{"id":269,"date":"2010-05-06T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ta100people.wpengine.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T07:56:06","slug":"amy-liao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/amy-liao\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Liao &#8211; Dentist and Servant to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>I love that I can move to a new city and find instant  connections on  Taiwanese association directories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-270\" title=\"liao.amy1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/liao.amy1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"liao.amy1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/liao.amy1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/liao.amy1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><strong>Who are you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am aspiring to be multilingual, as well as a mentor, a musician, and a missionary. My attitude, worldview and life goals are a product of my eccentric family, Canadian roots, mid-western living, Sunday school, sports injuries, hours and hours of piano lessons, study\/service abroad experiences in five continents, Taiwanese American conferences, and the amazing people I&#8217;ve met along the journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Currently I work as a dentist at Esperanza Health Center, a faith-based non-profit organization in the Latino neighbourhood of inner city Philadelphia. My co-workers and patients are mainly from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It&#8217;s great identifying with them about islander culture and immigrant life. We also talk about family, spirituality, health, struggles, and why it is important to floss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you proud to be of Taiwanese heritage?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I am a Canadian-born, U.S.-naturalized Taiwanese North American. I love that I grew up surrounded by lots of Taiwanese students, professors, activists and travelers staying at our house for dinner or for the night. I love that Taiwanese people have organizations for anything and everything, and that we get together all over the world. I love that I can move to a new city and find instant connections on Taiwanese association directories. I love that Taiwanese American retirees will attend a heavy metal rock concert simply because a band member is Taiwanese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the future of Taiwanese America look like to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I hope we can continue to be a loving, hospitable, influential, and creative community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any  additional information you would like to share? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Sometimes I like to sew costumes.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing I ever ate in Taiwan was a nice fatty slab of freshly caught sah-bah-hee (milkfish?) pan fried and lightly salted by my late grandmother.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-271\" title=\"liao.amy3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/liao.amy3-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"liao.amy3\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/liao.amy3-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/liao.amy3.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA Who are you? I am aspiring to be multilingual, as well as a mentor, a musician, and a missionary. My attitude, worldview and life goals are a product of my eccentric family, Canadian roots, mid-western living, Sunday school, sports injuries, hours and hours of piano lessons, study\/service abroad experiences in five continents, Taiwanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}