Exploring Generation Next

Thank you for your message. We did portray three successful Asian American young people in the first hour of Generation Next, which aired in January 2007. We spent many hours interviewing and videotaping Lisa Higaki and her sister, Lauren Higaki, both of whom live in California; and we profiled Doan Phan, a graduate of the University of Alabama, who is a hospital X-ray technician working today in Birmingham, Alabama. They and others illustrated the successes of the Asian-American community in the United States: the Higakis are of Japanese descent; Ms. Phan's family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam when she was three years old. I urge you to take a look at their stories, as well.