Join the community on Tuesday, March 25, at 5 p.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Parish Hall for an engaging talk on anti-Asian xenophobia and collective action by Russell Jeung, Ph.D., author, scholar and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate. Please RSVP to georgette_wong@yahoo.com. This event is free.

The event is sponsored by Ladybug Pizza and supported by Georgette Wong, Nancy Wang and Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, and Orcas Island Public Library.

Jeung received a B.A. in human biology and an M.A. in education from Stanford University. After working in China and in the Mayor’s Office of San Francisco, he obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. After teaching at Foothill College for two years, he came to San Francisco State University’s Asian American Studies Department in 2002.

His research interests include the sociology of race, the sociology of religion and social movements. Jeung is extensively engaged with his students in conducting community-based participatory research with Asian American communities.

In 2020, Jeung launched Stop AAPI Hate, a project of Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and San Francisco State Asian American Studies. It tracks COVID-19-related discrimination in order to develop community resources and policy interventions to fight racism.