In a courageous leap of love and faith, Felicia's mother got married and moved from Taiwan to be with her husband in bone-chilling Fairbanks, Alaska. It was here that Felicia was born and spent most of her first year of life before her parents decided that they'd had enough of Alaskan winters and moved to Canada. They chose to settle down in none other than one of the world's coldest capital cities, Ottawa.

For the next twenty some odd years, Felicia's family, which now included a younger sister, lived the suburban life. Growing up with a close-knit extended family and her cousins in Ottawa gave her a sense of normalcy in being Taiwanese. Years of trudging through snow banks on the way to school, downhill skiing, the making of snow angels, snowmen and snow forts, have all instilled in her an eternal affinity with snow.

After the awkwardness of high school passed, Felicia went off to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to study accounting. Amidst the cornfields Felicia felt more Canadian than American when asked, "Where were you born? Where are you from?" It was evident that neither of her answers to these questions seemed satisfactory when the questions eventually led to "But where are you really from? Where are your parents from?"

One day a little notice from the nascent Taiwanese American Students Club (TASC) arrived in her campus mailbox. This was the beginning of Felicia's years of work in the Taiwanese American and Asian American community. When she began organizing Taiwanese American Student conferences, and getting involved with the pioneering Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association (ITASA), she quickly learned about the power of the internet.

Accounting never seemed to be her calling, but while she tried to figure out what was, she moved to New York City and worked in internal accounting for about two years. She found respite by establishing the Society of Taiwanese Americans (SOTA), working with the Taiwanese Association of America (TAA) and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA).

Later, when she was completing a Master degree in Applied Psychology at New York University (NYU), she worked in human resources, both in not-for-profit and corporate settings.

Having worked in practically every neighborhood in Manhattan and with a variety of employers ranging from JP Morgan to the New-York Historical Society she decided that it was time to see the world from another perspective, outside of North America. Upon completing her Master of Arts in Psychology at NYU in 2001, she decided to make the move to Taiwan, to find her roots, and to do some soul searching.

After spending six years in Taiwan teaching English at the college and university level, Felicia decided to return to New York to work on an independent writing/documentary project that will most certainly take her in exciting new directions.

Joined: May 2005