself an accidental entrepreneur. “Unlike most of my peers here, I didn’t plan on running my own business. I helped to facilitate the success of my now-husband and growing his business. I am learning as I go, building the plane while flying it, so to speak.” She joined an Accelerator program for entrepreneurs that offered resources, tools, and mentorship. Johnson also spoke to her unique challenge as an Asian entrepreneur. “My name is Beth Johnson,” she said, holding up the sign with her name on it. “There’s nothing Asian about it. I’m not white and I’m Asian, but I don’t speak Vietnamese. Our business name doesn’t indicate that it’s minority-owned.” Adopted by a white family as an infant after her family fled Vietnam in 1975, Johnson said she is constantly working to bridge that gap. Melton, the co-founder of Dimension Law Group, said it’s not always easy finding the balance between working on her business (marketing, employees, financing, etc.) versus working in her business—practicing law. “I haven’t necessarily found the solution yet,” said Melton. But she said she is building teams to help her business succeed. “Getting an accountant, a bookkeeper. We hired a business coach to help us put systems in place.” Melton also pointed to the challenge unique to women entrepreneurs—being a wife and mother, something Lam-Steward also alluded to. Chen, the CEO of Geoteaming, said he doesn’t see problems. “We’re entrepreneurs. So there are no challenges, only
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Initiative in 2009, after moving to Seattle in 2007, when her husband was offered a job as the Executive Director of the Northwest Justice Project, a position he still holds today. Lockhart left that job in 2016 to serve as the National Coordinator for the Aspen Institute’s Forum for Community Solutions 100,000 Opportunities Initiative––Demonstration Cities. Lockhart said it was during her time as a coordinator for the Aspen Institute that she reached out to thencandidate Jenny Durkan, in order to connect Durkan with communities in South Seattle. “I thought that was an important set of community connections for her, as she was developing her policies and platforms around youth and opportunity,” Lockhart said. “Once she was elected, she offered me this position.” Though her range and depth of experience is vast, Lockhart said that “every day is different” in the office. In addition to enforcing local and federal civil rights laws, her office is also responsible for the city’s Race and Social Justice Initiative. The Initiative spans more than 30 citywide departments, providing race and social justice training to city employees. The office also has a policy team that provides expertise on various issues as city officials develop policies and legislation. The office also supports four different commissions, the Women’s Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the LGBTQ Commission, and the Seattle Commission for People with Disabilities. “On any given day, there is work happening in all of those areas and all of those teams,” Lockhart said. “Race and social justice work is incredibly challenging,
and incredibly important.” Lockhart said the most challenging part of her job is that her office is at the forefront of a fairly new and ever-evolving landscape, trying to carve out a model of anti-racist leadership in a world where there isn’t really a model for it. “It means examining, really, every decision that I make, and that we make as a department with a racial equity lens, and thinking about, ‘Is this an anti-racist way to approach this decision?’” Lockhart said. “That can be really anything from how we allocate our resources to what our internal policies are to support our staff.” But Lockhart’s life isn’t entirely consumed with work. Because both of her children are grown and live in New York, she isn’t responsible for childcare anymore, which allows her and her husband time to enjoy various cultural events. The couple is a season ticket holder to the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and attend dance performances at the Meany Center. Lockhart also recently finished watching the newest season of Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black,” and confessed to enjoying “trashy novels,” the $1- or $2-kind one can find in the Amazon Kindle store. “I find it really is something so completely different from work,” Lockhart said.
when she was a child. But soon, she realizes that maybe they were there for her the whole time. “Natalie Tan” is a story about going home and finding where you belong—with a touch of magical realism. While her homecoming is difficult at first and not everyone is happy to see Natalie—blaming her for her mother’s death and thinking she should have stayed home to take care of her—attitudes begin to shift as her neighbors realize she is home to stay. Natalie is a strong and flawed character who works
to come to terms with the fact that the last time she saw her mother was on less-than-good terms. She works to make up for this by pouring everything she has into the restaurant. In addition, Lim gives readers a plethora of characters from the neighborhood, filled with their own quirks and idiosyncrasies—from the ever-bickering Mr. and Mrs. Chiu, to angry Old Wu, to Mr. Kuk Wah and his trusty erhu. Readers will get to know them and root for their success and the neighborhood they inhabit.
in January 2018, as part of the mayor’s administration staff overhaul. Though she runs an entire office, Lockhart’s career didn’t start out with anything remotely directive in nature. She originally attended Yale University and majored in art. While there, she became involved in political activism through working in her school’s dining hall. When the dining hall workers union went on strike for better working conditions, she said, the students also went on strike to support them. From there, she ventured down to Nicaragua, originally seeking to bring her skills as a muralist to aid the Sandinistas in rebuilding their country, following the revolution against the repressive, dictatorial government. Lockhart used murals to help spread art outside traditional institutions, such as museums that were often inaccessible to everyday people. Lockhart acknowledges that things didn’t quite work out the way most Nicaraguans involved in the revolution had hoped, but these early, post-dictatorship years helped to shape her own career path, and she only moved back to the United States in 1987, because she was involved in a plane crash for which she couldn’t receive proper treatment in Nicaragua. Once home, Lockhart reunited with her college boyfriend, and the pair married, living and working in New Jersey for two decades. Lockhart worked in the field of youth development, and found a landing place as Seattle’s Director of its Youth Violence Prevention
SHELF from 9 surprise, Natalie learns she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant. Before she gets the restaurant up and running, the neighborhood seer tells Natalie she must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to help her struggling neighbors. Only then will the restaurant succeed. Natalie is initially hesitant to help as she resents her neighbors for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother
“Opportunity is something that you create. Not something that someone has presented to you.” Ha, the president of HACT Construction, was among the second round of panelists, addressing the topic of growth and opportunities. He said that when most people think about a business, they think of it as a pyramid: with the boss on top and employees below. Ha said it’s important to invert that and make employees the top priority. “They are the number one human resource,” Ha said, adding that consistency in a company culture is crucial. “Develop your core values and stick with it.” Hao Lam agreed. When you start a business, he said it’s mostly the owner who’s wearing multiple hats and doing many jobs. Echoing Ha, Lam said, “To grow a company, you have to grow the team.” He quoted author Jim Collins about getting the right people on the bus in the right seats. Brandon Ting, founder of Kizuki Ramen and Izakaya, said that if he had to build his business all over again, he would let go of the need to be perfect. “Strive for excellence, not perfection,” Ting said.
Missed opportunities
Young, the founder of MY International Real Estate, talked about “the very important phone call I never made.” She recalled a conversation with a neighbor, who happened to be the number two guy at Starbucks, about Starbucks’ expansion to China. Young jokingly asked what she should do if she wanted to open a store in China. Her neighbor said, “Get in touch with my staff that’s in charge of Asian markets. Here’s the number.” That’s the phone call she never made and Young said she’s glad because her true love is real estate, not running a Starbucks store. She opened a brokerage and she said she fills a niche that traditional brokerages don’t—working with English speaking and non-English speaking buyers from China, who want to invest in the Seattle area. Natarajan, the CEO of CoreStack, said his biggest
missed opportunity was the chance to partner with Amazon. “In the early days of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon visited our offices, begging us to become their partners,” Natarajan said. “We were looking at the trendsetters back then… Microsoft and Google. We didn’t expect them (AWS) to become a cloud leader.” Wong, the CEO of Vibrant Cities, knows all about missed opportunities. He said he had multiple opportunities to buy property in South Lake Union. “It was $6 million back then and I thought, ‘I’ll wait for the price to go down.’ That never happened!” said Wong. He said the biggest driver of real estate values are jobs. And with tens of thousands of jobs yet to be filled in the Seattle-area, he said, “Now is a good time to buy (real estate). Don’t wait for the price to drop. That already happened last year… the median price of a home in Seattle was $800,000. Now it’s $715,000. We’re at the beginning of the next cycle already. Don’t regret five years from now that you didn’t buy.”
Passion
“When you’re passionate, you want to share it, whether it impacts one person or a thousand people.” Bayley Le owns the GoPoke Restaurant and his brother, Jason, owns Dochi, a bakery for Japanese donuts in Chinatown. Bayley said people become entrepreneurs because of the passion that drives them—a passion to provide a good or service. “Bring people who have like interests together and continue to serve people,” he said. As Asian Weekly publisher Assunta Ng said, “Entrepreneurs are more than job creators. You are innovators, problem solvers, game changers, and visionaries. You are the real Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons of this community. Be proud of your contributions.” Congratulations to all the honorees. Ruth can be reached at editor@nwasianweekly.com.
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Predictions and advice for the week of November 2–8, 2019 By Sun Lee Chang Rat — While barriers can shield you, it can also keep you from obtaining something you might actually want.
Dragon — This isn’t your first time encountering a difficult challenge, and like the other times, it should prove to be child’s play for you.
Monkey — Are you afraid of making the same mistake again? As long as you acknowledge your past, then it is entirely avoidable.
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Rooster — When you have a design that works, it doesn’t need to be elaborate or flashy. It just has to fit the bill.
Tiger — You are looking to embark on a new adventure, but it could be a little different from what you imagined.
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LION AIR from 4 With the report, relatives of those who were on Flight 610 grieved all over again. Muhammad Asdori, whose brother and nephew were killed, accused Boeing of negligence in failing to anticipate how pilots would react in an emergency. “We are very angry,’’ he said. “We were even more angry when we learned that they had only admitted their mistake when the second Max 8 plane crashed in Ethiopia.’’ Boeing said it was taking Indonesia’s findings into account as it makes changes to the Max. It is redesigning MCAS to take readings from both angle-of-attack
sensors on the plane, not just one. MCAS will only push the plane’s nose down once based on an erroneous sensor reading, and it will push down with less force. The company is also updating crew manuals and pilot training. Boeing aims to return the Max to service before year end. The company took out advertisements in major U.S. newspapers again on Oct. 25 offering its apologies and detailing steps it is taking to compensate victims’ families, update the Max, and improve its safety culture. “As we continue to make steady progress in safely returning the 737 MAX to service, we will never forget these losses, and our commitment to safety, quality and integrity is unwavering,’’ Boeing said in the ad.
The FAA said it would consider the investigators’ recommendations as it reviews Boeing’s proposed changes to the Max. The FAA promised that it will let the plane fly again only when it is certain it’s safe. Air travel in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country with nearly 270 million people, has surged and budget carriers such as Lion Air have sprung up to accommodate demand. But the industry has struggled to keep pace and faces a shortage of pilots, antiquated infrastructure and poor regulatory oversight. The country has been plagued by a string of deadly accidents in recent years.
Attendees of the Oct. 26 reunion at the Bellevue Hilton.
UW Professor Donald Hellmann with EWHA President Heisook Kim (3rd from left) and alumni.
to the world and a key player in the internationalization of women’s education.” What is unusual about Kim, 64, was she was voted in by Ewha students, said alum Seungja Song. Later, board of trustees appointed Kim in 2017. UW trustees interview and select their president every time. Also, faculty and staff voted for Kim. She received more than 57 percent of the vote. Kim, a former philosophy professor for over three decades, also received her undergraduate degree in English literature at Ewha. Her doctorate degree was from the University of Chicago. Kim said Ehwa’s goal is to “prepare and fight for women to participate” in society, as South Korea is still being intertwined in Confucian social prejudice towards women. “President Kim is a very warm person,” Song said. “She realizes her responsibilities and always encourages women to participate in diverse fields and challenges.
She helps a lot of women.” Proud of Ewha’s work of developing female pioneers, Kim mentioned judges, the first female prime minister although being impeached, the former president of Korea Times, and Yun Jung Ok, the first person who spoke publicly in 1990 about “comfort women” who were enslaved and sexually exploited for the Japanese military. Kim, who visited Seattle for the first time last week, gave a lecture at the UW and met with other officials. Ewha’s reunion was a four-day affair, featuring dinners, talent shows, and singing, violin, cello, and piano performances. Dr. L. Monika Moskal of the UW School of Environment and Forest Sciences gave the keynote speech to tie in with Ewha’s theme, “Go Green.” Over 300 people attended the reunion.
not relatives, they were Ewha Womans University alumni from all over North America, gathered at the Bellevue Hilton Hotel on Oct. 26, for their reunion. Ewha is the world’s largest women’s college in South Korea, with an enrollment of over 20,000 students. (At the time, it was acceptable to call it ‘Womans’ instead of ‘Women’s’ university.) The largest women’s college in the United States, Wellesley, has only about 2,000 students. If you Google Ewha, you will see the university is like a mini city, with more than 8l buildings, and it is still growing. Founded in 1886 by American missionary Mary F. Scranton, she began classes for a single student at her home. Thus, began “a major turning point in the history of women in Korea,” according to “Ehwa: An Invitation,” a book on Ehwa’s history. Under the patriarchal system, women in traditional Korean society were not supposed to have names, nor were they allowed to leave the house freely. However, Christian values had centered on the “humanization of women,” which the school had pursued since the last century. I couldn’t believe Professor Donald Hellmann of the University of Washington (UW) was at Ewha’s reunion. He said Ewha and the UW would work on an agreement for exchange programs. Soon, a woman roamed into the hallway, the only one not dressed in fancy clothes, but in a plain pantsuit. There was an air of dignity and an indescribable quality and force about her. I was surprised and humbled when we were introduced... Madame President Heisook Kim. An unexpected honor, I am always thrilled to meet leaders who are women. Clark Sorensen, UW professor of Center for Korea Studies, said Kim “is an important ambassador for Korea
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