The next Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative event will feature a fireside chat on the topic of “An Interview with Professor Margaret M. Chin, Author of Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder.” Dr. Margaret Chin, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, will discuss her award-winning book. The webinar will include a fireside chat interview, Q&A, and a networking session at the end. Peter Young, Chair of the Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative and a Committee of 100 Member, will be the moderator.

The purpose of this event is to cover why Dr. Margaret Chin wrote the book, the key findings described in the book, and her advice to Asian Americans who are seeking to advance in the corporate world. Virtual networking will follow for 30 minutes after the panel. There is no fee to attend this event.

Dr. Margaret M. Chin
Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College and the Graduate Center

Margaret M. Chin is Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College and the Graduate Center, and the author of two award winning books, Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder and Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry. A third book is forthcoming: The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become, written with Syed Ali.

She was born and raised in New York City and is herself a child of Chinese immigrant parents. Dr. Chin received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Her honors include an American Sociological Association’s Minority Fellows Award, an NSF Dissertation Grant, a Social Science Research Councils Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Migration, and a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship. She was the vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society (2015-2016). She is affiliated with Hunter College’s Asian American Center, CUNY’s Asian/ Asian American Research Institute, and the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, USA Today, Marketwatch and other news outlets.

Dr. Chin is a board member of the Tenement Museum and a co-founder and board member of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard.

Peter Young
CEO and President, Young & Partners
Committee of 100 Member

Peter Young is CEO and President of Young & Partners, a boutique corporate strategy and investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client projects, transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm serving the corporate strategy, M&A, restructuring and financing needs of clients worldwide. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.

Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is a board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.