API Sub-Committees
API ERG Sub-Committees
Have an idea for an event or a project? Want to help out? Send an email to our API Steering Committee at api_steering@lbl.gov. We welcome all volunteers.
Culture Subcommittee
Cultural & Social Events/Food/Language
Browse through recipes shared by API ERG members. Please share your favorite recipe too.
Watch Janie Pinterits', a program manager in the IDEA office, How to Make Lumpia video
Data Subcommittee
Member of the Cross-ERG Data Working Group
Madelyn Bello & Laura Wong
Media Subcommittee
Book Club / Movies/ Music Appreciation
Massie Ballon & Lida Gifford, Co-Chairs
UPCOMING EVENT
Check back soon for next book club which will be held in May 2025.
Previous Book Club Selections
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas. “This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at its core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in." - Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Two authors, June Hayward and Athena Liu, were both on their way up in the literary world, but Athena was getting more attention. When Athena unexpectedly dies, her friend steals the manuscript for Athena’s experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. June then creates the persona of Juniper Song, misrepresenting herself as the Asian American author of Athena’s novel.
“Fairest,” said author and artist Meredith Talusan (she/they), is a memoir that “allows me to look at the entirety of my life and understand how I moved through the world in this body over the years.” Fairest is Talusan’s story and her journey from being a “sun child” in the Philippines to a transgender, white-passing, Harvard-educated immigrant and journalist. ** A joint book club selection with the Lambda Alliance ERG.
Crying in H Mart a 2021 memoir by Michelle Zauner, a Korean American who grew up in Oregon and when she was a young adult, used Korean cooking as a way to cope with the grief of losing her mother to cancer.
They Called Us Enemy written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott; illustrated by Harmony Becker. This graphic memoir recounts actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
Talks Subcommittee
Museum Culture Talk/Round Table Discussions
UPCOMING EVENT
Thurs., Dec 5 at 1 pm. Virtual Asian Art Talk. DARSHAN The Act of “Seeing” in Hindu Art. This talk offers a chance to see some of the fabulous depictions of Hindu deities from the Asian Art Museum’s collection. Because Hinduism holds that even representations of deities possess divinity, the act of darshan (viewing an image of a deity) can be profound and auspicious for the believer. From the ten Avatars of Vishnu and the various forms of Shiva to a host of complex female deities, explore the storied pantheon of Hindu gods and goddesses and the powerful possibilities of darshan. Refer to API ERG, DEI or LBNL Events calendar for Zoom link.