Professor Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Honored on Good Morning America

Professor Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was featured in a list compiled by Good Morning America of inspirational Asian and Pacific Islander-identifying public figures. "Good Morning America and ABC News asked influential AAPI leaders, celebrities, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, athletes and more to nominate fellow members of the community for the list," according to to ABC News.

Professor Wangmo Dhompa was nominated by Tenzin Mingyur Paldron, a Tibetan-American artist and scholar from UC Berkely.

To quote the Good Morning America bio in full, "Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the first Tibetan-American professor of literature and creative writing, and the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English. Raised in India and Nepal, Tsering has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is currently a professor in the English Department at Villanova University. Her first book of poems, Rules of the House, published by Apogee Press in 2002, was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. In 2013, Penguin India published Tsering’s first full-length book, A Home in Tibet, in which she chronicles her successive journeys to Tibet and provides ethnographic details of ordinary Tibetans inside Tibet. Revolute, a chapbook of 29 poems, was printed this year by Albion Books."

You can read about more inspirational figures from the GMA/ABC News list on their website.