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In honor of May being the Asian and Pacific Islander Month (API), the NHL and Immigrantly joined forces to bring you two exceptional episodes celebrating the role of the API community in hockey. Today's guests are Lali Toor and Dampy Brar (NHL’s Willie O’Ree Community Hero Award recipient). They are the founders of APNA hockey. Apna Hockey, which translates to ‘our’ in Punjabi, is the first South-Asian-based ice hockey network dedicated to increasing & supporting South Asian participation in the sport.  Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Stephanie Lim & Yudi Liu Editor: Tom Whelan

Today's guest, Irisa Xiong, founder of Innermade and a yoga practitioner, sees mindfulness and self-created potential as powerful paths to healing and growth. Much of her philosophy comes from her family and Eastern traditions and remedies. She is every bit creative and driven. She is someone who offers incredible attention and renewed views to how we take care of our bodies and what agency we have as individuals.  This episode is sponsored by Baxtor Glasses. Click on the link below to get a special discount. https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/254496 Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Sarah Doh/Saadia Khan Editor: Tom Whelan    You can follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod & IG @immigrantlypod

Sweta Chakraborty is a renowned scientist, consultant, communicator, and activist. She has appeared on MSNBC, CBS, spoken at TedTalks, runs her own podcast and works full-time as a consultant to public and private organizations on risk management.   This episode is sponsored by Baxtor Glasses. Click on the  to get a special discount. Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Yudi Liu/Saadia Khan Editor: Tom Whelan    You can follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod & IG @immigrantlypod

Serena Rasoul is a writer, actress, and founder of Muslim American Casting, who, in their own words, are “creating spaces and adding new faces.” Serena has made appearances on House of Cards, Veep, and America’s Hidden Stories. I got to pick her brain on what makes representation truly authentic. This episode is sponsored by Baxtor Glasses. Click on the link below to get a special discount. https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/254496 Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Sarah Doh/Saadia Khan Editor: Tom Whelan    You can follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod & IG @immigrantlypod

Craig Doble is British. He moved to the U.S. in 2015, fell in love with his wife, a U.S. citizen, and started to settle down. However, he mistakenly didn’t fill out a page in his visa renewal application, which led to his arrest by ICE. What ensued was a series of crazy events. Some of these include being listed as the wrong race twice, accidentally opening up an investigation against a cook who was having sex with a detainee and a judge who decided that Craig would be deported before the trial even happened. Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts/Sarah Doh Content writer: Sarah Doh/Saadia Khan Editor: Tom Whelan

Diya Khanna is the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Manager at Amazon in Seattle. Diya has a Bachelors in Journalism & a Masters of Education in Anti-Racist curriculum. She is truly a global citizen and has lived and worked in Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, India, Myanmar, & Japan. We spoke about diversity, food, and the importance of humility and empathy. Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts  Content writer: Sarah Doh/Saadia Khan Editor: Tom Whelan    You can follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod & IG @immigrantlypod

Nik Sharma is a renowned food writer, recipe developer, and photographer with Bombay roots and currently resides in LA. His entry into the food scene was his hit blog, A Brown Table. Since then, he has published two bestselling cookbooks, including The Flavor Equation, just this past October. Nik writes for San Francisco Chronicle, Serious Eats, and Food and Wine Magazine as their food columnist. Basically, he does and cooks it all. Producer & Host: Saadia Khan. Content writer: Yudi Liu Editor: Tom Whelan  Follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod & IG @immigrantlypod

Our guest today is sure to bring an expansive perspective on the topic of accent bias. Professor Rahul Chakraborty is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who teaches at California State University, Fullerton, in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department. As a linguist, his research has been featured in many scholarly journals, much of which has focused on accent bias's social implications. Producer & Host: Saadia Khan.  Content writer: Sarah Doh/Saadia Khan Editor: Tom Whelan    You can follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod & IG @immigrantlypod

Sharing today, we have Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough and Ekaterina, an alias used by our guest to protect her identity. What about their situation is so unique, you may ask. Well, Karina and Ekaterina have one crucial thing in common - that is their stateless status. Karina has a birth certificate with Odesa as the birthplace, a port once under the USSR. Ekaterina immigrated to the U.S. on a Soviet password. This interview was undoubtedly a teaching moment, and I’m in awe of Karina and Ekaterina’s bravery. It’s stories like these that keep me going, and I hope it touches you, wherever you are, in a way that calls you to be gracious and cognizant.

Shazia Sikander is a self-proclaimed citizen of the world. She is a world-renowned multidisciplinary artist whose career spans over three decades. Her work offers a more inclusive way that addresses geopolitical borders' arbitrariness & radically disrupts assumptions around national, political, & historical boundaries.    The episode is sponsored by Indiana University's Muslim Voices Project & Away Travel Producer & Host: Saadia Khan.  Content writer: Sarah Doh Editor: Tom Whelan  Follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod & IG @immigrantlypod