Asian American Leadership
Forum for Youth
Ping Chong & Company Facilitators
Jane Jung
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Jane Jung is Managing Director of Ping Chong and Company. She was previously General Manager at Ping Chong and Company from 2010 - 2014. From 2014 - 2017, she was Managing Director of The Civilians where she oversaw all producing, fundraising, general management, and administrative areas of the company. She has worked as a manager and producer to independent artists. She is currently a board member of Musical Theater Factory, Radical Evolution, and the Network of Ensemble Theaters.
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Sara Zatz
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Sara Zatz is the Associate Director of Ping Chong and Company where she oversees the company’s community engagement and training programs, and is a lead-artistic collaborator with Ping Chong on the community-engaged Undesirable Elements series. Recent projects UnConditional in Portland, Oregon, with individuals living with chronic illness, and Face to Face with the Hmong American community of St. Paul, Minnesota. She has spoken and presented workshops on community-engaged theater at many conferences and universities.
Serena Yang
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Serena Yang (she/her) is a 19 year old poet, writer, and first-generation Chinese American immigrant raised in Queens, New York. She believes that imagination and storytelling is critical to justice work and writes, always, with the knowledge that a better world is possible. She was a former Resist/Recycle/Regenerate fellow with The W.O.W Project and a former AALFY board member. Serena is currently the 2021 NYC Youth Poet Laureate, supported by Urban Word NYC, and a National Youth Poet Laureate finalist and ambassador representing the Northeast.