Helen Zia is a journalist and civil rights activist focused on the rights of women, the LGBT community and Asian Americans. She was involved in the fight to have the murder of Vincent Chin recognized as a hate crime, and in the effort to allow Asian American actors to audition for Asian roles in Miss Saigon. In 2008 she carried the Olympic torch during its relay in San Francisco. Her book Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People has been quoted by President Bill Clinton. In this conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Zia talks about being caught between two worlds, finding her voice, and what it means to be American.