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Conference guests, named "Heroine/Hero 2000" honorees, included author Lan Samantha Chang; J.D. Hokoyama, president and executive director of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics; Susan Mollway, a Harvard Law School graduate who is the first Asian Pacific American female judge to serve in federal district court; Professor Gary Okihiro, director of the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University; Benjamin Sun, president and CEO of Community Connect Inc., a New York-based company that runs AsianAvenue.com and film director Renee Tajima-Pena...
...Stop signs are fairly common in the job market, though. In large corporations, very few Asians have reached senior-executive rank. The reason, in part at least, seems to be a kind of cultural Great Wall that blinds management to what Asians expect in the workplace. Says J.D. Hokoyama, president of the national nonprofit organization known as LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian-Pacifics): "In America a worker comes into my office and asks for a promotion. Asians don't do that...
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