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On April 25, hundreds of people gathered in Mitchel Square Park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City for a rally in solidarity with the Asian community, after Yao Pan Ma, a Chinese man collecting cans for recycling was brutally attacked and hospitalized just a couple of days earlier.
The rally’s organizers included the New York State Nurses Association, MayDay Space, Asians 4 Abolition, BAYAN USA, Word Up Community Bookshop and the ANSWER Coalition. The community showed up to protest the anti-Asian violence perpetrated not only by civilians, but also by the police, corporate media, and the U.S. armed forces abroad.
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Frederick, a Dominican and Canadian-American dancer who performed with Urban Bush Women, most recently served as director of community engagement at Lincoln Center from 2015 to 2020, where she led a team that presented inclusive family-arts programming on and beyond the Lincoln Center campus. During her tenure, she also launched new mentorship and internship programs for young people, and created an expansive residency program for community artists. Prior to Lincoln Center, Frederick developed her partnership and facilitation skills by working with Urban Arts Partnership as the program director for Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE), a federally funded professional development program for educators in New York City. Under her leadership, the EASE program expanded to Los Angeles Unified School District and local arts organizations in an initiative to prepare teaching artists with strategies to teach non-disabled and disabled students in integra