Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 11am to 4pm
CUNY School of Law
2 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens
The Localized History Project @ AAARI-CUNY is excited to announce the launch of our Digital Archive! Please join us for a community event featuring youth presentations on localized Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history. The event will also include a showcase of the data and research we’ve conducted over the past two years, along with fun games, interactive booths, and, of course, food!
We hope this event will provide an opportunity for community members, educators, and youth from across New York State to engage with our project, access valuable archival stories and histories, and participate in real-time data collection and discussions. These contributions will help shape the creation of a youth-led, community-driven, localized AANHPI history curriculum for New York State schools.
Explore: The Localized History Digital Archive
Program Schedule
10:30am to 11am
Check-In (Community Room)
11am to 12pm
Welcome (Community Room)
- John J. Chin, Interim Dean, AAARI-CUNY
- Shreya Sunderram, K-12 Project Director, Localized History Project
- Hon. David Imamura, Westchester County Board of Legislators
12pm to 1pm
Featured Presentations (Community Room)
- Clarissa Kunizaki (Brooklyn Technical High School) – Solidarity and Strife: The Era of Community Control in Two Bridges, NYC
- Ravi Vora (Scarsdale High School) – New York City Indian Intellectuals: 1900s Radical Anti-Colonialism
- Nico Brenner (Scarsdale High School) – The Asian American Decentralized Museum
- Navipa Zaman (Baruch College/CUNY) – From Bangladesh to Brooklyn: Mapping the Narratives of Immigrant Women
1pm to 2pm
Lunch (Community Room)
2pm to 2:30pm
Workshops
- Histories of Migration (Room 301)
- Intimate and Family Histories (Room 302)
2:45pm to 3:15pm
- Stories of Solidarity (Room 301)
- Arts and Expression (Room 302)
3:30pm to 4pm
Closing Session (Community Room)
Co-Sponsors
CUNY School of Law
REACH Coalition
