BREAK THE SILENCE

UC Berkeley Speaker Series

Community History and Current Issues of Gentrification and Displacement

As the Director of Program Planning and Development at Asian Health Services, Julia Liou oversees fundraising, program planning, grants, and manages various community projects. She co-founded and manages the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, a statewide coalition effort to address the health and safety issues nail salon patients and community members face in their work environment.

She also led a community engagement project related to the City of Oakland’s Lake Merritt Planning process, which seeks to ensure community input, vision, and ideas into this proposed transit oriented development planning process. During her time at AHS, she has managed the Revive Chinatown! project, a community transportation and urban planning effort, developed language access policy recommendations, coordinated the capital implementation of Revive Chinatown!, and has published peer reviewed articles related to pedestrian safety, community health, and nail salon workers.

Wednesday, February 24, 4 - 5 pm, 234 DwinelleFeatured guest speakers: Dr. Arthur Chen and Julia Liou

Session is open to the campus community. Refreshments provided, space limited. Register at tinyurl.com/bts-reg

Dr. Arthur Chen is currently a Senior Fellow focusing on building a learning organization that promotes a culture of service excellence and community advocacy at Asian Health Services, where he has practiced inpatient and outpatient medicine as a family physician since 1983 and also served as their Medical Director and Special Pro-grams Director (1984-1995). He also serves as the Deputy Director for the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health, a leadership training program sponsored by the CDC. From 2001-2009 he served as the Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of the Alameda Alliance for Health, a Medicaid Managed Care non-profit public entity serving 100,000 low income residents of Alameda County.