Lu is one of over 17 million people who have applied for unemployment insurance in the past month. Working with Chinese for Affirmative Action, a Chinatown-based nonprofit, she was able to file a claim on March 29. If she hadn’t…

[The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and Chinese for Affirmative Action] has also noticed a surge in racist behavior. After launching a site March 19 to track anti-Asian hate incidents, the group and its partners got more than 1,100 …

“When we started reading about news reports about the outbreak in China, we were also at the same time monitoring how it was being covered,” Cynthia Choi of the California-based Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) told me. Choi and other…

The Levi Strauss & Co. and the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) will together focus their monetary support on organizations that champion marginalized people who are likely to be hit hardest by the Covid-19 crisis. They include Chinese for Affirmative Action, which…

San Francisco State University found a 50 percent rise in the number of news articles related to the coronavirus and anti-Asian discrimination between Feb. 9 and March 7. The lead researcher, Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian-American studies, said the…

Stop AAPI Hate, a project launched to track incidents of verbal harassment, physical assault and other forms of discrimination against Asians related to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been tracking nearly 100 such incidents a day. The project is a…

Several reasons may explain why Asian women are reporting three times more hate incidents than men — for example, it’s possible that Asian men are more likely to stay quiet about such incidents. But Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese…

Cynthia Choi, Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, said it is disconcerting to see the rise in hate incidents. “This is only scratching the surface because we haven’t even publicized the site very widely,” she said. While many incidents…

Russell Jeung is chair of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, Manjusha P. Kulkarni is executive director of Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council, Cynthia Choi is executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action published an Op-Ed calling…

As coronavirus has spread across the U.S., so have reports of violence against people of Asian descent, and the FBI warns a surge in hate crimes could be yet to come. These fears have led to the creation of a…

Outreach has been happening for months in multiple languages, according to Hong Mei Pang with Chinese for Affirmative Action. She said the coronavirus has thrown a wrench in their plans, but they were able to move outreach activities online.…

The STOP AAPI HATE Reporting Center — an initiative founded by the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and San Francisco Asian American Studies Department — said that over 750 incidents were documented during…

CAA Co-Executive Director Cynthia Choi participates in a panel discussion to discuss the #StopAAPI Campaign and related COVID-19 racial discrimination and hate.…