Pan-Asian American Community House

Chair Ms. Jeanne Leong, Staff, University Communications Undergraduate Representatives Swathi Bonda, Student, Wharton '08 Ben Alisuag, Student, College of Arts & Sciences '09 Wilson Tong, Student, Wharton '09 Graduate Students Mr. Mike Mariano, Student, Wharton Faculty/ Staff Ms. Eleanor Hing Fay, Staff, Development, Director, Foundation Dr. Herman Beavers, Faculty, SAS English Dr. Eiichiro Azuma, Faculty, SAS ASAM/History Dr. David Hsu, Faculty, WH Management Dr. Grace Kao, Faculty, SAS ASAM/Sociology Dr. Thomas Lee, Faculty, Wharton OPIM Dr. Mark Yim, Faculty, SEAS MEAM Dr. Ania Loomba, Faculty, SAS English Alumni Mr. Eric Chen, Alumni, SEAS '03 Mr. Franklin Shen, Alumni, SEAS '03 Ex-Officio Dr. June Y. Chu, Staff, PAACH Director Ms. Shiella M. Cervantes, Staff, PAACH Associate Director Ms. Kusum Soin, Staff, PAACH Office Coordinator

Herman Beavers Herman Beavers is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his undergraduate work at Oberlin College and his graduate work at Brown and Yale, where he received his doctorate in American Studies in 1990. He is the author of two books, A Neighborhood of Feeling (Doris Publications, 1986) and Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). He is currently at work on a new book, which examines representations of susceptibility and shame in 20th Century African American writing by Black male writers. In the Summer of 2001, he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Kansas. He was a Visiting Fellow in African American Studies at Princeton University for the 2001-02 academic year. Born and raised in the Cleveland, OH area, he now lives in Burlington, NJ with his wife, Lisa, their son, Michael, and their daughter, Corinne.
Swathi Bonda Swathi Bonda is a junior from Phoenix, Arizona who is planning to major in finance and accounting. Growing up, she explored her South Asian heritage through classical Indian dance (Bharatnatyam) and involvement in regional and national Indian associations. After coming to Penn, she became extremely involved in the South Asia Society and is currently serving as their Vice President of Cultural Affairs. She participated in APALI during the Fall 2005 semester.
Eric Chen Eric originally comes from a small mushroom farm owned by his native Taiwanese parents in rural Christiana, PA. During his secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, he participated on the Exeter Wrestling and Cycling teams. Following Exeter, Eric attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. During his tenure at the University he became actively involved with the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, Undergraduate Assembly, College House and Academic Services, and Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH). Eric was one of the students involved in the original creation of PAACH during the fall of 1999. Following the creation of PAACH he became the PAACH Communications Committee chair and member of the interim PAACH Advisory Board. Eric is currently employed by the University of Pennsylvania.
Eleanor Hing Fay Eleanor Hing Fay is currently Director of Foundation Relations in the Development Office of the University of Pennsylvania, and has been with Penn since January 1999. She has held positions in corporate and foundation fundraising since 1994 at Purdue University in Indiana, and more recently at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation in Philadelphia. Prior to that, Eleanor worked in marine science research organizations, as an administrator at the University of Southern Calfornia, and as a lab and field researcher at the Australian Institute of Marine. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California, and a B.S. in marine biology and botany from James Cook University, Australia.
David Hsu David Hsu is the Edward and Shirley Shils Term Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research, focused on commercializing technology, developing technology-based ventures, and venture capital, has appeared in the RAND Journal of Economics and the Journal of Finance. At Wharton, he teaches two MBA electives, Entrepreneurship and Venture Initiation and Management of Technology. David’s PhD is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his prior degrees are from Stanford and Harvard Universities.
Grace Kao Grace Kao is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on race, ethnic, and immigrant differences in educational achievement among adolescents. In addition, she is working on examining interracial romance and friendship among adolescents and investigating educational outcomes of children in rural Northwest China. She is also beginning work exploring race and immigrant differences in early childhood outcomes. She is a former National Academy of Education & Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, and has received numerous grants from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), The Spencer Foundation, and The Russell Sage Foundation.