Asian/Asian American Higher Education Practitioners during rising Anti-Asian Violence and COVID-19 Global Pandemic

This essay aims to shed light on our experiences as Asian/Asian American women navigating academia during the rise of anti-Asian violence and the COVID-19 global pandemic. Specifically, we seek to illustrate our unique perspectives stemming from our different positions as cultural center director, faculty, and therapist. We share our experiences with two specific goals in mind: 1) to document and amplify our underrepresented voices within academia during this period, and 2) to use our experiences to demonstrate the importance and continued need for collaboration and unified efforts in strengthening student services across campus in the otherwise siloed practice of large research universities. Ultimately, we seek to archive our narratives of pedagogy and activism during a global pandemic as a “counterhegemonic exercise” to resist erasure and to stake a claim within academic institutional memory.