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May 11 episode of All Things Equal featured Amy Somchanhmavong, Ithaca Asian American Association discussing anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias in Ithaca/Tompkins and Ithaca’s “Virus has no nationality campaign.”
All Things Equal airs Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m. on WHCU 870-AM. Steve Patterson, Athens, Ohio mayor and board member of the International Town Gown Association, will guest May 18, discussing policing equity with Cornell’s Gary Stewart.
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May 11, 2021
Ithaca’s community organizers, activists, Black farmers and more have transformed the community in ways big and small. And they have stories to tell.
A new book, “13 Leaders: Stories of Community Building for Systemic Change,” published by Cornell students, honors the journeys and life’s work of 13 Cornell Civic Leader Fellows – grassroots leaders who have played critical roles in developing resilient communities in and around Ithaca. Provided
Cornell Civil Leader Fellow Phoebe Brown participates in a rally in San Francisco.
The book is the product of five years of work by undergraduate students majoring in development sociology in the Department of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who documented the oral histories of local community leaders as part of their senior capstone course, Agents of Change: Community Organizing for the Public Good.
The May 4 episode of All Things Equal featured Derek Chang, Cornell Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies. Derek discussed the context and history of the rise in anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias during the past year.