Sumie Okazaki is a professor of applied psychology at New York University. Okazaki researches the impact of immigration, social and culture change, and race on Asian and Asian American teens, young adults and parents.

Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The media contact is H. Andrew Schwartz.

Daniel D. Lee is the academic dean for Fuller Theological Seminary’s Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry. Lee is also an assistant professor of theology and Asian American studies.

Paul C.H. Lim is a professor of humanities at the University of Florida with a particular focus on the consequences of Christian theology. In April 2021, Lim spoke on a Vanderbilt Divinity School panel about the histories of racialized and gendered violence.

Mihee Kim-Kort is an ordained Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister and serves as co-pastor with her spouse of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, Maryland. She wrote a March 2021 column in The New York Times called “I’m a Scholar of Religion. Here’s What I See in the Atlanta Shootings.”

DJ Ida is the executive director of National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association and a clinical psychologist.

Margari Hill is the executive director of Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, a faith-based human rights education organization. For media inquiries, contact [email protected].

Chenxing Han is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists and studied chaplaincy at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. Contact Han via her website, or her publisher’s email is [email protected].

Keith Ellison is the attorney general of Minnesota and the first African American and first Muslim to be elected to statewide office in Minnesota. In March 2021, Ellison co-authored a USA Today column titled “Stand together to fight anti-Asian hate. We all have a stake in a more inclusive America.”