I am an HOD student and fellow of the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Initiative. I created the multicultural poster of the Initiative and contributed to the design and creation of the Initiative's website. I am currently working on a DVD documenting the history of the Initiative for publicity purposes.

As an Asian-Latina-American woman with roots in the Chinese, Brazilian, and American cultures, I negotiate multiple worldviews daily to make sense of personal and professional experiences. I am fluent in Shanghais, Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese, Spanish, and sometimes, English.

I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Wisconsin at La Cross and an MBA from the California State University at Fullerton. I use my experience as a former corporate executive and graduate studies faculty to provide consulting services in business communication, strategic planning, group and adult learning, leadership skills development, quality process improvement, and multicultural competency awareness.

In my quest to becoming a scholar-practitioner, I strive to heal myself through family and art therapy and to create a new, integrated identity as a result of that healing. I am an artist skilled in painting with oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel and in pencil drawings. It is with the holistic perspective of an artist that I approach understanding my contribution to the scholarly literature.

For my doctoral research I am interested in studying how certain cultural practices can affect the mental health of Asian American descendants of foreign-born Asian parents. I hypothesize that some cultural practices enforced by the parents create an oppressive family environment. Children who are not prepared to function in the American socio-cultural context because of a multiplicity of cultural values may experience mental illnesses that can reduce their creativity, longevity and quality of life. I hope to produce knowledge that will help bring healing to those who, like me, struggle to understand their own identities.