Growing up in a small town Pennsylvania, Alexis Rydbom was bullied and faced racial discrimination because she is a biracial.
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The President & CEO of FOX International Channels speaks with Jimmy about achieving career success as an immigrant and a racial minority. Hernan shares career advice about challenges and opportunities of being different, and the value he found in taking accent reduction classes to improve his English-speaking skills.
Twenty years ago, I graduated law school and entered the corporate legal world as an associate at a major law firm. Like many young professionals, I thought that career success required me to fit some mold of what my employer and industry wants. In my young mind, the legal world…
February 2015 will go down in history as a great month for Asian Americans in entertainment. For the first time in 20 years, U.S. network television has a sitcom led by an Asian American cast as ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat premiered to strong ratings and good reviews. Days later,…
After the uproar over the lack of diversity in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, it’s good to know there is one upcoming television special that will showcase diverse faces: the Miss Universe pageant. I’m honored to serve (for the third time!) as a preliminary judge for Miss Universe – with…
Why aren’t there more Asians on television? Jimmy Nguyen interviews actress/writer and media diversity advocate Erin Quill (Avenue Q; The Mikado Project) about why so few Asian actors appear on American television series, and what can be done to improve diversity in media.
Are Hollywood award nominees and winners too often white? Actress/writer Erin Quill (original Broadway cast of Avenue Q; The Mikado Project) thinks so. Erin served on the television acting nomination committee for the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards. She voted for a racially diverse slate, but when the nominations were…
In fall 2013, Gap Inc.’s “Make Love” ad campaign garnered kudos for the diversity of its models but also sparked hate speech vandalism of its street posters – due to the appearance of South Asian actor Waris Ahluwalia (from the Sikh religion) and depiction of a gay male couple. In…
Gay Organizations Need More Racially Diverse Leaders The rainbow flag, the very the symbol of gay pride, represents both our aspirations and the diversity of our population. Yet the top of the gay community’s rainbow — the leadership tier of LGBT non-profit organizations — is more awash in white than…
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Jimmy Nguyen is nationally-recognized as an award-winning lawyer, LGBT and diversity advocate, digital media thinker, and speech expert. With a last name pronounced like the word “WIN,” Jimmy’s message for everyone is “Why Fit In? Stand Out and WIN.”
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