Description: Emily P. Lawsin. Photo by Sunita Martini for 4Culture. Emily P. Lawsin is National President Emerita (2020-2022) of the Filipino American National Historical Society and co-author of Filipino Women in Detroit, 1945-1955. She works as Historic Preservation Program Manager for 4Culture in "SHE-attle", Washington. For 30 years, she taught Asian American Studies, Filipino American History,…
Emily P. Lawsin performs guerilla poetry on the sidewalk of Detroit’s abandoned Chinatown. © 2003 DETROIT FREE PRESS / PHOTO BY AMY LEANG
Emily P. Lawsin is National President Emerita (2020-2022) of the Filipino American National Historical Society and co-author of Filipino Women in Detroit, 1945-1955 . She works as the Preservation Program Support Specialist for 4Culture in “SHE-attle”, Washington. For 30 years, she taught Asian American Studies, Filipino American History, Women’s Studies, and Oral History Methods in Michigan, Massachusetts, and California. An oral historian and spoken word performance poet since 1990, she has appeared on r
Emily P. Lawsin. Photo by Timothy Aguero for Poetry on Buses.