

“We hope today’s presentation discussion helps to build community, clarify information, generate some creative advocacy strategies and interventions that you can use for supporting AAPI students,” Liu said. Marcia Liu, the event moderator and Mental Health Coordinator for Hunter College AANAPISI Project in New York City, said Tuesday’s event would help build community and facilitate support systems for AAPI-identifying students. In the session’s opening remarks - which successfully finished prior to the Zoom-bombing - Dr. In particular, the event was intended to discuss strategies for increasing racial equity on college campuses in order to support AAPI-identifying members of academic communities. The panel, entitled “Anti-Asian Hate and Mental Health on College Campuses,” was set to feature expert speakers in the fields of Asian-American studies mental health studies and diversity, equity and inclusion. The University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity and the Steve Fund, an organization working to advance positive mental health for young people of color, were forced to abruptly end a virtual Anti-Asian hate panel discussion Tuesday afternoon after an anonymous Zoom bomber began shouting obscenities and racial slurs.
