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City officials promptly turned to a handful of non-profits in nearby San Francisco, including Chinese for Affirmative Action, Self Help for the Elderly and Chinatown Community Youth Center, whose efforts were key to establishing an open line of communication and…

Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, told me the attack has further traumatized Asian American communities that have had “a heightened sense of fear since the pandemic” due to being “unfairly scapegoated” for the public health crisis.

Those advocates say they believe the move to limit immigrant voting in school board elections is part of a broader movement to suppress the voting rights of people of color.

According to Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, Proposition 209’s establishment has had adverse effects in public education. “(It can) send a message that certain students are not welcome,” Pan said.

“Today we gather here to condemn Florida’s ‘alien land law’ and to reject the dangerous trend of anti-Asian scapegoating,” said Nicholas Gee, advocacy manager for nonprofit group Chinese for Affirmative Action, referring to 20th century laws, which were later deemed…

Annette Wong, who works for Chinese for Affirmative Action, said in the Kennedy School webinar that, following the 2016 election of President Trump, she viewed measures that expand voting to noncitizens as “a step to take hold of power rather…

At UNC, Harvard and beyond, activists are fighting Blum’s efforts, with many Asian Americans leaders in that crusade. “We saw that we were being used as a face for this case,” Sally Chen tells Rolling Stone.

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.