Journalist and Author Helen Zia to Speak at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Journalist and author Helen Zia will deliver a lecture titled "Raising Our Voices, Building Bridges, and the Power of Transformation: Notes of an Asian American Feminist Activist" at Holy Cross on Tuesday, December 3 at 7:00 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom.

An award-winning journalist and contributing editor to Ms. Magazine, Helen Zia is best known for her investigative reporting. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Essence, A. Magazine, The Advocate, Bridge Magazine, and Sojourner. She has also contributed essays to several anthologies, and was executive editor of the book, Notable Asian-Americans (Gale Publications.)

Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000). The book, which focuses on the social injustices faced by Asian Americans, is now in its fifth printing and is a finalist for the prestigious 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. In 2001, Zia published My Country Versus Me (Hyperion), the story of Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy for China.

A second generation Asian American, Zia has been an activist for more than two decades on social justice issues, and has long been active in the Asian American civil rights movement.

This event is co-sponsored by Asian Students for International Awareness (A.S.I.A.), Asian Studies, Student Programs and Leadership Development, Campus Activities Board (CAB), Office of Multicultural Education, Women's Forum, AbiGaLe and Allies as part of AIDS Compassion and Awareness Week.