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FirstPersonRadio-DanielYang-2011-08-10
Laura Waterman Wittstock talks with Daniel Yang, Community Engagement Specialist with the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI). He grew up on the East Side of St. Paul and the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, reflecting his multi-cultural heritage of both Hmong and Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) ancestry. His first book, Kakuma-Turkana, Dueling Struggles: Africa’s Forgotten Peoples, is a photographic documentary of East African refugees and Indigenous communities, and includes a foreword by Nobel Prize recipient His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
The book is available at: (http://pangaea.org/kakuma_turkana/kakuma.htm)
As NACDI Community Engagement Specialist, Daniel led a community organizing campaign to install street light banners on Franklin Ave. designating it the American Indian Cultural Corridor, spearheaded the first community mural project in the American Indian Cultural Corridor, working with local American Indian artists and youth, and organized a community planning committee for the largest Minnesota American Indian Month Kickoff Parade and Celebration to date.
Guests:
DANIEL YANG – Community Engagement Specialist, Native American Community Development Institute