Race and Body Image: Asian Women


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Asian women share personal stories about the effects of not seeing many Asian role models in popular culture and why they believe the stereotypical images still persist and are partly accepted in society. They also discuss the increasing popularity of cosmetic surgery among Asians (recorded August 2008).

Asian American Panelists

Susan Chan

Susan Chan
Susan Chan has dressed for success for most of her career in the corporate world, most recently as the executive assistant to the top national and foreign editors at the Chicago Tribune . She was the liaison between editors and correspondents all over the world, from Illinois to Iraq. With a lifelong passion for the apparel and fashion industries, she recently began her own consulting business, working with clients on style and body image, as well as training job-seekers on how to dress for job interviews.

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Laura Gannarelli

Laura Gannarelli
Laura Gannarelli is a Korean adoptee who came to the United States at the age of nine and grew up in a town of 1,200 people in northern Minnesota. She works as creative manager for the Midwest division of The Nature Conservancy, a global non-profit organization that works to preserve the environment. Laura started the art project "sacred space: adoption memory boxes" to provide other adoptees tools to cope with being a foreign adoptee.

 

Betty Uchima

Betty Uchima
Betty Uchima enjoys working as an initiatives team specialist at Harris Private Bank in downtown Chicago. Before that, she spent more than 26 years in marketing and sales at Showtime Networks. She lives with her husband and their two teenaged daughters near the South Side of Chicago. Betty's hobbies include theater, movies, reading, billiards, and mahjong. A former Miss Chinatown, she is constantly challenged to stay fit and healthy.

 

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