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.…

To that end, the California-based groups Chinese for Affirmative Action and the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council set up a hate reporting center last month. New York’s attorney general also launched a hotline. “We kind of just knew from…

Cynthia Choi, co-director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, one of the organizations that launched the website, acknowledged that the online reporting does not guard against fictitious reports and online trolls. But she said the reports show clear similarities in the…

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…