80-20 STAFF IN SAN FRANCISCO & CHANG-LIN TIEN INTERNS 

By Denise Wong
  
80-20 announced today (June 1, 2003) that Harrison Leong, a recent graduate from 
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine will join its full-time staff starting 
June 1, to be stationed in San Francisco.  He was born and raised in San 
Francisco and speaks Mandarin and Cantonese.  His course training was 
in Asian Studies, Political Science and Sociology.  His title is Special 
Assistant to the President. 

Harrison said, "I am passionate about serving the Asian American 
community, and I know I will be learning from our civic leaders in 
San Francisco.  For 80-20 related matters, I can be reached via 
hleong@alumni.bowdoin.edu or (415) 812-3645." 

80-20 is also pleased to announce four Chang-lin Tien Memorial Interns 
for the summer of 2003.  Chang-lin Tien was a key founder of 80-20 
and the first Asian Am. to become the president of a major university, 
The Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. 

Two will intern from June 1 to August 31.  One is Paul Jung of Los 
Angeles, a Korean American, and the other is a Chinese American, Ling 
Bob Hsia of Richmond Virginia.  Sherry Zhang of West Windsor, New 
Jersey will be on Board from June 1 till July 31, and Denise Wong of 
Columbia, Missouri from Aug. 1 to Aug. 31. 

All four have a large number of extracurricular activities, including 
service to the Asian American community.  They have outstanding 
scholarly credentials.  Indeed, two of them are National Merit Scholars. 
80-20 is delighted that four of the best and the brightest of our youths 
are devoting all or part of a summer in the direction of public service. 
80-20 believes that organizing is the key to political empowerment. If 
the Asian Am. community is to have its share of political clout, we 
need youths who know how to organize politically -- cutting their teeth 
in the real world. 

The Interns will be trained intensively for 2 weeks and then let go to 
recruit dues-paying members for 80-20 under semi-weekly supervision. 
The expectation is for each Intern to recruit sufficient members whose 
dues be will equal to an intern's stipend.  In this manner, the Memorial 
fund will be self perpetuating, thereby providing a last memory of 
Chancellor Tien.  At the same time, the program will provide our 
youths with the real world experience of the joy and frustration 
of organizing the Asian American community. 

S. B. Woo, President of 80-20 said, "I want to thank Mrs. Susan Wu of 
Alabama, who was a classmate of Chancellor Tien at the Taiwan 
National University and Prof. Larry Ho of the Harvard University, who 
is an 80-20 Board Member, for raising the funds for the Chang-lin Tien 
Memorial Internship."