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Welcome
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Multicultural Toolbox
Online
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a second-generation Chinese American from California who now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawaii. She is currently the acting editor for www.IMDiversity.com Asian-American Village, where she writes most frequently on culture, family, arts, and lifestyles topics.
An energetic and engaging speaker, Ms. Wang can address a number of different multicultural parenting, Asian Pacific American identity, and Chinese culture topics, the most popular of which are "Multicultural Toolbox--Strategies for Raising our Children with Culture(s) and Pride" (hence the url), "Becoming Asian American," and "Lunar New Year's Traditions, Stories, and Song." She is also in the process of developing an APA Girl Power workshop for girls aged 6-11.
Ms. Wang is also active in the wider Asian Pacific American community. She is the Outreach Coordinator of the Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan, a former Board member of the Chinese American Society of Ann Arbor, and a future board member of American Citizens for Justice. She is also a member of The United Coalition of Asian and Pacific Islander American Independent Arts, Culture and Media Professionals; Michigan Taiwanese American Association; and Council of Asian Pacific Americans. She has worked in partnership with the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, the University Musical Society, and various Families with Children from China. She is currently a member of the University of Michigan ChinaNOW Theme Year Committee, the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads Committee, and the Ann Arbor Public Schools Strategic Planning Taskforce. In 2006, she organized a town hall meeting for the first official visit to Michigan by the White House Presidential Advisory Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Affairs.
This website accesses and connects Ms. Wang's writing, speaking, multicultural education, and community activism.
Contact Ms. Wang's office now for your school or parents' group! Email multiculturaltoolbox AT gmail DOT com or go to www.IMDiversity.com to read her articles.
This website is still under construction. Please pardon the wierd formatting symbols hanging around in all the wrong places.
copyright Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, 2008
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