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Saveena Dhall
saveena.dhall@yale.edu
Assistant Dean and Director of the Asian-American Cultural Center

Saveena Dhall serves as the Director of the Asian American Cultural Center and as an Assistant Dean of Yale College. Dean Dhall works with a team of Student Coordinators and a Graduate Assistant to manage programs and activities sponsored by the center. As an assistant dean, Dean Dhall also directs the Special Students Program and the Auditing Program. She is also a Freshmen Academic Advisor. Dean Dhall is a member of a number of fellowship and central Dean's Office committees and boards. Prior to coming to Yale in August, 2000, Dean Dhall worked in the Office of Academic and Student Affairs at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design with a special focus on programming for students of color, international students, students with disabilities and women at the School of Design (both students and faculty). She received her master's in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Dean Dhall has a B.A. from Connecticut College with a major in Asian Studies. Dean Dhall's previous experience includes working as a Senior Facilitator with the Inter-Relations Collaborative (IRC), a multicultural education leadership training program, serving as an Admission Officer, and working with youth focused community organizations. Dean Dhall is always interested in meeting with students and can serve as a resource on a variety of issues. Her office is located in SSS 110. Please feel free to email her as well, saveena.dhall@yale.edu.

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Silvia De Castro
silvia.decastro@yale.edu
Administrative Assistant

Silvia C. DeCastro serves as the Sr. Administrative Assistant to the Asian American, Latino and Native American Centers at Yale University. Ms. DeCastro has been working at Yale University since 1983 in similar capacities. She joined the Dean's Office in 1997 becoming the point person for the Cultural Centers. Ms. DeCastro was born in Brazil and was raised in a multicultural environment in Brazil. Her office is located in the Yale College Dean's Office, 110SSS

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debjani.bhaumik@yale.edu
Graduate Assistant

Debjani is a first year Master of Public Health student in the Health Management Program at the School of Public Health. Prior to Yale, she worked as a healthcare consultant for The Lewin Group in Northern Virginia. Debjani grew up in Maryland and graduated from Cornell University. She enjoys dancing, reading and exploring new places.

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Chris Lapinig
christopher.lapinig@yale.edu
Head Coordinator
Born and raised in Queens, New York, Chris is a New Yorker at heart butbears no audible accent besides a tinge of a lisp. He enjoys The FoodNetwork, foreign languages, and bidets in his spare time. He attendedStuyvesant High School, but he has eschewed his math and sciencebackground to pursue his college education in Linguistics and Ethnicity,Race & Migration. He first worked at the AACC during his sophomore yearas the Asian American Studies Coordinator, and he has not left the AACCever since, camping out at the Center for KASAMA and AASA activities.*Shoot Chris an e-mail if you'd like to reserve the AACC for groupactivities. Or if you'd just like to get some Tasti-D with him.

* In true Head Coordinator spirit, Chris would like to note that it isagainst House Rules to sleep overnight at the AACC, as tempting as itmight sound.

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Pamela Shen
pamela.shen@yale.edu
Special Events Co-Coordinator

Pam hails from Miami, Florida but please donÕt cut her out with your scissors and paste her into a Sisqo ÒThong SongÓ music video; she didnÕt pass by bikini-clad women on South Beach on the way to school. In addition to working at the AACC she works at the Yale Daily News and enjoys volunteering. Dou jiang (Chinese soy milk) makes her world go round .

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Julie Yang
julie.yang@yale.edu
Special Events Co-Coordinator
Julie Yang hails from Arlington, TX (Agtown) which is smack dab in the middle of Dallas (D-town) and Fort Worth (Funkytown). She is a Special Events Co-coordinator with Pamela Shen, and they're pouring their hearts and their grades into these events, so it must be worth it to check these out!

She loves the Sabbath, which is all about taking it easy. She particularly enjoys soaking up the sun on a lazy afternoon.

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Leang Chaing
leang.chaing@yale.edu
Freshman Liaison

Leang Chaing is a freshman in Davenport, the irrefutably best college on campus (well in his humble opinion). He hails from Bridgeport, Connecticut, a city only 30 minutes away by car (so close that his parents ask every weekend if they could pick him up to go home). He likes all things cheesyÑcrackers, snacks, and movies. In his spare time he used to watch Food Network religiously until he came to Yale only to be extremely disappointed that he had to pay an extra $60.00 a month to continue his addiction. His lucky charm is a little jade dragon he purchased in China named Chongqing who can fly and turn puppies into rainbows. He has a weird sense of humor. He loves the freshman class: Oh Dime, One Oh, Ten, Oh Ten, whatever you call them, and hopes to have a great year!

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Jennifer Suhr
jennifer.suhr@yale.edu
Asian American Studies Coordinator

Jennifer Suhr is a senior American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migrationmajor born and raised in the great Illinoise...come on, feel it. In addition tobeing the Asian American Studies coordinator at the AACC she is a member of JookSongs, plays the cello, and works at the film studies center. She enjoysarts&crafts, Asian film, musical journeys, ugly things, and general mischief.When she grows up she wants to be like Christopher Doyle, Spike Lee, and WongKar Wai all wrapped up in one.

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Quingan Zhou
quingan.zhou@yale.edu
Historian

I am Quing, and I a freshman in Calhoun College. I am from Los Angeles,California and I am missing wearing shorts and t-shirts in October andthe restof the year. I plan to be a psychology and political science major with apossibility of studio art. Besides being Historian, I am also a representativeon the YCC, a member of Best Buddies, and the Freshman Liasion for InSight. Iam obsessed with Carbon Leaf,peppermint tea, carbs, and post-its. And I hatedots.

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Yvonne Chung
yvonne.chung@yale.edu
Alumni Outreach Coordinator

Yvonne is an Economics and MCDB double major in Stiles. She is from Lexington, MA. She loves cheesy HK movies, cute stuffed animals/stationary, and can never get enough of chocolate.

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Timothy Kau
timothy.kau@yale.edu
Webmaster

Tim is a sophomore in Berkeley College and is happily undecided in his course of study. He is a New Yorker born and raised, and oft misses the "24 hourness" of NYC, especially when being ripped off at Durfee's at 2am. He runs the website you're looking at right (gotcha!), though is currently redesigning it, so please send any comments, suggestions, complaints, and / or monetary gifts his ways. He detests talking in the 3rd person.