Free Chol Soo Lee

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The rollercoaster life story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder.

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Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans, helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside California state prisons, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.

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    Scottie Lee Meyers

    Scottie Lee Meyers is a millennial with a newspaper subscription and a native Milwaukeean who believes Bob Uecker calls a better game when the score is lopsided. Meyers is an Emmy Award-winning multimedia producer and journalist for Milwaukee PBS. Before that, he was at Wisconsin Public Radio, where he produced “The Kathleen Dunn Show” and filed stories for the statewide network. Over the years, Meyers served as a Wisconsin Policy Forum fellow at Marquette University and reported for several newspaper outlets, including Gannett, The North Coast Journal and Two Rivers Tribune. He’s also a proud AmeriCorps alum. He lives in the Riverwest neighborhood with his golden retriever Patsy.

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    Julie Ha

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    Director/Producer Julie Ha’s storytelling career spans more than two decades in ethnic and mainstream media, with a specialized focus on Asian American stories. She formerly served as editor-in-chief of KoreAm Journal, a national Korean American magazine. FREE CHOL SOO LEE, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, is her first documentary film.

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    Eugene Yi

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    Director/Producer Eugene Yi is a filmmaker, editor, and writer from Los Angeles. His editing work has been in Berlinale, Tribeca, and The New York Times. He formerly served as contributing editor for KoreAm Journal, a national Korean American magazine. FREE CHOL SOO LEE, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, is his first film as director.

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    Maysee Herr

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    Maysee Herr, PhD Dr. Maysee Herr is Chief Executive Officer of HWCC (Hmong Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce), a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides technical and financial assistance to entrepreneurs and business startups in historically underinvested and underbanked communities. Prior to joining HWCC, Dr. Herr was an associate professor of education at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dr. Herr co-founded Hmong Phoojywg (Friend) Enrichment Program in Central Wisconsin in 2012 as a way to provide youth the opportunity to learn how to speak Hmong and to understand Hmong culture and history. She has been a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant for numerous organizations in the nonprofit and for-profit world for many years. Dr. Herr was one of the founding members of Toward One Wausau, a grassroots committee of community members and local stakeholders whose mission was to bring about unity and understanding through community dialogues. She is currently a co-chair of the Toward One Wisconsin Conference happening in 2023. While living in Wausau, she was very active in the community, serving as board members of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin as well as Marathon County Child Development Agency, among others. She is currently a board member for Employ Milwaukee and on the advisory committee for Forward 48, an organization originally founded in Milwaukee that was created to develop and increase civic-minded and diverse leadership. Dr. Herr was most recently recognized as Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) MarketPlace 2022 CEO of the Year and 2023 TITAN’s Top 100 CEOs in Wisconsin. In the last two years, she has been selected as a BizTimes Media Notable Minority Executive, one of 48 Most Influential Asian Americans in Wisconsin by Madison365, and nominated as a Non-Profit Leader of the Year by Madison 365.

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