Keynote Panel: "Expanding Our Horizons: The Next Decade in AAPI Psychology" - Yen Le Espiritu, is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UCSD. Her research has sought to challenge the homogeneous descriptions of communities of color and the narrowness of mutually exclusive binaries by attending to generational, ethnic, class, and gender variations within constructed racial categories.
- Cecilia Chung is the former Deputy Director of the Transgender Law Center. She is an immigrant from Hong Kong and has been a San Francisco resident since 1985. In 2001, she joined the Board of Directors of the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center where she once received direct services.
- Huma Ahmed-Ghosh is a Professor in the department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. Her research focuses on women in Afghanistan, Muslim immigrant women to the USA, and Islam and feminism. She has also published articles on gendered ageing in India, widowhood, domestic violence and women's representations in beauty pageants in India.
- Discussant: Gordan Nagayama Hall, AAPA President. He will be facilitating a dialogue amongst the keynote panelists in order to more fully explore the connections between the past, present, and future in AAPI counseling and psychology.
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