OPEN LETTER TO THE SMITHSONIAN – July 17, 2023
To Secretary Lonnie Bunch, Undersecretary Kevin Gover, and Acting Director of the Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) Yao-Fen You:
As partners and co-organizers of the 2023 Asian American Literature Festival (AALF), we are writing to condemn the cancellation of this year’s festival and call on the Smithsonian to be accountable for the harms this cancellation has caused.
On July 5, only one month out from the festival scheduled for August 4-6, some of us received a brief message from Acting Director You, stating that AALF had been canceled “due to unforeseen circumstances.” When we reached out in shock, confusion, and distress to APAC staff on the festival planning team, we were told that staff were not allowed to speak to us about the cancellation.
The next day, on July 6, we sent a letter to you, the Smithsonian Secretary, Undersecretary, and Acting Director of APAC, asking that the cancellation be overturned. We cited the lack of basis for this decision, the immense costs incurred, and the significance of the festival to our community during this unprecedented time. We received no response.
On July 13, we began receiving individual offers of partial honoraria from the Acting Director, still with no explanation for the cancellation.
On July 14, The Washington Post reported on the cancellation, including an official statement from the Smithsonian alleging that the festival was canceled due to failures in preparation by the planning team. We must rebut this immediately: from the partners' perspective, everything was on track; we had no concerns with putting on our programs in a month’s time. In fact, many of us have participated in AALF in years past and have returned due to our confidence in working with this planning team. The article itself confirms that the allegations are false.
In the days following the publication of The Washington Post article, there has been much public outrage in support of the festival and its organizers. However, the cancellation has also been taken up and co-opted by anti-affirmative action agendas—we must rebut this immediately as well. We denounce such efforts as deeply racist and anti-Black, and reaffirm the festival's foundation in solidarity with all communities of color.
As of today, July 17, we still have not directly received any explanation for the cancellation from the Acting Director or Smithsonian leadership.
We want to be clear: for the organizations planning the festival and the 130+ participating artists this year, the cancellation causes real damage, both immediate and long term. The immediate financial costs are immense, as outlined in this growing document. The festival in previous years has created an unprecedented opportunity for Asian American and Asian diasporic writers to build community and reach new audiences; the cancellation is detrimental not only to the careers of these artists and the futures of these organizations, but also to the wider literary community and the Asian American community as a whole. Since the previous festival in 2019, the Asian American community has experienced increased anti-Asian violence, with trans and nonbinary Asian Americans in particular under siege. The cancellation of the festival compounds the violence our community has experienced. The Smithsonian is not only dismissing our work; it is eliminating the opportunity for our community to come together to grieve and heal. The material losses resulting from this cancellation are significant, but the losses to our spirit are just as meaningful.
The way the cancellation has been executed—unilaterally, hastily, unprofessionally, callously—is also completely unacceptable. In this decision and its execution, there has been a flagrant lack of accountability for the harm caused.
We also want to be clear that the Asian American Literature Festival does not belong to the Smithsonian. Started as a collaboration between Smithsonian APAC, the Library of Congress, and Kundiman in 2017, AALF has grown into a collective of arts organizations, publishers, and individual artists devoted to stewarding Asian American literature as art form and communal ecosystem, grounded in an ethos of co-governance and care. It is the only festival of its kind, and it belongs to the entire collective, as well as the communities to which we are accountable.
The Smithsonian’s unilateral decision to cancel the festival, withdrawing its funding and logistical support, is antithetical to the festival’s core values and abandons its ethical foundation. The decision is a costly reminder of the wide-reaching damage one institution and one person can do when allowed to make unilateral decisions, and that no one person or institution should have the power to harm so many people.
That includes harm to APAC staff. We are deeply concerned that the Smithsonian’s statement unfairly blames the festival planning team and deflects attention away from the true problems here: the Smithsonian’s unilateral decision-making and the harm it has caused. Blaming the festival planning team also compounds the ongoing hostile and abusive labor conditions that APAC staff face, first brought to many partners’ attention by a Change the Museum post in January and then privately confirmed by staff. While we don't know if the most recent Change the Museum post about the Smithsonian on July 14 refers to APAC, the conditions are strikingly similar. We are outraged that these labor conditions have not been meaningfully addressed by Smithsonian leadership.
Additionally, we are deeply troubled to discover that a driving factor behind the festival’s cancellation might have been the Smithsonian’s desire to censor trans and nonbinary programming. A program intended to celebrate trans and nonbinary authors, as they face unprecedented levels of violence, book bans, and anti-trans legislation, was set to take place at the festival. The Washington Post article reported that the Acting Director instructed the planning team to submit a report under Smithsonian Directive 603 to identify potentially sensitive or controversial content, which she received on July 5. The timing of the cancellation, hours after the submission of that report, which noted the trans and nonbinary program, raises disturbing questions. We condemn in the strongest terms any attempt to censor any part of our community, especially our deeply vulnerable trans and nonbinary members. There is no Asian American community without its trans and nonbinary members; there is no Asian American literature without trans and nonbinary writers.
The Smithsonian and the Acting Director have broken our trust. We have worked with the Smithsonian in this partnership to create AALF because of long-running, mutually respectful and caring relationships with APAC staff. The Smithsonian has taken advantage of those relationships and the trust built from them. We no longer have faith that the Institution will be ethical in its partnerships. This cancellation communicates to us that the Smithsonian does not feel accountable to partners and community, does not work collaboratively, and does not care about how it harms people, particularly communities of color. The cancellation, its unprofessional execution, Smithsonian’s bad-faith public statement, and APAC’s egregious labor conditions make it clear that we cannot work with APAC under its current leadership, nor can we work with the larger Smithsonian with current APAC leadership in place.
We make the following demands to begin any process of repair:
- Retraction of the public statement blaming festival planning staff, and a real explanation for the festival’s cancellation.
- Full honoraria to all organizations and artists as promised, and housing at the Eaton DC hotel as promised for those who must keep their plans to travel to DC for the days the festival was scheduled.
- Immediate resignation by Acting Director Yao-Fen You and immediate implementation of a staff-driven search for a new permanent director who can begin to repair trust with community and partners.
Update 7/25/23: We are aware that a search was opened on July 21; we demand staff inclusion on the committee as well as new interim leadership between now and the start of a permanent director.
- Under new APAC leadership, AALF rescheduled for a future date in 2024, with full funding and logistical support promised for this year’s canceled festival.
Update 7/25/23: The Smithsonian is now claiming the cancellation was in fact a “postponement”—if this is true, we demand a clear timeline and immediate MOUs put in place with festival partners in good faith.
- Under new APAC leadership, adoption of more transparent and collaborative decision-making processes for AALF as a community-oriented program. Any major decisions, including especially cancellation, must involve good-faith consultation with central partners.
- Assurances that the Smithsonian supports trans and nonbinary writers in the form of providing funding and logistical support to hold the Trans and Nonbinary Reading Room as a stand-alone event at a later date in 2023.
Sincerely,
2023 Asian American Literature Festival Partners and Participants
Rasha Abdulhadi, Writer & Cultural Organizer
Andrea Abi-Karam, Poet
George Abraham, Poet
Fuad Ahmad, Writer, Musician, Artist
Tanzila Ahmed, Campaign Strategist, Writer
Kamil Ahsan, South Asian Avant-Garde Anthology
Kazim Ali, Professor and Chair of Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Hari Alluri, Poet, Co-Founding Editor at Locked Horn Press
Bryant Apolonio, Writer
Fatimah Asghar, Writer
Neelanjana Banerjee, Managing Editor, Kaya Press
Regie Cabico, Publisher, Producer Capturing Fire Press, Capturing Fire International Slam Busboys & Poets Literary Curator and Open Mic Host
Wo Chan, Poet
Jennifer Chang, Associate Professor, University of Texas in Austin
Cathy Linh Che, Executive Director, Kundiman
Ching-In Chen, Curator of the Trans and Nonbinary Reading Room; Assistant Professor, University of Washington Bothell
Curtis Chin, Writer and Co-founder of AAWW
Noah Arhm Choi, Poet
Serena Chopra, Writer, Dancer, Filmmaker, Teacher, Assistant Professor, Seattle University
Chrysanthemum, Poet
Gina Chung, Programs Manager, Kundiman
Sarah Park Dahlen, Youth Literature Programming Team, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
River Ying Dandelion, Poet
Sayantani DasGupta, Invited author (Scholastic), Senior Lecturer Columbia University
Hannah Oliver Depp and Christine Bollow, Co-Owners of Loyalty Bookstores
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Senior Poetry Editor, AGNI Magazine; Professor and Chair of English, St. Olaf College
Kate Hao, Former Project Coordinator, 2023 Asian American Literature Festival
Jeremy Holt (nonbinary, Korean adoptee), Author
Mai-Linh Hong and Ma Vang, Co-Directors, Asylum for the Arts, University of California, Merced
Hasib Blaik Hourani, Writer and Editor
V. Jo Hsu, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Matt Huynh, Artist
Sabrina Imbler, Writer
Nathan Joe, Creative Director, Auckland Pride
Zeyn Joukhadar, Author
Adib Khorram, Author
Gowri Koneswaran, Poet and Literary Arts Programs Director at Split This Rock
Sunyoung Lee, Publisher, Kaya Press
Yoon Ha Lee, Writer
Janine Lim, Writer
Alvina Ling (invited participant for Book Friends Forever podcast with Grace Lin) Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Aline Lo, Co-chair, The Circle for Asian American Literature; Assistant Professor, Colorado College
Rose Lu, Writer
Wing Tek Lum, Bamboo Ridge Press
Devyn Mañibo, Poet and Deputy Director, Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Sally Wen Mao, Poet
Leah Jing McIntosh, Editor, Liminal Magazine
Leah Milne, Associate Professor, University of Indianapolis
Jyothi Natarajan, Writer & Program Manager, Haymarket Books
Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, 2022 Leeway Transformation Awardee, Author, Poet, Musician and Multi-Disciplinary Artist
Vandana Pawa, Director of Programs and Partnerships at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Oliver de la Paz, Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Writer, Poet, Curator, 2020 US Artists Disability Futures Fellow
William Pierce, Coeditor, AGNI Magazine
Jhani Randhawa, Poet & Community Worker
Bushra Rehman, Writer, Coeditor Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism
Seema Reza, CEO of Community Building Art Works
Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Trish Salah, Poet and Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Queen's University, Canada
Shuchi Saraswat, Associate Editor, AGNI Magazine
Sasaki Family Zines
Saraid de Silva, Writer
Bishakh Som, Artist & Author
Cher Tan, Reviews Editor, Meanjin Quarterly
Rosabel Tan, Director, Satellites
Truong Tran, Poet
Chris Tse, New Zealand Poet Laureate
Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Mellon Foundation National Playwright in Residence
Joe Wei, Indiana University Bloomington
Kyle Lucia Wu, Deputy Director, Kundiman
Yanyi, Poet
Joanne Yi, Youth Literature Programming Team
Paula Yoo, Writer
Timothy Yu, Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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From the community:
We the undersigned support this letter in its condemnation of the cancellation of the 2023 Asian American Literature Festival and the Smithsonian’s failure to be accountable.
Sign the letter here.
- Simi Kang, Artist & Collaborator; Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, University of Victoria
- Alyssa Lo, Poet
- Ryan Bautista
- Khôi Nguyên Trinh, Artist and Former APAC Intern
- Lauryn W., Kaya Press
- Anita Mannur
- Henry Mills, Poet, Teacher
- Mimi Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor and Chair, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Heidi Amin-Hong, Assistant Professor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature, UC Santa Barbara
- Natalie Illum
- Mike Jung, We Need Diverse Books, Allida Books, Levine Querido, Scholastic
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- Betina Hsieh, Professor, Department of Teacher Education; Affiliate Faculty, Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach
- Oscar Ivins, The Opportunity Network
- Hossannah Asuncion, Writer, Educator, Kundiman Fellow
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- Michelle N. Huang, Assistant Professor of English & Asian American Studies, Northwestern University
- Kelly Hoffer, Poet, Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan
- Jillian Heise, NBCT, MLIS
- Darius Phelps, Teachers College, Columbia University
- May-lee Chai, Writer and Acting Chair of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University
- Ricco Villanueva Siasoco, Writer & Advisory Board Member, Kundiman
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- Charlotte Geater, Poet
- Karen Adjei, Former Smithsonian Institution Intern and Fellow
- Alison Feuerwerker
- Jennifer Ho, CU Boulder Professor and former President of the Association for Asian American Studies
- Kimberly Alberts
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- Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
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- Vivian Lee
- Jigna Desai, Professor, UC -- Santa Barbara, Department of Asian American Studies and Department of Feminist Studies; Director of the Center for Feminist Futures
- Ian Wang
- Cara Healey, Assistant Professor, Wabash College
- Michael Sakamoto, Performing Arts Curator and Asian and Asian American Arts and Culture Program Director, University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center
- Lee Zhu
- Timothy K. August, Stony Brook University and The Circle For Asian American Literary Studies Co-Chair
- Neil Kepoʻo Ordinario, APALA
- Diana K. Wakimoto, Cal State East Bay
- Jenn Fang, Reappropriate
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- Jonathan Dresner, Associate Professor of Asian History
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- Sue Yi
- Beenash Jafri, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, UC Davis
- rochelle hoi-yiu kwan
- Meera Sriram
- Joe Piette, Workers World Party
- Kelly Zhao
- Laura Seltzer
- Angela Siew, Poet, instructor
- tracey nguyen mang, Vietnamese Boat People podcast/nonprofit
- Dorian Karchmar, Literary Agent & Partner, WME Agency
- Evanka Weerasinghe
- Larry Krone, Artist and Ally
- Sean Nguyen, Stand with Asian Americans
- Addie Tsai, William & Mary
- Sung J. Woo
- Tania Rowe, Writer
- Jennifer Shikes Haines, writer
- Simona Supekar
- Lawdenmarc Decamora, Poet & Faculty Researcher, University of Santo Tomas
- Melissa Phruksachart, University of Michigan, Dept. of Film, Television, and Media
- Purvi Shah, Writer, Kundiman Fellow, & Consultant
- Susanna Horng
- Joon Lee
- Catherine Ma, City University of New York
- Erin Suzuki, University of California, San Diego
- Dorothy Kim , English, Brandeis University
- Kiku Hughes
- Natasha
- Morgan Matter
- stefa marin alarcon
- Sebastian Doherty, NYU
- Lily, Harvard Book Store, and Boston ABG
- Moe McGlashan , English Teacher
- Aditya Desai, Maryland Humanities, writer
- Laura Surynt, Individual
- Tricia Greenstein, GWU, ALA, APALA
- Angelique Tran Van Sang, Felicity Bryan Associates
- Uyen Thai
- Kat Tanaka Okopnik, Independent scholar/writer/editor
- Lauren Garces, San Diego Asian Pacific Islander Coalition
- sky lee
- Fiona Teng
- Lily Wang-Falzon
- Tina Bhaga, Banyan: Asian American Writers Collective
- Aubrey Lay
- Jackie Guataquira, Designer and Art Educator
- Rebecca Hawkes
- Ricardo Hernandez, Assistant Director, Programs & Partnerships, Poets & Writers
- Linda Thai LMSW
- Navjot Pal Kaur , Kaur Republic Media Group
- Kate and Ailsa Hermann-Wu
- Axel Valle, Editor
- Vanessa Mei, The Pantograph Punch
- Alison James
- Felicia Bartley , History Colorado
- Sophie McBride
- Dr. Barbara Moreno, poet and teacher
- Bonnie Richardson
- Sehba Sarwar, Author
- F. M. V. F. Bello, Q-Wave
- Donna Sralla
- Sarah Davis, Graduate Student at CUNY
- Erin Hill
- Clare O’Leary, Gogomedia Aotearoa
- K. Kerimian, The Nonbinarian Book Bike, NAIBA
- Adhy Kim, History & Literature, Harvard University
- Reema Rao-Patel
- Vi Hoang-Creton, VV_eird Workshops LA
- Arianne Nguyen
- Raymond La
- Sharline Chiang
- Skye
- Yang H
- Alice Stephens, Adoptee Literary Festival
- Danny Khuu, Sonoma County Library, Library Associate / San Jose State Graduate Student
- Danny Khuu, Sonoma County Library, Library Associate / San Jose State University, Graduate Student
- Simeon Man
- Paul Pfeiffer, Denniston Hill
- Anne-Marie Te Whiu
- Marina Budhos, Author & Professor Emerita, William Paterson University
- Ami Tian
- Fatema Haque
- Lisa Factora-Borchers, Writer and Editor
- SC Liu
- JoAnn Balingit
- Gail Bloom
- Fateha Hossain
- Ayana M McNair, PhD , Beautiful Flower Editorial
- Saranicole Marino, Book Influencer
- Andrew Kang and Sunnie Liu, thexinshengproject@gmail.com
- Demi Pena-Chavez
- Amir Rabiyah, Poet and Librarian
- Pallavi Sharma Dixit, Writer
- Kelsay Elizabeth Myers, Writer, Expressive Arts Practitioner & Transformative Coach
- Danielle Du
- Beth Roberts, University of Surrey
- S. Nam
- Tara Averill Nelson
- Jess Row, Writer and Clinical Professor of English, NYU
- Camille Fraser
- Rachel Nussbaum
- Gabriel
- Tiago Quintana, Ph.D.
- Sebastian Suarez-Solis, California Institute of the Arts
- Shanna Salinas, Associate Professor of English and Critical Ethnic Studies, Kalamazoo College
- Breylan Martin, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
- Mariko Hewer
- Prama Neogi
- Alex Fitzpatrick, PhD, Science Museum
- Nancy Ukai , 50 Objects
- Lynnette Ramsay, Boston Poetry Slam
- Belinda Hu
- Gloria Sun
- Alexander Wong, PhD
- Cindy Lu, Artist
- Michelle Young
- Shantel Forrest
- Sue Shon, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Emily Rutherford
- Sarita See, Professor, University of California Riverside
- Jon Tjhia
- Jenny Xie
- Winniebell Xinyu Zong
- Jen Soriano, Writer
- Tanya Konerman, Author
- Camisha Jones, Poet
- Brendan Farrell Ryan
- Nur Ibrahim, South Asian Avant-Garde Anthology
- Colleen Ho, PhD
- Heather Blatt, Florida International University
- Tammy Tao
- Monica Divane
- Sharon L. James, UNC Chapel Hill
- Anna Cabe, Co-Fiction Editor at Split Lip Magazine
- Vicky Song, PGA (Producer’s Guild of America)
- Arianna Ross, Story Tapestries
- Joe Hsy, Concerned Citizen
- Noelani Piters
- Carolyn Wong
- Koua Yang
- Vani Natarajan
- Cassie Mira Nicholson
- Tracy Floreani, President, Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the U.S. (MELUS)
- Laila Mai-Nguyen
- Jennifer Baker , Bay Path University
- Veronica Liu, Word Up Community Bookshop
- David Jauss
- Aaron Timm, Poet member of Union of table scraps
- Lisa Bickmore, Professor Emerita, Salt Lake Community College
- Mary Ting
- DaVid Mitchell , George Washington University
- Maritza Montanez, Greenlight Bookstore Union
- Eileen Chong, Poet and teacher
- Sarah Aziza, Palestinian Writer
- JR "Nexus" Russ, Public Affairs Specialist, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- Jerry Rapier, Plan-B Theatre
- Pong Louie
- Josen Diaz, University of San Diego
- Juliet Huynh, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Rachel Goldstein
- Prisana NUECHTERLEIN
- Cortney Yee
- Ama Codjoe
- Sunny Hu
- Donald Mason
- Angelo Parodi, DC Public Schools
- Sarah Gambito, Kundiman | Fordham University
- Kim Yasuda, Dept. Of Art, UC Santa Barbara
- Steven Hou
- Micah Li, n/a
- Jieying Cai
- Will Giles, Kundiman
- Lance Cleland, Tin House Workshop
- Brent Nakamoto, Artist and Writer; Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art; Brew House Arts
- Mandy Shunnarah
- Alison Minami
- Kumar Jensen, MAZU
- Jinki Cambronero
- Jefferson Chen
- Kate Lu Sedor
- Kelsey Ford
- Sasha Francis and Achille Segard, 5ever Books
- Arielle Walker
- Rosemary Peppermint
- Jenne Hsien Patrick, Artist and Writer
- Madeleine Mironuk, Poet
- Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Rani Neutill , Tufts University
- Denise Calvetti Michaels, cascadia college
- Denise Calvetti Michaels, poet, Social Science Faculty, Cascadia College, Bothell, WA
- Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, Poet
- Yani Widjaja, Librarian, Aotearoa
- Megan Fernandes, Associate Professor of English, Lafayette College
- Sonia Min, Individual
- Michelle Lê, Ph.D Student, UIUC for Asian-American Kidlit
- Dilruba Ahmed, Writer
- Chye-Ling Huang, Proudly Asian Theatre
- Tahirah Walker, Point Park University
- Mat Tyrrell, None
- Lil O’Brien
- Jake Eduardo Vermaas, Poet
- Alana McBride, Oberlin College
- Eric Tanyavutti, Writer
- Catherine Vo
- erin Khue Ninh, Professor & Chair, Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
- Lela Ni, Vanderbilt University
- Kavita Das, Author, Craft & Conscience, Freelance Writer
- AJ Espinoza
- Mark Rifkin, Professor, UNC Greensboro
- Alex Belardo Kostiw
- Kim Park Nelson, Ph.D., Director of Ethnic Studies, Winona State University
- Jaclyn Sakura Knitter, Former APAC Intern
- Val Wang
- Emma Ishida
- Tiffany Do
- Drew Anderson, Teaching Artist, Host, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellow
- Sahar Muradi, Poet & Educator
- Christopher Fox, Newman University
- Jackie Kim
- Lorienne Beals, Story Tapestries, Inc.
- Richard Chen, Stop AAPI Hate
- Willy Palomo, Plumas Colectiva
- Melissa Moreno, Ethnic Studies faculty
- Jasmyn Choi
- Rajiv Mohabir, Writer
- Preeti Parikh, Kundiman
- Denise Khor, Northeastern University
- Alison Roh Park
- E. J. Koh, University of Washington
- Mark Tseng-Putterman, Brown University
- Irene Villaseñor, 2022 and 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow
- Samantha Puc
- Jess Yuan
- Jennifer Natalya Fink, Georgetown University
- Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
- Candice Wing-yee Mack, Past President, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association
- Vikas Menon, Poet & Playwright
- Kelly King, The Movement Movement
- Anthony Yooshin Kim, Ph.D., Digital Curator, American Documentary
- Deborah Clemons, RISD Museum
- Bao Phi, poet and children's book author
- Jade Elyssa Cariaga, Cariaga Consulting
- Nicole W. Lee, Poet, Four Way Review Associate Poetry Editor
- Karen Kosasa, Museum St/American St, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa
- Alexa Patrick, Shout Mouse Press
- Troy Osaki, Kundiman
- Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Anastasia Chiu, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association
- Monika Cassel, Poet, MFA candidate, Warren Wilson College
- Michelle Lee, Stand with Asian Americans
- Sandra Beasley, Poet
- Liang Luscombe, Writer
- Kat Lawrie
- Heidi Rabinowitz, The Book of Life Podcast
- Anna Wilson, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
- Hannah Park, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association
- Samuel Gerald Collins, Towson University
- Yasmine Yu
- Uyen Sophie Nguyen, PhD Candidate, Fordham University
- Heidi Eichbauer
- Lori Lopez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Kathleen Hellen
- Joyce YU, Asian Women Giving Circle Member
- Sunu P. Chandy, Poet
- Kathryn Harding
- Jen/Eleana Hofer , Poet, translator, interpreter, language justice advocate, Adjuct Professor at Otis College of Art & Design
- Erin Shigaki, Artist
- Sharon Yamato, Writer/filmmaker
- Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Writer
- Adele Yiseol Kenworthy, Artist
- Donna Maeda
- Kai Curry
- Mimi Lok
- Shinae Yoon, Korean American National Museum
- Jade Lacy
- G Jung
- Naveen Rao
- Christina Hsu Accomando, Departments of English and Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cal Poly Humboldt
- Janelle Adsit, Cal Poly Humboldt
- Steve Dickison, Director, The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
- Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles
- Moto daniel, Revacam
- Max Yeh, Writer
- Ernie Brill, lifetime member of the Southern Poverty Law Center, member of Poets and Writers
- Nabil Shah, DRUM
- Rev. Mark M. Nakagawa, The United Methodist Church
- Carolina Oh
- Stepfanie Aguilar
- Joanna Howard
- Zoe Tuck, Poet & Teacher
- Alicia Mountain, PhD, The Writer’s Foundry MFA at St. Joseph’s University
- Catherine Bresner
- S. Brook Corfman, Writer
- Harold Abramowitz, writer, editor, teacher
- Kevin Chen, MPP candidate Harvard Kennedy School
- Vicki Toyohara Mukai, Retired Judge, Bellevue, WA
- Don Mukai, Retired Corporate Telecommunications Attorney
- Alyson Mukai, Kindergarten Teacher, Mukilteo, WA
- Anna Elizabeth Mitchell
- Guilliean Pacheco, Writer, Poet, & Editor
- Ash Brown, University of Michigan Law Library
- Eileen Markert
- Phoebe Canagarajah
- Isabel Garcia-Gonzales, Banyan: Asian American Writers Collective, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Larissa Lai, University of Toronto
- Matthew O'Donnell
- Franny Choi, Bennington College, Curator of APAC's Queer Check-Ins Series
- Michelle Ji-Yeun Kim
- Alex Tretbar, University of Missouri–Kansas City
- Michelle Peñaloza
- Karen Yin, Writer
- Tiffany Chang, Dartmouth College
- Sangeeta Mehta, book editor
- Stacie Marinelli, Individual
- Minseo Jeong
- Anthony Thai
- Kris Cervantes
- Philomena Polefrone, Advocacy Associate Manager, American Booksellers Association
- Kieran Fendt
- Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho
- Steven Wakabayashi
- Jessica Sarles-Dinsick
- Catherine Ma, Professor, City University of New York
- Samina G. Ali, Kean University
- Rita Wong, Associate Professor, Faculty of Culture & Community, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- June Pen
- Sylvia Brownrigg, Writer
- Meng Jin
- Miko Yoshida, The New School
- Beheroze Shroff, University of California, Irvine
- Andrew Eng
- Yoko Kan, Artist and Educator
- Sean McNally
- Ryan Nhu
- Kristen Sze-Tu
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