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Prominent Asian Americans to Be Honored in Atlanta
活动预告 | 2015年09月20日 17:28 / 作者:168通讯员6
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Prominent Asian Americans to Be Honored in Atlanta 

 

Atlanta, GA: The 10th Annual Who’s Who in Asian American Communities (WWAAC) Awards will be presented Saturday, September 26 at the Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University in Atlanta, from

6-8 p.m. The awards honor Asian-American leaders and role models.  

 

The WWAAC Awards ceremony is the only Asian American awards program televised across the country and streamed live over the Internet.

 

Events start at noon, with the WWAAC Alliance Conference Luncheon sponsored by UPS, Buick, and Gentle Dental Care and Georgia Dental Implant Center. 

 

Ron Jordan and Sumit Agrawal are the Luncheon Keynote Speakers.  Both will be presented with RICE (Respect, Inspiration, Commitment, Excellence) Awards. Jordan is Vice President of Global Freight Forwarding Sales for UPS. Agrawal is a Senior Manager for Advanced Analytics for General Motors.

 

The WWAAC Awards Title Sponsors are Comcast, Comcast On Demand and Encyclomedia. WWAAC Diamond Sponsors are Buick and UPS.

 

From 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. there will be a “speed mentoring”session titled Tenacious Leadership: Overcoming Obstacles & Adversity. It is sponsored by the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF).

 

Bonnie Youn will moderate the session. The mentors are: Sumit Agrawal, Lindsay Dacuan, Dr. Gulshan Harjee, Belkis Leong-Hong, Samuel Kwon, Joseph Melookaran, Brandon McClain, U.S. Army Major General (retired) Antonio M. Taguba, Jenifer Waldrop and Gayle Yamada.

 

An Asian Cultural Mini-Fest, with samples of Asian food, will be held from 3:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., ahead of the evening’s award ceremony.

 

Here is information on the WWAAC Award recipients:

 

Joseph Melookaran is the 2015 WWAAC Leaders & Legends Award Honoree. He is president & CEO of JMA Information Technology Inc., which has more than 300 employees in the U.S. and more than 100 employees in Singapore, Malaysia and India.

Melookaran is a certified public accountant with extensive experience in management consulting and public assurance practice.

 

Lindsay Dacuan, of Philippine descent, the APIASF Leaders & Legends Honoree, is studying for a Masters of Public Health degree at Emory University. She completed an internship at the Centers for Disease Control, focusing on federal travel restriction policies in the wake of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. She hopes to continue in federal work, eventually becoming a champion for Asian American Pacific Islander health. 

 

Belkis Leong-Hong, founder, president, and CEO of Knowledge Advantage Inc., is the Pan Pacific American Leaders and Mentors (PPALM) Organization Leaders & Legends Award Honoree. She is a first generation Chinese American who had a distinguished 30-year career in the U.S. government, established and runs a thriving company, and serves as an advocate of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

 

RSVP and Media interviews 

Contact: Sachi Koto at 678-528-3444

sachi@wwaac.com


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