Please note the venue change from STLC 114 to STLC 111 (Auditorium), SAPP Center for Science Teaching and Learning. Check in will begin at 4:45pm.
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Join Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club and Stanford’s Asian American Student Association for a panel discussion with the founders and authors of Third State Books, a new publishing house focused exclusively on amplifying Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander voices and stories. Third State Books is dedicated to publishing stories that more fully and authentically represent AANHPI experiences to a universal audience. After the panel discussion, there will be a Q&A, and we will end with an opportunity for networking and appetizers.
FREE for Students/Staff/Faculty, $10 for Stanford Alumni and Parents , $20 for Guests of Stanford Alum/Parents
Panelists include:
Stephanie Lim
Stephanie Lim is Co-Founder & CEO of Third State Books. Stephanie brings an abiding love of literary classics, guilty-pleasure genre fiction, fanfic, and children’s books to her work at Third State Books. She spent many years in digital marketing and operations, first as a strategist for advertising clients at Google, then leading e-commerce teams and managing multi-million-dollar advertising budgets for retail brands such as ModCloth, Bebe, and Serena Williams’s eponymous fashion label. Early in her career, she sifted through slush piles as an intern at Penguin Putnam and edited a mathematical children’s book for Charlesbridge Publishing, so working on TSB feels truly like coming full circle for her. Stephanie will always be a SoCal girl at heart, but she’s making the best of the perpetually foggy weather in San Francisco with her husband, Garry, and their two sons.
Charles Kim
Charles Kim is the Co-Founder and President of Third State Books and a Stanford lecturer. He has spent three decades advocating for diversity and inclusion in publishing. He has previously served as Senior Agent at Serendipity Literary, the largest agency in the United States focusing on writers of color; Associate Publisher at The Museum of Modern Art; and Editor in Chief at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. He was born in Seoul and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of seven with his mother and two brothers.
Eric Toda
Eric Toda is a Third State Author, Global Head of Social Marketing at Meta, and Executive General Manager of Meta Prosper, a program from Meta that creates economic opportunities for the Asian American and Pacific Islander small businesses and nonprofits. Prior to Meta, he held brand and digital marketing leadership roles at Stitch Fix, Gap Inc., Airbnb, Snapchat, and Nike. His work has garnered Cannes Lions, Webbys, Clios, Shortys, and other awards for marketing and business excellence. Eric's inspiration for this book was his personal experience of being discouraged from creativity when his artistic ability left something to be desired, and he wanted to tell a story that encourages children, including his own, to be creative without fear of judgment. He lives with his family in the Bay Area.
Dion Lim
Dion Lim is a Third State Author and a two-time Emmy Award–winning TV news anchor and reporter for ABC7 News in San Francisco. She is also a contributor to ABC News Live, Good Morning America, and World News Tonight and has hosted the national live television news programs America This Morning and World News Now. Lim was named a 2022 Gold House A100 Most Impactful Asian American alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and was recently named the recipient of SFCAUSE’s inaugural Champion of Truth Award. She is the author of Make Your Moment, whose publicity campaign and author tour were cancelled at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. She lives in San Francisco.
Norman Chen
Norman Chen is the CEO of The Asian American Foundation, a Third State Books Partner, and Stanford Alumnus. He brings a thirty-year career in entrepreneurship, healthcare and community leadership in the United States and Asia. Norman is passionate about building organizations in both the nonprofit and private sectors that positively impact society. Prior to his appointment at TAAF, Norman co-founded the nonprofit Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH) and helped to create a landmark study, The STAATUS Index, of American attitudes towards Asian Americans. As a healthcare entrepreneur, Norman was the founder and CEO of Asia Renal Care, a network of specialty medical centers in six countries, and co-founder of DeltaHealth Hospital, a world-class hospital in partnership with Columbia Heartsource. As a venture capitalist, Norman led successful life sciences investments at Fidelity Asia Ventures (now Eight Roads) and 6 Dimensions Capital. Norman grew up on the East Coast and currently lives in the Bay Area. He has been a board or advisory council member at The Nature Conservancy (CA), Children’s Medical Foundation (HK), SF Marine Science Institute, and Positive Coaching Alliance. He holds a B.S. degree from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tickets are limited to 4 per person. Refreshments will be provided.