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In honor of the beginning of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, amNewYork Metro and PoliticsNY are honored to bring you the 2024 AAPI Power Players list, highlighting elected officials, community leaders, entrepreneurs, executives and creatives helping to shape the future of New York City.

This month, we celebrate the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities, whose ingenuity, grit, and perseverance have pushed our great American experiment forward.

Meet some of the Graduate Center scholars who are shedding light on and shaping Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage.

Now a CUNY professor, alumna Catherine Ma says her research, teaching, and mentorship stem from her experiences as an Asian woman, an immigrant, and a mother.

For 50 years, Chinese American photographer Corky Lee documented the celebrations, struggles, and daily lives of Asian American Pacific Islanders.

May marks Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Asian-Americans should reclaim the word “Yellow.” After all, we are a people of color who belong as members of this nation. We stand alongside the Black and Brown — not as the so-called “model minority,” but as a community facing discrimination and deserving of equality. Indeed, … Read more