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What’s your favorite Asian American food? And how does it tie to a deeper understanding of culture, family, and place?

Join us this Sunday, November 20 to find out!

After 2 years, we're excited to announce the completion of an Asian American foodways educational guide developed and co-designed by Maum's founding director, Terry K Park, Ph.D., to accompany Grace Lee & Eurie Chung's PBS documentary film Off the Menu: Asian America!

Join us for a FREE virtual launch event for the guide. It will feature a screening of Off the Menu; a brief overview of the guide; a fun demo of one of the modules; and a Q&A.

RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/offthemenu-maum (link in bio!)

Calling all educators, parents, and DEAI workers and advocates!

After 2 years, we're excited to announce the completion of an Asian American foodways educational guide developed and co-designed by Maum's founding director, Terry K Park, Ph.D., to accompany Grace Lee & Eurie Chung's PBS documentary film Off the Menu: Asian America!

Join us for a FREE virtual launch event for the guide. It will feature a screening of Off the Menu; a brief overview of the guide; a fun demo of one of the modules; and a Q&A. Joining us for the Q&A will be a special guest from the film -- Gary Chiu of Houston's Banyan Foods Co!

Please join us on November 20, bring your favorite Asian American food to eat, and spread the word!

RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/offthemenu-maum (link in bio!)

Calling all educators, parents, and DEAI workers and advocates! Join Dr. Terry K Park of Maum Consulting for a free screening of Grace Lee’s PBS documentary Off the Menu: Asian America (2015) and the launch of an accompanying Asian American foodways educational guide developed by Dr. Park.

Participants are invited to watch the free screening of the film (1hr), engage in a brief module from the Asian American foodways guide, and ask any and all questions in the following Q&A.

Off the Menu: Asian America is a 2015 feature documentary and one-hour PBS primetime special directed by award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee (American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs), edited by Eurie Chung of Flashcuts, and co-produced by the Center for Asian American Media and KQED, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The guide is presented by LEAP with funding provided by 2020 Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) Leadership Awards Celebration Sponsors. Additional funding from LEAP Annual Contributors made this work possible.

RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/offthemenu-maum

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We're thrilled to partner with UConn's Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, the India Cultural Center, and the Greenwich Historical Society to facilitate a groundbreaking South Asian American storytelling project. The oral history-based project is in support of Connecticut's first-in-the-nation state-funded mandate to teach Asian American and Pacific Islander history in public schools at all levels.

Click on the link below to learn more and how we can support your narrative change projects.
https://www.maumliberation.com/blog/my-story-our-future-south-asian-american-voices-of-connecticut

Take a listen to Dr. Jill Wener's podcast episode, featuring Maum's very own Dr. Terry Park!⁠
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What are the culture, challenges, and contributions of Asian Americans? Why is the model minority myth a tool of anti-blackness?

Listen here: https://anchor.fm/drjillwenermd/episodes/Episode-62-Terry-Park-PhD-e1mra9f
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Dr. Jill Wener is a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner. In this podcast series, she interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism.

We're excited to announce a new member of the Maum team!

Callie Wen is currently an undergraduate junior at the University of Maryland, majoring in Finance and pursuing minors in Asian American Studies and Law & Society. Maum's fouding director, Dr. Terry Park, had the honor of teaching Callie in several classes in the Asian American Studies Program (AAST) - UMD, and now he's grateful to have her help with Maum's social media.

Check out her blog post to learn more about Callie, why she joined Maum, and what she has learned so far as an Asian American Studies minor.

Introducing Maum’s New Social Media Associate: Callie Wen — Maum Consulting Maum’s new social media associate, Callie Wen!

Feel like you need a better understanding of how racism operates? As part of an anti-Asian violence curriculum project designed by for , this month’s workshop, Roots of Racism, is tonight(6/30) 7-8:30pm EST! Facilitated by Hamkae’s Special Projects Coordinator Jade Lee, we’ll explore how racism permeates our lives + communities via the interpersonal, internalized, & institutional, and discuss how to dismantle all 3 forms. RSVP .ly/gtw22

We've started a blog on our website at maumliberation.com. Maum's Founding Director, Terry K Park, Ph.D., just posted his second entry. It's about the below photo of his Mom in the very first house he ever lived in (just for a few months after he was born), in Irvine, Orange County, California.

https://www.maumliberation.com/blog/on-my-mom-fermenting-community-and-unsettling-asian-american-history

"Your presentation was undoubtedly enlightening and thought-provoking on so many levels – I learned so much about the long arc of U.S. and Asian American history. The work you do is imperative, and I hope that both Asian people and people in the U.S. will see the legacy of U.S. imperialism and militarism for what it was and continues to be." 

- Kay, Associate Editor, 

If you want to bring us to your company/organization/school/etc, check out our new website at maumliberation.com.

             
                       

Hamkae Center (formerly known as NAKASEC Virginia) organizes Asian Americans to achieve social, economic, and racial justice in Virginia.

As Hamkae's Project Design + Curriculum Development Consultant, it's been an honor for us to co-create a mission-aligned, discussion-based, and arts-enhanced curriculum to raise awareness of the impacts of racism on Asian Americans in Virginia. This is part of a larger effort to launch a violence prevention project to mitigate racially-motivated discrimination, harassment, and violence towards Asian Americans. Hamkae’s Special Projects Coordinator Jade Lee helped design and develop the curriculum and will deliver all eight monthly workshops, virtually and in-person.

The inaugural workshop will invite participants to dive into the complexities of their Virginia-based Asian American identities and share stories from their diverse, lived experiences. It’s also part of a series of events hosted by Hamkae for .

Please spread the word to anyone in Virginia interested in taking the workshops. And look out for seven more workshops in the coming months!

Reading Grace M. Cho’s memoir on the Korean War, race, and food. Published by

After many months, and just in time for APA Heritage Month, we're proud to announce Maum's new website!

Big thanks to our marketing circle member, Philip Kim, for his website design skills, and Anna Yu Photography for her bold photographs in Oakland's Chinatown.

Much like Maum, the website is still evolving, so stay tuned for improvements and updates. Please share with anyone who might be interested in our services!

Maum Consulting Harnessing the transformative wisdom of anti-racist ancestors, social justice movements, and academic fields, Maum Consulting helps our clients unlearn, heal, and reconnect in order to build a just, joyful, and regenerative world. Learn More Our Offerings Storytelling Asian American Studies Courses....

Maum Consulting updated their website address.

This Friday will be the 30th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising/Unrest/Riots/Sa-I-Gu.

To commemorate the anniversary, we'll be facilitating another screening and (longer) discussion of Grace Lee and Eurie Chung's short documentary K-Town '92: Reporters (distributed by GOOD DOCS for LEAP - Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/Ktown92Convo

We'll also be launching our new website that day!

As anti-Asian violence continues to rise, so does understandable fear, anger, and confusion. To make sense of such feelings and channel them towards the cause of racial justice for *all* oppressed communities--especially those most impacted--historical contexts matter. Re-imagining systems, institutions, and practices that avoid a scarcity model but instead, yearn for regenerative plentitude matter. Questions, rather than answers, matter. Healing, rather than further harm, matters.

As a new Asian American Studies-based educational social enterprise, Maum offers more than twenty years of doctorally-trained, community-engaged, and social justice-oriented expertise and experiences to hold space for such important conversations. With approaching, we're here to help.

The three tigers are inspired by the stacking stones, or cairns, used by hikers to mark their routes and help others choose the right path. In this upcoming Year of the Tiger—characterized by boldness, drive, and rapid changes—we here at Maum hope you will find the necessary bearings for new beginnings, healing, and growth.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Artist credit: Charlotte Mui / https://www.bananarolls.com/

The Town is where, for the first time, I felt like I truly belonged.

So it's fitting that I returned to Oakland--and specifically Chinatown--for my photoshoot for Maum's upcoming website. While walking around with my friend/photographer Anna Wu, we marveled at the many beautiful, post-pandemic murals. The images not only spoke of anti-Asian hate, but more importantly, of communal resilience, ancestral wisdom, cross-racial solidarity, and healing justice, all of which mirrors my own moral compass. The narrative tapestry gracing the walls of a beloved ethnic enclave reminded me of how stories can help us re-imagine what it can mean, and should mean, to be safe, healthy, and joyful.

For even in a world on fire, there's also regenerative abundance in its embers and ashes.

Big thanks to Anna of Anna Wu Photography / for her incredible work. Click on the following link for a few more preview shots, mural artist credits, and Anna's website: http://annawu.com/blog/2022/01/terry/

We appreciated the warm, receptive response to our interactive talk for Sisense's AAPIs & Allies Speaker Series.

Entitled "From Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling to Expanding the Bamboo Floor: Modeling a Politics of Downward Spaciousness," our talk identifies the very real problem of the "bamboo ceiling" that deprives Asian Americans, particularly those of East Asian descent, from promotion to executive/leadership positions in the corporate workplace. But just as importantly (if not more so), we challenge *how* people (sometimes) talk about the bamboo ceiling that inadvertently reinforces the very that gives the ceiling its shape.

Instead of only "looking up"--towards individual understandings of advancement & success, and possible absorption of harmful and self-destructive values of what it means to be a leader--we advocate a politics of looking down: towards hyper-invisibilized yet vibrant Asian American communities, particularly Southeast Asian, working-class, immigrant & refugee, formerly incarcerated, undocumented, and q***r & trans. Not just to understand the particular ceilings they face that fall outside the frames of the model minority myth and corporate America; and not to act as condescending saviors that erases their agency; but to see how many of their grassroots organizations and fierce organizers offer a different, more humane, and we argue, more idea of what it means to break ceilings and lead--by centering , , , and . In a sense, these values offer a spacious, & welcoming "bamboo floor" that can hold our unique & range of shoes, sandals, socks & wheelchairs. It's a model that can and should re-engineer the foundations of corporate America and beyond.

If you'd like to invite us to give our talk to your ERG/organization/nonprofit/school/etc, including stories from the struggles and triumphs of my immigrant parents & the Asian American grassroots organizations who have helped solidify my idea of the , let us know!

Maum's founder & CEO, Terry K Park, is excited to attend his first (virtual) frank! He looks forward to connecting with and learning from other narrative strategists and storytellers.

frank 2022. A gathering for social change communicators. frank 2022. February 23-24. Welcome to frank, the foremost gathering for people using communications to change the world.

Way to go Jersey!

New Jersey poised to become second state to require teaching Asian American history A bill that would require public schools to teach Asian American history has been approved by the New Jersey Legislature.

Work with us to develop anti-racism programming around the anti-Asian violence curriculum we're designing for Hamkae Center (formerly known as NAKASEC Virginia)!

Spread the word to your Virginia-based comrades!

OPEN: Special Projects Coordinator (P/T) The Special Projects Coordinator will develop anti-racism programming that includes organizing critical conversations about anti-Asian violence and driving change through arts and cultural practices in Virginia. At a time when “anti-Asian hate” is in the spotlight, the Special Projects Coordinat...

We're excited to announce our first client -- NAKASEC Virginia!

As their Project Design + Curriculum Development Consultant, we will work with NAKASEC Virginia to raise awareness of the impacts of racism on Asian Americans in Virginia. This is part of a larger effort to launch a violence prevention project to mitigate racially-motivated discrimination, harassment, and violence towards Asian Americans.

While Maum's founder/CEO/lead consultant, Dr. Terry K Park, was a teaching-focused professor in the Asian American Studies Program (AAST) - UMD--not too far from NAKASEC Virginia's office--he admired the bold, transformative way in which they developed "holistic programs and campaigns that are guided by community members, meets immediate needs while building Asian American community power to make long-term systemic changes that address the root causes of these needs, and centers human connections." They believe--as Maum does--"that Asian Americans, low-income folks, working class people, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and other targeted people must work together in order to have a more just and equitable Virginia for all." We are deeply honored to contribute to such important work.

We can't think of a more suitable first client than NAKASEC Virginia. We look forward to building with them and their communities. We look forward to doing similar work with other clients as well.

NAKASEC Virginia NAKASEC VA develops holistic programs and campaigns that are guided by community members, meets immediate needs while building Asian American community power to make long-term systemic changes that address the root causes of these needs, and centers human connections. We believe that Asian Americans...

We're happy to announce that Maum's Founder & CEO, Dr. Terry K Park, was just selected to be a Fellow for the New Leaders Council's 2022 Institute.

NLC's "Institute creates space for intensive leadership development and meaningful connection with other changemakers across issues, industries, and identities."

Dr. Park is thankful to Philip Kim for nominating him, excited to connect with his fellowship cohort in the New Leaders Council - Columbus chapter, and eager to sharpen his current leadership skills and gain new ones to make Maum's impact that much more effective for the clients and communities it will serve.

The NLC Institute - New Leaders Council NLC develops, connects, and uplifts inclusive, cross-sector leaders who transform our country through social and political change rooted in equity.

As a public speaker, trained actor, and former teaching-focused professor, I thought I was a pretty good storyteller.

But after taking Sandy Dang's Public Narrative class through Inspire Leadership School, not only did I realize how I could improve as a storyteller, but more importantly, I learned the power of a well-structured, concise story to move people, practices, and policies.

I can't thank Sandy enough for holding space in a way where we learned not just from her, but also from each other--each other's unique backgrounds, challenges, and triumphs. I feel so much more connected to my journey and more confident to convey it to maum's audiences.

I can't recommend Sandy's class enough!

Maum Consulting updated their business hours.