Asian Heritage Celebration

LaGuardia Community College has been celebrating the Asian Heritage Celebration in May every year. AHC is an annual event of LaGuardia featuring various cultural, philosophical, and linguistic heritages from Asian countries. Along with the other cultural heritage celebrations, including African American Heritage week and Latino Heritage week, AHC acknowledges and celebrates diversity and cultural richness of LaGuardia Community College.

The Asian Heritage Committee is committed promoting to Asian and Asian American groups on campus. Our Mini-Conference and Final Celebration are intended to provide the college with a wonderful array of educational, cultural and engaging programs that will heighten the awareness and contributions of Asian and Asian American groups in New York City.

Asian Heritage Celebration 2021 Virtual Mini-Conference
"Asian American Communities in NYC in the Pandemic Era"
With an invited talk by Carmelyn Malalis, Commissioner of NYC Commission on Human Rights

Date: Thursday, May 6th, 2021 (10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.)

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“I Still Believe in Our City” Posters by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

This year's celebration focuses on Asian American's experience during the COVID-19 pandemic with featured talks and panels by our own faculty and students, the NYC Commission on Human Rights, Asian American Federation, and CHAAYA. See more information on our Facebook page.

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Asian Heritage Celebration Committee
Co-Chairs: Anita Baksh and Sumanth Inukonda
Committee Members: Ann Matsuuchi, Dana Trusso, Karen McKeon, Kyoko Toyama,
Malgorzata Marciniak, Neetu Kaushik, Thomas Cleary, Tomonori Nagano, & Tuli Chatterji

Asian American Heritage Month Events in Spring 2021

Date	Event	Collaborator(s)	Content	Links
On-going	Asian American Voices (student journal)		Anita Baksh	http://bit.ly/AHC2021a
On-going	COVID-19 Oral History Project	LaGuardia Library Archive	Tomonori Nagano and Thomas Cleary	http://bit.ly/AHC2021c
Every Wednesday	Asian American Wellness Group		Stacy Chen and Shirley Chen	http://bit.ly/AHC2021w
Fri, April 16, 2021	Teaching While Asian: A Panel Discussion for Future and Current Asian Educators	NYC Men Teach	John Gunn and James Johnson (Medgar Evers)	http://bit.ly/AHC2021t
Mon, April 26, 2021	Combating Anti-Asian American Violence Town hall	Project DIVE / AAARI	James Salnave	http://bit.ly/AHC2021d
Wed, May 5, 2021	Anti-Asian Violence: Coping with Trauma	Asian American Federation	Sumanth Inukonda	http://bit.ly/AHC2021v
Thur, May 6, 2021	Asian Heritage Celebration Mini-conference	NYC Comm. on Human Rights	Anita Baksh	http://bit.ly/AHC2021m
Fri, May 7, 2021	Anti-Racist Pedagogy Teach-in	SURJ Anti-Racist Pedagogy Working Group	Rachel Boccio	http://bit.ly/AHC2021i
Wed, May 12, 2021	I am Not a Virus:" Revisiting the Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype in the Time of Covid-19 Workshop	Museum of Chinese in America	Robin Kietlinski	http://bit.ly/AHC2021n

LaGuardia's Asian American Voices Journal, 2^nd Issue.

Please encourage your students to submit term papers, creative writing, essays, recipes, artworks, and photo collections to Anita Baksh at abaksh@lagcc.cuny.edu for publication in Asian American Voices.

Asian American Voices Journal

Please view the LaGuardia's Asian American Voices Journal, 1^st Issue