Lawrence Wang was born in Rochester, New York, and raised in the multicultural San Francisco Bay Area. Lawrence’s first memories are of his godparents, whose nurturing care imbued him with the...
Lawrence Wu currently practices law in New York at Harry Jho LLC, a boutique law firm specializing in the areas of OTC derivatives, prime brokerage, and securities finance. Lawrence was born in New...
Leda calls herself one of Korea's lost children. Born in Korea, she was adopted by an American couple and grew up in a racially diverse community in Connecticut. She reflects on the triple bind of...
Born in Albania to a family that suffered decades of political persecution under the communist regime, Ledina does not take good governance for granted. The planned economy dictated everything from...
Leen was born in Dubai and raised in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates to Arab immigrants—a Syrian father and a Palestinian-Lebanese mother whose family was expelled from Haifa during the 1948 Nakba. Her...
Having grown up in the United Arab Emirates and being the daughter of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants, 2016 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Leen Katrib has always been interested in refugees. After all,...
Heralded as "one of the most exciting voices in New Music" by The Wire magazine, Lei Liang is a Chinese-born American composer whose works have been described as "hauntingly beautiful and sonically...
Music composition and activism may not always go hand-in-hand, but for Lei Liang (2002 Fellow), who left China after the Tiananmen Square tragedy, the two are nearly synonymous. Liang, a 2015...
A cornerstone of Columbia University's Miller Theatre's programming is their Portraits series. These evening-length musical profiles explore the work of a single composer in depth, offering...
LEONARDO ARRIOLA is the associate dean of the social sciences division at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an assistant professor of political science the school. Leonardo was born...