Model? Minority? Engaging with Asian American Students and Communities

June 24, 2026 @ 12:00PM — 1:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar

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TMA Lunch & Learn Equity Conversation Series

Please make plans to join us Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST) via Zoom for the TMA Lunch & Learn Equity Conversation Series. Our topic will be Model? Minority? Engaging with Asian American Students and Communities, featuring guest speaker Philip Tajitsu Nash, Co-Founder and Lecturer, Asian American Studies Program, University of Maryland. This Series is part of TMA's Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion program.

About Our Guest Speaker:

Phil Tajitsu Nash teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), and serves as Co-President of the Board of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). He previously served as Founding Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), Curator of the Asian Pacific American Program at theSmithsonian Institution’s 2010 Folklife Festival, and columnist for the N.Y. Nichibei and Asian Week newspapers.

Nash has taught law, urban studies, and APA history, art, oral history, and public policy classes at UMCP, Yale, New York University, The City College of New York, and CUNY and Georgetown law schools. He also is affiliated with the University of Maryland Latin American Studies Center, bringing study abroad students to an Indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon. He has done research on Japanese Brazilians and has decades of work with Native Americans in North America and Brazil on human rights, culture, and language issues.


Please contact TMA Associate Director, Dr. Shawntay Stocks at stocks@transformmidatlantic.org if you have any questions.

This webinar will occur synchronously via Zoom and include audio and visual materials. TMA will make a reasonable effort to ensure that all individuals can participate fully in the event. Please contact TMA Associate Director, Dr. Shawntay Stocks to share any accessibility or accommodations you will require.

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