“Recent media accounts have drawn attention to certain individuals in the Chinese American community promoting gun ownership as a solution to crime. As Asian Americans who have grieved with too many families and friends of victims of violence, we vehemently…

“Hong Mei Pang is the Director of Advocacy at the Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco and has been working directly with hard-to-count communities to ensure they have ‘equitable access and that they are able to understand the significance…

“Chinese for Affirmative Action took an early lead in the effort, which was later joined by more than 30 organizations. Rec and Park Director Phil Ginsburg also backed the renaming effort, and said last year that Kahn was ‘on…

“It wasn’t intentional, but the timing felt urgent. Chinese for Affirmative Action, an Asian American activist organization based in San Francisco’s Chinatown, started conceiving ‘Our Intergenerational Stories: Home” at a time “well before the current political climate,’ said Amy Lin,…

“People were very nervous that already vulnerable immigrant families could become targets of the Trump administration,” says Hong-Mei Pang, the director of advocacy for Chinese for Affirmative Action, a civil rights group that campaigned in support of NCV. “And…

“[…] In San Francisco, Chinese for Affirmative Action today also emphasized the community must mobilize to encourage full participation in the census. ‘CAA will work closely with the City of San Francisco to ensure that all hard-to-count communities are receiving…

“[…] a ‘de facto exclusion for many communities that should be represented and have a fair share of the resources that should come our way,’ said Hong Mei Pang, advocacy director for Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco.…

“[…] Chinese for Affirmative Action, a group that advocates for civil rights for Chinese Americans, formed the collaborative as a way to partner with multi-racial, multilingual groups and reach as many parents in the African, Central and South American and…