Middle School Activist Rises Above AAPI Hate
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Published 2022-05-18
Since the group’s start in 2021, AAPI Youth Rising has grown to 20 members, most of whom are middle school student activists. Members of AAPI Youth Rising have spoken at summits, contributed to youth leadership panels, registered new voters, and even discussed their work on “Good Morning America.”
Most recently, Fedor and her peers at AAPI Youth Rising have set their sights on education. The group hopes to fight anti-Asian hate and xenophobia by advocating for the inclusion of AAPI history in K-12 curricula. They want all students to know about the sweeping history of the AAPI community and their many contributions to American society—a history that is seldom taught in schools, including Fedor’s.
Fedor felt “failed” by the education she received about the AAPI community in school, which was limited to one “very traumatic” lesson about the wrongful incarceration of Japanese Americans in the 1940s. “There wasn't any sort of celebratory things about the accomplishments of AAPI or anything like that,” she said.
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