Events & Calendars ASA Presents: Helen Zia at Amherst College

Helen Zia is an award-winning journalist, activist and scholar who has written about Asian American communities and their participation in social and political movements. As a second-generation Chinese American, Zia has been outspoken on social justice issues such as human rights, women's rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. Her activism in the landmark 1980s civil rights campaign against anti-Asian American violence is featured in the Academy Award-nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin?. She was also profiled in Bill Moyers' PBS documentary Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. Zia also authored Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, which was a finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

Zia's talk will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.!

This event is sponsored by AAS, Student Activities and the Center for Diversity and Student Leadership.