From Strengthening to Centering the Margin: Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize

For most of my life's work in the cultural development field, the lens has been one of representing and advocating for representation. Ensuring that the cultures of those at the margins were fought for and represented. I had a recent experience with the Smithsonian's ongoing Asian-Latino Program that rotated my consciousness on this issue of cultural representation -- from one of strengthening to centering the margin. I was raised by a father who fought in World War II and returned from the conf...