AAPI Advisory Board | Asian and Asian American Studies Institute

The people-powered campaign of Make Us Visible-CT succeeded in passing an Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies requirement in Connecticut public schools. This much-needed change promises to make our state’s K-12 curriculum more inclusive and accurate, but we have a lot of work to do.

The Asian and Asian American Studies Institute is partnered with the State Department of Education to collaboratively build a new set of resources, lessons, and professional development pathways that create confidence and competence in teaching the global, national, and local dimensions of Asian American and Pacific Islander history, culture, and politics.

In order to guide and drive the work towards this goal, we are constituting a K-12 AAPI Advisory Board co-chaired by Gurmeet Singh and AAASI Director, Jason Chang.

AAPI Co-Chair

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AAPI Co-Chair			Gurmeet Kaur Singh	Make Us Visible, CT
AAPI Co-Chair			Jason Oliver Chang	Director of Asian and Asian American Studies & Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut

Board Member

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Board Member	Stephen Armstrong	CT Department of Education
Board Member	Megan Baker	Lead Asian American Pacific Islander Policy Analyst, CT Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity
Board Member	Seerat Bath	Co-president of the Asian American Student Union, Farmington High School
Board Member	Maximillian Bonadies	Student, Glastonbury High School
Board Member	Angela Chen	Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
Board Member	Katie Coleman	Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
Board Member	Muntara Kaur Singh	Student, The Morgan School
Board Member	Simar Kaur Soni	Student, Bethel High School
Board Member	Angelina Li	Student, Hopkins School
Board Member	Melinda Lu	Amity Regional High School Student, Amity Asian Activism Co-president
Board Member	Jason R. Mancini	Executive Director, CT Humanities
Board Member	Daniel Martinez HoSang	Yale University and the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective
Board Member	Terry Park	Education and Narrative Change Program Officer, The Asian American Foundation
Board Member	Eira Prakash	Student, Farmington High School
Board Member	Harman Singh	Senior Education Manager, The Sikh Coalition
Board Member	Lynna Vo	Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut