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Vincent Pan, co-director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, joins KALW for a discussion on affirmative action.

Sally Chen, Education Equity Policy Manager at Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), says that maintaining a race-conscious work culture amid a college affirmative action ban is critical for a diverse workforce.

Even as reported hate crimes in California decrease, elected officials and candidates across the country continue to use “racist, anti-China, anti-Asian rhetoric,” said Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate.

Miko Lee and Cheryl Truong are joined by affirmative action experts, Vincent Pan, Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and Sally Chen, Harvard alum and CAA’s Education Equity Policy Manager for a discussion on SCOTUS’s repeal of race-conscious admission policies.

But the nation’s attitudes about affirmative action are complex and often difficult for pollsters to accurately capture, says Sally Chen, an economic-justice program manager with Chinese for Affirmative Action, a California-based civil rights group.

“Pitting Asian American communities against, in particular, Black and Latinx communities,” Chen says, “is about undermining the accomplishments of a lot of Black and Latinx students.”

“I would not have been able to tell the full story of who I am without the full context of race and ethnicty,” says Chinese for Affirmative Action’s Sally Chen.

SFFA’s lawsuit advanced the claim that Asian Americans should be against affirmative action and suggested that the group broadly is. But that’s not necessarily the case. In fact, polls have found that views are quite mixed on the subject.

Sally Chen, the education equity program manager at Chinese for Affirmative Action, said she hopes this moment serves as a gateway “to challenge the idea that college is a zero-sum game” or the idea that “if someone gets a spot,…

“I did not have perfect SAT scores and I knew that, even then, these small elite campuses could fill their entire class with just valedictorians, with just people with perfect test scores,” said Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for…

When the Supreme Court rejected affirmative action in college admissions, it argued that the practice puts Asian Americans at a disadvantage. But, as Vincent Pan from Chinese for Affirmative Action explains, that narrative masks how Asian Americans communities have faced exclusion from educational…

In the 1980s, esteemed Berkeley professor and self-described unrepentant supporter of affirmative action Ling-Chi Wang was on a mission—one that would be cited in a major Supreme Court case ruled on Thursday.