AAPI voters have the potential to impact the outcomes in the 2024 election, but remain flattened and undercovered in mainstream media. AAPI-led community organizations and data equity initiatives offer powerful insights and new tools for understanding the needs of our diverse communities, including its most marginalized and under-engaged members. In this virtual forum, hosted by the Asian Media Initiative (AMI) at the Center for Community Media, community news media journalists will receive briefings from community-based organizations and AAPI-led research initiatives to inform your coverage of AAPI voters in New York and nationwide.

The forum will include two briefing sessions:

Barriers to Engaging Marginalized AAPI Voters in New York

• Engaging Indo-Caribbean and LGBTQ+ AAPI communities
• Voting access for Deaf and other disabled AAPI
• Reversing low AAPI youth voter turnout
• Voter outreach to growing AAPI communities outside of NYC

AAPI-Led Data Initiatives on AAPI Communities and Voters

• New databases and research tools on AAPI communities
• Proposed legislation to disaggregate data on diverse AAPI, and why it matters
• Ongoing national initiatives to produce high-quality data on AAPI

Speakers

Barriers to Engaging Marginalized AAPI Voters in New York

• Mohamed Q. Amin (he/they) is founder of the Caribbean Equality Project, advocating for Caribbean LGBTQ+ voices in New York City.
• Angelreana Choi (she/her) is the Asian Student Civic Engagement Task Force (ASCET) Coordinator at APA VOICE/MinKwon Center for Community Action.
• Clement So (he/him) is Team Leader at the Metropolitan Asian Deaf Association (MDA).
• John Park (he/him) is Executive Director at the MinKwon Center for Community Action.

AAPI-Led Data Initiatives on AAPI Communities and Voters

• Alex Chew (he/him) is Director, Amplify AAPI at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.
• Linying He, PhD (she/her) is Associate Director of Research at the Asian American Federation (AAF) and a leading expert in research and advocacy for Asian American communities.
• Lloyd Feng (he/him) is Data Policy Coordinator at the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF).

Moderator and Presenter

• Kavitha Rajagopalan directs the Asian Media Initiative (AMI) at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Center for Community Media.

AMI Elections Project