Internship with NCAAT

Shania spent the summer of 2021 working directly with NCAAT on two forms of political engagement work for young Asian Americans in North Carolina. She wrote a blog post titled “how to make a zine: dreaming and creating for a better world” for NCAAT that used making zines as an extended metaphor for organizing for a better world in her community. Shania also organized, planned, and executed a workshop for Asian American youth that created a zine expressing a transformational vision of what political engagement among Asian youth might look like in North Carolina: http://bit.ly/ylizine. Shania wrote a senior thesis for an academic program in Asian American Studies that her herself helped advocate for but can not officially enjoy as a recent story in the Washington Post published on Thursday “A minor in Asian American studies at Duke is a major win for student activists.” Shania portrayed an in-depth view of the quality and complexity of organizing by Asian American students on college campuses over the past two decades as students organized for change in distinct sociopolitical contexts and campus climates.