Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are consistently underrepresented in leadership positions and underpaid even with higher qualifications—a phenomenon known as the bamboo ceiling. In the meantime, Anti-AAPI hate, correlated with racialized rhetoric about the coronavirus, rose by 339 percent in 2021—over two times the rise in 2020 of 124 percent.
Author: Aileen Fullchange
Aileen Fullchange, PhD is a public voices fellow of the OpEd Project and a licensed Taiwanese American psychologist who serves diverse teens, individuals, couples and families on Caddo, Witchta and Comanche land in Dallas, Texas. She works at the crossroads of psychological well-being, education and equity as a clinician and speaker.