Whenever you take a satisfying sip of your favorite drink from Starbucks (hello, pumpkin flavors at Christmas!), ever stop to wonder who guides the overarching vision behind the mega-successful coffee company?
Meet Clara Shih. At just 29, she’s the newest addition to the Starbucks board of directors, taking Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s place. As a young woman and Asian American, Clara is an anomaly in the world of corporate boards. According to a 2010 study conducted by the Alliance for Board Diversity, Asian/Pacific Islander women make up less than 1% of Fortune …

The Museum of Chinese in America and the Young Professionals of MOCA invite you to join their second annual Young Professionals Expo on Thursday, November 3 at 7-11 pm. The expo was started to help celebrate and embrace Asian American culture, creativity and couture. This year’s event will focus on connections and community. It’s a time to contemplate and evaluate how we are all connected, how our futures are affected by our past, and what we can do to combine our goals and passions for the empowerment of our community. …

I’ve found myself crying at everything lately––and not just reruns of “Grey’s Anatomy.” These days, given my real-world journalism internship at a magazine, I find myself crying while researching articles; tearing up when someone sends in a sad letter to the editor. Maybe it’s my hormones, or maybe I’m finally tapping into feelings I always suspected I had.

Most 20-year-olds, like myself, are busy trying to survive our sophomore or junior year college classes, working at on-campus jobs or internships, and perhaps just starting to get a grasp of what we really want to do for a career.
Jessica Mah is not your average 20-year-old. At age 9, she began programming computers and at 13, she started a web design company. She graduated from high school at 15, and at 18, she founded internshipIN, an internship listing service.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh revealed that they are going to hire 2,000 employees (seasonal and full-time) in 2011. So if you’re looking for a job in the next year, and want to work for a booming company, you know where to look. The competition will be tough, however: Zappos received 25,000 job applications last year—and only hired 250 people, a low 1% acceptance rate.