The Oaklandside: Oakland teen showcases Chinatown pride on Oaklandish T-shirt
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By Ashley McBride. Ashley reports on education equity for The Oaklandside. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University, has held positions at the Palm Beach Post and the Poynter Institute, and is a recent Hearst Journalism Fellow.
Intro to the December 23, 2022 article:
For 17-year-old Poinciana Hung-Haas, what started as a simple contest entry at the beginning of the year has grown into a fundraiser for a beloved Oakland institution, and an opportunity to show pride for Oakland’s Chinatown.
Poinciana, a senior fashion-design student at Oakland School for the Arts, first created her “dragon power” design for a logo contest held by the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council earlier this year. She took inspiration from her own upbringing and from Dragon School, a neighborhood organization that worked with youth and local artists to paint 99 dragon murals around Chinatown, to create the illustration, which shows two gold dragons in the shape of a heart, growing out of the roots of the signature Oakland oak tree.
