2024 AAPI Heritage Month Day Celebration
Guest Moderator Stephanie Fan
The AAPI Heritage Celebration event will take place on Saturday, May 18, 11AM to 3:00PM beginning at Hunneman Hall in the Brookline Village Library and culminating at Brookline Town Hall. This year our Featured Author is Vincent Yee, a BHS alum, local Author and the Creator of the World of Azen. Beginning at 11AM, hear how he wrote this fantastical 5-book series in 6 months and why portraying Asian American superheroes is so important with Special Guest Moderator, Stephanie Fan, a long time Brookline resident and advocate.
Student Performances will follow the discussion and will include performances from Baker’s Fan Dance and KPop teams, the Triveni Dancers, the Brookline High School Popcorn Dance Club, and Guzheng, Hulisi and Chinese Drum performed by students from the Brookline Chinese School.
Brookline Interactive Group will record these presentations and a video will be available for viewing afterwards.
Student Performances will follow the discussion and will include performances from Baker’s Fan Dance and KPop teams, the Triveni Dancers, the Brookline High School Popcorn Dance Club, and Guzheng, Hulisi and Chinese Drum performed by students from the Brookline Chinese School.
Brookline Interactive Group will record these presentations and a video will be available for viewing afterwards.
Photo courtesy of Stephanie Fan
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Stephanie Fan grew up in Boston’s Chinatown and attended Boston’s public schools before studying for her bachelor's degree at Tufts University. Following her graduation, she worked at MIT’s Political Science Department, as a research associate looking at Chinese American identity issues. During that time, she became involved with the founding of what is now known as the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center and was also active in other neighborhood organizations, including one advocating for the return of a branch library in Chinatown. Currently, she is a board member of the Chinese Historical Society of New England. Stephanie has been a Brookline resident for over 50 years. Both her children attended the Baker School and Brookline High School where she served on the parent advisory group of Packard House. One grandchild is now at Brookline HS, another at Washington Sq. Academy. Stephanie was also active in helping organize an Asian American parents group to advocate for more Asian American teachers in the school system in the 1980s. In addition, she served on the board of the Brookline Education Foundation
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