Foreign National

Pichet Ong, pastry chef of Brothers & Sisters, is a chef who specializes in desserts. Best known for eschewing the heavy use of sugar and applying savory technique such as reductions into creating more flavorful desserts, he mixes classic technique and whimsical culinary style.

Jason Caddel of indie-rock band Dismemberment Plan joins this weeks episode of Foreign National.

Colin Sugalski & Ryan Kibler are this weeks guests on Foreign National.

This week's guest on Foreign National is Raymond Wong, Chinese lion dancer/trainer. Raymond talks about cultural Chinese traditions and foods along with the history of DC's Chinatown.

This week's guest on Foreign National is Adriel Luis, a musician, poet, visual artist, curator and coder from the California Bay Area. Adriel is currently based in Washington, D.C. as the Curator of Digital and Emerging Media at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, where his team has been developing a series of “culture labs” as community-created alternatives to traditional museum exhibitions. He is also a founding member of the psychedelic spoken word collective iLL-Literacy, and moonlights on design projects with artists and non-profits. Adriel frequently travels, with particular interest in how digital space shapes global communities.

This week's guest on Foreign National is Derrick McCrae, little league coach, community leader and former music industry manager.

This week on Foreign National, Erik & Seda chat with Senior Manager-Head of Program Communications for Fund II UNCF STEM about Vietnamese cuisine + cultural identity.

On a special episode of Foreign National, Erik & Seda are joined by Mu Sochua, a Cambodian former politician and rights activist. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Battambang from 2013 to 2017, a seat which she previously held from 1998 to 2003. She was a member and Vice President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) until its dissolve, and previously a member of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) prior to its merger with the Human Rights Party. As a member of FUNCINPEC, she also served as Minister of Women and Veterans' Affairs in Hun Sen's coalition government from 1998 to 2004. She is currently one of 118 senior opposition figures serving a five-year ban from politics following a court ruling on 16 November 2017.

Todd Thrasher, a DC bartender, distiller and sommelier who has received consistent recognition from the James Beard Foundation as one of the country’s “Outstanding Wine & Spirits Professionals.", joins the first episode of Foreign National to talk to hosts Erik Bruner-Yang and Seda Nak about the concept behind Brothers & Sisters, cocktails, identity, hospitality and more.