by Diverse Elders | Aug 14, 2019
by Ling-Mei Wong. This article originally appeared in Sampan Newspaper. To read this article in Chinese, click here. Between art shows and exhibitions, you would never know Wen-ti Tsen is 83 years old. “Being an artist means not following a set pattern of retiring at...
by Diverse Elders | Jul 16, 2019
After the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, many Vietnamese people fled their war-torn country for the United States in search for a better life. Thousands of Vietnamese adults, children, and families crammed onto boats and traveled to the United...
by Elaine Sanchez Wilson | Jun 14, 2019
Born in Santa Ana, CA, to two Muslim refugee survivors of the Cambodian genocide, Hatefas Yop wasn’t aware of her family’s use of public services when she was a young girl. After all, her peers in her elementary school all hailed from the local neighborhood, where...
by Diverse Elders | May 6, 2019
by Jaya Padmanabhan. This article originally appeared on The Bold Italic. “Do you have drumsticks?” my 85-year-old mother asks the cashier at the checkout counter at Madras Groceries in Sunnyvale, California. The woman points to a pile of long, narrow, cylindrical...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 18, 2019
by Rhonda Miller. This article originally appeared on WKU Public Radio. This is part one of a three part series; you can read part one here and read part two here. Feeding Kentucky, a nonprofit with a mission to alleviate hunger across the Bluegrass State, reports...
