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East Meets Words Open Mic featured Emily Lawsin in September. Emily has been involved in community organizing for about two decades and on top of that, she’s well-versed with the academic side of Asian America. So needless to say, I was honored to watch her perform at East Meets Words. A truly amazing experience.

Before Emily came out to perform, she and I exchanged some e-mails about logistics. At some point, she asked me if I would stream the open mic live. And I told her, “Unfortunately, BPAC isn’t well-equipped enough to be able to do that… yet.” Then I added, “How about I do a podcast?” Secretly, I was hoping she would say, “Ah, don’t worry about it, if you can’t do a live stream of the event, then don’t bother.” What she actually said was: “A podcast! Wow, my friends back in Detroit, L.A. and Seattle would love to hear me via podcast.” At that point, I couldn’t really say no. So I said, “That’s a wonderful idea! Let’s do a podcast.”

Luckily, we are equipped to do some recordings of our events. During Emily Lawsin’s open mic performance at East Meets Words, I managed to record a few tracks. I hope you’ll forgive me for chopping up the performance, the battery to my portable flash-based recorder died on me. (I’m sorry I forgot to recharge by batteries.) And actually, I had forgotten the SD card for the recorder. So I had to steal the card from my camera. I know… you don’t want to hear this sob story, you just want Emily.

Oh, and if you were looking for a recap of the open mic, well, you should check out Emily’s recap. It is much better than anything I could have come up with. So please, check out her recap on her new site www.emilylawsin.com.

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