Jessica Huey
Jessica Huey is a Director at BDO FMA, a firm that supports nonprofit organizations to strengthen their fiscal management practices. She received her Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and her B.A. from Brown University. Jessica is a fourth generation Japanese-American (Yonsei) on her mother’s side, and fourth generation Chinese-American on her father’s side.
Updated March 2023
Stories from This Author
Tea with my Ancestors
March 8, 2023 • Jessica Huey
It’s the last day of February. In these final hours of the month, as I lay trying to figure out all the tasks for tomorrow while my 3-year-old daughter snores away in bed next to me, I find my mind wandering back to the past. February is often a reflective month for me and, in particular, it brings up memories of my Japanese American grandparents. Every day or so, another reminder: My Ojīchan’s birthday on the 5th; my Obāchan’s passing …
Obāchan
Oct. 10, 2018 • Jessica Huey
“I wish you had shared more about your Japanese-American grandmother’s story.” – Professor Anderson In the fall of my freshman year in college, I took a class called Growing Up Ethnic and Multicultural. The final project for the course was to share your life story. Excited to share what I felt was my unique life story at age 17, I wrote fifteen pages about what it was like to grow up as an Asian-American in Ukiah, a small, rural town …
