Diversity exponent elected to headthe California Bar :       Holly Fujie is a woman of numbers – the third woman to head the California State Bar and the first person from her firm, Buchalter Nemer Fields and Younger, to hold the title.
“It feels like it’s an honor and a privilege, and a responsibility,” The Los Angeles attorney said after being elected, adding that she hopes to bring about changes in the legal profession. “The president is sort of the captain of the board of governors and helps to steer the policy making the ship to do what we can to improve the profession,” she said.

Fuji has campaigned for diversity in the legal profession and devoted long hours and many speeches to that cause. Practicing what she preaches, she has also served on the editorial board of Title IX, a publication of the ABA Committee on Diversity in the Profession. She has also advised the White House on federal judicial appointments.

 

 

                                          

BENEFIT: The Los Angeles Dodgers meet the San Diego Padres at PETCO Park in San Diego Wednesday, Sept. 10 – win or lose, to benefit Filipino Heritage. Several of San Diego’s Filipino organizations are behind the special night, with specially reserved seats in the Field Reserve or Upper Infield Reserve sections. For tickets, go to www.padres.com.                                                   

BRAND OF COMEDY: When you see the show, you’ll see why The 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, a pan-Asian America sketch comedy group, lives up to its billing as the world's most psychotic Asian American comedy troupe. The L.A.-based group, formed in the Bay Area 14 years ago and the subject of a regional Emmy-winning documentary, brings its brand of laughs, “Just Like White People,” to the Complex (Ruby Theater), 6476 Santa Monica Blvd., in Hollywood, through Sunday, Aug. 24.

 

BOOK PARTY: Undocumented Asian students commanded the spotlight at a recent book party at Remy’s on Temple Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
The event, held Aug. 10, was designed to raise awareness regarding the plight of college students who were brought to the United States from their native countries as young children. Many grew up in working class, immigrant enclaves. Their struggle is captured in “Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out,” produced by the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California Los Angeles.