Part of our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Events

To celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month, join SAPAAC for a special literary discussion with three authors who have written about the important contributions of Chinese Americans in Hollywood: Karen Fang, author of Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong, William Gow, author of Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community, and Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong. This virtual event is open to all alumni and will be moderated by New York Times best-selling author and journalist, Jeff Yang, author of The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America.

Part of our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Events

*Webinar is open to all Stanford Alumni, students, staff, and family of alumni, students, or staff*

Join SAPAAC Advocacy and Education Chair and licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Caroline Lee (‘09 PhD Educational Psychology), in conversation with special guest, Dr. Helen Hsu, licensed clinical psychologist and Director of Outreach at Stanford University Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) as they kick off AANHPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month.

They will discuss mental health strengths and struggles in the AANHPI community, and Dr. Helen Hsu will share her invaluable insights and experience in working with the Stanford community. Campus resources will be discussed as well as recommendations for students and parents to enhance their well-being. The webinar will end with a brief Q and A.

Dr. Helen Hsu is Director of Outreach, Asian American specialist, and lecturer at Stanford University Counseling and Psychological Services. She is Past President of the American Psychological Association Div. 45 (Society for the Study of Race, Culture and Ethnicity), a past president of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA), and past Chair of the Training Advisory Committee at the American Psychological Association (APA) Minority Fellowship Program. Dr. Hsu also served on the APA Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression. 

As a bi-cultural, bi-lingual clinician, Dr. Hsu has worked within the Alameda County Behavioral Healthcare system overseeing K-12 school-based clinical services and care for those living with chronic and severe mental health conditions. She is an advisory board member of the JED foundation focused on youth suicide prevention and is the clinical lead for Pandora Bio, Inc. Dr Hsu’s work has focused primarily on intersectional diverse communities, culturally responsive treatment, parent education, grief, corporate and entertainment consultation, mentorship of psychology students and community-wide mental health education and empowerment. Her book The Asian American Healing Trauma workbook will be published by New Harbinger in July 2024.

Dr. Caroline C. Lee, is a licensed clinical child, adolescent, and adult psychologist currently in private practice in Orange County, California. She specializes in treating anxiety disorders and values integrating evidence-based practices- including utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, positive psychology, and acceptance commitment therapy. She is also a credentialed public school teacher. Prior to being in private practice, Dr. Lee worked at Kaiser Permanente’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department as a staff Psychologist. There she led the Intensive Outpatient Program and the Parents of Preschoolers program. She also served as the Co-director of the Post-doctoral Clinical Training program. 

Dr. Lee graduated with her PhD in Educational Psychology from Stanford University where she taught psychoeducational courses on culture and coping to undergraduate and graduate students. She was also part of the Asian American Mental Health at Stanford Initiative that led to the creation of the current mental health programming. Dr. Lee is a current Board Member of Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club (SAPAAC) and also on the Community Advisory Committee of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) for the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander National Youth Mental Health Study. Dr. Lee routinely gives psychoeducation presentations and workshops to schools and organizations and is passionate about destigmatizing mental health and building empowerment and resilience in our communities. 

Please join us in welcoming Stanford Professor Gordon H. Chang and Stanford alumni and UC Irvine Professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu for an in-person Town Hall with AAPI alumni in Los Angeles. 

Learn about the state of Asian American affairs and the future of Asian American studies at Stanford University and beyond from Professor Chang. Hear about the impact of Stanford Asian American studies on Professor Wu’s work. 

Register here

Stanford University has committed to building a new Asian American Research Center (AARC) focused on research and programming. The Center has the potential to address historical, cultural, social, psychological, artistic, medical, legal, and policy dimensions of the Asian American experience. It could become a national hub for the future development of Asian American Studies as a field, while serving as a focal point for existing work at Stanford. Professors Gordon H. Chang and Stephen Sano, two of the faculty stewarding the creation of this Center, are eager to hear from the alumni community about their hopes.

• What could the Research Center do? What areas of focus might it address or what projects could it tackle?

• Are there inspiring models for a Research Center that you have seen work well? (For example, at other universities, in civic organizations)

• How do you think the AARC should relate to or support the undergraduate Program on Asian American Studies, which focuses on teaching and education, not on research?

• What would you personally be willing to do to support the Center, the Program on Asian American Studies, the A3C, or other efforts on campus?

Join a community conversation for alumni to make our voices heard, as the University shapes this new Center!

When: 8/27 Sunday, 10-11:30 AM PST (1-2:30 PM EST)
Where: Zoom (link to be sent before the date of the event)
Registration: Free, please RSVP here
Contact: Kevin Hsu (khsu@alumni.stanford.edu) and Caroline Lee (drcarolinelee@alumni.stanford.edu)

About the Speakers

Gordon H. Chang, Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities and History. Professor Chang taught the very first Asian American Studies course at Stanford in 1971 and was later hired as one of two Asian American Studies faculty, following student and alumni activism.

Stephen Sano, Director of Asian American Studies and Professor of Music. Professor Sano directs the Stanford Chamber Chorale and Symphonic Chorus. He is a pioneer in North American Taiko as well as a scholar and performer of Hawaiian slack key guitar.

Related Resources:

“Without Asian American Studies, my Stanford experience was incomplete” (The Stanford Daily)
“Stanford’s history is inextricably linked with Asian American history” (The Stanford Daily)
“Beyond Good Intentions: Support Asian American Studies Now” (The Stanford Daily)
“Stanford should get serious about building Asian American Studies” (The Stanford Daily)
“What is Stanford’s responsibility in a time of racial reckoning?” (The Stanford Daily)
“Testimonial: For Stanford, the time is now to grow Asian American Studies” (SAPAAC)
Stanford Asian American Endowment Initiative (link)