The Month

Last month, we celebrated the Asian Pacific Heritage Month as well as the Mental Health Awareness Month. As a nation, we have designated February as Black History Month, June as Pride Month, the National Hispanic Heritage Month is scheduled from Sept. 15th to Oct....

AAPI Month – Authorized

This blog is written by Natalie Lortz, a guest blogger of CoffeeWithJR.  There are, no doubt, benefits to having an excuse to host Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) centered events and partake in the beauty of local communities. The undeniable sense of pride that...

Our Stories

OUR STORIES  As part of the new documentary film project that NamQuyen (Q) Le and I are working on, Rachel, our Director of Photography, and I flew to Louisville, Kentucky in early April to do some scouting and preliminary filming and interviewing. (Detail info of the...

No Way Out – Depression

Recently, I signed up for a Storytelling for Change course by Acumen Academy. As a professional speaker, I am consistently improving my storytelling skills and refining my stories. An assignment for the course was to literally draw a Life Journey Map with pen and...