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The World Is Her Community

By Carol Terracina Hartman

The vice president and manager of California Bank & Trust’s Arden Way office in Sacramento builds bridges wherever she goes, connecting people and places in the business world, the Asian community and the arts.
    Quite simply, Heddy Kung Chiang is the person many look to, not only when seeking business advice or loan assistance but also when seeking leadership.
    She can be found at a mixer for the Sacramento Asian-Pacific Chamber of Commerce, an organization for which she’s a founding member. Or she can be found at a meeting of the Sacramento County Commission of History and Science, chairing the group’s efforts to promote public awareness of, and enhance official support for, local history and science programs.
    “(Chiang is) very, very active in the community not just the Asian community,” says Dennis Yep, artistic director for Interactive Asian Contemporary Theatre, or InterACT. “She has chaired so many events; people tend to go to her when they want something done.”
    Chiang took up another of her pursuits – acting – purely by chance. “I had to make speeches in marketing class, and my knees used to shake,” she recalls, describing part of the curriculum for her bachelor’s degree in marketing and management from California State University, Sacramento. “People said, ‘Take a theatre class.’ I did, and from my first monologue, I knew I loved theatre.”
    A phone call from Yep got Chiang involved in InterACT. Yep was seeking a replacement for an actor who had to travel to Japan just weeks before opening night. “I asked if she knew anyone. She said, ‘Yeah, me!’” Yep says. Two weeks later, Chiang opened in “Tea,” by Velina Hasu Houston, a local playwright.
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