Since 2020, Stop Asian Hate has “reported 11,000 acts of hate against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.” As part of the CUNY Anti-Hate Initiative, City Tech will host an Anti-Hate conference focusing on the AAPI community. 

With the increase of anti-Asian sentiment in New York City and nationwide, City Tech continues to encourage conversations to combat anti-Asian hate, to support Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) students, faculty, staff, and alums, and to foster an inclusive environment.

The groundwork laid by the 2022 AAPI heritage month events that helped launch this important initiative and also helped to build the 2023 RAAR: Rising Against Anti-Asian Racism project. This year with CUNY’s multi-year Anti-Hate initiative, we hope to continue these critical conversations and aim to examine, educate, and inform the City Tech community and beyond regarding the experience and challenges facing the AAPI members. We want to emphasize that this conference is a safe space for you to share your experiences, and we value your contributions to this important dialogue.

Our goal is to extend and deepen the dialogue around anti-Asian violence and discrimination through a conference. This event is of utmost importance as it provides a platform for members of the community to share high-impact practices for raising awareness and mitigating microaggression and discrimination. We invite AAPI students, faculty, staff, and alumni in the higher education community across CUNY to voice and share their experiences.

The conference objectives include:

• The conference seeks to examine the issues and provide resources and strategies to combat anti-Asian discrimination in higher education.

• The conference offers a platform for the AAPI community within higher education to share and voice their experiences, challenges, and best practices.

• The conference aims to empower members of the AAPI community by advocating equity and inclusion in the academic setting.

• The conference aims to promote networking and inter-campus conversations in a larger community of practice and support.

 
The event will take place on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 in the Academic Complex, Room A105 at 2:00PM.

The CUNY community is invited and City Tech faculty are encouraged to bring their students. 

Refreshments (with vegan and gluten-free options) will be served.