First Meeting for AAHM

I along with Kenji Morimoto will be coordinating Asian/Asian American History Month this coming November at Brown. Yesterday morning we met at Au Bon Pain for a jump start to this seven month process. Here are some of my notes from the meeting:

collbatoration with South and Southeast Asian Heritage Week programmers
an opening convocation speaker who is South or Southeast Asian (Kenji's dream is Harold and Kumar)
a way to expose students to the month outside of events (my personal pet project is a 1001 paper crane folding activity in the dining halls)
create a strong online presence (we are currently on Facebook and Twitter, and I hope to update this blog as well)
have a total kick-ass steering committee by building a strong sense of community

I'm getting really excited about working on AAHM and can't wait to speak to students next week at the PAC ice cream social!