Events Archives
Yu and Me Books & The Black & Asian Solidarity Collective Presents:
Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month through Poetry Reading.
Yu & Me at 44 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10013
Friday, May 12 at 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Research on the Education of Asian & Pacific Americans, Sig
Centering Critical Ethnic Studies in K-20 Education Today: Building Racial Solidarity Across K-12 Schools and Higher
Virtual Symposium
Thursday, May 4 at 5:15 PM to 6:45 PM
Culturally Responsive Leadership Plenary
Preparing our K-12 Students for What?: Racial Justice Activism in the Ivory Tower
Thursday, July 15th, 2021 | 3:30 PM
In & Out of School Beyond the Trauma of Covid-19
Centering the Histories & Lived Experiences of Asian Americans
Dr. Yu presented at Teachers College, Columbia University Reimagining Summer Education Institute (RESI) in 2021 by facilitating a live workshop and serving as a guest panelist in a higher education plenary.
This workshop illuminated the national attention of the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the U.S. within our K-20 schools. It featured four speakers from diverse backgrounds ranging from an aspiring English teacher, a teacher educator, a school administrator, and a spoken word artist. They shared our lived experiences and professional practices on ways to support our K-20 students in learning about the Asian American experience today, curriculum development on critical Asian American narratives and histories, school leadership and community advocacy, and the use of the spoken word as a tool for transformative change.
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
This is Who We Are
Centering Young People’s Racial and Cultural Identities and History
Thursday, April 15th, 4pm-5pm (EST)
Black and Gold Forum
Wednesday, March 17th
4PM - 5PM (EST)
Panelists
Jose Antonio Vargas
Dr. Judy Yu
Dr. Roberto G. Gonzales
Adrián Escárate
#WRT2021
This special event features both a panel discussion and a teach-in workshop led by undocumented citizens, Dreamers, college professors, immigrant advocates, and aspiring English teachers. In this workshop, we utilize storytelling, educational research, and clinical field experience to reveal the untold stories, struggles, and resiliency of what it means to be an undocumented immigrant, a Dreamer, and an American in K-20 schools today. Panelists include Pulitzer Award Winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas and Adrian Escarate, Communications Coordinator at Define American, Dr. Roberto G. Gonzales, Professor at Harvard University and Director of Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH), and Dr. Judy Yu, Assistant Professor at Queens College and Founding Director at REACH. They will be joined by Queens College students, Sara Yadgarov, Maria Sultana, Wriel Santos, and Ahmad Zeidieh.
The Power of Storytelling for Dreamers & Undocumented Citizens in K-20 Education
February 25th-27th, 2021
Asian American MotherScholars
Love on the Frontlines During Covid-19
In this piece, we, four AsAm MotherScholars, share our collective resistance and resilience and our commitment to practicing solidarity. Through collaborative auto-ethnographic analysis grounded in a framework of love and coalitional resistance, we share how our relationship, built on our fluid and multiple identities as AsAm MotherScholars and allyship with each other, provided the conditions for interweaving dialogue, faith, hope, and collective action that challenge dominant structures of dehumanization to make space to honor our humanity. We highlight the period of time from mid-March to mid-May 2020, immediately following social distancing orders in our respective states due to COVID-19, as a particularly salient moment at which the nexus of our identities took center stage in our conversations and collaboration. Our study focuses on the central research questions: "How, through love, can we resist dehumanization in times of crisis? How does love make space for our full humanity as Asian American MotherScholars?"
“As I close my eyes and remember my childhood, I recall my parents teaching me that silence symbolizes respect in our Chinese heritage. Now as an adult with my eyes wide open, schools are teaching me that silence equates to invisibility in our American culture. I reflect upon the representation of silence between my two worlds and realize that I am privileged by the power of silence. I hear the silence of my Chinese ancestors who have built America and left behind their untold legacies of pain and glory. Their silenced voices and spirit continue to live in my present. Their voices help me to connect with a fragmented past to fight for our survival – this is my promise to them.”
— Judy Yu’s Journal, 2005