The International Examiner

  Reporting by Julie Pham. I left Vietnam when I was ten years-old. When I was one year older, in 1981, I made it to America. To get there, I spent 4 nights and 5 days on a boat at sea with my older brother, my uncle, and his family, and about 30 others. On [...]

A large architecture firm’s only woman, minority and first-generation immigrant invests in herself.

As a South Pacific Islander woman, I became a school board director because of the communities who believed in me and the positive work that my husband and I have done within our own community as well as [the goal of] reaching out to other communities. My long time commitment is to the children and [...]

“Finding My Own InspirAsian” is an IE column for community members to share how they discovered their own ‘InspirAsian’ to give back to the community. Write to: editor@iexaminer.org and submit your story.

Tomio Moriguchi is a life-long resident of Seattle. He earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Washington in 1961 and joined the family business, Uwajimaya Inc., in 1962 with the passing of his father, Fujimatsu Moriguchi.  Tomio is currently its Chairman of the Board. Uwajimaya businesses include three retail Uwajimaya Asian Food & [...]

You might say my years at Microsoft were my formative years. In the first three years with the company, I was working 100-hour weeks and I never took a day off. Well, that’s not entirely true – I took one day off. That discipline continued during my remaining years with the company, but a lot [...]

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” President John F. Kennedy’s words changed my life, as they did for many of those who came of age during his presidency. They caused me to seriously consider the purpose of my life. I changed directions as a [...]

As a child of two cultures, I appreciate diversity. My family and I are from Taiwan, but we moved to Georgia when I was an infant and became US citizens. I was taught at an early age the importance of serving the community and participated in Girl Scouts, eventually earning my Silver and Gold Awards, [...]