OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA

In the summer of 2020, in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests, Leadership for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) hired Maum’s Founding Director, Dr. Park, to develop an open source educational guide to accompany the 2015 PBS documentary film, Off the Menu: Asian America. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee and produced by Eurie Chung of Flash Cuts ( a 2020 LEAP Leadership Award recipient), the one hour film “grapples with how family, tradition, faith, and geography shape our relationship to food.”

With generous support from Target and 2020 LEAP Leadership Awards Celebration sponsors, Dr. Park worked with educator Wendy Cheung and others to develop and design an educational guide targeting working professionals and others new to conversations and concepts related to food, culture, and power.

Maum has delivered several workshops to a range of clients on some of the themes of the film and guides. For those interested in hiring Maum to deliver similar workshops for your group, please contact us. For those interested in screening Off the Menu, please contact Eurie directly at eurie[at]flashcuts.com.