Wong says her cultural heritage and background -- as well as the
fact that she is a woman -- re-animates a continuing debate in America
about power and equal opportunity. The debate is being used by conservatives to pummel those from the historic margins of American life -- women, and non-white ethnic minorities. Read Wong's full column.
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Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.
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