House hearing on rise of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans: Watch Here!

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing on the discrimination and violence Asian Americans have faced both historically and since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The hearing begins at 10AM ET and you can watch it here. There will be two panels of witnesses that will ‘consider ways to prevent racially motivated attacks as it examines both the historic and more recent forms of discrimination felt by Asian Americans’, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y..

Witnesses:

First Panel:

The Honorable Doris Matsui, Member of Congress
The Honorable Judy Chu, Member of Congress
The Honorable Tammy Duckworth, United States Senator
The Honorable Grace Meng, Member of Congress

Second Panel:

John C. Yang, Esq., President & Executive Director, Asian American Advancing Justice – AAJC
Manjusha P. Kulkarni, Esq., Executive Director, Stop AAPI Hate, Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council
Erika Lee, PhD., Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Charles Lehman, Fellow, Manhattan Institute, and Contributing Editor, City Journal
Wencong Fa, Esq., Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation
Daniel Dae Kim, Actor and Producer
Shirin Sinnar, Esq., Professor of Law & John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School
Hiroshi Motomura, Esq., Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law