1. Where and when were you born?
2. What did you learn about becoming a man growing up born poor in the flatlands of Oakland, as a young boy of Chinese descent in terms of being a leader and a man?
3. Your education and career path? Changes you’ve seen in youth, i.e., increasing rates of anxiety and depression, men only 40% of university students.
4. How is your approach to mindfulness from an eastern and buddhist approach impacting counselors, social workers, HR professionals, and therapists all over the country?
5. Impact of being the “model minority” i.e., Asian Americans outnumber whites in UC.
Any spillover from China’s attack on sissy men entertainers?
6. How to teach about cross-cultural understanding of racism in the Trump Era? What is familiar about the Trump era?
As a man of color, if you could say something to white America, what would that be?
In what ways can this country help end anti-Asian violence and in what ways is it not supportive?
7. Themes in your films and books:
The Art of Mindful Facilitation, 2004
What Stands Between Us: Racism Conversation Flash Cards, 2010
Let’s Get Real-What People of Color Can’t Say and White Won’t Ask, 2011
8. Branches of the men’s movement that are most effective?
In what ways has the men's movement not met the needs of men of color and why?
It has been rumored that you confronted Robert Bly in front 2,000 men at a major conference in San Francisco. What was that all about?