Southeast Asian Talk (SEAT)
by Southeast Asian Talk (SEAT)
Our mission sits at the intersection of identity, tradition, and weaving our multifaceted experience to the American culture. SEAT amplifies the voices of third culture kids through mixed-media storytelling that features Southeast Asian American (SEAA) youth, women and LGBTQ+ communities to reclaim our SEAT. Rewriting our brave new endings.Read or hear more stories at www.seatthirdculture.com
Episodes
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Sara Cantos Kline, Aspiring Food Truck Entrepreneur on Rediscovering Her Filipino Identity
Sara Cantos Kline is an international development professional with a Masters in Development Management born in California and raised as a nomad. Based in Washington, DC. She has a vision to one day open a food truck and a community kitchen to teach children from underserved communities how to…
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Christy Innouvong-Thornton on Advocacy & Giving Back to the SEAA Community
Christy Innouvong-Thornton (she/her/hers) is a first-generation Lao-American and was born and raised in Charlotte, NC. She's the daughter of refugee immigrants from Luang Prabang, and Savannakhet, Laos and Nongkhai, Thailand. She is the Founder of Tuk Tuk Box, a specialty food retailer offering...
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Armand Cuevas, Queer Filipino DC High School Math Teacher, on Representation & Social Justice
Armand Cuevas is a DC Public School teacher. He teaches ninth grade Algebra 1 and General Education. He was born and raised in the suburbs of Southern California. His teaching journey began overseas as a public school teacher through the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. He then went on…
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Kim Sandara on Being a Visual Artist & a Bi/Queer Lao/Vietnamese Woman
Kim (she/they) is a second-generation Bisexual & Queer Lao/Vietnamese American. She is a visual artist, born and raised in Falls Church, VA. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY producing art and curating exhibits with a current focus on exposing the history of the Secret War and the bombs in Laos.…
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Faye Saechao on Being Raised by Refugee Parents and Healing through Therapy & Creativity
Faye is a second-generation Iu-Mien American raised by refugee parents and the fourth of six children, born and raised in Richmond, CA. She majored in Public and Environment Health at UC Berkeley and studied Social Justice at the California Institute of Integral studies. She is currently based in...
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Chanel Adikuono, an Indonesian-American Advocate for Gender Equality & Girls Education on Healing
Chanel is an International Relations professional with a Masters of Science in International Development Management. She studied Social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an Indonesian immigrant and was raised in the sub rural parts of Jakarta and suburbs of Los Angeles.…
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Laura (Paj Zoo) Vu on Community Organizing, Mental Health & Energy Healing
Laura is a second-generation Hmong American raised by refugee parents who immigrated to the US after the Secret War in Laos. She was raised in Fresno, CA but is currently based in Sacramento, CA. She is the co-founder and Board Chair of Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) and currently a Project...
About this show
Our mission sits at the intersection of identity, tradition, and weaving our multifaceted experience to the American culture. SEAT amplifies the voices of third culture kids through mixed-media storytelling that features Southeast Asian American (SEAA) youth, women and LGBTQ+ communities to reclaim our SEAT. Rewriting our brave new endings.Read or hear more stories at www.seatthirdculture.com
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