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DIM SUM BRUNCH AAAYA New York Chapter November 5, 2016 The New York Chapter of AAAYA invites all Yalies and friends to our upcoming Dim Sum Brunch, our monthly get-together to meet new and old friends over tasty food and fun conversation. We’ll be meeting in Manhattan Chinatown (look for the table with our members in Yale gear)! WHAT: AAAYA New York November Dim Sum Brunch WHERE: Shanghai Asia Manor, 21 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 WHEN: November 5, 2016 at 11:00 AM WHO:

Today AAAYA New Yorkers attended their monthly get-together to reconnect established members and to welcome new faces! April’s brunch was held at New York’s first dim sum restaurant, Nom Wah in Manhattan Chinatown. See below for pictures of the event! In attendance were: Elite Chak (TD ’97) Angela Choi (BR ’12) Binh Hoang (JE ’15) Julie Kim (JE ’14) Yoon-jee Kim (JE ’05) Sumit Kumar (RES ’19) Minghao Liu (JE ’09) Connie Lu (MC ’15) Jennifer Luo (LAW ’13) Jim Sullivan

Asia Society in New York City. The special briefing from Dr. Wei follows the March release of ADB’s flagship economic publication: Asian Development Outlook 2016 (ADO). The ADO is published annually and provides a comprehensive analysis of issues developing in Asia, including growth projections by country and region. At the event, Dr. Wei addressed the impact of China’s slowdown on the region, the factors underlying Asia’s overall decline in growth, and approaches to boosting

P.S. 124, The Yung Wing School in Chinatown was the center of our efforts for the Yale Day of Service on May 12, 2012.  We planted flowers, cleared the garden, updated the computers and tided up the library.  Our efforts were rewarded with a tour of Chinatown by Rocky Chin MCP ‘71 and dim sum at Wing Shoon.  We were joined by Chris Studebaker and the Waseda University Alumni Association of New York. Many thanks to Jai Chandrasehkar B.A. ’87, J.D. ‘97, Kunduck Moon ‘76, Jeremy

A huge thank you to those who attended our Third Annual Lunar New Year Banquet! We raised $6000 and received $850 in donations and pledges on that evening. All proceeds from the Banquet will benefit the AAAYA Yale Community Service Summer Fellowship Program. It is not too late to make your fully tax-deductible contribution! Your donation is only one click away: AAAYA-NY would like to acknowledge Ken Inadomi, Kunduck Moon, Rocky Chin, Carol Lee, Jai Chandrasekhar, Billie Tsien

The Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, NYC was the site of the annual meeting of the New York Chapter of AAAYA on 10 December 2009. We are proud to announce that three new board members, Jeffrey F. Chen, Madhu Mukerji-Miller, and Kathy May Tran, were elected at the meeting. Statements from the new board members are at the end of this announcement. Kameka Demsey, the AYA special interest group liaison to the AAAYA, joined us, as well as Nancy Mossbach, Yale-China’s Dir