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#MeetOurBoard: Sahar Amjad, Hartford Area, CT

Sahar is new to the CRCJ Board of Directors. She is a 2021 graduate of UConn where she was a senator in the student government, a writing consultant and actively involved in climate justice issues.
Sahar previously worked for the Center for Latino Progress (CPRF) where she served as Assistant Coordinator for the Transport Hartford Academy, "an advocacy program aimed at promoting modes of transportation which are environmentally sustainable, equitable, safe, and accessible."
She was also Communications Manager for the #IAmNotAVirus campaign.

She created the "Not So Grown-Up" podcast in 2020 an holds a certification from the Collaborative Institutional Training Institute in Social and Behavioral Research.
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#AndrewYang posted an opinion piece that says to avoid #racism, it's on us Asian-Americans to show our "American-ness". I like @andrewyang2020 but he's wrong. Asians/Asian-Americans do NOT need to show their "#American-ness".
White America historically as a whole perceive us as "the other" (and still do). Asians do not need to prove anything to anyone. White America need to change their collective behavior, not us.
The #coronavirus has been weaponized to unfairly stigmatize Chinese people such as myself. Although humans discriminate upon one another, diseases don't. If there IS a duty I feel a responsibility towards, it is to protect my fellow Asians,
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We strongly denounce the systematic efforts of those who attack Europeans with Asian origins over #coronavirus. This disgusting #racist & #xenophobic rhetoric divides our people & stands to threaten our shared European values. #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus @KMTaylorBerlin @MPriv_o @_LICRA_ Image
@KMTaylorBerlin @MPriv_o @_LICRA_ @ARDIEuroParl @EP_Justice @FriendsofEurope @EURightsAgency @GVedeux @helenadalli @forum_ADYFE @PICUM_post @razzismobs @MDI_UK "In the US, government propaganda and pop culture at the time spread wildly racist and inaccurate images of Chinese people as unclean, uncivilized, immoral, & a threat to society."

#JeNeSuisPasUnVirus #coronavirus @jessieyeung8 @_LICRA_

edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/asi…
@KMTaylorBerlin @MPriv_o @_LICRA_ @ARDIEuroParl @EP_Justice @FriendsofEurope @EURightsAgency @GVedeux @helenadalli @forum_ADYFE @PICUM_post @razzismobs @MDI_UK @jessieyeung8 Just like during SARS outbreak Corona virus has exposed the racist attack against Asians.

Racist memes target Chinese eating habits, but the real causes of the coronavirus are more mundane.

#JeNeSuisPasUnVirus #coronavirus @BeijingPalmer
@rzhongnotes

foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/27/don…
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