I remember the moment when everything changed in my family. It was a Sunday in May 2011, and I was at work, when my cell phone rang. It was my mom. “Esther, I don’t want you to worry,” she told me, “but your dad just had a stroke.” And just like that, my mom became a...
Esther Wang
I'm a New York City-based community organizer, communications strategist, and occasional writer.
I have worked at CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, where I was the Director of the Chinatown Tenants Union, and at the Center for Constitutional Rights in the Communications Department. Currently, I'm part of the digital strategy team at Caring Across Generations.
My writing has been in Gothamist, The Awl, Talking Points Memo, Left Turn magazine, the American Prospect, Labor Notes, Racialicious.com, Race Files, and the Austin American-Statesman. In 2013-2014, I was an Open City Creative Non-Fiction Fellow with the Asian American Writers Workshop.