Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

As a longtime community journalist, writer and child of immigrants, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang has built a career amplifying underrepresented voices across media platforms. She has reported for PBS Newshour, NBC Asian America, PRI Global Nation, The Emancipator, New America Media, Detroit Journalism Cooperative, Reappropriate, Angry Asian Man, and more. 

Frances is also an experienced nonprofit executive. She is the co-founder of IS/LAND Asian American Contemporary Performance Collaborative and has served in leadership roles at American Citizens for Justice, the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce, and Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels.

She has also taught Asian/Pacific Islander American media and civil rights law at University of Michigan, and memoir and social justice writing at University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College. Her creative and scholarly work includes the multimedia Smithsonian project Dreams of the Diaspora and the book You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids.