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SUMMARY:Book Signing and Reception for Helen Zia
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 Helen Zia is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate 
 of Princeton University's first coeducational 
 class. She attended medical school but quit 
 after completing two years, then went to work 
 as a construction laborer, an autoworker and 
 a community organizer, after which she discovered 
 her life's work as a writer. \n
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 	She 
 is the author of "Asian American Dreams: The 
 Emergence of an American People," a finalist 
 for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book 
 Prize and referred to by President Bill Clinton 
 in two separate speeches in the Rose Garden. 
 She coauthored, with Wen Ho Lee, "My Country 
 Versus Me," which reveals what happened 
 to the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely 
 accused of being a spy for China in the "worst 
 case since the Rosenbergs." She was executive 
 editor of Ms. Magazine and is a founding board 
 co-chair of the Women's Media Center. Her 
 articles, essays and reviews have appeared 
 in numerous publications, books and anthologies, 
 receiving awards for her ground-breaking 
 stories.\n
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 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Pacific American Studies Program and Asian 
 Studies Center\n
 Contact name: Terese Monberg\n
 Contact email: tmonberg@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Union Multicultural unity Center
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