Talk Story

This program uses storytelling to educate and raise awareness of the APA history and experience. Every month in DC’s Chinatown, members of the APA community gather to share and hear our community’s history and stories of family, friends, and neighbors.

Since April 2012, OCA-DC, together with 1882 Foundation, have hosted many Talk Story events featuring prominent APA leaders such as Dr. Mae Ngai, an American historian and a Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University; John Jung, a noted author and historian of Asian American Life, Corky Lee; the “undisputed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate”; and Marine Major Kurt Lee, hero of the Korean War.