Speakers:
Priscilla Lasmarias Kelso (MA in Literature, 1963) was in graduate school at age 20 , majoring in British and American literature as a Stanford ASSU and Cap and Gown scholar . Her degree led her to university teaching in the Philippines and in the U.S.. Her other career track, before retirement included international education while working at the University of Pennsylvania and Northeastern University in Boston. While promoting inter=institutional partnerships with Asia -Pacific schools in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, , New Zealand and Australia, she also learned many life stories from Asian American students and their families. Priscilla is finishing her book, "Growing Two Gardens" on her bicultural journey in Asia and America.
Dien Ho is Director of the Center for Health Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Healthcare Ethics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Professor Ho earned degrees from three prestigious institutions: BA from Brandeis University, MA from Tufts University, and PhD from The Graduate Center-The City University of New York.
Cecillia Wang is a deputy legal director at the national ACLU and directs the Center for Democracy, which encompasses the ACLU’s work on immigrants’ rights, voting rights, national security, human rights, and speech, privacy and technology. She is a past director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and a nationally recognized expert on issues at the intersection of immigration and criminal law, including state anti-immigrant laws, racial profiling and other unlawful police practices relating to immigration enforcement. She has taught immigration law courses as an adjunct lecturer in law at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley. Cecillia is a UC Berkeley graduate (1992) with an AB in English and biology, and a graduate of the Yale Law School (1995).
