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Fiona Ji-Hoo Kim (John Jay College ’22) spent most of her teenage years training to be an Olympic figure skater—going to South Korea every summer to train 12 hours a day. Then a torn Achilles tendon derailed her dream. “Around the time I was injured, I was sexually assaulted,” shares Kim, an international criminal justice … Read more

Jennifer Chin ’25, a John Jay College forensic psychology major from Queens, New York, grew up with lots of different languages swirling around in her household. Identifying as “half Chinese and half African American” because her father has Chinese and Portuguese ancestors, and her mother is a Black woman from Côte d’Ivoire, Chin’s likely to … Read more

While in New York City, Dr. Tanaka will be collecting data to understand Nepalese migrants’ access to contraception and abortion services in NYC, as part of a comparative study with Japan.

Dale Minami, Fred Korematsu’s lead counsel in his 1983 coram nobis case, Alan Nishio, former Southern California co-chair of what was then the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations, Karen Umemoto, director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Kyodo Taiko, and Bombu Stories will be featured during the 53rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, to … Read more

UPenn’s Amy Wax appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show and said Black and Asian people are resentful toward “Western peoples’ outsized achievements.”

The specifics are difficult to determine because all Asian communities are grouped together under the same race category in the census. This conceals the wide variety of income, education and health backgrounds between subgroups and tends to blur characteristics unique to certain communities, some advocates said. It may also perpetuate the “model minority” myth of … Read more