Tag: AAPI
Our Courage, Our Country
In the face of anti-Asian acts of violence, six doctors of Asian descent bring their perspective on where we are, where we’re going and what we can all do for a brighter future.
Putting in the Work Against Racial Bias
By Marjolijn Bijlefeld, Editor in Chief, Women In Optometry (WO)—In the past year, I’ve talked with program directors leading diversity and inclusion initiatives at schools and colleges of optometry, as well as organizers of the 13% Promise and the National Optometric Association’s efforts to increase representation of people of color in the optometric profession.
Responses to Poll on Bias Range From Fear to Dismissiveness
When WO created a Pop-up Poll to ask about whether eye care professionals have seen or heard or experienced any increase in bias—especially toward those in the Asian American Pacific Island community, the poll happened to be in the field at the same time that the Atlanta spa shootings occurred, in which eight people—six of them Asian or Asian American women—were killed.
