IT HAPPENED HERE: ANN XUAN CLARKE
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | 12 - 12:30 PM PDT | HING HAY PARK | FREE
The best, local history, Talk-Story event is back! Join Five powerful leaders in our communities as they share personal stories of building movements, reporting events, and securing the community and the future of civil rights. Each speaker has had a connection to the Chinatown-International District-- some were mentored here- others embrace its history and steward its future.
Meet Ann Xuan Clarke! Annie Xuân Clark has 30 years of experience in the non-profit and philanthropic sector and has been Chief Seattle Club’s Develoment Consultant since 2011. As a Program Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Annie awarded and/or managed $230 million in grants to non-profits, tribes and government agencies in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation Annie worked for the Seattle Chinatown-International District Preservation and Development Authority.
In 1995 while working in Seattle’s International District, Annie co-founded the Asian Lesbian and Bisexual Alliance. She has worked on many queer Asian visibility campaigns and has always been delighted by the support of the mainstream Asian American community. Annie came out to her mother one week after her first kiss with a woman. After her mom’s initial shock, guilt, and anger, she became involved in Vietnamese P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and has even gone out to lesbian bars with Annie.
Annie was a National board member of the Asian Pacific Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered Network, and helped organize a national queer API women’s summit with the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders held in San Francisco.
She has also worked in a variety of creative mediums including videos, video installations, ‘zines and creative writing. Annie’s work has been screened, exhibited and published throughout the United States.