Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS … Read more
Efforts to create a national Asian Pacific American museum in Washington, D.C., pushed ahead Tuesday with House passage of legislation that would create a commission to study the issue.
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
Healthy CUNY is hiring pandemic displaced workers who are CUNY students to serve as Healthy CUNY Advocates for the Spring 2022 semester. Students recruited for this program will receive paid training and ongoing support to develop communications campaigns that connect CUNY students to help with food insecurity and access to affordable healthcare.
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.