and will work toward further development and the enhanced presence of this community.

such as do clinical work in a hospital or school.having mentors and being part of professional organizations.

There were only a few students of color in the program.By MARY ANN TAKEMOTOThis weeks Rafu includes our special education issue.It was a great honor for me when former students established a scholarship in my name in the Asian American Studies Department.

first-generation AAPI students and in Long Beach.This organization served as another important professional organization for me and I would serve as a board member later in my career.

It was a director position in the Counseling Center that would provide new challenges and an opportunity to grow professionally.

I was at UCI for 16 years and felt very established there.My experiences in San Pedro and my love for this community led me to organize the Harbor Area Peace Patrol

role in the Viet-nam War and the subsequent mass resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in America from the 1970s to the early 1990s.This chartered flight is the first mass deportation flight to South-east Asia since 2020 under the first Trump Administration.

The exemption of pre-1995 Viet-namese refugees from repatriation reflects humanitarian considerations related to the U.We were treated like animals without human rights.