For her efforts at CAA and Stop AAPI Hate, CAA Co-Executive Director Cynthia Choi was chosen as the CA-19 Woman of the Year, by Asm. Phil Ting.

What began as a tagline on social media ultimately evolved into a national movement, spurring a reckoning across different industries, transforming broader awareness of anti-Asian racism.

The push for voting rights to be extended to non-citizens of the United States is gaining momentum ahead of a San Francisco school board recall election.

The idea of limited voting rights for some noncitizens is gaining traction: New York will allow legal residents to vote in municipal elections, and San Jose is studying the idea.

CAA Co-Executive Director Cynthia Choi was included in the 2021 Bloomberg 50. list of people who changed global business.

Student advocacy inspired Supervisor Matty Haney to introduce a resolution, apologizing to San Francisco's Chinese residents for the City's history of racism and xenophobia targeting Chinese immigrants and AAPI communities.

More than half of states ended unemployment benefits programs early, hoping it would motivate more people to return to the job market. But for some populations, this tactic increased the financial burdens of unemployed people.

“Thinking about the effects of racial trauma on our community is sobering,” said Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Chinese for Affirmative Action. “The fact that it affects our daily routines and our mental health — the denial of your basic sense of safety is really inhumane.”

The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is setting up a nationwide effort including Stop AAPI Hate for national and local advocacy groups to work together as violence and hate crimes against Asians and Pacific Islanders persist.

A pair of Asian American lawmakers are pressing the Justice Department to speed up implementation of provisions in a new federal law combating hate crimes, citing a recent FBI report showing the highest number of bias attacks in the United States in two decades.

With much turbulence in these past two years -- with the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge of racist and anti-Asian attacks -- three Korean figures being named in TIME's 100 most influential people of 2021 has brought much meaning. This year, Cynthia Choi, Youn Yuh Jung, and Steven Yeun were able to be named as some of the most influential people.