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Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
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Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a second-generation Chinese American from California who now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawaii. She is currently the acting editor for www.IMDiversity.com Asian-American Village, where she writes most frequently on culture, family, arts, and lifestyles topics. She also writes the syndicated column Adventures in Multicultural Living which appears at AnnArbor.com, AnnArborChronicle.com, Japanese American Citizens League's Pacific Citizen (pacificcitizen.org), Voices of Adoption at RainbowKids.com (voicesofadoption.rainbowkids.com), InCulture Parent magazine (incultureparent.com), IMDiversity.com Multicultural Villages, and is available for your favorite newspaper or magazine. She is also working on two books about Asian Pacific American identity in the midwest and raising our children with cultures and pride

She also team-teaches a course in Asian Pacific American History and the Law at the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Dearborn. She was recently Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice/ Asian American Center for Justice, the landmark nonprofit civil rights advocacy group formed after the beating death of Vincent Chin, and she continues on the Advisory Board. She was nominated for the Michigan Governor's Advisory Council on Asian Pacific American Affairs. She is the Outreach Coordinator for the Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan and works in partnership with several university, city, community, cultural, and arts groups, helping to link these institutions to the community.

She writes and lectures widely on race, diversity, multiculturalism, civil rights, Asian Pacific American history and identity, Chinese cultural topics, and "Raising our Children with Culture(s) and Pride." She is a dynamic and engaging speaker for teacher workshops, parenting seminars, school assemblies, and more.

This website accesses and connects Ms. Wang's writing, speaking, multicultural education, and community activism.