Advocates discussed Chicago's growing Chinatown community and efforts to stop hate crimes and during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
We spoke with the leaders of two organizations working to empower Chicago's Asian American community. Grace Pai is the executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago, which is marking a major milestone: 30 years in the city. It began in 1992 as the Asian American Institute, a policy and research focused organization. Pai said the organization has evolved since then.
She said Asian Americans Advancing Justice now does a lot of work on"policy advocacy and systems change to impact issues that are impacting Asian Americans." "2020 was just the beginning, unfortunately," said Pai."And that was a full year before the Atlanta shootings happened, before the FedEx shooting in Indianapolis that really impacted the Sikh community there and so you know I think unfortunately even though we were really reeling in that moment of May 2020 we did it escalate and get worse throughout 2021."
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