Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, scholar and poet, focused on issues of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Arab Americans, and the arts. Most recently she was a PBS NewsHour national communities correspondent covering race and justice issues in Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan. Her writing also has appeared at NBC Asian America, PRI GlobalNation, AngryAsianMan, Cha Asian Literary Journal and more. She has taught Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan. She co-created a multimedia artwork for Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She wrote three chapbooks and a book of lyric essay, “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids.”