Kathy Hsieh

Test scores and “essential” school subjects shouldn’t define a student, inspiration should.

I was a pretty lucky kid. Why? Because I had two parents that showed me the secret to happiness – not in what they said, but in what they did. My dad wanted me to get an MBA so I would make a good living. My mom told me I could follow my heart if I wanted to (and go into theatre), but if I was poor and starving, would I truly be happy? Yet, the story of their lives taught me a very different lesson.

In Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging, Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the rise of Asian fashion bloggers with a micro lens trained on the evolution of global fashion economics.

Director Abby Ginzberg’s new documentary, And Then They Came For Us, serves as both affirmation and remedy to George Santayana’s famous axiom: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”