Wednesday, February 21, 2024 • 12:15 pm
Klapper Hall 405, The Godwin-Ternbach Museum
or Zoom (link below)
Please join us for a conversation between author Ava Chin (Eating Wildly, Mott Street) and Queens College President Frank Wu. This is a hybrid event, happening live in the Godwin-Ternbach Museum (Klapper Hall 405) or over Zoom, which means you have two ways to tune in for what's sure to be a lively event!
Link to join: http://tinyurl.com/5n78r4v3
BIOS:
Ava Chin is the author of Eating Wildly, winner of the Les Dames d’Escoffier International M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and Saveur. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Institute for the Humanities, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a professor of creative nonfiction at the City University of New York.
Frank H. Wu serves as the eleventh President of Queens College. He was a member of the faculty at Howard University, the nation’s leading historically black college/university (HBCU), for a decade. Frank is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. Prior to his academic career, he held a clerkship with the late U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland and practiced law with the firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He received a BA from the Johns Hopkins University and a JD with honors from the University of Michigan.