Name: TALK STORIES
Start: 2019-12-10T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2019-12-10T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Japanese American Service Committee

TALK STORIES

An educator-turned artist, storyteller, and creator, Dr. Ada Cheng has utilized storytelling to illustrate structural inequities, raise critical awareness, and build intimate communities. Committed to amplifying and uplifting marginalized voices, she has created numerous storytelling platforms for BIPOC and LGBTQIA community members to tell difficult and vulnerable stories. Because of her artistic and intellectual work, she has recently been named the Educator of the Year by the 7th Congressional District's Multi-Ethnic Task Force and the American Multi-Ethnic Coalition, Inc.She was a tenured professor in sociology at DePaul University from 2001-2016 when she resigned to pursue performance and storytelling. In 2021, she has delivered keynotes for Chicago Cultural Alliance’s Activating Heritage Conference, AAPI Heritage Month at Dominican University, AAPI Heritage Month at Environmental Protection Agency, and Immigrants in Our Midst Conference.Dr. Cheng has worked with numerous community organizations, including Chinese American Museum of Chicago, National Cambodian Heritage Museum, Japanese American Service Committee, i2i: Invisible to Invincible Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago, and Center on Halsted. Her collaborative projects with the National Cambodian Heritage Museum have received Asian Giving Circle grants three years in a row since 2019.Dr. Cheng has been a speaker for Illinois Humanities Speakers Bureau since 2019. She was named Educator of the Year in 2021. She was a visiting associate professor with the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University in 2022. She is named 2023 Lund-Gill Chair at Dominican University.Her interests encompass academia, storytelling/performance, and advocacy.Check out her performance website: www.renegadeadacheng.com

Ada Cheng, Ph.D.

An Asian American/Asian Diaspora Storytelling Show

Japanese American Service Committee

Talk Stories will return to Japanese American Service Committee on Tuesday December 10 at 7:30pm. 
This show highlights storytellers of Asian descent in different genres, including personal narrative, music, dance, and improv theater. We have a great lineup that includes: 
Music: Alec Phan
Storytellers: 
Christian Aldana
Chloe Chen
Khemarey Khoeun
Danbee Kim
Mia Park
Viveka-Ray-Mazumder
Improv: Stir Friday Night
You don&#x27;t want to miss this show. Join us in December to help us celebrate another wonderful year for Talk Stories in storytelling and community building. 
Talk Stories is produced and hosted by Ada Cheng and Randy Kim.

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