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May 28, 2024

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AHN and Meta Prosper have partnered on a new podcast series highlighting API creators. Meta Prosper is dedicated to amplifying and supporting the API community and driving economic growth and equitable representation. The Creators Podcast series delivers stories on how creators achieved success and created impact through their platforms, serving as an inspiration for the community.

In the first installment of the Creators Podcast series, we shine a spotlight on Priyanka Naik, a first-generation Indian-American whose path took her from pre-med and economics to a career in media and tech, before going full-time into the culinary world.

Priyanka Naik is a self-taught award-winning vegan chef who grew up in New York, incorporating her family heritage into her plant-based cooking. But she didn’t stop there.


Drawing inspiration from her travels to over forty countries, Priyanka infuses each place she visited into her recipes while focusing on sustainability. She practices no-waste cooking and consciously sources ingredients to minimize her environmental impact, making her a leading advocate for eco-friendly culinary practices. 

Priyanka’s cooking skills have landed her on TV shows like The Today Show and The Kelly Clarkson Show, and have led her to become a Food Network champion, TV host, author of The Modern Tiffin, columnist for Ecokitchen in The Washington Post, pop-up restaurateur, and a TEDx speaker.

Listen to The Creators Podcast featuring Priyanka Naik here.

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Founder of Penn Asian Senior Services Im Ja Choi Passed Away At 73

A well-known supporter of Asian American seniors and the founder and emeritus CEO of the nonprofit Penn Asian Senior Services, Im Ja Choi,  passed away on Wednesday, June 22, from lung cancer in a South Korean hospital, she was 73. 

A memorial service will be conducted on July 16 at 3:00 pm at the Evergreen Center in Philadelphia. Contributions in her name will be appreciated.

Ms. Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1948, majored in literature, and graduated from Korea University. She moved to Philadelphia after marrying her childhood friend Jung Choi in 1971, where she studied organizational dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a top-producing real estate agent in the 1980s and 1990s. 

She started Penn Asian Senior Services in 2004 to help Asian American elders with linguistic and cultural obstacles. Because she couldn’t get home care for her mother, and after hearing horrible experiences from other caregivers, she founded the charity that provides in-home care and homemaking services in over two dozen languages.

She undertook the fundraising efforts and strategic planning of the nonprofit, for which the charity received grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and numerous organizations. 

Moreover, she has also opened an adult day care for immigrants with language and cultural barriers, a state-licensed vocational school for entry-level Asian health-care workers, and a seniors community center. 

In 2013, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. The Independence Blue Cross Foundation president Lorina Marshall-Blake wrote that the region needed more health visionaries like Im Ja Choi. Ken Yang, CEO of Penn Asian Senior Services, said Ms. Choi’s care, generosity, and love for her family and community matched her innovative leadership.

She was also recognized by the governor as a 2014 Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania for her “extraordinary service and achievements to the Commonwealth.” In the same year, she gave the commencement address at Penn State Abington where she quoted “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

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