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Rice’s Sun to be featured on new Houston PBS television series

BY B.J. ALMOND
Rice News staff

Y. Ping Sun, university representative and wife of Rice President David Leebron, will be featured in the Oct. 22 episode of a new Houston PBS series titled “Balancing Your Life.”

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The half-hour series, hosted by Ellen Susman, features women sharing their choices, challenges and solutions in today’s ever-changing and demanding society. Ping, an attorney with Yetter & Warden LLP, is one of 26 women from varied professional, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds who will be profiled on the show this season.

Ping came to Rice in 2004 when her husband became Rice’s seventh president. A native of Shanghai, China, Ping attended Beijing Languages University and was offered a full scholarship to Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude in 1985 from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs. She received a J.D. in 1988 from Columbia University School of Law, where she served as an editor of the Journal of Transnational Law. Ping has practiced law in the New York offices of White & Case LLP and more recently at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, where she focused on corporate and international transactions.

As a university representative, Ping serves Rice in numerous roles on campus and in the Houston community. She is a member of the Governing Council at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music and an honorary chair of Rice’s Baker Institute Roundtable. She is of counsel at Yetter & Warden LLP and a director of Texas Children’s Hospital, the Asia Society (Houston chapter) and Teach For America (Houston Regional Board). She is a board member of the Asian Chamber of Commerce and was recently appointed by Houston Mayor Bill White to the Mayor’s International Affairs and Development Council.

The episode of “Balancing Your Life” will air in Houston at 3 p.m. Oct. 22 on KUHT (Channel 8) and will repeat at 1 p.m. Oct. 26. Distributed by Houston PBS through the national Educational Telecommunications Association, the program will be made available for broadcast on public television stations across the nation.

Among the other guests slated for interviews on the program this season are astronaut Eileen Collins, singer/songwriter Roxanne Cash, oncologist Ritsuko Komaki and fashion designer Dana Buchman.