Eye.D magazine Staff
- Brett Kell, Managing Editor -- email me
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Submission Policy
Eye.D Magazine welcomes submission of features, opinions, poems, essays, art, as well as information about organizations and individuals across the country who\\\'s contributed to the Asian American community.
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Contributing writers:
Brett Kell is managing editor of Eye.D Magazine. He is also a Public Relations representative at Cardinal Stritch University and is co-chair of Stritch\\\'s Staff Development Committee. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an M.S. in Management from Stritch, for which he wrote a thesis on corporate social responsibility in the fast food industry. As a freelance writer, Brett has contributed to various publications, web sites and media. Kell is Board chair and Marketing Committee chair of the Young Professionals of Suburban Milwaukee. He has been a professional picture framer for nearly six years and is also a member of the Academy of American Poets. He co-founded the undergraduate literary and arts review Furrow at UW-Milwaukee and his work has appeared in the Emergency Almanac, Knock, Clare, Paj Ntaub Voice, and elsewhere. He is currently finishing a chapbook of poems, "Nonce Words." Brett and his wife Lauren live in Milwaukee.
Mary Louise Buley-Meissner is an Associate Professor in the English department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and teaches Hmong American studies, Asian American literature and life stories, teacher education in multicultural literature and cross-cultural composition pedagogy. A Seattle native, Buley-Meissner has traveled to China, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Europe and across the U.S. as a teacher and life-long learner. She has collaborated on many Hmong American campus-community educational projects. With Vincent K. Her, she started the Hmong American Studies (HASI) at the University of Wisconsin-Mllwaukee (2002-2006); their professional collaboration also includes research published in Hmong Studies Journal, Future Hmong, Kaleidoscope, Myriaid, and SEARAC.
Alyson Carr holds a M.S. in Linguistic Anthropology from UWM, where she wrote her thesis on the maintenance of the Hmong language in Milwaukee, WI. She will also soon earn her M.S. in Curriculum & Instruction along with Certification to teach English as a Second Language and Spanish from UWM. Her professional goals include developing instructional materials and children\'s books in Hmong and Spanish, teaching ESL and Spanish, and helping Hmong language teachers to create an effective curriculum for teaching the language to Hmong children and others interested in the language.
Candie Herr, M.T. (A.S.C.P.) was born in Sayaboury, Laos in 1968 and immigrated to the United States in 1976. She has a B.S in Biology from Carroll College, was M.T. Certified in 1991 from Marquette University, and has worked for Aurora Consolidated Labs for 11 years as a M.T-Microbiologist. Ms. Herr is currently employed as the Business and Lab Manager for Physicians of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ltd. and pursuing her M.B.A. at the University of Phoenix. She lives in Greenfield, WI with husband and 4 children.
Vincent K. Her, Ph.D., has a Ph. D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on Hmong-American funeral text, songs and performances as cultural memory. Since 2002, he has been involved with Hmong American Studies Initiative (HASI), a seed project of the Cultures and Communities Program and College of Letters and Science. Active in the Hmong-American community, he has co-presented at Hmong National Development Conferences on Hmong culture, history, identity and social change. He teaches in Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
See Lo is a freelance writer and aspiring novelist. She was born in 1982 and received her degree in Creative Writing from Stratford Career Institute in 2006. Lo\\\'s articles have been published in Asiance Magazine, Hmong Is You, Future Hmong and Eye.D Magazine.
Pa Moua, ME-PD, is an advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an instructor in Hmong Language, an activist for the Hmong comunity, a motivational speaker and translator. She lives in Appleton with her husband and two children.
Sao Thao is a Foster Care Social Worker for a private foster agency in Southern California. She was born in 1975 in Laos and recieved her BA in Criminal Justice and MSW from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. She lives in Southern California with her husband, mother-in-law and two sons.
Byran Thao Worra was born in Laos in 1973, he is the author of "On The Other Side of the Eye," "Touching Detonations" and The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: My Dinner With Cluster Bombs." His writing appears in over 60 different international publications across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, including Paj Ntaub Voice, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, and Asian Pacific American Journal, as well as the anthologies Contemporary Voices From the East, Bamboo Among the Oaks and Outsiders Within.
Dr. Chia Youyee Vang is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interest is refugee resettlement and her teaching interests include Hmong/Southeast Asian history, with a particular focus on the Vietnam War. Prior to joining UWM, Dr. Vang worked for 10 years as a research and evaluation consultant in the areas of education, health and human services. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She also holds an M.A. in public affairs and foreign policy from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in political science/international relations from Gustavus Adolphus College. She is author of the forthcoming book, "Hmong in Minnesota," by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Duachy Vang, RN is a Cardiac Nurse Educator at APS Healthcare in Brookfield, Wisconsin. She was born in 1977 in West Chester, Pennsylvania and received her B.S. in Speech and Language Pathology in 1999 from Penn State University and B.S., RN and MSN degrees from Marquette University. She lives in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin with her husband and two sons.
Kou Vang is a multi-talented Hmong-American woman, artist, writer, advocate, wife, and mother. Vang has a M.A. in Visual Studies from Cardinal Stritch University and a B.A. in art from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She\\\'s received grants from the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Fund, Wisconsin Arts Board and the Institute of Race and Ethnicity for photographic documentaries on Hmong Women and Hmong Shamanism. Vang is a governor-appointed board member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Milwaukee Art Museum Artist Market committee member, owner of Inspiring Elements photography and design, and co-founder of Eye.D Magazine.
May Lee-Yang is a writer aspiring to get paid for it. Instead of listing generic statistics, she believes in revealing more important things about a person, such as her idiosyncrasy for eating plain pho, her insistence on defending the legitimacy of reading romance novels, and her penchant for perpetuating Asian stereotypes by perfecting her skills as a karaoke singer. She has been published in Bamboo Among the Oaks, Paj Ntaub Voice, The St. Paul Almanac,and To Sing Along the Way: MN Women Poets From Pre-Territorial Days to the Present. Currently, she a poet and prose writer masquerading as a playwright.
Samy Elisabeth Yang has been published in a few magazines before but she won\\\'t name them because, really, does anyone care about that anyway? For the time being, she enjoys writing as a means of escape from the dreary rainclouds of life and also because it\\\\\\\'s a healthier alternative than alcoholism. As the Director of Literature at Unplug Magazine, Samy has a passion for helping other Hmong writers. Her favorite motto is, "Write to inspire."
Katie B is a make-up artist by day and a law student by night, Katie dreams big. Her goals and wish list range everywhere from finishing school and passing the bar to making terrorists obsolete and finding a cure for life threatening illnesses. As if beautifying models for photo shoots or blushing brides-to-be is not enough, "I love to learn everything." Her work can be seen everywhere from United Airlines commercials to film to fashion shows, and coveted magazines such as FHM, Stuff, and Maxim. Katie has titles as Miss Little Saigon 1999, Miss Apogee International 1999, and Miss Congeniality 1996 for Miss Central Orange County Teen USA.
Ba Xiong is a make-up artist living in Milwaukee, WI.