Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Born in Kerala, India, Meera Mathew is the first Indian American crowned Miss Staten Island! The John Jay College of Criminal Justice student studies forensic psychology and got her associate’s degree at The College of Staten Island.
When New Yorkers are not at their strongest, these volunteers take time out to provide hot meals, assistance landing an apartment or a rare chance to celebrate a child.
Representation of immigrant characters continues to be a work in progress, according to the third study between the immigrant culture change organization Define American and USC Annenberg’s Noman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment, Media and Society.
Brown University has added caste protections to their nondiscrimination policies so that Dalit students have official channels to report bias, NBC reported.
Asian New Yorkers are more interested in racially diverse schools than is widely understood, according to a new survey from the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF).
Out of 2,396 elected prosecutors in the United States, eight identified as Asian American, according to a new study sponsored by the American Bar Foundation and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.