Stop AAPI Hate

{{About|the non-profit organization|the larger protest movement|Stop Asian Hate}}

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Cynthia Choi
Russell Jeung

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Stop AAPI Hate is an American nonprofit organization that runs the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center, which tracks self-reported incidents of hate and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) living in the United States. The organization was formed in 2020 in response to the racist attacks on the Asian American community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization’s approach centered on four strategies:{{Cite web |title=Our Approach |url=https://stopaapihate.org/our-approach/ |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=Stop AAPI Hate |language=en-US}}

Data & Research,
Policy & Advocacy,
Community Capacity Building
Narrative Change

History

Stop AAPI Hate was founded by a consortium of three groups: AAPI Equity Alliance (formerly A3PCON, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council),{{Cite web |title=AAPI Equity Alliance Website – Website for the Asian American Pacific Islander Equity Alliance |url=https://aapiequityalliance.org/ |access-date=2023-10-25 |language=en-US}} Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department (AAS) at the San Francisco State University,{{cite web |last1=McGirt |first1=Ellen |last2=Morris |first2=David Z. |title=It's time to stop AAPI hate |url=https://fortune.com/2021/02/09/hate-crimes-against-asian-americans-are-nothing-new/ |website=Fortune |access-date=16 February 2021 |language=en}} under the leadership of Manjusha P. Kulkarni, Cynthia Choi, and Russell Jeung.{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://stopaapihate.org/about/|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Stop AAPI Hate|language=en-US}} The consortium began its action in January 2020 as a response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Asian Americans, specifically news accounts of incidents of racially motivated violence. The group takes a grassroots approach to gathering data and providing these data to the general public and other advocacy groups.{{cite journal |last1=Takasaki |first1=Kara |title=Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center: A Model of Collective Leadership and Community Advocacy |journal=Journal of Asian American Studies |date=10 November 2020 |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=341–351|doi=10.1353/jaas.2020.0028 |s2cid=226967386 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772568 |access-date=16 February 2021 |language=en |issn=1096-8598}}

The group began its focus on incidents occurring in California. Their researchers initially analyzed data from the end of January 2020 though the end of February 2020 from news sources reporting on xenophobia and COVID-19. The group then approached the governor of California and the state's Attorney General's Office requesting that state agencies respond to the increasing threat of discrimination. Although the governor and others in government decried the racism, they did not form a reporting center. Stop AAPI Hate subsequently formed a non-governmental community-based reporting system called the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center.{{cite web |title=700 Anti-Asian Hate Incidents Reported in Bay Area During Pandemic - True Figures Might Be Even Worse |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11859965/700-anti-asian-hate-incidents-reported-in-bay-area-during-pandemic-true-figures-might-be-even-worse |website=KQED |date=February 12, 2021 |access-date=16 February 2021 |language=en-us}}{{cite web |last1=Yancey-Bragg |first1=N'dea |title='Stop killing us': Attacks on Asian Americans highlight rise in hate incidents amid COVID-19 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/12/asian-hate-incidents-covid-19-lunar-new-year/4447037001/ |website=USA TODAY |access-date=16 February 2021}}

The group operates a website which allows users to report an incident.{{cite web |title=Report Incident |url=https://stopaapihate.org/reportincident/ |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=Stop AAPI Hate}} The website also is a clearinghouse for reports and press releases with data generated from the reporting.{{cite web |title=Report and Releases |url=https://stopaapihate.org/reportsreleases/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022010428/https://stopaapihate.org/reportsreleases/ |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=Stop AAPI Hate}}

Impact

On February 23, 2021, the California legislature enacted the AB 85 law which includes funding of $1.4 million specifically to support Stop AAPI Hate's website, analysis and research.{{cite web |title=Bill Text - AB-85 Budget Act of 2020. |url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB85 |website=California Legislative Information |access-date=26 February 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Wong |first1=Ashley |title=California passes bill allocating $1.4 million to track anti-Asian bias and hate crimes |url=https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article249437955.html |website=Fresno Bee |access-date=26 February 2021}}

On October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 434 Public Transit for All: Improving Safety & Increasing Ridership into law that requires California's 10 largest transit agencies to collect voluntary survey data to better understand riders' experiences with street harassment. The bill was authored by Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) and sponsored by Stop AAPI Hate.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-10 |title=New law makes top California transit agencies survey riders about harassment |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2023/10/09/new-law-makes-top-california-transit-agencies-survey-riders-about-harassment/ |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=Daily Breeze |language=en-US}}

Time magazine has named Kulkarni, Choi, and Jeung among the 100 most influential people of 2021, for they "have locked arms with other BIPOC organizations to find restorative justice measures so that civil rights—for all vulnerable groups—receive the protection they deserve."{{Cite magazine|title=Stop AAPI Hate Co-Founders: TIME100 2021|url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096105/manjusha-kulkarni-russell-jeung-cynthia-choi/|access-date=2021-09-16|magazine=Time|language=en}}