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Helen Zia is an American journalist, author, and activist. She is best known for her work on Asian American issues, particularly those related to Asian American women. She was born in 1952 in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in a working-class Chinese American family.
Zia attended Princeton University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1974. She then went on to earn a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1976.
Zia began her career as a journalist in 1976, working for the Associated Press in New York City. She then moved to San Francisco, where she worked for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. In the late 1980s, she began to focus her writing on Asian American issues, particularly those related to Asian American women.
In 1992, Zia wrote the book Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, which was a groundbreaking work on Asian American history and culture. She has also written extensively on the subject of Asian American women, including her book Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution.
In addition to her writing, Zia has been an active advocate for Asian American rights. She was a founding member of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, and she has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.
As of 2021, Helen Zia's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.
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Helen Zia |
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JournalistActivist |
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71 years old |
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, 1952 |
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Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
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United States |
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Who Is Helen Zia's Husband?
Her husband is Lia Shigemura
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Helen Zia Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Zia's latest work, "Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution", released in January of 2019.
In June 2008, Zia married her partner Lia Shigemura in San Francisco, making them one of the first same-sex couples to legally marry in the state of California.
She contributed the piece "Reclaiming the Past, Redefining the Future: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan.
She also co-authored, with Wen Ho Lee, of My Country Versus Me, in January 2002, which reveals what happened to the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy for the People's Republic of China in the "worst case since the Rosenbergs."
In January 2000, Zia authored Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. President of the United States Bill Clinton quoted from Asian American Dreams at two separate speeches in the White House Rose Garden.
She has also been outspoken on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women's rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. In 1997, she testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the racial impact of the news media.
She traveled to Beijing in 1995 to the United Nations Fourth World Congress on Women as part of a journalists of color delegation.
Zia was the executive editor of Ms. Magazine 1989 to 1992 Zia also serves on the board of directors for Women's Media Center. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, books and anthologies, including Ms., The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Essence, The Advocate, and OUT.
Zia's time in Detroit overlapped with the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982. Zia played a crucial role in bringing federal civil rights charges against the perpetrators of Vincent's killing and in igniting an Asian American response to the crime through her journalism and advocacy work. At the time, little existed in terms of a cohesive and organized Asian American movement in Detroit, but Zia's journalism helped to galvanize the Asian American community to demand justice for Vincent Chin.
She has appeared in numerous news programs and films; her work on the 1980s Asian American landmark civil rights case of anti-Asian violence is documented in the Academy Award nominated film, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" and she was profiled in Bill Moyers' PBS documentary, "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience."
Zia entered medical school at Tufts University in 1974, but quit in 1976. She eventually moved to Detroit, Michigan, working as a construction laborer, an autoworker and a community organizer, after which she discovered her life's work as a journalist and writer.
Zia was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1952 to first generation immigrants from Shanghai. At five years old, she began working in her parent's floral novelty business. She entered Princeton University in the early 1970s as a student in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She was a member of its first graduating class of women. As a student, Zia was among the founders of the Asian American Students Association. She was also a vocal anti-war activist, voicing her Opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, a firm believer in feminism, and active in movements creating cross racial unity among low income people of color.
