Northern America

Diet-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States. Poor diet is associated with ailments such as heart disease, cancer, and Type 2 diabetes, which together kill nearly 678,000 Americans annually — a number that far exceeds current projected deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S.[i] Having worked in both the farming and […]

In 2008, freshman Senator Barack Obama defied the odds to win the Democratic nomination for president against former first lady and two-term Senator Hillary Clinton. When the time came for Obama to select his vice presidential candidate, it was speculated he would choose Clinton. Choosing a former competitor who came runner up in the primary […]

American democracy is increasingly more like a Homeowners Association (HOA) than the participatory and empowering system to which we should aspire. Property owners control decision making over the community by virtue of their wealth, excluding those unable to access property and pushing aside those with insufficient resources to participate. What’s more, the whims of long-passed […]

While international students are chasing their dreams at colleges across the nation, visa requirements are forcing their spouses to put theirs on hold. It’s 2:30 in the afternoon on a Tuesday. At a bustling café in Cambridge, a group is sipping coffee, sharing cakes – and discussing strategies to stay busy. They’re not retirees (their […]

Marginalized patient populations in the United States use emergency rooms at disproportionately higher rates than the average patient population. This high rate of utilization is due largely to a lack of accessible alternative options rather than an actual increased need of critical care. In other words, patients who are young, people of color, and have […]

This piece was published in the 29th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. This blurring of boundaries in all forms is what makes Southeast Asia, as a whole, “queer.” And this is our gift that we can share with the world. For we were queer before the word existed. Abstract Many queer Asian Americans […]

INTERVIEW OF J.R. KUO This piece was published in the 29th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. Our parents, immigrants, they left the country because they want a better life for themselves and for their kids. They have been in survival mode. Their whole life they don’t have the luxury to talk about mental […]

This piece was published in the 29th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. [Comprehensive immigration reform] directly affects our families and our communities. Let’s take this opportunity to engage our political leaders and let them know how much we care about reuniting families.   Abstract In 2019, National Federation for Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) offers […]

This piece was published in the 29th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. Perhaps most importantly, individual and institutional conversations that aim to radically shift the culture around mental health in the AAPI community will be the greatest avenue for change. Abstract Mental health stigma, a lack of access to culturally competent clinicians and […]

This piece was published in the 29th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. This piece originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. The invisibility of Asian American Buddhists is compounded by the challenge of coherently defining such a diverse group…there are multiple competing definitions of “Asian American,” “Buddhist,” and “young adult.” […]

This piece was published in the 29th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. Among AAPIs who use services, the severity of their mental illness and the length of suffering is longer. The shame and stigma of mental illness continues to be a major deterrent to seeking care. Language barriers and the lack of bilingual […]

This piece was published in the 29th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. It is also harmful and unproductive to pit one marginalized group against another, particularly given the context of anti-Blackness that often pervades Asian American communities. Introduction There is a complete absence of the voices of Black and Asian individuals on the […]