KW Lee Speaks at Harvard University

A Lunch Conversation on Media and Race Relations with K.W. Lee
Journalist & Activist

Part of a series of events to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Harvard Asian American Policy Review and to highlight the contributions and impact of Asian Americans in public policy and public service

Friday, April 16, 2010
12:00 PM
Location TBD

K.W. Lee
K.W. Lee holds the distinction of being inducted into Newseum’s Journalism History Gallery as one of the top journalists in history. In the 1970’s, he became the first Asian immigrant hired by a mainstream daily newspaper when he reported for the Kingsport Times, News in Tennessee, and the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. As an investigative reporter, K.W. covered a variety of human interest stories that focused on social justice, such as black lung disease among coal miners in the Appalachian Mountains and the civil rights movement in Jim Crow South. K.W. is recognized for his investigatory pieces on Chol Soo Lee, an immigrant Korean who was racially profiled and wrongfully convicted in 1973 for a murder involving Chinese gangs in San Francisco’s Chinatown. During the L.A. Riots in April of 1992, K.W. became a media voice for the L.A. Korean American community and helped ensure fair coverage of ethnic communities during a period in which mainstream media insensitively and misleadingly portrayed race relations.

Moderator: Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director of the Transparency Policy Project.

Co-Sponsored by Ash Center, Asian American Policy Review, Asian Pacific American Caucus, HKS Korea Caucus, California Caucus, and ALANA.

This event is generously funded by KSSG.