miseducAsian Podcast
miseducAsian is a podcast created by 3 Asian Americans hoping to add to the growing chorus of story-telling about the richness, complexity and boldness of the Asian American experience. The hosts, Albert, Brian and Tommy, are mid-life, mid-career educators who came of age in the 80’s and 90’s, who share their experiences of the joys and struggles of being Asian in America. They bring friends and colleagues into the conversation to share their stories in a space that is meant to be positive, fun and affirming. We hope to dismantle the prevailing stereotypes of Asian Americans as the docile “model minority” and to tear down the biases of the “perpetual foreigner” by painting the richness of our American experiences. And through all this, we hope to inspire other Asian Americans to share their stories within their own networks as well.
miseducAsian Podcast
Redefining Leadership, Cultural Complexity, and Poems about Spam Musubi with Cady Ching
In this episode, we connect with Cady Ching, CEO of Summit Public Schools, and discuss:
- Her complex cultural identity, family's history, being raised in Hawaii, and why it's important to be specific about who we are (2:03)
- How teaching at Summit kept her in California, her journey as an educator and leader, and the truly remarkable process of how she became CEO (19:22)
- A shared vision for a new type of leadership and structure that centers collectivity and liberation, the role her identity plays, and how she leads and disrupts at the same time (27:22)
- What it's like to follow a founder/CEO and grow into her own leadership (42:22)
- How we make sense of all the acronyms used to describe our communities, and who they actually serve (49:28)
- And we end with a reading of one of her father's haikus about Spam musubi (55:14)
