Executor - Estate of Lily and Vincent ChinHelen Zia
Award-winning writer and social justice activist Helen Zia was a key spokesperson and organizer in the landmark civil rights movement for justice for Vincent Chin and is the Executor the Estate of Lily and Vincent Chin. Her role is documented in the Academy Award-nominated Who Killed Vincent Chin? Helen has written articles, essays, op-ed pieces, and analyses about Asian Americans, most definitively through her book Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. She has been outspoken in this current pandemic of anti-Asian violence, appearing in the PBS series The Asian Americans; New York Times; USA Today's 100 Women of the Century; Washington Post's Race in America series; and Lisa Ling/CNN's This is Life, among others. Helen's most recent book, Last Boat out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Fled Mao's Revolution, was an NPR Best Book of 2019. She was executive editor of Ms. magazine and testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about media portrayals of Asian Americans. In 2010 she was a witness in the landmark case for marriage equality that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a co-founder of American Citizens for Justice.