While this new website has been in the news a bit this past week, these numbers are new: In the broader U.S., more than 550 incidents have been reported to the STOP AAPI HATE Reporting Center in the same period,…

More than 650 reports of discrimination, mainly against Asian Americans, have been shared with Stop AAPI Hate, an online incident reporting site created by the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), since A3PCON launched the form…

Cynthia Choi – “Trump didn’t invent, you know, anti-Asian sentiment. He’s merely perpetuating a longstanding stereotype and racist tropes about Asian Americans that have existed since we migrated to this country. And that is of being diseases, of being unhygienic…

In experiencing racism and xenophobia, Chen is far from alone. The San Francisco-based Chinese for Affirmative Action organization, along with the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council and the San Francisco Asian American Studies Department, recently launched an online reporting center to document alleged…

The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) launched the reporting center as they say Asian Americans have faced increased discrimination as many blame China for the coronavirus outbreak.…

Assemblymember [David Chiu] is also chair of the California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. It joined the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council, Chinese for Affirmative Action and San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department to launch the “Stop…

Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, is part of a coalition that has started tracking attacks against Asian Americans related to the coronavirus epidemic. They launched their tracker on Thursday and within 24 hours had more than…

In California, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and the Chinese for Affirmative Action launched their website Stop AAPI Hate last week in response to growing news reports about hate crimes and discrimination targeting Asian-Americans. …

To track and better respond to such incidents, which include microaggressions and online attacks, San Francisco-based Chinese for Affirmative Action worked with Asian American Planning and Policy Council, known as A3PCON, and the San Francisco State University Asian American Studies…

The collected data will also allow the organizations to figure out the scope of discrimination nationwide and determine the best solutions from there, CAA Co-Executive Director Cynthia Choi said.…

[The form] also allows the organizations to assess the extent and magnitude of these incidents and to develop strategic interventions, said Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, in a news release.…

“First and foremost, we want community members to know they are not alone; they can speak out and help stop the spread of bigotry,” said Cynthia Choi, the co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action. “Secondly, the collected data will…

Co-Executive Director Cynthia Choi appears on MSNBC to talk about rising xenophobia as a result of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic…