This May 2021, celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with our Duke Asian Alumni Alliance (DAAA) by participating in our first-ever DAAA Symposium. This year’s theme, The Paths to Success, honors the achievements and distills the experiences of our diverse Duke Asian alumni community. With that in mind, we invite you to join us and our inspiring speakers as they share more about their journeys to success, including how they navigated industry-specific dynamics to become leaders in their fields and lessons they learned along the way. 

Welcome

Aruna Inalsingh M.B.A.’95 and Mathavi Strasburger ’10, DAAA Co-Chairs

Debbie Chang M.B.A’99, DAAA Vice Chair of Programming

Keynote Address: Finding Your Voice

Deborah Liu ‘98, President & CEO of Ancestry.com

Chart Your Own Course: Career Conversations breakout sessions

• The Power to Heal
• Law: Perspectives in Private Practices
• Trendsetters in Creative Industries
  • co-sponsored by Duke Entertainment, Media, & Arts Network (DEMAN)
• Entrepreneurship: Survival of the Startups
• Bridging America & Asia: Leadership Beyond Borders

Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!  

Ge Wang ’00, Associate Professor for Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics, Stanford University

Define your Direction breakout sessions

• Unique Paths to Careers in Healthcare
• In the Money with Banking & Finance
• New Media Careers: Partnerships, Power, & (Re)Presentatio
  • co-sponsored by Duke Entertainment, Media, & Arts Network (DEMAN)
• Journalism in a 24/7 Environment 
  • co-sponsored by Duke Entertainment, Media, & Arts Network (DEMAN)
• Judges: Law & Order

Closing Remarks  

DAAA Moderators & Facilitators within breakout rooms