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January 29, 2024

Join us on Monday, January 29, 2024 from 3:30-5:00 PM in Hyde Hall for a Q&A with memoirist and activist Curtis Chin. Co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. He will read from and discuss his memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” (Little Brown 2023).