“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.…

“[…] Hong Mei Pang, Chinese for Affirmative Action’s director of advocacy, said that in 2016 ‘something amazing happened’ when non-citizen parents of schoolchildren were ‘enfranchised’ by the measure’s passage but, at same time, ‘there was also a terrible turn on…

Op-Ed by Jane Chin, interim executive director of the Chinese Historical Society of America and Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action. …

“[…] Groups like Jobs with Justice, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Unite Here Local 2 are pushing for a ‘Good Jobs Employment Plan’ requirement for new large non-residential developments in the Central SoMa Plan area.”…

“[…] Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action and a member of End National Security Scapegoating, called Rooney “irresponsible” for “sanctioning” racial profiling.“The proposed bill is a bogus attempt to whip up fear and animosity towards Chinese and…

“[…] Eugene Lau of Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco stated in a press release that the change would make immigration sponsorship more difficult ‘especially for those who are already waiting decades to reunite with their families, and deportations…

“[…] Vincent Pan, the co-head of Chinese for Affirmative Action, told me that when he describes affirmative action in terms of employment opportunities, or hiring more Asian-American judges or college faculty, people overwhelmingly support it. He rued how narrow the…

“[…] ‘Given the political climate, it’s so important that voters are aware that this visibility to the federal government is present,’ said Hong Mei Pang, director of advocacy for CAA. ‘How it would affect their immigration situation differs from family…