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Welcome to our Advocacy Series where we highlight the stories of Asian American women who use their platforms and voices to share their advocacies.
Punita Khanna is a South Asian breast cancer survivor and advocate. She has a successful 20+ career as an executive in integrated health systems. Punita never expected to take on the fight and trajectory of becoming a breast cancer survivor and advocate. According to the American Cancer Society, South Asian women have the second highest incidence of cancer among Asian Pacific Islanders.
Tune into this episode to learn more about Punita’s experiences of becoming a survivor, the challenges of sharing her diagnosis with the South Asian community, and her plea to increase Asian representation in medical studies.
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Welcome to our series featuring amazing Asian American women who have broken barriers.
Michelle Wong is the Chief Marketing Officer at Sprinkles Bakeries and Picnik Restaurants.
In 2021, Michelle joined Sprinkles where she leads all consumer and product marketing drives, product innovation, and flavor development. Prior to joining Sprinkles, Michelle was the first female president and managing partner at Dailey, which is a creative ad agency. She advocates for diversity and inclusion and uses her platform and leadership position to create opportunities for BIPOC women and LGBT professionals.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about the impact of being raised by powerful female figures, finding your own voice, and how all career paths are not baked in the same mold.
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Welcome to our Entrepreneur Spotlight Series where we’ll share the stories of Asian American women who are founders or part of the top executive members of their company.
Heather Shen is the Co-Founder of Praxis Labs, a company that partners with organizations to increase diversity and inclusion outcomes through immersive learning experiences.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about how Heather made it into the Forbes’ 30 under 30 in the Education category, her interest in helping communities and institutions, her personal journey with starting her own business, securing funding, and different advice for AAPI women entrepreneurs.
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Welcome to our Entrepreneur Spotlight Series where we’ll share the stories of Asian American women who are founders or part of the top executive members of their company.
Dr. Pinkey Patel is the Founder and CEO of Myri Health, which provides women with information and programming to support them during the postpartum phase.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about how Dr. Patel made waves around the world by digitizing postpartum healthcare for women and how Myri has launched across 166 countries with over 180,000 downloads.
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Welcome to our Entrepreneur Spotlight Series where we’ll share the stories of Asian American women who are founders or part of the top executive members of their company.
Joanne Kwong is the President of Pearl River Mart, the world’s first Chinese American department store. Pearl River Mart is an iconic New York City Destination for Asian-inspired goods, fashion, snacks, and everything in between.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about how Joanne started off as an attorney, to work with her in-laws, to serve on the Commission of the National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture, and how it is important for Asian Americans to be counted and to be present at the table of people who are making decisions.
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Welcome to our Entrepreneur Spotlight Series where we’ll share the stories of Asian American women who are founders or part of the top executive members of their company.
Lin Chen is the CEO and founder of Pink Moon, a lifestyle brand that promotes a harmonious well-being. Lin has worked in the sustainable beauty and wellness industry for nearly a decade where she has used her Chinese culture, ancient practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Astrology.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about how her journey through genuine self-love inspired her to be the founder that she is and how she used it to encourage other women into loving themselves every day.
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Welcome to our series featuring amazing Asian American women who have broken barriers.
Esther Ha is the Executive Chef at Momofuku Ko. Esther’s journey in the culinary world is a little different than most other chefs out there as she initially had no intention of going into the industry.
Tune in to this episode to learn about how passion and grit can help you overcome the challenges of being one of the few women in a male dominated industry.
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Welcome to our series featuring amazing Asian American women who have broken barriers.
Maryling Yu is the Chief Marketing Officer at Backstop Solutions Group, one of the fastest growing software providers in the financial services industry with five global offices serving clients across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Tune in to this episode to learn about overcoming the difficulties of cultural and familial expectations that can be counter to what makes us great leaders today.
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Welcome to our series featuring amazing Asian American women who have broken barriers.
Laxmi Poruri is a trailblazing professional tennis athlete who currently works with Pillsbury, a full-service global law firm. She is an EIR or an Entrepreneur in Residence where she is responsible for business client development and technology industry verticals.
Laxmi talks about how her early start as a tennis athlete and later first Indian American woman to play professional tennis on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour helped her navigate into a career on Wall Street.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about how she entered sports at a very young age, the impact of her Indian heritage, her journey into Wall Street, and the importance of connecting and building camaraderie with other women.
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Barbara Adachi and became the first minority and female partner to lead the national human capital consulting business at Deloitte. Barbara’s passion is advancing women’s leadership and is as a champion of diversity and inclusion. She served as National Managing Principal for Deloitte’s award- winning Women’s Initiative (WIN) for the entire U.S. firm from 2007-2011, achieving a significant milestone of 1,000 women partners, principals and directors. Named one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times for 10 consecutive years from 2003 through 2012, Barbara was then endowed as Forever Influential. Shes also been honored as part of the Working Mother's Hall of Fame. In 2020, Barbara received the CEDAW Women’s Human Rights Award for International Comity. The accolades and achievements go on and on—needless to say she is force for advancing women leaders in the workforce.
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As the last episode of the year, we thought it would be fitting to end with a story about legacy and resilience. The Gee Family is known as one of the first Chinese immigrants to arrive in Houston. Today, they are a famous name in the Chinese American Houston network and highly active in the city’s political and philanthropic landscape. In this episode, meet Claudia Gee Vassar, President of Houston Botanic Garden. She talks about growing up in the Gee legacy, her dual identity as a German and Chinese American, and her spirit of giving back to the community.
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Listen to Rena Van Tine's story on becoming the first South Asian American female judge in the nation to serve on a state court.
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Yabing is the Chief Information Security Officer at HEB, a privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio Texas. HEB is a $25 billion dollar giant that employs over 100,000 people through more than 340 stores. Building and maintaining the technology that powers this organization is no easy task. In 2021, cybercrime is predicted to inflict $6 trillion dollars in damages globally. In April of this year, HEB brought in its first CISO, Yabing, to focus on protecting HEB from these cyber threats. She’s a first generation Chinese American and has traversed a fast paced career to be one of the few executive women holding a seat in the cybsecurity space. Here she talks candidly about how she did it and the importance of leading from a place of authenticity.
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Pooja became the first South Asian Flight Director of NASA at the age of 33. She gets candid with us about career, family, motherhood, and the type of mindset she led with that eventually helped her do what no other South Asian woman has done yet.
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The Asian community has faced an immense backlack since the onset of the pandemic. We invited Dr. Karen Eng, Board Chair of National ACE, to speak about the work of their campaign #AAPIStrong. Through #AAPIStrong, National ACE is raising funds and providing programming to help AAPI small business owners across the country survive shutdowns from the pandemic, AAPI bias, harassment, and violence. Karen is also an optometrist and CEO of a global engineering company. Since the inception of the Illinois College of Optometry 144 years ago, Karen became their first female and minority Chair of the Board of Trustees. She also reached a notable milestone with the Export Import Bank of the United States, that after 80 years, she became the first Asian American to sit on their Advisory Committee.
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Leilani is the founder of a company called “Be the Change” - an HR consulting organization, but unlike any other, with a social entrepreneurship mindset. What drives Leilani and her work is her dedication to end human trafficking. We covered a broad range of issues from human trafficking, mental health, D&I and asian hate crimes, and the covid impact on organizations with her on this episode.
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Mythili Sankaran is Co-Founder and Managing Parter of the Neythri Future Fund and of Neythri.org. Listen to learn her story on becoming a pioneer in creating a fund dedicated to South Asian women entrepreneurs.
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A trailblazer in corporate America, Maria Racho pioneered the intrapreneurs program at Allstate. The program helps to build an entrepreneurial spirit for corporate Intraprenuers and has now grown to over 650 members, a Shark Tank, and a hackathon where people take ideas from concept and to pitch to executives. We chose Maria as our guest, inspired not only by her achievements in the startup ecosystem as a Filipino American woman, but also by her ability to create connections, create community and inspire others.
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Joining us is Serafina Lalany. She is a veteran innovator with experiences as a Venture Designer and Chief of Staff at Houston Exponential, who went off a beaten path despite the chagrin of her parents and the cultural expectations of financial security. Today Serafina is the VP of Operations at Houston Exponential, a non-profit dedicated to accelerating the development of Houston’s innovation economy by fostering a robust ecosystem that supports high-growth, high-impact startups. We chose Serafina as our guest on this podcast inspired not only by her achievements in the startup ecosystem being an Indian American woman, but also by the somewhat unorthodox experiences she had along the way.
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Joining us today is Kiran Khalid. It was her on-air debut as a reporter in 1996 for a CBS affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas that made her the first Pakistani-American woman in broadcast news.
She is a veteran journalist with more than 15 years of newsroom experience having worked across affiliates of every major network—ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX— in markets across the U.S. and reporting on events around the globe. Today Kiran is the VP/Editorial & Media Lead for the Energy sector team at Edelman, the world's largest public relations firms.
We chose Kiran as our first guest on this podcast inspired not only by her achievements in journalism being a Pakistani American woman, but also by the somewhat biopic experiences she had along the way. We couldn’t share all of the experiences that would make for a great 2.5 hour movie, but what you will be privy to is the wit, grit and the fierceness of her journey and resilience to become the first Pakistani American woman in broadcast news.
**Please note: In the interview for this podcast, Kiran referred incorrectly to a case she covered as one that determined if a defendant would be tried for manslaughter or homicide for the death of a baby delivered prematurely after a drunk driving accident. The defendant, Frank Flores Cuellar, was charged with intoxication manslaughter. The Texas case questioned whether a person can be held criminally liable for harming a child who had not yet been born when the criminal activity occurred.