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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/one-struggle-many-forms-asians-for-
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SUMMARY:One Struggle\, Many Forms. Asians For A Liberated Palestine
DESCRIPTION:WASHINGTON\, DC\n\n\nJoin us for this panel on the history of A
 sian-American solidarity with Palestine and why Asian-Americans more than 
 ever need to stand with\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussants:\n\nJanelle Wong receiv
 ed her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Sh
 e is Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland. Prior to
  joining the University of Maryland in 2012\, she was at the University of
  Southern California in the Departments of Political Science and American 
 Studies and Ethnicity. Wong is author of Immigrants\, Evangelicals and Pol
 itics in an Era of Demographic Change (2018\, Russell Sage Foundation Pres
 s)\, Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (20
 06\, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian Ame
 rican politics. The most recent is Asian American Political Participation:
  Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities (2011\, Russell Sage
  Foundation)\, based on the first nationally representative survey of Asia
 n Americans’ political attitudes and behavior. This groundbreaking study
  of Asian Americans was conducted in eight different languages with six di
 fferent Asian national origin groups. Wong has received research funding f
 rom the National Science Foundation\, Russell Sage Foundation\, Irvine Fou
 ndation\, and Carnegie Foundation. She was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson 
 International Center for Scholars\, Washington\, DC\, in 2006-2007. Wong
 ’s research is on race\, immigration\, and political mobilization. As a 
 scholar and teacher\, Wong has worked closely with social service\, labor\
 , civil rights\, and media organizations that serve the Asian American pop
 ulation.\n\nFor the past seven years\, Anam Hussain has been deeply engage
 d in cross-movement organizing\, addressing critical issues from gun viole
 nce prevention to reproductive justice. Currently\, She is a senior at Ame
 rican University\, majoring in International Studies with a concentration 
 on the Middle East &amp\; North Africa. Anam was born and raised in the So
 uth—a place she considers the birthplace of true progressive movements i
 n the country. As a Muslim\, she embraces her faith through the lens of li
 beration theology\, which guides her commitment to collective liberation.\
 n\nMy-Anh Nguyen (they/he) is a trans-masculine\, non-binary Vietnamese Am
 erican architect at architrave\, PC and organizer on Piscataway land (Wash
 ington\, DC). They approach their work with the belief in the capacity of 
 design to address the intersectional and intergenerational challenges of t
 he built environment through community building. My-Anh received their Bac
 helor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia where the
 y now serve on the UVA A-School Young Alumni Executive Council as co-vice 
 chair. My-Anh co-founded Emergent Grounds for Design Education\, a researc
 h and advocacy collective\, archiving and uplifting student and alumni cam
 paigns for anti-racist design pedagogy. As an activist and advocate with D
 MU and in DC\, My-Anh seeks to bridge communities and practice solidarity 
 among Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color.\n\nRae Jereza (they/them) 
 is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist who researches social med
 ia and white supremacy. Their book project interrogates "online hate" as a
  metadiscursive framework for understanding racist content.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
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