Kicking off AAPI Heritage Month with an exclusive on KCAL Morning Warp with Project Runway winner Kentaro Kameyama, CEO Maki Hsieh

Inside the Issues with Vicky Nguyen and President & CEO Maki Hsieh.

Inside the Issues with Vicky Nguyen and President & CEO Maki Hsieh: How Asian Hall of Fame got started in Seattle and its broader mission today.

Inside the Issues with Vicky Nguyen and President & CEO Maki Hsieh: Why cultural literacy is vital to cross-cultural understanding and the Asian Hall of Fame.

The Morning Wrap with Kalyna Astrinos, Inductee Adele Lim, President & CEO Maki Hsieh

In 2019, Asian Hall of Fame launched its Fellowship Academy to provide workforce development projects to diversity and neurodivergent fellows. By 2023, 75 fellows from around the country and all walks of life receive valuable hands-on projects to make their career and college goals possible.

Dr. Linda M. Liau was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame in 2021.

As chair of the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery, Dr. Linda M. Liau is the first Asian-American woman, and only the second woman, to chair an academic neurosurgical department in the United States.

The internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, with her focus on helping patients combat glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal kind of brain tumor, is also the first person to have developed a vaccine for brain cancer. Her pioneering custom-tailored vaccines use a sample of a patient's own tumor and white blood cells to activate an immune response against the cancer. Dr. Liau, who is also director of the Brain Tumor Program at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, was galvanized to pursue a career in neurosurgery after her mother died from breast cancer that had metastasized to her brain. Her innovative medical breakthroughs have saved the lives of many patients who have come from around the world for care.

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Maki Hsieh is President & CEO of the Asian Hall of Fame in Los Angeles and CEO of its founder Robert Chinn Foundation in Seattle. A classically-trained violinist and 14-language vocalist, Maki is a Recording Academy Voting Member and donates concerts to UNICEF and the Asian Hall of Fame. Previously, she launched diversity programming as Executive Director of the Arcadia Performing Arts Center, created a multinational executive communications platform at The Walt Disney Company, and directed investor relations for Fortune 500 companies.

Along with her countless accomplishments, Maki is also a fierce advocate for cultural literacy. We had the opportunity to interview Maki about the importance DEI has played in her life and what it means to be a member of the Asian American community.

Written By Jocelyn Reaves

During AAPI Heritage Month, global recognition platform Asian Hall of Fame hosts a distinguished leaders forum with an emphasis on solutions-oriented statements. The Seattle Forum focused on public access to weapons of war and correlations between gun violence, domestic violence and hate incidences. Senator Manka Dhingra, Chief of Police Adrian Diaz of the Seattle Police Department, and King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Yessenia Manzo spoke with moderator Maki Hsieh, Asian Hall of Fame President & CEO.

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