CASA

If you want to be added to the CASA Mailing List, just e-mail our Communications Chair, Sherwin Yu!

Message From The President Of CASA, Lynn Wang:

"The Chinese American Students' Association (CASA) has been one of Yale's largest and most active undergraduate student organizations since 1996. CASA is an all-inclusive organization that offers social, political, cultural, and community service events to the entire Yale undergraduate campus. With over 300 members, we host a variety of activities for all sorts of interests. Come to get involved in mentoring and tutoring programs around New Haven, or to listen to professors and elected officials speak on Asian American politics. Come to watch our annual culture show, or just come to have some fun with a great group of people! Get matched with a family of upperclassmen parents and freshmen kids to form a new social circle and participate in our annual Family Olympics, in which families compete with each other for the ultimate prize! Whatever your interests may be, join CASA to get involved in meaningful activities and to form lasting friendships!

	President Lynn Wang TD '11 Email me CASA strives to be an all-inclusive student organization that promotes Chinese cultural awareness around campus. I'd love to hear your input on our events and ideas for new ones, and I hope you will get involved! Feel free to email me at lynn.wang@yale.edu

	Vice President Bing Luo PC '11 Email me Email me especially if you're alumni and want to hear what CASA has been up to since you graduated!

	Secretary Nicole Hui TC '12 Email me As your CASA secretary this year, I'm responsible for publishing the CASA Currents, a forum for members of CASA to publish pieces of text or art pertaining to Chinese-American issues. Anything from poetry, short stories, political pieces, to photography is accepted! I really hope to get CASA involved in more political and social issues pertaining to Chinese-Americans. Lastly, I am very proud of my fake British accent. You should ask me to do it for you :). I'm also from California!!

	Treasurer Michael Zhan, SM '12 Email me Hi, I'm in charge of the financial side of CASA, including keeping track of our budget, costs and revenues, and of course, fundraising! This is an exciting year, as we're planning to finally start the CASA endowment, with the help of our generous alumni. Despite poor economic conditions, our targets are high, we're bullish, and there is much much much work to do. If you have any questions about what I do, about CASA, or are at all interested in fundraising, finance, or any money-related stuff, feel free to contact me!

	Communications Chair Sherwin Yu MC '12 Email me I'm in charge of sending the weekly newsletters. If you want to be added to the CASA mailing list, e-mail me!

	Social Co-Chair Daniel Ni DC '12 Email me My responsibilities on board include planning and holding small social events to create a more cohesive CASA family. As co-social chair, I want to strengthen CASA families and organize more casual social events for CASA members. Now for a little bit about myself, I like Harry Potter, pizza, Naked smoothies, sweat pants, mashed potatoes, Missouri, and Facebook. I am 19 years old. I am a 5’9 single male without a steady income looking for a casual or serious relationship. If you want to meet me, search me on eHarmony or visit me in Welch!!!

	Social Co-Chair Wendy Wang CC '12 Email me I'm in charge of smaller events like study breaks, movie nights, game nights, etc. Of course, I'll also be helping Daniel with the bigger stuff. e-mail me regarding our social events and CASA families!

	Community Co-chair Lisa Pan, CC '12 Email me As community co-chair, I work with Amy to promote community service in CASA. Along with the Taiwanese American Society (TAS), I coordinate the once-a-semester Chinese Adopted Siblings Program for Youth (CASPY). This year, we are working with China Care to start up a biweekly playgroup that fosters a better connection among big sibs and little sibs. In addition, a pen-pal system will be implemented after CASPY in order to improve the long-term relationship among big sibs and little sibs. If you would like to volunteer with
	Community Co-chair Amy Wu, PC '12 Email me Hey everyone! I am the Co-Community Chair which means that I organize Community Service events! We want to tutor students in Chinese, mentor high school students at the New Haven Chinese School about college, build houses with Habitat, help New Haven Reads (a tutoring program and book bank), and volunteer at a homeless shelter! If you're interested in any of these events or have questions, let me know at amy.wu@yale.edu.

	Cultural Chair Zach Liao BC '11 Email me The Cultural Chair is the person behind CASA's amazing cultural shows! Look forward to this year's show taking place in early April. If you're interested in acting, scriptwriting, set design, costumes, performances, or anything related to the show, send me an email =)

	Political Chair Tim Xu BC '12 Email me I bring you speakers and discussions about Chinese and Chinese-American Politics. E-mail me regarding our political events, and with your suggestions for possible speakers to bring to campus!

	Publicist Juliana Zhou MC '12 Email me Hi, I'm Juliana Zhou, and I am the first ever board member specifically devoted to publicity! Yikes! Publicity at CASA has always had many strong areas. We're a huge group on campus, which is an instant benefit, and we have always had talented board members create splashy, eye -catching ads to advertise for our events. However, what is good can always still be improved upon! Aside from my basic jobs of creating fliers, table-tents and organizing announcements and Facebook events, I also want to get as many CASA members helping with publicizing as possible. Things like postering and table-tenting, I can do by myself, or with the help of a few board members. But what about more fun activities? For example, dyeing the snow on Old Campus to say "Come to CASA Cultural Show" might require some more bodies. If anyone has other ridiculous, eye-catching ideas that do NOT involve destruction of public property, let me know, and I will try to find the appropriate event to use it for.