UIC Grad Student Tackles Anti-Asian Hate
Emily Etzkorn, a graduate assistant at the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC) and MPH candidate in community health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health (SPH), was a recent guest on the WBEZ segment Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons.
Along with a panel of Asian American activists and community members from organizations such as the Chinese American Service League, the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ) Chicago, Etzkorn discussed the recent anti-Asian attack on a student at Indiana University.
AARCC’s Anti-Asian Bias Tools and Resources–created to help self-empower individuals to investigate, unlearn and relearn and use new information or knowledge to address anti-Asian bias–can be found here: https://aarcc.uic.edu/anti-asian-bias-tools-and-resources/
For campus members who would like to discuss anti-Asian hate and/or the recent gun violence impacting Asian and Latinx communities in California, the UIC Counseling Center and the UIC Global Asian Studies Program (GLAS) have opened a virtual drop-in session for UIC students, staff and faculty on Wednesday, February 1st at 12pm CST.