Over the past twelve years Jeremy Liu has worked for and with communities of color, seniors, and youth, to creatively confront issues of social and environmental equity, affordable housing, and community empowerment. His work at the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) has been creative and far-reaching.
As Director of Community Programs, Jeremy worked closely with the Hudson Street for Chinatown Coalition towards envisioning, advocating for, and achieving a Community Vision for Parcel 24, the Big Dig parcel which ACDC hopes to develop into mixed-use, mixed-income housing in accordance with HSCC's vision.
Together with Tad Hirsch of MIT's Media Lab, Liu developed Speakeasy, a cellular telephone network that conveniently connects immigrants with low English speaking proficiency to volunteer translators to improve their access to essential services when and where they need them most.
Liu co-created, with Mike Blockstein, A Chinatown Banquet, a multimedia digital art and activism project that functions as a community planning, youth leadership development, and organizing/outreach tool. It is a "living document" of the community that describes the complex facets of the Chinatown neighborhood as a way of substantiating the interests of the community as expressed in the Chinatown Community Plan.
Liu now oversees a staff to ensure that these Community Programs continue to flourish and positively impact the Chinatown neighborhood and beyond. He graduated from Tufts University where he studied biology and environmental studies.