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Restoring Family Bonds through Storytelling and Vulnerability: A Film Screening and Discussion

Join the Cornell Asian Alumni Association and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business as we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in partnership with Bamboo Shoots Productions. We will be presenting a discussion panel exploring family estrangement and reconciliation, intergenerational family relationship and caregiving, through the act of authentic storytelling and vulnerable conversations about loss, grief, and parent-child relationship.

Speakers featured are Director/Producer of Journey of a Thousand Miles, Dr. Zhu Shen 沈竹 (Cornell Johnson MBA ‘98), and Daphne Kwok, Vice President, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, AAPI Audience Strategy at AARP. The discussion will be moderated by Leezel Tanglao of the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA).

We invite alumni to watch the scenes from the documentary on their own time before the event and come hear from the filmmaker about the experience of growing with the film-making process, available to stream from May 18th to May 30th, here.

For more information on the event and to register, click here.