Meet Xin Peng! He's involved in many things in Watertown including chairing World in Watertown, sitting on the city's Human Rights Commission, running the Chinese American Association of Watertown, and many other things. 

In this conversation we dig into Xin's youth on a rural farm in China and how personal freedom and other factors led him to come to the United States, his passion for community organizing and wanting to strengthen multiple communities here in town, food justice and his two-sided east-west perspective on consumerism, and why Watertown feels like home.

Links from Xin:

World In Watertown: https://www.worldinwatertown.org/

Chinese American Association of Watertown: https://www.caawatertown.org/

Watertown Human Rights Commission: https://www.watertown-ma.gov/1195/Human-Rights-Commission

A few programs that our community members can participate immediately:

Watertown Welcomes All -  A Safe Space Project: https://forms.gle/5K5hW4z5g3pxFxp78

Watertown Welcomes Immigrant: https://forms.gle/Vs93b2HirLxEmR8d6 

Other Watertown Programs: https://forms.gle/wTrAyMmm3wMhLYq1A

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This program is supported in part by a grant from the Watertown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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