Hate Crimes and the AAPI Community: Standing up to Racist Attacks by White Supremacists and the Far Right

Please join us for this discussion on the role of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in standing up to the far right, and how members of all communities targeted by racism and fascism must join together to resist such hateful assaults.

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, lawyer, strategist, facilitator, and coach. She is currently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Building Movement Project where she manages projects related to multiracial solidarity and develops resources to cultivate social change practices. Iyer served as executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) for a decade, and has held positions at Race Forward, the US Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, and the Asian American Justice Center.

Aryani Ong is a civil rights attorney, activist and consultant who has worked on Asian American issues for 30 years.  She currently…