Longtime banker Rocky Fong recently took on a new role at Chase in Seattle as Community Manager, a newly created role. Fong’s mission is to provide community residents with access to tools and resources available to help achieve their financial goals. The role is part of JPMorgan Chase’s five-year racial equity commitment of $30 billion […]
Harrell names search committee for new SDOT director
Mayor Bruce Harrell announced on April 8 a committee to help find a permanent director for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). Committee members, including Cassie Chinn of the Wing Luke Museum, Lee Lambert of Cascade Bike Club, Rizwan Rizwi of Muslim Housing Services, Monisha Singh of Chinatown International District Business Improvement Association, and Yu-Ann […]
Trailblazing Asian American legislator Patsy Young
Patsy Young, who served in both the Hawaii state House and Senate between 1971 and 1988, died on April 3. She was 92. Young was the first Asian American woman appointed to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, according to biographical information provided by the Hawaii United Okinawa Association. Her parents emigrated from Okinawa, […]
Nguyen to receive EMILY’s List award
EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, announced that the 2022 Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award will be awarded to Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen. The award will be presented at the We Are EMILY Gala on May 3. In a news release, Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY’s List, said, “Nguyen has […]
Minority Health Month
By Gayle Gupit-Mayor NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY April is National Minority Health Month (NMHM), and this year’s theme is “Give Your Community a Boost!” NMHM is an initiative promoted by the Office of Minority Health that focuses on the health concerns of Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, and other underserved groups. Through disease prevention and early […]
Schwiethale’s ‘ABCs of Cambodia’ exposes readers to Cambodian culture
About a year ago, Kiri Schwiethale found herself at a crossroads, thinking about how she would share her Cambodian culture with her two kids.
Several COVID deaths in WA happened before 1st was announced
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Department of Health has confirmed at least four other Washingtonians died from COVID complications before or on Feb. 28, 2020—the date the first known death in Washington and the U.S. was announced. In a recent review of the state’s earliest COVID-19 deaths, three people who died before the initial […]
Experts: Asian population overcount masks community nuances
By TERRY TANG and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Jennifer Chau was astonished last month when the U.S. Census Bureau’s report card on how accurately it counted the U.S. population in 2020 showed that Asian people were overcounted by the highest rate of any race or ethnic group. The director of an Asian […]
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu hopes to transform her adopted city
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When she was elected mayor of Boston in November, Michelle Wu transformed the image of the city’s chief executive — up until then the sole domain of white men, many of Irish descent. Now in office, the Chicago-born daughter of Taiwanese immigrants is facing a raft of […]
China used TV, TikTok stars in discreet Olympics campaign
By AMANDA SEITZ, MIKE CATALINI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” TV star, a Paralympic swimmer and a self-described “brand king” were among the Instagram and TikTok influencers who were paid by Chinese officials for a discreet campaign that promoted the Beijing Winter Olympics, new Justice Department […]