Internship with NCAAT; Thesis: “Seeing Red: Exploring How a Communist Country of Origin Affects Republican Partisans in Asian American Immigrants,”

Amanda worked with NCAAT’s Voter Engagement Director, Shruti Parikh, to address some of the language and cultural barriers that suppress Asian American voters in North Carolina from turning out. Amanda’s project involved research into ways of expanding Asian American turnout across four cities – Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, and Raleigh – in off year mayoral and city council elections in November, 2021. NCAAT already curated voting resources and developed guides for their audience, but Amanda developed a more focused plan for the off-cycle elections. She would also expand the translational work that NCAAT does with voting materials, almost all of which remains English only as a process. Amanda also turned her advocacy work into an engaging and compelling research topic in her senior thesis “Seeing Red: Exploring How a Communist Country of Origin Affects Republican Partisans in Asian American Immigrants,” under the direction of Kristin Goss.