Earlier in September, the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company published this Executive Briefing: ‘Asian American workers: Diverse outcomes and hidden challenges’: “Events since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the murder of George Floyd and the rise in anti-Asian violence, have increased the prominence and urgency of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the public […]

(photo credit: USDA) It might be seem like a stretch to call the Western States Drought a medical hazard particular to Asian Americans, but one aspect of the drought will affects certain Asian Americans more drastically:  an increase in Valley Fever.  Valley fever, also known as Coccidioidomycosis, long since since been a problem (an increasing […]

New AAPI Registrants: 2020 vs 2022 (photo credit: Tom Bonier) I forget when I first started following Tom Bonier of TargetSmart (“a Democratic political data and data services firm”), but he had recently tweeted out some interesting Asian American voter registration stats: Interestingly, since Dobbs the Dem margin among AAPI new registrants has been even […]

I remember the original ‘Quantum Leap’ TV series, which aired on NBC for 5 seasons from 1989 to 1993. I wasn’t a big watcher of TV back then, mostly because I was in college during most of that time and had little time to watch TV. There’s a re-boot, or more exactly I would say, […]

(Full disclosure: I’ve donated to Jay’s campaign and endorse his run for Congress.) The last time I had interviewed Taiwanese American Jay Chen was back in 2012 when I first met him at the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Recently, when Jay was in town, I had a chance to do a brief interview with […]

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  The official music video for Conan Gray’s “Disaster” taken from the new album Superache 🌹 https://conangray.lnk.to/superache Connect with Conan: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conangray Twitter: https://twitter.com/conangray Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/conangrayoff… TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@conangray Official Site: http://www.conangray.com Lyrics: Let me just set the scene I’d just left the party at Blake’s And it’s Halloween Had the keys to my car in […]

From a chapter written in 2021 on Vincent Chin, Community, and Blogging. While I think it turned out different than originally planned as I couldn’t help but find these tethered pieces of adoption and loss that also started to permeate my writing–I like the dual conversation. ======== I think Vincent Chin has stuck in the […]