She swam for the Monterey Park Manta Rays and Mark Keppel High School swim teams.

They married and a year later my brother Benny was born on Jan.Glad for Ko that the start-up was extremely successful!Bill Yee is a retired Alhambra High School history teacher.

communities such as Little Saigon in Orange County emerged.they adapted and lived the American Dream.The boat people were part of one of largest mass migrations in history.

In 1949 the communists took over China as the ruling government.My brother Benny and my mother survived World War II.

My job was to teach these refugees English and find them entry-level manufacturing or office jobs.

He purchased the identity of a man named Chen Teung Yee.events and anthologies for people of color.

Over 500 writers and artists have participated in Write Now!s programs through the San Francisco Public Library.Her other books include In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment.

an ongoing street outreach project; and her in-progress family saga The Tiger and the Cliff (see it on YouTube here: www.Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) form 60% of the San Francisco Bay Areas population.