Darlene, Wone

From approximately the middle 1970s through the late 1980s, Darlene Wone was an activist in the Asian American and Asian/Pacific American women's movement, as well as the Asian/Pacific American Movement more generally. These movements, arising as part of the ferment of the broader civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, were formed to struggle against racial and sexual steriotypes and discrimination against Asian Americans and Asian/Pacific Islander Americans. Wone (also known as Mei Oye, and Mei Oye Soo Hoo in the 1970s and 1980s), a Brooklyn-born Chinese American and a college graduate, worked in the television broadcast industry and public relations. Memberships she held and positions she served in organizations arising from these movements included a stint as editor for In Touch, the newsletter of the New York City-based feminist Asian Women United, public relations coordinator for the Coalition of Asian/Pacific American Associations, member of the official delegation to the National Network of Asian and Pacific Women to the First National Asian/Pacific American Women's Conference for Educational Equity, and member of a fundraising committee for the New York Asian/Pacific American Women's Network.