Generasian Magazine, New York University’s only Asian American interest magazine is hosting

Generasian Magazine, New York University’s only Asian American interest magazine is hosting their Launch Event, tonight, to celebrate the release of their Spring 2012 issue. Members of NYU’s Asian/Asian American community are invited to attend. The event will also incorporate a guest speaker panel, which our very own Hillary Latos will be a member of.

The panelists include:
Kai Ma is the managing editor at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and editor of Open City: Mapping Urban Asian America and OurChinatown.org. She is the former editor-in-chief of KoreAm, one of the longest-running indie magazines serving the Asian American community. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Nerve, The Daily Beast, Angeleno magazine, SanFrancisco Chronicle, and Newsday. In 2009, she was awarded the national New America Media Award for “Best In-Depth and Investigative Reporting” for her feature story on California’s gay marriage ban (Prop 8) and the Korean American vote. She is also the author of Love Lost on the 405, a short film that premiered in “RETHINK LA: Perspectives on a Future City,” a 2011 exhibit at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles.

Hillary Latos has been a journalist for AsianceMagazine.com since its conception at NYU Stern in 2005. Hillary covers fashion, travel, pop culture, celebrities, art, design, New York nightlife, latest trends and must visit destinations for Asiance. Hillary has seen the transition of Asian Americans in media and roles of journalists since the emergence of the internet, yet Asian Americans are still vastly underrepresented in the United States media. Although American media has made huge progressions within the last few decades there is still much work to be done. Hillary hopes to inspire and change that. She holds an MBA from the University of Southern California in Marketing and a BS in Marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Born and raised in San Francisco, she currently resides in New York City.

Since graduating from New York University with a journalism degree in 1998, Donnie Kwak has risen the editorial ranks at magazines like Entertainment Weekly, Vibe and Complex. He is currently a senior editor at ESPN The Magazine in Bristol, Connecticut, where he covers the sports of hockey and soccer.

Lakshmi Gandhi is a freelance journalist and writer based in New York City. She began blogging in 2007 while taking an Intro to Interactive Reporting class at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and has been posting regularly ever since. In 2010, Lakshmi became a contributing blogger at Sepia Mutiny, the largest South Asian American blog in the country. Notable posts include interviews with the actor Kal Penn and former American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar. Her work has also appeared on the Huffington Post, CNN.com, SAJAforum.org, Time.com, Newsweek.com, Gawker.tv and MTV Desi. She received her BA in history from Bryn Mawr College and is a longtime member of the South Asian Journalists Association.

Nina Fallenbaum is the Food and Agriculture Editor at Hyphen magazine, as well as a Food and Community Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Her policy interests include local food systems as economic development, urban agriculture, nutritional access for low-income communities, Asian American environmentalism, and school breakfast and lunch programs. She has lived abroad for four years, during which she worked for various social venture entrepreneur firms and environmental groups. She also volunteers with two groups in California: Japanese American Women Alumnae of UC Berkeley (a scholarship and fraternal organization) and Tule Lake Committee (an historic preservation and education group).

Ji Hyun Lee is a lifestyle reporter with a beat on women’s issues and Asian American issues. She’s written for Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and served time as a news and advice editor at Forbes.com where her claim to fame happened with the mega list article called Most Famous Bondmobiles which won VNU’s Branded Entertainment Award. She is also a playwright with more than 15 years of writing what else, Asian-American themed plays! Her play, The Superfriends of Flushing, Queens has been presented in such respectable venues as The Joseph Papp Public Theater, Asian American Theater Co and Second Generations Prods. You can follow her on Twitter @JiHyun42.

Just some of the topics they’ve covered in Generasian’s upcoming issue include: NYU street fashion, the concept of international adoption, yoga, Chinese dating shows, a photo diary of China and of course, Linsanity. The staff has worked tirelessly for this upcoming issue to provide a diverse insight into the Asian community at NYU and beyond. Recently, the group has been awarded with the NYU President’s Service Award for their efforts.

For more information on the launch party and to attend, click here.