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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 […]

Aloysius Foo responds to our previous article by Andrew Chia, Rethinking Scholarship Diversity: The Pre-U Education of PSC Scholars. In his letter, he highlights the need to go beyond diversity, and explore the deeper issues surrounding Singapore’s social class reproduction, which has created an “Aristocracy of Merit”.

Several weeks ago, the two of us wrote an op-ed outlining the major challenges facing the United States’ contact tracing programs. We issued an urgent call to action for federal leaders to step up, develop a unified strategy, and provide critical life support to these programs. Federal leadership on contact tracing is paramount to the […]

As the new academic year begins for the approximately 130,930 K-12 schools across the U.S. and the debate about reopening schools continues to grow at the local and national level, some key voices are missing from the conversation. While school districts decide to remain online, adopt hybrid options, or embrace full in-person classes, the main […]

Minister-in-Charge of the Public Service Chan Chun Sing recently remarked that the diversity of Public Service Commission Scholarship recipients goes beyond race, language, and religion. This raises questions about how diverse recipients have been in socio-economic terms, of which pre-university education provides a good proxy for assessment. In this piece, Andrew Chia looks at why diversity in background matters, and explores the diversity of PSC scholars using compiled data on PSC Scholarships from 2007 to 2018.

Singapore’s current efforts in managing plastic waste are mostly focused on downstream measures, but the broader issue of plastic consumption continues to require action upstream. Ensuring responsible production processes, through policy regulation, can help to promote general reduction of plastic waste and environmental impact. To that end, Woo Qiyun spotlights the role of an Extended Producer Responsibility scheme in Singapore, to increase the accountability of corporations and government.