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Susan Tate Ankeny’s ‘American Flygirl’ chronicles the life of the first Asian American woman pilot

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When Susan Tate Ankeny was asked to write a book about Hazel Ying Lee (1912-44), it was because the publishing company was looking for someone to tell Lee’s story, and they liked Ankeny’s style of writing in her debut book—narrative fiction that reads like fiction.

New designation at UCLA boosts efforts to AAPI students

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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) officially received the designation as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) on Tuesday, joining over 200 colleges and universities across the nation that focus on supporting underserved Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students.

Local high schoolers create NeuroYouth to empower the next generation to focus on prioritizing mental health and brain research

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NeuroYouth founder Jamie Kwon and managing director Catherine Enriquez, both high school seniors at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, are creating opportunities to empower Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) youth to conduct brain and mental health research.

Invisible pain: Raising awareness for AAPI domestic violence survivors this October

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Though she studied counseling in school with the intent to help families in all sorts of situations, it was helping her closest friend out of a domestic violence situation in South Korea that made Mi-Yeoung Lee want to keep helping domestic violence survivors.