{"id":406,"date":"2010-05-11T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ta100people.wpengine.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-05-10T22:56:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T05:56:42","slug":"gee-wey-yue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/gee-wey-yue\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee-Wey Yue – Youth Mentor and Young Professional Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin, TX<\/p>\n

As an underrepresented and often misunderstood community, I am proud to break stereotypes and be a banner bearer for my Taiwanese heritage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"yue.geewey2\"Who are you? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I am Gee-Wey Yue, a 22-year old recent college graduate in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 My passion for youth development started when I attended Chinese Youth Camp in Houston, Texas.\u00a0 I was convinced that I would become involved like the aunties and uncles helping out at the camp.\u00a0 When I attended The University of Texas at Austin, I found an opportunity to do community development work through the Vietnamese Students Association, working both locally and nationally.\u00a0 With the perspective I have gained on cultural parallels and common types of experiences shared by the Vietnamese and Taiwanese, I am now taking the next step to bring my own cultural experience full circle.<\/p>\n

What do you do? <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I like the idea of helping people help themselves and connecting people to one another.\u00a0 Recently, I worked with student organization leaders at The University of Texas at Austin to form an Asian American umbrella organization.\u00a0 I also have helped lead workshops in regional conferences like APAEC and the iTASA 2010 Midwest Conference.\u00a0 I am developing a nonprofit I co-founded that focuses on bringing together and engaging Asian American alumni from The University of Texas at Austin.\u00a0 In the future, I will focus more on working with high school and college students to provide leadership opportunities and develop leadership skills.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Why are you proud to be of Taiwanese heritage? <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I was born and raised in a small town in Texas with a tight-knit Taiwanese community.\u00a0 Since there were so few Taiwanese families, I was naturally proud to represent my Taiwanese heritage.\u00a0 I am blessed that my loving parents spent the time to teach me to be fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and I am proud that I can speak to my grandparents in my native tongue.\u00a0 I hope I can pass on the same gift to my children one day so they can speak with my parents.\u00a0 As an underrepresented and often misunderstood community, I am proud to break stereotypes and be a banner bearer for my Taiwanese heritage.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>What does the future of Taiwanese America look like to you?
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<\/strong>I believe Taiwanese America will gain a more unique identity in the future than currently, and the different cultural pathways taken in recent years by China and Taiwan will lead more people to differentiate between the two.\u00a0 I foresee more second generation Taiwanese yearning to reconnect with their heritage and visiting Taiwan for self-discovery.\u00a0 I hope that there will be more college-level courses offered exploring the history of Taiwan and the journey of Taiwanese immigration to America.\u00a0 I also hope more leaders of Taiwanese America will join together and be more unified.<\/p>\n

Any additional information you would like to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>My grandmother’s cooking is my favorite Taiwanese food, hands down.\u00a0 www.asiantexasexes.org<\/a> is the site of the Texas Exes Asian Alumni Network nonprofit that I helped co-found.\u00a0 I like to think I defy stereotypes, like a super-hero figure with “I’m not what you think” powers.<\/p>\n

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Austin, TX Who are you? I am Gee-Wey Yue, a 22-year old recent college graduate in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 My passion for youth development started when I attended Chinese Youth Camp in Houston, Texas.\u00a0 I was convinced that I would become involved like the aunties and uncles helping out at the camp.\u00a0 When I attended The […]<\/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-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}