In the fourth installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Jo-Ann Yoo, Executive Director of the Asian American Federation tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva,“ I had to create a lexicon with our communities – that if you say the words enough people start to say it too. We can reset the conversation because we're going to create our own dictionary, we're going to create our own conversation and these are the conversations that we're going to have that centers the experience and the pain that Asian immigrants had to go through.”
Listen in as Jo-Ann talks about the outrage she’s feeling from last year’s anti-Asian attacks and how she’s turned that anger into activism, calling for immediate action, and building solidarity across the coalitions she works with.
About, Jo-Ann Yoo: https://bit.ly/3AssAB8
Executive Producers: Hendel Leiva & Cheryl Cato Blakemore
Associate Producer: Kendy Solis
Produced in collaboration with the National Partnership For New Americans