Helen Zia

THU, May 9, 2002 (5:30-7:00 PM)

Hitchcock Hall 2070 Neil Avenue
(click here for map building 274. East one block of Car Park 88 on Woody Hayes)

Keynote Speaker Helen Zia

The Keynote is a yearly event that recognizes a current Asian American working on an Asian American issue that inspires, educates and brings to consciousness about what is happening within Asian American and Asian heritage for the OSU campus and greater Community.  

This year the Asian Pacific American Heritage is award-winning journalist and contributor editor of Ms. Magazine Helen Zia. A second generation Chinese American, Zia has been a feminist activist for more than two decades on social justice issues, and has long been active in the Asian American civil rights movement. Ms. Zia will speak on the legacy of Vincent Chen and its relationship to the tragic events on September 11, 2001 and its effects on Asian Americans across the nation.

Helen Zia is a co-author, with Wen Ho Lee, Of My Country Versus Me, published in 2002. This book reveals what happened to the Los Alamos scientist who falsely accused of being a spy for China in the "worst case since the Rosenbergs." She is also the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, published in 2000. Helen is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International

Affairs where she was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar and a member of the university's first graduating class of women.

She is a staunch supporter of the Asian American Movement and outspoken on issues ranging from gay and lesbian issues and women's rights and countering hate violence. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Ms., New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, Essence, San Francisco Focus, A. Magazine, The Advocate, Curve, Out!, Social Policy, Sojourner, Arizona republic and many more.

Contact: Nancy Yan at yan.49@osu.edu