Frances Wang, Ethics Discussion

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a second-generation Chinese American from California who now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawaii. She has worked in philosophy, journalism, anthropology, international development, nonprofits, and small business start-ups. She is a contributor for NBCNews.com Asian America and an editor of AAPIVoices.com. Before that, she was the arts and culture editor of IMDiversity.com Asian American Village for many years, she wrote a nationally syndicated column called “Adventures in Multicultural Living” originating out of AnnArbor.com and AnnArborChronicle.com, and she also contributes occasionally for New America Media's Ethnoblog, Chicago is the World, PacificCitizen.org, InCultureParent.com, and HuffPost Live. She has been Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice and Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce. She team-teaches courses on Asian Pacific American civil rights, history, film and media at University of Michigan and University of Michigan Dearborn. She also teaches writing and is a popular speaker on Asian Pacific American, multicultural, diversity, women's, social justice, and social media issues. She has published three chapbooks of prose poetry, Imaginary Affairs—Postcards from an Imagined Life andWhere the Lava Meets the Sea—Asian Pacific American Postcards from Hawai‘i and Dreams of the Diaspora, been included in several anthologies and art exhibitions, and has an upcoming a multimedia artwork with Jyoti Omi Chowdhury entitled, “Dreams of the Diaspora,” as part of a Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Indian American Heritage Project online and travelling art exhibition.