Sara Hayden’s work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Half Moon Bay Review, Peninsula Press, Resonate, and more. As a multiracial race journalist, she’s dedicated to documenting Asian American experiences. If you’re interested in being featured or have a story tip, contact her.
Interview: Peilin Chou’s “Over the Moon” shows the impossible’s possible
Resonate
Netflix producer Peilin Chou sheds light on her career and latest film. From growing up in Northern California’s Walnut Creek to finding her calling in Los Angeles, Peilin Chou’s roots in the entertainment industry run deep.
Regular Blend
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What is it like to grow up in a pressure cooker environment? How does it feel to immigrate and start life anew? Why do people shoot for the American Dream? Find out from people who have centered their lives in Silicon Valley and created a culture all their own. A multimedia experience.
Gig Review: Kyungso Park and Andy Sheppard Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Resonate
Musician Kyungso Park is a pioneer. Armed with a gayageum, a stringed instrument that lays flat like a zither on a tilted table, she transforms traditional sounds from her native South Korea into contemporary explorations. Listeners are invited for the evocative journey.
Shaved Snow in Mountain View
Peninsula Press, SF Gate
Food is a portal to the world and a connection to culture as demonstrated by Snozen, a cafe in Mountain View. Video and radio feature.
Learning the ABCs of Being ABC
Half Moon Bay Review
How do you celebrate Chinese New Year when you’re mixed? Write your own rules. A personal essay in which Sara Hayden reflects on her experiences with the Lunar New Year.
A Healing Kind of Needlework
Half Moon Bay Review
Mark Takata started work as an athletic trainer for the San Francisco 49ers in 1987 and discovered the value of acupuncture shortly after.
Noble Silence
Half Moon Bay Review
Buddhist classes on California’s Coastside uphold Burmese tradition.
‘Love, InshAllah’
SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle
Friends Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi decided that they needed a space for American Muslim women to honestly voice their romantic experiences. The result? Sassy, sexy and humorous stories contributed by 25 women document anything from arranged marriage to first lesbian love and much, much more.
Language of Love
The Daily Californian
Inspired by a true story, Sumi, a Japanese woman, and James, an African American man, fall in love. They don’t speak each other’s native language, but find universal connection through communication and conflict. A podcast and written review of an experimental reading of the play “Yohen” written by Philip Kan Gotanda at the Durham Studio Theater in Berkeley, Calif.
Remembering Racism that Changed the Coast
Half Moon Bay Review
Naomi Patridge, who was the first Asian American woman elected to serve in San Mateo County and spent seven terms as mayor of Half Moon Bay, Calif., remembers her time spent at the Tanforan Race Track temporary “internment camp” as a child. Following an executive order issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Patridge her Japanese American family, along with 122,000 other innocent people, were removed from their homes and incarcerated in WWII.
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In addition to producing original pieces on the Asian American experience, Sara is committed to helping others share stories that have diverse perspectives. To that end she’s helped authors with the following books:
Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America
By Charles Russo
University of Nebraska Press
The Little Book of Skincare
By Charlotte Cho
HarperCollins
Luv Ya Bunches
By Lauren Myracle
Abrams Books
The Silk Knots Project 