Month: September 2020

Riley Hutchings – Chinese CPC Favorite Food: Xiaolongbao (Chinese steamed buns) Hobbies: Reading and cooking; hiking if not during pandemic Email: rhutchings@coloradocollege.edu Office Hour: By appointment through email; flexible in time Our new Chinese CPC is Riley Hutchings from Portland, Oregon. Riley graduated from Colorado College with a degree in Economics and a minor in Chinese in 2019; she worked for a year and came back to CC this year as the Chinese CPC. While she considers herself the outdoor type, she also enjoyed staying inside during quarantine. When asked what was her greatest accomplishment in the past few months, Riley stated she was happy as she got to read a lot of books she liked for fun.  As a non-native Chinese speaker, Riley wished to stay neut...

Asian Student Union/Korean-American Student Association (ASU/KASA): Asian Student Union/Korean-American Student Association aims to provide a space on campus for students of Asian heritage to build community and create a sense of belonging. We will engage with topics and issues that are currently transpiring in our world today, through forms of media, discussions, and engagement. Meeting times: TBD Contact: j_lam@coloradocollege.edu  South Asian Students’ Association (SASA): South Asian Students’ Association (SASA) brings together students who may or may not share a lineage with the South Asian region. The club typically meets on Fridays at 5 sometimes for a good chat, sometimes for planning an event over some good South Asian food and other times to discuss the ongoing...

By Kelly Yue Edwin Toshio Hamada joined Colorado College on September 1 as our new Assistant Vice President for the Residential Experience. He identifies as a Japanese-American and is beyond excited to join CC’s tight-knit community after previously working at numerous larger public universities. We started off the interview with a typical CC icebreaker question: “If you could be an item in the kitchen, what would it be?” Edwin said he would be a coffee maker or Espresso machine. “Being a Northwest transplant from California converted me into a coffee fanatic,” he shared. To delve into Edwin’s personal story, we asked about his favorite dish to make. It didn’t take him long to think: Hamada chicken. Edwin and his wife use a teriyaki chicken recipe handed down to them by his mo...