Asia Pacific Forum
Mondays at 9pm ET on WBAI 99.5 in NYC and
live on the Web
Asia Pacific Forum is the progressive pan-Asian radio show broadcast every Monday night from 9-10pm on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and live on the web.
Michelle works and plays in New York City. Her various occupations have included ethnographic research in Shanghai and coat-checking at a West Village jazz club. She is a regular contributor to Colorlines and In These Times, and her reporting and writing have also appeared in Ms., Newsday, Progressive Media Project, Women’s International Perspective, and her old zine, cain. She joined the APF Collective in 2010.
Aniruddha Das joined APF in 1998 after a number of years on the editorial collective and board of SAMAR magazine, as well in NY-based progressive South Asian groups (SAAA: South Asian AIDS Action; CSA: formed in 1992 to counter the religious intolerance and bigotry funded by South Asians in the US and UK,...). His other life is as a research scientist working on the brain mechanisms of visual perception, at Columbia University's Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.
Andrew Hsiao is a senior editor with Verso Books. He was the executive editor of The New Press, and an editor and staff writer with The Village Voice. He’s written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, and other publications, and is the author of a deck of playing cards, Regime Change Begins at Home. He’s been a labor organizer and a board member of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities and of the Asian American Writers Workshop, where he is currently board chair. He joined APF in 1999.
Hyun Lee joined Asia Pacific Forum in November 2010. Her areas of interest are U.S. military in Northeast Asia, and US-DPRK relations. She is a licensed acupuncturist by day.
Audrea is an associate editor at Verso Books. She joined the APF collective in 2012.
Leyla Mei teaches Asian/Pacific/American Studies at NYU and previously taught American history at CUNY. Her interests include chronic disease epidemiology and the racialization of illness in the twentieth and twenty-first century US. A former union and tenant organizer, she joined APF in 2002.
Silky Shah joined the APF collective in November 2007 after relocating earlier that year from Texas to New York City. Her interest in radio began in 2001 when she co-hosted the Chutney Bubble Tea Half Hour, an Asian American community radio show in Austin, TX. She is currently the Field Director for the Detention Watch Network.
Naureen Shah is a human rights researcher and lawyer. She joined APF in 2010.
Irene works at Make the Road New York, New York City's largest immigrant organization, where she has served as Supervising Organizer and Director of Organizing. She has led major campaigns for immigrant, workplace, LGBT, housing and environmental justice in New York City. Previously, she worked for New York's Working Families Party. She has also trained and supported lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organizers in China. She has served on the boards of the North Star Fund and New York Jobs with Justice. She joined APF in 2008.