“The census is the linchpin of our democracy,” said Hong Mei Pang, director of advocacy for Chinese for Affirmative Action, a 50-year-old civil rights and social justice organization that hosted the event along with Ethnic Media Services.…

“We are here to fight two viruses. Coronavirus. But we are also here to fight bigotry,” said Vincent Pan, Chinese for Affirmative Action co-executive director. “Part of the root cause is misunderstanding, which leads to fear, which leads to hate.”…

Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, said his organization has tried to make sure that the community is not panicking over the coronavirus. “People are really suffering and dying across the world, and I think one of…

Co-Executive Director Vincent Pan appears on Full Circle with Anderson Cooper to discuss anti-Asian discrimination as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak.…

“If you are already conditioned to fear China or Chinese people, this gives you another reason,” said Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a civil rights organization in San Francisco that has called on California agencies to…

Hong Mei Pang, advocacy director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, which is in San Francisco’s Chinatown, stressed that the coronavirus is a health issue, and shouldn’t be associated with one ethnic group or another. “We urge everybody to maintain the…

Hong-Mei Pang, director of advocacy for Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco, said the unclear future of DACA makes it high time for people to work closely, regardless of their backgrounds and countries of origin. “For a long time,…

“The Census Bureau previously employed a threshold of ‘greater than 100,000 households’ in the United States to determine the availability on non-English language support in the Census count, but has lowered that threshold to ‘greater than 60,000 households’ and expanded…

“Recent media accounts have drawn attention to certain individuals in the Chinese American community promoting gun ownership as a solution to crime. As Asian Americans who have grieved with too many families and friends of victims of violence, we vehemently…

“Hong Mei Pang is the Director of Advocacy at the Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco and has been working directly with hard-to-count communities to ensure they have ‘equitable access and that they are able to understand the significance…

“Chinese for Affirmative Action took an early lead in the effort, which was later joined by more than 30 organizations. Rec and Park Director Phil Ginsburg also backed the renaming effort, and said last year that Kahn was ‘on…

“It wasn’t intentional, but the timing felt urgent. Chinese for Affirmative Action, an Asian American activist organization based in San Francisco’s Chinatown, started conceiving ‘Our Intergenerational Stories: Home” at a time “well before the current political climate,’ said Amy Lin,…

“People were very nervous that already vulnerable immigrant families could become targets of the Trump administration,” says Hong-Mei Pang, the director of advocacy for Chinese for Affirmative Action, a civil rights group that campaigned in support of NCV. “And…