Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Senator John Liu, AssemblyMember Yuh-line Niou, Senator Brian Kavanagh, and AssemblyMember Zohran Mamdani joined outside 1 Centre Street to begin AAPI heritage month with what the group is touting as a big victory thanks to the $20 million allocation.
The APAICS National Leadership Academy is a two-day leadership training program for current elected officials and individuals seeking to run for public office.
“Saigu has become almost like a memorial for Korean Americans,” one advocate said. “It’s a moment of profound sadness and loss, of feeling so targeted and so abandoned.”
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