Not Quite: Asian American by Law, Asian Woman by Desire

The performance itself is 45 minutes and we will have about about half an hour or so for conversation. 

Ada Cheng was a tenured professor in sociology at DePaul University in Chicago for 15 years (2001-2016). Her areas of expertise included gender, sexuality, masculinity, immigration, work, qualitative methods, and ethnography. She resigned from her teaching position in 2016 to pursue theater and performance full-time. She has been doing storytelling, improvisation, and stand-up comedy since then. She is a one-time Moth StorySlam winner, a presenter at the National Storytelling Conference, and a runner-up at Chicago’s Bughouse Square Debates. She has been featured at storytelling shows in Chicago and Atlanta. She has also told stories at The Moth in Chicago, New York, Denver, and Detroit. In addition to storytelling, she is a member of the improv house team at McKaw Theater in Chicago. She is also facilitating a writer’s workshop at The Crowd Theater. Her motto is: Make your life the best story you tell. She is committed to helping people, especially midlifers, embrace their fear about uncertainty and pursue their dreams of living authentic lives.

Ada Cheng, Ph.D.Standing Up: From Renegade Professor to Middle-Aged Comic
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