Congratulations to the winners of 2024 BCAH Student Essay Contest!
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Su Min Pyo
First Prize 11/12 Grades Harmonizing AAPI Heritage Katherine Wong Second Prize 9/10 Grades A Taste of a Home Far Away |
Image above was designed by Abbie Deng & Cindy Wang |
Elizabeth Hope Cho
First Prize 7/8 Grades Lechon and Yoot-Nori: Windows into Filipino and Korean Cultures Samantha Haneul Choi First Prize 7/8 Grades The Aerial View of My Name Elijah Wu Second Prize 7/8 Grades More Than Just a Stereotype |
Bios of essay contest judges
Amitha Jagannath Knight writes books, stories, and poems for all ages and is a graduate of MIT and Tufts University School of Medicine. Her debut picture book, Usha and the Big Digger, won the 2023 Mathical Book Prize Honor Award. Dr. Knight has lived in Texas and Arkansas, and currently lives in Belmont with her husband, kids, and cats.
Kwan Kew Lai, originally from Penang, Malaysia, a three-time recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award and former Harvard Medical faculty physician, dedicates time to humanitarian medical work worldwide. She is the author of Lest We Forget: A Doctor’s Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak, Into Africa, Out of Academia: A Doctor’s Memoir, and The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly. Her work has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Infectious Diseases Society of America Science Speaks, MedPage Today, Literally Stories, Vine Leaves Press, Synapses, and others. She lives in Belmont. kwankewlai.com
Susan Tan is the author of the Cilla Lee-Jenkins series (Macmillan), the Pets Rule! Early reader series (Scholastic) and Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards (Macmillan). All her work centers Asian American readers and characters, and her passion is creating the stories she wishes she had as a young mixed race Asian American reader. She is also an assistant professor of English at UMass Boston, and she lives in Cambridge, MA.
Amitha Jagannath Knight writes books, stories, and poems for all ages and is a graduate of MIT and Tufts University School of Medicine. Her debut picture book, Usha and the Big Digger, won the 2023 Mathical Book Prize Honor Award. Dr. Knight has lived in Texas and Arkansas, and currently lives in Belmont with her husband, kids, and cats.
Kwan Kew Lai, originally from Penang, Malaysia, a three-time recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award and former Harvard Medical faculty physician, dedicates time to humanitarian medical work worldwide. She is the author of Lest We Forget: A Doctor’s Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak, Into Africa, Out of Academia: A Doctor’s Memoir, and The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly. Her work has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Infectious Diseases Society of America Science Speaks, MedPage Today, Literally Stories, Vine Leaves Press, Synapses, and others. She lives in Belmont. kwankewlai.com
Susan Tan is the author of the Cilla Lee-Jenkins series (Macmillan), the Pets Rule! Early reader series (Scholastic) and Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards (Macmillan). All her work centers Asian American readers and characters, and her passion is creating the stories she wishes she had as a young mixed race Asian American reader. She is also an assistant professor of English at UMass Boston, and she lives in Cambridge, MA.