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Mix humility, intuition, and charisma and you get Duke Chung, the DMV’s homegrown entrepreneur who has sold a million dollar company to Microsoft at the age of 35. By Jenny Chen Although he didn’t know he was going to be an entrepreneur when he was a boy, Duke Chung always knew he wanted to solve problems. At 12 years old, …

By Jennie L. Ilustre The next time you ride in an airplane, whether for business or for pleasure, think of this as a matter of inspiration and well-placed pride: That a company, owned by an Asian American who triumphed against life’s adversities, helps improve safety and efficiency within the nation’s air traffic management system with its cutting-edge products and services.            …

Captain Kamran Afzal is the face of a changing police force in Arlington County. The soft-spoken, Pakistani American has been part of the police force for over 20 years. He started off as working with the US Capitol Police in the 1990s before moving to the Arlington County police department. But Afzal hadn’t started out in law enforcement. He studied …

Meet Tim Ma, the first of our Asian American Voices Series, a video profile series of Asian Americans in our community. Tim Ma is the chef and head chef of Maple Avenue Restaurant in Northern Virginia. His restaurant has been reviewed highly in Washingtonian Magazine, Northern Virginia Magazine, and Washington Post. In this video, Tim talks to Asian Fortune about …