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Iris Ho (何燕青)

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Iris Ho (何燕青)

Corpus pass (deepen-x slice 09210400-10, 2026-09-21): VERIFIED, NO-NEW

Fresh grep of content/works + content/articles returned only records already absorbed below (ourjourneys123, ourjourneys123-eng, TAH #309, TA.org perspectives, TAH #935). Nothing new to absorb. Re-grep 2026-09-22 (DEEPEN-X slice 09212352-24): hit-set unchanged — SKIP-content. Re-grep 2026-09-23 (DEEPEN-X slice 09221200-29): hit-set unchanged (same records plus index); all already absorbed — SKIP-content.

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Iris Ho
  • Chinese: 何燕青
  • Era: -
  • Geography: 台北萬華
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台灣政治大學 — B.S. 土耳其語文學系
  • 喬治華盛頓大學 — M.S.國際事務

Employment

  • 立委蔡同榮 — 1998 — 助理
  • 「台灣人公共事務會」(FAPA) — 2000- — 新聞發言人

Family

  • Husband: Coen Blaauw昆布勞 — a Dutch-born FAPA lobbying figure in his own right: his essay 「爲何我在 FAPA?」 (2016/09) and 楊遠薰’s chronicle of his role pushing the US 對台六項保證 resolution document their shared FAPA-world milieu ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories464|TAH #464 昆布勞, 2016/09]]; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys228|TAH #228 楊遠薰, 2016/05]]).

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09240700-1, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 楊遠薰〈亂世奇緣〉（d3c83997, 2016-04-20）正文再驗證——FAPA 台灣同事、與小昆2006共締連理、較其小十二歲、2016-03攝於荷蘭老家（先祖Gerrit Blaauw 1816-1824阿姆斯特丹市長），連結為真（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；2016-04-20 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09230700-1, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 楊遠薰〈亂世奇緣〉（d3c83997, 2016-04-20）正文再驗證——記其為 Coen Blaauw 之 FAPA 同事、2006結婚、較其小十二歲（呼應母 Loes Vemer 事），subject 連結為真；2016-04-20 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 2009-11 — FAPA 總會 record: 昆布勞 (Coen Blaauw) 及何燕青夫婦應邀演講，介紹台美關係及 FAPA YPG (Young Professional Group) 活動 (FAPA chapter chronicle; English: ourjourneys123-eng).

  • 2015-07-20 — her own essay: 義工計劃讓我與美國女士兵「交心」 — Caring for Soldiers volunteer work building bridges with US women soldiers ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/309-caring-for-soldiers-e7-be-a9-e5-b7-a5-e8-a8-88-e5-8a-83-e8-ae-93-e6-88-91-e8|TAH #309]]).

  • 2007-09-13 — op-ed 「Perspectives on Taiwan and the United Nations: A Personal Journey」 announcing her participation in the UN for Taiwan rally in New York; byline notes she grew up near Snake Alley in Taipei, holds an MIA from GWU, and worked at FAPA HQ in Washington, DC (TA.org perspectives).

  • 2016-04-20 — 楊遠薰’s 「亂世奇緣」 record: a Taiwanese colleague at FAPA who fell in love with and married Coen Blaauw in 2006 — twelve years his junior, mirroring how his mother Loes Vemer was twelve years younger than his father (TJJ, 2016-04-20).

  • 2016-04-17 — TAH encyclopedia profile: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/935-iris-ho-e4-bd-95-e7-87-95-e9-9d-92-201604|TAH #935, 2016-04]].

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (DEEPEN-X slice 09230700-21): hit-set gained [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories464|TAH #464]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys228|TAH #228]] (husband 昆布勞’s own FAPA records) — absorbed into Family above; no further facts about Iris Ho herself.

  • 2017-11 — 楊遠薰’s 「昆布勞與FAPA的奇緣」 names her as Coen Blaauw’s wife: 「He is married to Iris Yenching Ho and is thus a Taiwan Kiansai」 — her own full romanized name (Iris Yenching Ho) and her role as the link anchoring Coen into the Taiwan family ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories608|TAH #608 楊遠薰, 2017/11]]; see also the TaiwaneseAmerican.org 「Taiwan Sons-in-Law」 interview with Gerrit van der Wees and Coen Blaauw, which carries the same marriage note (TA.org conversation, Sons-in-Law)).

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-13 (DEEPEN-X slice 10120909-9): fresh ZH+EN grep (何燕青/Iris Ho/Yenching/Iris YC) across all 5 corpus dirs returned the identical hit-set (ourjourneys123/-eng, TAH #309, TAH #935, TA.org perspectives, TA.org Sons-in-Law, TJJ 亂世奇緣, works/index, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org) — all already absorbed. SKIP-content.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (DEEPEN-X slice 10110700-25): fresh ZH+EN grep (何燕青/Iris Ho/Iris Yenching Ho/燕青) across all 5 corpus dirs returned the identical hit-set (ourjourneys123/-eng, TAH #309, TAH #935, TA.org perspectives, TA.org Sons-in-Law, TJJ 亂世奇緣, index/sources, unrelated same-name 燕青 articles) — all already absorbed. SKIP-content.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-11 (DEEPEN-X slice 10101000-24): hit-set unchanged (ourjourneys123/-eng, TAH #309, TAH #935, TA.org perspectives, TA.org Sons-in-Law, TJJ 亂世奇緣, index/source pages) — all already absorbed. SKIP-content.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (DEEPEN-X slice 10081400-6): hit-set gained [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories608|TAH #608]] and TA.org Sons-in-Law interview — both name Iris Yenching Ho as Coen Blaauw’s wife; absorbed above. Other hits (2678886a 六四何燕然, 058ba2dc/58777e44 燕青 bylines, 2021_06_03 葉燕青) are unrelated same-name persons — not linked.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (DEEPEN-X slice 09240700-3): hit-set unchanged (ourjourneys123/-eng, TAH #309, TAH #935, TA.org perspectives, index; husband records 228 already in Family) — all absorbed; SKIP-content.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (DEEPEN-X slice 09250900-10): hit-set unchanged (ourjourneys123/-eng, TAH #309, TAH #935, TA.org perspectives, index; husband records 228 in Family) — all already absorbed. SKIP-content.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (DEEPEN-X slice 09260317-3): hit-set unchanged (ourjourneys123/-eng, TAH #309, TAH #935, TA.org perspectives, index; ourjourneys231/39 matched only on case-insensitive substring, no Iris Ho content) — all already absorbed. SKIP-content.

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