Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans Caucus

• Foster APIDA faculty membership, participation, mentoring, and leadership at all levels of CFA; and in so doing, build the union, promote, and champion its mission, goals, and campaigns.
• Embrace outreach, advocacy, and building coalitions to address and effectively resolve issues facing APIDA faculty and students.
• Collect, analyze and share data on the working conditions affecting APIDA faculty in the CSU for equitable representation.  Highlighting disparities that exist which can negatively affect the APIDA community.

Meet Our Caucus Leaders

Recent initiatives

• Combating AAPI Hate in the Age of COVID. 
• Fighting for Caste as a protected category and Solidarity work with Equality Labs
  • Equity Conference 2022: Eradicating Caste in Higher Education
  • CFA Members Help Lead First-in-Nation Caste in Higher Education Conference
• National Group Recognizes CFA, CFA APIDA Caucus for Anti-Racism and Social Justice Activism
• HELU Winter Summit, 2022
• Research and Data Center
• Our Way Forward, Volume II
  • Demands for CSU to:
    • Address and combat anti-Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi American racism to protect faculty and students. 
    • Contest the model minority myth of APIDA exceptionalism.

APIDA Caucus Resources

• APIDA Caucus Rules
• Council for Racial & Social Justice

Combating AAPI Hate in Age of COVID-19

Since the onset of COVID-19, Asian American and Pacific Islanders have reported experiencing microaggressions, racial profiling, hate incidents and hate violence. Reports in our communities have spiked.

CFA member Russell Jeung, PhD is the co-launcher of Stop AAPI Hate and the chair of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. Jeung produced an educational video, and complementary curriculum guide, is built for classrooms across the country, intended to guide students and educators how to combat against hateful rhetoric, bullying and hate violence in our communities.

View the resources here.