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Interviews Volume 33 (2022-23)

The Evolution of Our American Dream: A Conversation with David Siev

April 26, 2023May 30, 2023 Film, Filmmaker

The basis of [my documentary, BAD AXE] is my family—we’re Cambodian-Mexican-American. We live in this rural white community, and it’s us trying to keep our family restaurant alive and the American Dream alive during one of the most uncertain times in history amidst a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and everything else going on in our country in 2020. So it becomes a story that explores the question: how do you keep the American Dream alive today when it’s being challenged now more than ever?

Interviews Volume 33 (2022-23)

Taking up Space: Mental Health, Representation, and the Asian American Experience

April 26, 2023May 18, 2023

INTERVIEW WITH DR. JENNY WANG BY KEVIN CHEN This piece was published in the 33rd digital volume of the Asian

Interviews Volume 33 (2022-23)

Transformation and Liberation Through Diasporic Storytelling: A Conversation with Joseph Juhn

April 26, 2023May 30, 2023

If my previous identity query was grounded on, and perhaps confined by, this dualistic tension between Korea and America, the idea of diaspora liberated me from a geographic grounding of identity. It was a membership not only in the Korean or Korean American community but also in these larger sojourner communities around the world who share, no matter how remote or accurate, collective memories of the homeland, heritage and history.

Interviews Volume 33 (2022-23)