Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI It has been a busy start to 2025 for Brooklyn College/CUNY Assistant Professor of Theater Patrick Sabongui, who has also been the head of the college’s B.F.A. Acting Program since September 2020. Sabongui is an accomplished actor, director, and producer who has acted in The Flash (CW), Homeland (Showtime), Shameless (Showtime), 300 (WB), and more … Read more
Two Hunter alumni, Devashish “Dave” Basnet ’22 and Alexis Fisher ’21, have been chosen for the John Robert Lewis Scholars & Fellows 2025-2026 Fellowship that furthers the work of the late civil-rights hero, Congressman John R. Lewis.
GALECA will award a total of $3000 in scholarship funds to the top three contenders in the program. Students from all disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply.
Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt, a trailblazing figure in the legal community and the first Asian American woman judge in New York State, passed away on Jan. 27 at the age of 76.
A group of Congress members have introduced a bill to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Fred Korematsu, who was held in a Japanese incarceration camp during World War II.
This initiative celebrates the diversity of linguistic communities and literary works that are often overlooked. Every new poem created in a minoritised language revitalises that language and empowers its artists. By sharing these poems alongside others in similar linguistic situations, we contribute to a global tapestry of voices, strengthening cultures too often deprived of visibility.