Karen Umemoto's Speech Analysis

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Today I attended the speech made by Karen Umemoto about why she should be elected as the chairman of Asian American Studies center. The title of her speech was “Synergy and Relevance: Building Community and Capacity at the Asian American Studies Center”. By listening to her speech I learned that she is a Community Planner and she wishes to have more engagement and interaction between different Asian ethnic groups. As a Community Planner, she showed that she has the ability to combined community engagement with teaching like the graph she showed during the speech. In the graph, she showed that how public engagement, research, and teaching could combine together in a triangular relationship. Besides community engagement, she also wishes