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Welcome to my blog!
This is the space where I share professional insights, personal stories, creative writing, and day-to-day reflections. My writing chronicles my living experiences and acts as a place where I can personally offer you professional expertise and best practice ideas.
I hope you will join my journey and stay in touch!
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According to a recent study by Ascend, only 1.5% of executives in the Fortune 500 are Asian, and only 2.8% of corporate board seats are held by Asian Americans. This […]
Grateful to speak during the Crisis Jam’s Lived Lens segment around AANHPI issues and the importance of understanding of language yesterday. Catch the full session on YouTube (I speak around […]
Yesterday, I posted about how when we are profiting from using another person’s lived experience story, we should be compensating those individuals too. A lot of unfollows ensued. I would […]
Lived Experience work deserves more than being limited to a center-stage speaking engagement that only happens once a year. This is an invitation, it is not inclusion. This is speaking. […]
Not everyone understands isolating behaviors. I can say this from experience. It isn’t that we want to not care about anyone else, but sometimes we can’t even care about ourselves. […]
You have a right to agency. You can make the decisions about your health. You can take actions to maintain or improve it. You have a right to access information, […]
Transitioning into a new professional role can be both exciting and challenging. For me, it has been an opportunity to further meaningful work in suicide prevention as the Director of […]
What can I say or add that could encompass what the world has lost? Nothing… All that can be said is that you were one of my dearest friends, one […]
Suicide prevention is a critical issue that requires collaboration and effort from different community sectors. To address one underserved sector, I have been working with jails and detention centers to […]
I’m a returning presenter at the Safe Schools Conference, discussing suicide prevention and the need to do more in schools. I’m pictured here with Michael Jenkins who does so much […]
I am honored and grateful to have been selected as one of the 2022 Future 50 by Arkansas Money & Politics. It’s a great feeling to be recognized among the […]
I’m so proud of the hard work of our Project 2025 Corrections team. Pictured Melissa J. Zielinski, Ph.D., Katy Allison, Ph.D., MPH, UAMS, Susie Reece. We have been working in […]