Vickie Nam!

I decided to do Vickie Nam just because I have been obsessed with the book Yello-Oh Girls! It brings so much connections and memories - good or bad. And everytime it introduces another chapter, it brings some personal experiences to the readers, which made me even more interested in Vickie Nam, so I decided to do researching.

First of all, she's Korean! That's 25% similar to me! She is a writer and an editor. She graduated from Wellesley College, and during her years in college she had always been interested in Asian Culture and girl power. She has been dedicated myself to work that are empowering to women. She was an editor-in-chief at an advertising-free magazine called Blue Jeans Magazine,  part of the News Team at Teen People, Asianavenue.com, and VOXXY, an interactive network.  Vickie Nam started her career in magazine journalism at Teen People Magazine and Asianavenue.com. Her works gave her recognition. In 2008, she received the "Vision Award" by the Japanese American Citizens League. She is a part of the advisory board member in LA-Based WriteGirl and developed an annual workshop series at UC Santa Cruz that combines all media and literature.

Surprisingly, when I searched her up, it only showed that Vickie Nam has one published work, a very famous work Yell-Oh Girls! Which we had read in class. To me, and to all the Asian Americans that live in the United States, this book appeals every memory and importance that has occurred in our lives. To the class, it's known that I talk about the voice of Asian Americans a lot, so to be able to come across this book, I just wanted to know more about her.

Throughout her book, it was split into constant themes. Each theme focuses on one aspect of how Asian Americans grew up, how Asian Americans struggle to find their identity, how Asian Americans want to be free. Her storytelling doesn't only consist of herself, but rather every Asian American combined and connect the similarities across. Perhaps her most important storytelling was the emotional appeal to the readers who want to and are able to connect to the many essays connected in every essay. Or perhaps it is stemmed from the very core of her own problems that she struggled to tell others, but now is able to openly express herself because of all the silence she has had. But Vickie Nam starts off with an experience of her own and tells the event as she remembers it, then later connects it to those who desperately needed the reassurance that she (because we are talking about Asian American woman) isn't the only one.

Every story, essay, poem that Vickie Nam has compiled is explained at the beginning of the chapter. The story starts off like a blank canvas. Much like a story book, which has a beginning, middle, and end, Vickie Nam starts off with talking about Asian Americans assimilating into the the American Culture and goes off into more emotional topics. She talks as if she is a voice, a voice among all the other Asian Americans and that's what makes her story telling powerful. She writes as if she's talking to the readers telling us every detail that has occurred that has led up and made her the strong women that she is today.