Rolling Stone's Asian American 'Agents of Change'

#11
Sri Lankan-British rapper M.I.A.

#13
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's chief game designer who oversaw the development of the Wii.

#24
Noble-prize winning Energy secretary Steven Chu.

#78
Momofuku restaurant owner/chef David Chang.

#95
Sudhir Venkatesh, the Columbia University sociologist who rolled with the Chicago's Black Kings gang for seven years of research.

Check out the complete list at RollingStone.com.

Personally, I think they could have booted Taylor Swift, Andy Samberg, and Gossip Girl producer Josh Schwartz to make room for others. I'm glad they gave a nod to director Paul Thomas Anderson, but what about Ang Lee who's probably the most eclectic director in the US? And was no-nonsense DC school chancellor Michelle Rhee too polarizing to make the cut?

Any other glaring omissions from Rolling Stone's list?

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Sylvie Kim

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Sylvie Kim is a contributing editor at Hyphen. She previously served as Hyphen's blog coeditor with erin Khue Ninh, film editor, and blog columnist.

She writes about gender, race, class and privilege in pop culture and media (fun fun fun!) at www.sylvie-kim.com and at SF Weekly's The Exhibitionist blog. Her work has also appeared on Racialicious and Salon.