U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Michael Hanley, Chairperson Rochester
Leslie B. Anderson Central Islip	Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Tappan
Emilio Fuentes Buffalo	Elizabeth R. OuYang Brooklyn
Stephen E. Gottlieb Albany	Gregory Rabb Jamestown
Kimberly Hardy New York	Lita Taracido New York
Joan B. Johnson Islip	Norman Wagner Central Islip
Ghazi Y. Khankan Westbury	Thomas R. Wahl, Jr. Rochester
Gloria Lopez Rochester	Cecile C. Weich Bronx
Paul D. Q. Nguyen New York	David Alan Wright Buffalo

Acknowledgments

The New York Advisory Committee wishes to thank the staff of the Commission's Eastern Regional Office Ivy Davis, acting regional director, Ki-Taek Chun, now retired regional director, and Aonghas St-Hilaire for their assistance in planning and executing the forum and in preparing and producing the report. Dawn Sweet provided editorial services. Dorothy Pearson-Canty and Alfreda Greene provided production and distribution services.

The Committee gratefully acknowledges the assistance given in convening the May 21, 2003, community forum by the New York University (NYU) School of Law, and in particular the NYU Asian/ Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute and the NYU Institute for Law and Society.