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Tinny Widjaja
This interview is with Tinny Widjaja, a Chinese-Indonesian immigrant and political and interfaith activist living in Austin, TX. Tinny talks about growing up Chinese in Indonesia, and the discrimination she and her family faced there, as well as her…
Tags: Activism, Australia, Belonging, Black Lives Matter, Buddhism, California, Catholicism, Chinese-Americans, Community, Family dynamics, Global politics, Immigrants, Indonesia, Indonesian-Americans, Interfaith, Lake Travis Progressives, Language, Murdoch University, Prejudice, Race, Racism, Singapore, TX - Austin, US politics
Lily Trieu
This interview is with Lily Trieu, a first-generation Chinese-American and nonprofit director in Austin, TX. Lily shares her parents’ stories of coming to the US, living as a low-income family, and struggling with assimilation. She talks about her…
Tags: Activism, Asian Texans for Justice, Assimilation, Belonging, Chinese-Americans, COVID-19, Culture, Education, ESL (English as a second language), Family dynamics, First-generation Americans, Immigrant parents, Immigration, Language, Model minorities, Politics, Race, Racism, Refugees, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Alief, TX - Austin, TX - Houston, TX - Sugar Land, Vietnam