Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group (AAAPI ERG)
Our Mission
The effort to form the AAAPI ERG was initiated by several colleagues who came together to support one another, led by Susan Cheng, senior associate dean for diversity, equity & inclusion and associate professor of family medicine at the School of Medicine, Jesse Szeto, Jocelyn B. de Guzman and Jaime Brown.
“Over the past two years of anti-Asian bias, violence and xenophobia heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have recognized a need to come together and support one another more,” says Cheng. “While identifying a need, there is also great joy in forming and building community and solidarity across Georgetown University.”
The AAAPI Employee Resource Group (AAAPI ERG) strives to support and sustain a network of professionals (faculty and staff) whose objective is to celebrate, empower and advance AAAPI identifying employees and allies at Georgetown University.
Our mission is to center AAAPI employees at Georgetown University and their distinct experiences, creating an inclusive, equitable, and just workplace environment. We envisionan institution in which AAAPI employee voices are amplified through civic engagement, leadership cultivation, and advocacy.
Announcements
As the fall semester gets underway after an eventful summer, we’d like to start this month’s newsletter by expressing our gratitude to a few individuals who have made an outsized impact on our Asian, Asian American & Pacific Islander ERG community:
Thank you to ERG volunteers Sandy Lee and Hannah Hahn for conducting a fair and thorough elections process. Their leadership has been invaluable, and we’re incredibly appreciative for their work, which brought us to another exciting summer development:
Thank you and a very warm welcome to Saurabh Mitra and Katie Fan for joining us as the newest members of the AAAPI ERG Executive Board! Both have been enthusiastic participants in our past events, and now they are stepping up as our new Communications/Events/Membership Chair and our new Medical Center Representative. We’re so grateful they’ve joined our board — excited to see their contributions unfold!
Thank you to two board members who have recently stepped into emeritus roles: Susan Cheng and David Mao. Susan has joined the leadership team at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo , while David has been named the Librarian of the Supreme Court of the United States . We couldn’t be prouder of their achievements and we’re lucky they both maintain ongoing affiliations with Georgetown. Their leadership and friendship have made a lasting impact on our group.
Please read on for more group member shout-outs following our events/resources round-up below!Upcoming Events (at Georgetown)
Upcoming Events (at Georgetown)
Georgetown Asian, Asian American Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group (AAAPI ERG)
and the Georgetown Women’s Alliance (GWA)
invite you to save the date for our pan-cultural
Lunar New Year Celebration!
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
3:00pm ET to 6:00pm ET
Venue TBD | Georgetown University Hilltop Campus
Georgetown’s Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group and the Georgetown Women’s Alliance are excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year—Chūnjié (春节) in Chinese,Tết Nguyên Đán (or Tết ) in Vietnam, Seollal in South Korea, and Imlek in Indonesia—with an in-person gathering featuring food, prizes, and storytelling!
Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details. Hope to see you there!
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at aaapi@georgetown.edu . If you are interested in supporting the event as a volunteer, please reply back to this email.
AAAPI ERG Quarterly (FY25 Q2) Town Hall
December 12, 12 PM (noon) ET | Virtual via Zoom
Recent Programming
October 3, 2024 | FY25 Q1 Town Hall
Big thanks to everyone who joined us for our first virtual Town Hall of the academic year! We are so grateful to have been joined by Ejaz Baluch, Jr., senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice specializing in Employment Litigation. He shared fascinating insights and findings from his detail with the White House Initiative on Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI), including:
The impact of disaggregated data seen through the “WHIAANHPI 2024 National Overview”
Ways to get involved, starting with signing up for the WHIAANHPI newsletter
September 26, 2024 | Staff/AAP Appreciation Picnic on Leavey Esplanade
Upcoming Events (Local/Community)
Bloomberg: “AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences”
(Shared by Anupam) “The students most susceptible to inaccurate accusations are likely those who write in a more generic manner, either because they’re neurodivergent like Olmsted, speak English as a second language (ESL) or simply learned to use more straightforward vocabulary and a mechanical style, according to students, academics and AI developers. A 2023 study by Stanford University researchers found that AI detectors were “near-perfect” when checking essays written by US-born eighth grade students, yet they flagged more than half of the essays written by nonnative English students as AI-generated. OpenAI recently said it has refrained from releasing an AI writing detection tool in part over concerns it could negatively affect certain groups, including ESL students.”
Reminders
Connect with us on Instagram to hear (or tell us) about events happening between sends that we haven’t gotten to include in our newsletter yet.
More information about board elections coming soon! Please send us an email at aaapi@georgetown.edu with your questions about any of our open positions (Faculty Co-Chair, Communications/Events/Membership Chair, and Medical Center Representative).
Resources
- AAPI Tool Kit
- View slides from the Town Hall Meeting (June 15, 2023)
- What should we do next? Fill out our Summer (& beyond) Availability form
- How are we doing so far? Email us here or use the anonymous feedback form
