This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. As artists and activists whose families have been impacted by the California wildfires and Pacific Gas and Electric’s utility shut- offs, we are inspired by the recently launched “Reclaim Our Power!” utility justice campaign led by Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. A transformative Green New Deal needs to answer important questions about who benefits from this new economy, who controls it, and who has been left out in the past. The Deal has to be about restoration, repair, and balance. And […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. AAs and NHPIs are 23 million and rising and yet federal policy resources fail to reach our communities. Less than 0.17% of efforts funded by NIH include AA and NHPI participants. In 1985, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. Despite the “model minority” myth attached to AAPIs, an estimated 3.8 million AAPIs live in families that have at least one family member receiving public benefits. Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have long been a part of the fabric of […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. More and more botched individual cases have captured the public’s outcry and fueled growing concerns about whether Asian Americans are being unfairly targeted and accused of economic espionage, regardless of US citizenship status. The Rising Tide of Accusations and Fear […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. The rich history of AANHPI workers in the labor movement should be recognized for its contributions to a fairer and more advanced labor movement. I.         INTRODUCTION Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) workers have been embedded in the […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. Language operates in inclusionary and exclusionary ways. Definitions that hinge liability or guilt on physical violence alone operate to exclude the lived experience of domestic violence victims who have suffered no or minimal physical abuse, but have lived in a […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. The LGBTQ AAPI community is often overlooked and their needs marginalized. LGBTQ AAPIs still suffer from invisibility, isolation, and stereotyping. Introduction Since the Harvard Kennedy School’s Asian American Policy Review was first published, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer […]

This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. White Harvard applicants are considerably more likely to experience the advantages associated with private school college counseling, and that’s a real advantage in the hypercompetitive world of elite college admissions. Asian Americans are not less personable, but even well-meaning public […]

Thirty years ago, a group of students at Harvard and Berkeley came together to create the Asian American Policy Review. At the time, the editors wrote that “by improving understanding and fostering debate, we hope that the Review will help Asian Americans to continue to ‘break silences’ and find a voice in American society and […]

The accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) has now made emission control obsolete as the framing idea for a climate change remedy, as the climate crisis is no longer primarily an emission problem — it is now a concentration problem.

Hello everyone!  It’s good to see both new and familiar faces at HKS, even if our community is now virtual. This past year has been a tumultuous one, with powerful reckonings on systemic injustice, a deep economic depression and a global pandemic; we recognize that it’s easy to find ourselves anxious and stressed. At The […]