Dinner Dumplings with Lisa Lee – Co-founder of ThickDumplingSkin.com

TaiwaneseAmerican.org's Ho Chie Tsai takes a dinner break with Lisa Lee, co-founder along with actress Lynn Chen of the website ThickDumplingSkin.com, to talk about Asian American community activism and her personal story of Taiwanese American identity. Lisa previously served as the publisher of Hyphen Magazine and was also recognized by AngryAsianMan.com as one of 30 influential Asian Americans under the age of 30. In May 2011, she received San Francisco's Asian Pacific American Heritage…

Meet Karin Wang, Civil Rights Advocate and Proud Taiwanese American

TaiwaneseAmerican.org's Margaret Chen speaks with Karin Wang, a life-long civil rights advocate who currently serves as Vice-President of Programs & Communications at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), the nation's largest legal and civil rights organization serving Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. We've followed her work for the past decade and remain impressed with all that she has been able to accomplish. With an excellent track record of leadership, Karin…

Chen Shu-chu “Quietly Doing Good” and Now One of TIME’s 100 Most Influential

PHOTO: HUANG MING-TANG, TAIPEI TIMESThis story has been making the rounds since TIME magazine announced its 2010 list of the world's 100 most influential people, so in case you haven't heard, we thought we'd let you in on the news: Since 1963, Chen Shu-chu has sold vegetables out of a stall in Taitung County's central market in Taiwan. She has managed to donate nearly NT$10 million ($320,000) to various charities and causes. As FocusTaiwan reports, "the 61-year-old Chen Shu-chu said during…