Register now for the UW–Madison Diversity Forum, “Rising Above and Reshaping our World in the Image of Justice.” The 2021 Diversity Forum will be held as a hybrid in-person & virtual conference on Nov. 2 & 3 with Dr. Russell Jeung, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, and Steven Canals, co-creator of “Pose,” as keynote presenters. The annual conference is free and open to the public.

Keynote — Ending Asian Hate: The Asian American Community Responds

Dr. Russell Jeung will discuss the nationwide rise in anti-Asian hate incidents that led to his co-founding the Bay Area nonprofit organization Stop AAPI Hate in 2020, for which he was recognized as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people for 2021. He explores the causes of this troubling surge, which he links to a larger, and little-known, history of anti-Asian prejudice that first took root in the western United States nearly two centuries ago. Looking to the future, Dr. Jeung shares how the Asian American community has organized and collaborated across linguistic, religious, gender, age, and ethnic lines to bring about an end to hate and bias incidents for all Americans, in the process helping to alter perceptions of what it means to be Asian American today.