“Hello, My Name Is...” originated from my late night musings about what name(s) mean to the people who hold them. What started out as a curiosity to learn about people’s stories through their names became a gratifying and grounding journey that attempts to capture the complexities of the Asian American/Asian international identity. Names speak volumes—not just because your name is how you introduce yourself, but also because your name is what most things about you are constructed upon. It speaks to what others think of you, who you see yourself as, and it is an active noun of doing and being, in the past, in the present, and in the future. And so “Hello, my name is...” hopes to acknowledge the somewhat predestined nature of our names, to amplify our understanding of who we are today, and to recenter ourselves in our personal narratives of self-exploration. — Janus
Janus Wong & Taylor Gee
Heejae | 희재
Edited by Gabor Fu Ptacek | Designed by Joy Yi Lu Freund
Seowon | 서원
Hi, I’m Heejae. I go by she/her. I’m a sophomore psych major.
e she/ Hi I’m Seowon, I us a first her pronouns. I am year.
Gabor | 家寶
Johnson | 庄森 I’m Johnson, I use he/ him/his. I’m a senior math major.
Tamika | 民力
I’m Tamika Chin Whitenack, I use she/her. I’m a senior , Environmental Studies major Education correlate. I’m half Chinese American, quarter Japanese American, quarter white.
I’m Gabor Fu Ptacek, I use he/him pronouns, third year, majoring in Computer Science and Chinese.
Khanh | Khanh I’m Khanh Le, I use she/ her and I’m Vietnamese; CompSci major, class of 2024. My name in Vietnamese is Lê Lan Khanh. In my country it’s last name then first name.
