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2004 Asian American Forum Leadership Institute Saturday - October 2, 2004 - 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM University of Texas at Arlington
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Jim Akers is Supervisory Special Agent for Civil Rights Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dallas.
Paul Hunker, is Chief Counsel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, Dallas Texas
Three Term Board Member Lewisville
Independent School District has served as Board of Trustee in Place 3 for Lewisville Independent School District. The incumbent is completing his second three-year term on the school board and was recently elected by the citizens in the district which encompasses 12 cities to a third term. The enrollment for the Lewisville ISD is around 46,000 students which attend 57 schools. The operating budget is about $395 million and currently is the largest employer in the city with over 3,000 employees. Kim was born on January 25, 1969, in Taegu, South Korea. His family came over to the United States in 1972. Kim, 35, has lived in the Lewisville ISD for more than 29 years and graduated from Lewisville High School in 1987, attending K-12 in LISD. In 1987, Kim received a nomination from Representative Dick Armey and earned a full scholarship to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated the United States Naval Academy in 1991 and was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy. Kim served in the United States Navy as a Supply Corps Officer. He spent six months in the Persian Gulf enforcing Operation Southern Watch. "I am proud to serve my country that offered me freedom of choice and an opportunity to succeed in my life," Kim said. Kim is a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Reserves and is currently the Blue and Gold Officer for LISD.
Kim
currently works as a director for a chain restaurant distributor of
equipment and smallwares. He and his wife, June, have two sons, Alex, 11, a student at
Briarhill Middle School and Tyler, 7, a student at Heritage Elementary
School. He resides in
Highland Village, TX.
Komatsu conceived and developed the national Emmy Award-winning documentary, The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), a four-hour bi-national series that premiered on PBS and in Mexico. As executive and series producer, she oversaw this multimedia education project that included a companion book, classroom materials and a bilingual Web site that received multiple honors. Komatsu was also executive in charge of Starting Over in America (producer/writer), a portrait of Southeast Asian refugees struggling to reunite their families and rebuild their lives in the United States; Project Crossroads (executive producer), an acclaimed two-year campaign featuring a series of programs and outreach on race relations in Dallas; and News Addition (executive producer), an award-winning local weekly magazine program. Komatsu received the 1992 Achievement Award from Women in Film/Dallas, and the 1998 Women of Spirit Award presented by the American Jewish Congress Southwest Region's Commission for Women's Equality to "women who have been diligent and spirited in their pursuit of justice." She serves on the Board of Governors of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, the board of the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden, and the advisory boards of the Asian American Forum and the Archives of Women of the Southwest, DeGolyer Library, SMU. She is a past president of the board of directors of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), a media arts organization based in San Francisco that supports and funds film and video works about Asian Pacific Americans. She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, the Dallas Assembly and the Dallas Summit.
Komatsu
received a bachelor's degree in government from Harvard University and
holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
National Executive Director of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), brings over three decades of experience in the civil rights arena as the director of the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American civil and human rights organization. It was the challenge of shepherding the JACL into the new millennium that currently finds him at the helm of the seventy-five year old organization. He and his family were among 120,000 Japanese Americans excluded from the West Coast and imprisoned in U.S. detention camps during World War II. Following the end of the war, his family returned to Los Angeles, where he attended public schools. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and specialized in Modern American Literature in his graduate studies at the University of California at Davis. In 1978, he was called upon to launch a national campaign to seek redress for Japanese Americans for their internment during WWII. He undertook this task as the chair of the JACL’s National Redress Committee, and in 1981, he resigned his teaching tenure to become the JACL’s National Redress Director, a full-time JACL staff position. Mr. Tateishi developed and implemented a national legislative and public education strategy that led the campaign to its successful conclusion. The strategy was successful in getting the first-stage legislation passed to establish a federal commission to investigate the events of the WWII internment, and was critical in the success of the final redress bill, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. He is the author of And Justice for All (University of Washington Press), an oral history of the WWII internment of Japanese Americans, and a contributor to Last Witnesses (St. Martins Press, 2001), in which his essay “Memories From Behind Barbed Wire” recalls his years growing up in an American concentration camp. He was a Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research for the 2001-2002 academic year, and currently is a Trustee of the newest the University of California campus located in Merced in the central valley of California.
Arnel Trovada has over ten years of Experience in Developing high profile public relations for leading corporations. Celebrities, authors, product inventors and developers. Arnel has consistently placed news stories, review and profile about his clients in publcations such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and LA Times. His client experience included work for Bally Total Fitness, BMG Entertainment, Arts & Entertainment Television, Warner and The Beck Group to name a few. Prior to establishing his own company in 1997 Arnel held management positions in several Dallas companies as their marketing and public relations director.
You never know when or where Carol Wang will show up on NBC 5--whether it's reporting from somewhere in the metroplex or at the anchor desk. And it's that variety that she enjoys. Her journalism career has taken her all over the country--from Tacoma, Washington, where she was a print reporter, to a radio news correspondent for a station in Orlando, Florida. She most recently worked in Topeka, and Wichita, Kansas before joining NBC5 Today in October 2001. Since making North Texas her home, she's become active in the Asian-American Journalists Association and with the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Asian community. She is a part of the Arlington Citizens Academy and is on the Girl Scouts Asian Advisory Board. Carol has been recognized for her work with several awards, including a Kansas Association of Broadcasters Award for her investigative series on nightclub discrimination. She earned a Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University and graduated with honors from Boston University with a degree in Journalism and minors in Economics and Women's Studies. In her free time, Carol can be found attending arts events and even taking a dance lesson or two. She also loves to read, visit with friends, and explore new places with her husband, Jim.
Registration
$50 Group
Rate $40 (three or more
registering together) Special
student rate $20 (includes
morning coffee, lunch and all materials)
Registration
must be completed by Friday,
September 24, 2004 Asian American Forum, Inc 9514 Hillview Drive - Dallas Texas 75231 Phone 214-349-3166 FAX
214-553-5944 Information info@asianamericanforum.org |
Mohamed
Elmougy is former Chairman of the 
Tommy
Kim
