AAPI Immigrant Experiences

Alan Kraut is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and a Non-Resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute. He was an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and in 2017 received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

Alan is a specialist in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, and the history of medicine and public health in the U.S. He is an award-winning author whose works include Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America’s Immigration Storyand Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace.

He is a founding member of The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation’s History Advisory Committee, which is responsible for the historical interpretation reflected by the exhibitry in the National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island. Alan has served as committee chair since 2003.

Madeline Hsu is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UT Austin. She is representativeat-large for the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas and immediate past-president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

Madeline is an award-winning author whose works include The Good Immigrants, How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority and Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction. She is lead scholar for the project Teach Immigration History, a free, comprehensive curriculum created for high school civics and history teachers, and which is available to everyone.

Madeline was born in Columbia, Missouri, but grew up in Taiwan and Hong Kong between visits with her maternal grandparents in Altheimer, Arkansas.

Ed Tepporn is Executive Director of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation in San Francisco, the primary nonprofit organization working with California State Parks to preserve the buildings and uplift the histories related to this National Historic Landmark.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Ed was with the Asian & Pacific  Islander American Health Forum, where, among his many achievements, Ed developed the Health Rising Leadership Institute. This extensive training program supported Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in becoming stronger leaders and enhancing their ability to use the power of storytelling to connect, influence, and inspire others.

Ed was a Nelson Mandela Scholarship recipient in the M.S.W. program at Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work. He’s received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Equity and currently serves as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Fellow.

In April of this year, Ed published “It is Time to Include AANHPIs in Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Efforts” for the American Alliance of Museums.