Nearly four in five Chinatown residents are also immigrants, according to Annie Lee, managing director for policy at Chinese for Affirmative Action, which is based in the neighborhood.…
Anisha Hingorani, policy manager at advocacy group Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), warned that it’s not a long-term solution. “In-home fiber is really what is going to make a difference,” said Hingorani, whose 2024 study found that AT&T charges high-poverty…
In recent years, San Francisco’s pool of migrants has become even more linguistically diverse, said Jose Ng, who co-leads the Language Access Network. He’s now seeing more requests for interpreters who speak Kazakh and Turkmen, for example, two languages he…
A small group of staff and volunteers for Chinese for Affirmative Action gathered to watch the election returns for Proposition 50 tonight in San Francisco.…
Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), hosted a watch party to monitor results. They didn’t have to wait long. The Associated Press announced that the ballot measure was projected to pass just minutes after the polls closed at 8 p.m.…
To that end, CCC is one of six organizations that make up the Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative, a multidisciplinary coalition — including the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Chinese Historic Society of America, Center for Asian American Media, Chinatown…
“People haven’t really thought about, ‘Oh, Chinatown might be impacted by immigration raids,’” said Ng, who manages the immigrant rights program at the local nonprofit advocacy group Chinese for Affirmative Action. “Then it happened in New York City, and…