
For the past twenty years, StirFry Seminars has revolutionized the field of diversity through its internationally acclaimed films and seminars. Over 30 million viewers worldwide have seen The Color of Fear, as well as many of the other groundbreaking films produced and directed by Lee Mun Wah, StirFry’s founder, CEO and Master Trainer. In 1995 Oprah Winfrey produced a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah’s life and the impact of The Color of Fear.
Thousands of participants from educational, government, corporate, and social service agencies have taken StirFry’s trainings and seminars. We are recognized by many of the top 500 corporations as having one of the most outstanding cross-cultural and communications training programs for managers, supervisors, H.R. and top administrative executives. Clients such as Corning, NASA, Best Buy, Whirlpool, and IBM have all resounded with praise and awe at having participated in some of the most life changing and phenomenally useful trainings of their experience.
StirFry Seminars & Consulting is represented by a multicultural staff of trainers and facilitators from a variety of professional backgrounds and diversity expertise.
They each have years of experience working with corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and various social agencies. We are proud to introduce you to some of our outstanding consultants, facilitators, staff and interns.
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A nationally acclaimed lecturer and trainer, Lee Mun Wah is the Executive
Director and founder of StirFry Seminars. He is a Chinese American community
therapist, documentary filmmaker, educator, performing poet, Asian Folkteller
and author.
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Melissa is a freedom fighter and credits her mother for modeling the importance of political activism. From a very young age, Melissa became involved in social justice issues as a result of the inequalities she found herself witness to; in such circumstances, she found it impossible to close her eyes and not take responsibility for fostering change. (read more)
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David is a Vietnamese-American and was raised his whole life in
Northern California. He's currently enrolled at San Jose State
University working towards his B.A. degree in political science. (read more)
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Joan brings a wealth of accounting and administrative experience to Stirfry, having worked in management positions in accounting, IT and client services for small businesses, large corporations and a variety of non-profit organizations. (read more)
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Allison was born and raised in the Bay Area with a strong sense of the beauty and diversity of the region. She holds an B.A. in English from UC Berkeley and Master's degrees in Literature and Anglo-Irish Literature from the University of Michigan and the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (read more)
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Roberto is a multicultural consultant, trainer, and coach with a special emphasis on developing cultural competency, cross-cultural communication skills, conflict management, and team building in diverse environments. Roberto was a participant in the award winning documentaries, The Color of Fear, and its sequel, Walking Each Other Home: The Color of Fear 2. (read more)
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John Boiano, Pulse Integrations Founder/Director is a dynamic motivational facilitator, trainer and consultant with a unique approach to leading groups on a journey of self-discovery. From a mindful perspective, John facilitates group conversations and teachings on a wide range of positive growth and awareness issues focused on biases, perceptions and accountability. (read more)
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Alfonso brings over 15 years of capacity-building experience in planning, implementing and managing public health programs for marginalized and hard-to-reach populations served by community-based clinics, social service organizations and public health entities such as city and state health departments. He also serves as a senior staff trainer providing training on cultural competency, male involvement in family planning, risk-reduction behavior change models, and HIV prevention programs for minority colleges and universities in the Southwest. (read more)
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Linda is a Personal Life Consultant, Coach, Teacher, Therapist, Diversity Trainer, Facilitator, Mediator, Arbitrator, Retreat Facilitator and Planner. Creativity, Spirituality, Psychology and Travel are her primary interests and foundations of her life. As a Diversity Trainer and Facilitator, she has worked with Lee Mun Wah since 1994 and is the lead facilitator in his film, Last Chance for Eden. (read more)
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David is a licensed psychologist and attorney who has been performing diversity trainings across the country since 1992. He received graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin- Madison. David provides expertise in multicultural sensitivity, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender issues, cultural issues in psychological interventions, and communications and listening skills. (read more)
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A nationally acclaimed lecturer and Master Diversity & Communications Trainer, Lee Mun Wah is a Chinese American community therapist, documentary filmmaker, Special Education educator, performing poet, Asian folkteller and author. He is also Director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting, which works with corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and social agencies to facilitate diversity issues through healthy and authentic cross cultural relationships. (read more)
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John is a facilitator, trainer, and consultant working primarily with school districts and public organizations on issues of cultural competency, diversity, conflict, civil rights, intercultural communication, leadership and change. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Oregon, Lewis and Clark College, and Pacific University teaching graduate courses on diversity and cultural competency. He has worked closely with Stir Fry Seminars for several years facilitating workshops and in the development of training materials. He recently left the Oregon Department of Education, where he worked for 15 years and served as the Leader of the Access and Equity Team, to devote his time to teaching, training and mindful facilitation. (read more)
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Rainbow Markell is a consultant, trainer, and mediator working with groups and individuals to heal what divides us. She learned much about human needs and interactions working in early childhood education for 18 years. As a teacher and administrator in programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school age children, Rainbow focused on communication, conflict resolution and anti-bias curriculum. She has trained hundreds of staff how to interact and actively listen to young children.
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Jim Peale is a Senior Facilitator for StirFry Seminars with a strong background
in diversity training and organizational development. He has a doctoral
degree in psychology from Union Institute and is a certified NLP (Neurolinguistic
Programming) Elite Master Practitioner. (read more)
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Reanne
has years of experience as a diversity and organizational change consultant.
She holds a B.A. degree in psychology from California State University,
Northridge and a M.A. degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University.
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Daniel is an educator and facilitator who believes in the power of an individual’s story and the need for communities to be purposefully challenged by these stories. As a white man dedicated to anti-racist, anti-sexist work, Daniel works to recognize his own assumptions and biases. Raised and educated in predominately all-white, wealthy communities he was, as Peggy McIntosh states, “taught to see racism [and sexism] only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group. (read more)
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Sarah is a community college Psychology Instructor who empowers her students with psychological, emotional, and life skills to assist them in becoming who they truly desire. She does this by expanding their level of self-awareness around topics such as race, sexuality, communication, and factors such as inner thoughts and childhood that shape their present (read more) .
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