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Extended interview with Alvina Wong and Terisa Siagatonu about their communities in the Bay Area, from the Aloha Friday Conversation.
Alvina Wong, is Campaign Organizing Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, or APEN. She works with Asian immigrants in Oakland, California, a hot spot for reported attacks. I think they are afraid to go out because of Covid, says Wong, And because it just feels like everyone s against us right now.
In January a Thai man was shoved and died from his injuries in San Francisco. Several elders have been attacked in Oakland. Sports figures, celebrities, and law enforcement continue to draw attention to more than 700 incidents in the Bay Area alone. Chinese have lived in California for 200 years.
Full show March 5, 2021
Over the past year, San Francisco Bay Area has become a hotspot for violence against Asians-Americans; of the 2,808 incidents of violence that the online tracker Stop AAPI Hate has recorded during the pandemic, over 700 hundred incidents occurred in the Bay Area. The Asian Pacific Environmental Network is looking at the diverse needs of the AAPI community, and Bay Area-based poet
Terisa Siagatonu lends her insight to the conversation.
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New president takes charge at Maryknoll School
Maryknoll School in Honolulu has a new president and she has a long history with the school. Shana Tong stepped up to serve as the interim head of school after the previous president, Perry Martin, departed this past summer. Tong’s very familiar with the school she attended Maryknoll from kindergarten through 12th grade and graduated in 1983. She also worked as a teacher and principal at the school for 30 years, and was most recently the Vice President of Academic Affairs. She spoke with HPR’s Jason Ubay about school operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, including an update on their Chinese immersion program.
Honolulu Neighborhood Board Commission Executive Secretary Lloyd Yonenaka reports
Lloyd Yonenaka says his friends asked him why he applied to head the Blangiardi administration s Neighborhood Board Commission.
This administration in particular looks upon the Neigborhood Board as a tremendous asset. For me, that s important.
After serving as information officer for Maui County for 20 years, then doing community relations at Hawaiian Homelands, Yonenaka says working in neighborhoods is what he likes to do.
I like the neighborhood boards. I believe they re underutilized, I believe they can play a bigger role, I m just looking forward to seeing if we can expand their role and their value to the community and to government.