An Evening with Eugene Lee Yang and Jenny Yang

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Join Cornell University Program Board and Cornell Asian Pacific Student Union present An Evening with Eugene Lee Yang and Jenny Yang on Saturday, May 7th @7pm in Barton Hall! Tickets will go on sale starting Monday, April 18th @ 12pm on cornelltickets.universitytickets.com. The show will feature stand up by Jenny Yang and a moderated Q&A and special performance by Eugene Lee Yang.

Eugene Lee Yang is a producer, actor, director, writer, and one of today's most recognizable queer Asian-American performers. His digital work, both solo and with The Try Guys, over the past seven years as a viral video producer has been viewed billions of times and he has been distinguished as one of the world's most culturally influential YouTube creators. Yang's official coming out video, "I'm Gay," in June 2019 went viral and raised $150,000 for The Trevor Project. Yang recently released his full-length documentary, "We Need To Talk About Anti-Asian Hate" which raised over $600K to GoFundMe's Stop Asian Hate campaign. Yang is currently in development for his own television, film, and writing projects.

Jenny Yang is a former labor organizer turned stand up comedian, host, writer and actor. In 2020 she was selected as one of Variety's "10 Comics To Watch" and Vulture's "Comedians You Should Know." Taiwan-born and Southern California-raised, Jenny was honored by President Obama as a "White House Champion of Change" for her leadership in "Asian American and Pacific Islander Art and Storytelling" in 2016. Find her online at jennyyang.tv and on all social media at @jennyyangtv.

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Co-hosted with: Cornell Asian Pacific Student Union