Amazin Lethi (https://twitter.com/amazinlethi) — athlete, author, and advocate — joins the podcast to share with Kevin her incredible life story: growing up in Australia as a Vietnamese transracial adoptee in a harsh environment of intense... Read More
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187: Senator Tammy Duckworth (with Rock the Boat)
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Hongbin Gu (https://twitter.com/hongbin4council), Town Councilmember of Chapel Hill, NC, joins the podcast to share her incredible life story from growing in China during the Cultural Revolution to serving her local town council in Chapel Hill,... Read More
Jenn Fang (https://twitter.com/reappropriate) cohosts with Kevin (https://twitter.com/kevinsxu) and Tony (https://twitter.com/AnthonyNagatani) to talk about mental health during COVID, the passing of Justice Ginsburg, and the AAPI candidates that have been featured on Reappropriate.co Subscribe: Apple Podcast| Castbox| Spotify| Stitcher| Google Play| TuneIn... Read More
Linh Nguyen (https://twitter.com/l4nguyen), executive director of the Super PAC, PAC that A$$, and seasoned political organizer who’s worked on campaigns like: Cory Booker for president and Beto O’Rourke for Senate, joins the podcast to have... Read More
Prof. Kishore Mahbubani (https://twitter.com/mahbubani_k) joins the podcast to talk about his new book, “Has China Won?“. He and Kevin had an in-depth discussion about why America is being lazy to generalize China into the Chinese... Read More
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181: Friendship During COVID
Jenn Fang (https://twitter.com/reappropriate) of Reappropriate.co joins Tony (https://twitter.com/AnthonyNagatani) and Kevin (https://twitter.com/kevinsxu) for a long overdue conversation about life during COVID. We talked about Tony’s plasma donation, Jenn’s life as a young parent, Kevin’s Hamilton trivia,... Read More
Pearl Low (https://twitter.com/Fumi_chun), an Afro-Asian Oscar Winning Story Artist, Illustrator and Comics Artist based in Vancouver, Canada, joins the podcast’s “Allyship Series” with the Black community to discuss unique challenges she has faced as a... Read More
Jesse Moore, former White House speechwriter and associate director for public engagement, returns to the podcast for our “Allyship Series” with the Black community to share his experience doing training with the NYPD, the police... Read More
Brandon West (https://twitter.com/westforcouncil), candidate for New York City Council’s 39th District, joins the podcast’s “Allyship Series” with the Black community to discuss what “defund the police” actually means from a policy and budgetary perspective, how... Read More
Charmion Kinder (https://twitter.com/charmionkinder), Founder & Chief Impact Officer, CNKinder, Inc., global head of PR for Global Citizen and former press aide to First Lady Michelle Obama, joins the podcast’s “Allyship Series” with the Black community... Read More
Arthur Tripp (https://twitter.com/ArthurTrippJr) candidate for State Senate in Georgia joins the podcast’s “Allyship Series” with the Black community to discuss why he’s running for office as an Independent, how he reacted to George Floyd’s murder... Read More
Ronnie Chatterji (@RonnieChatterji) candidate for State Treasurer in North Carolina, Duke University professor, and former economic policy adviser to President Obama chats with Kevin about why he is “The Nerd We Need” in North Carolina... Read More
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172: Tony Got COVID
Tony Nagatani (@anthonynagatani), our dear podcast cohost got COVID-19. (Don’t worry, he’s recovered now.) In this bonus episode, Tony recounts his experience having symptoms, eventually getting tested, and notifying his friends to do his part... Read More
Maulik Pancholy (@MaulikPancholy) actor, author, activist, and co-founder of Act to Change, joins the podcast to talk with Kevin about his anti-bullying activism work, the origin and mission of Act to Change, and the organization’s... Read More
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170: Vote Like South Korea?
Jenn Fang (@reappropriate) of Reappropriate.co joins Tony and Kevin for the monthly co-host discussion to talk about why we don’t feel very celebratory going into this year’s Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month, and... Read More
Sri Preston Kulkarni, who is running for Congress in Texas’s 22nd district, joins Kevin (@kevinsxu) for Part 3 of our 3-part series with congressional representatives and candidate on how their campaign is adapting to COVID-19,... Read More
Congressman Gil Cisneros (CA-39) joins Kevin (@kevinsxu) for Part 2 of our 3-part series with congressional representatives and candidate on how their campaign is adapting to COVID-19, what they are doing to fight back against... Read More
Congressman Harley Rouda (CA-48) joins Kevin (@kevinsxu) for Part 1 of our 3-part series with congressional representatives and candidate on how their campaign is adapting to COVID-19, and what they are doing to fight back... Read More
Sung Yeon Choimorrow (@schoimorrow), Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) talks to Kevin (@kevinsxu) about human-centered policy advocacy, protecting AAPI women from hate crimes, and all the racial, social, and... Read More
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165: Oh M0th3rf*ck$r…
Jenn Fang (@reappropriate) returns to cohost the podcast with Tony (@anthonynagatani) and Kevin (@kevinsxu) to talk about their COVID-19 quarantine experience, Kevin’s virtual townhall for people triggered or in fear of anti-Asian racism, and a... Read More
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164: Don Tamaki on Stop Repeating History, Protecting Civil Liberty During COVID-19 Pandemic
Don Tamaki, a lawyer and one of the leaders of the Stop Repeating History campaign, joins the podcast to discuss with Kevin (@kevinsxu) how the rationale behind locking up Americans of Japanese descent during WWII... Read More
Traci Lee (@traciglee) former Managing Editor of NBA Asian America and current fellow at USC’s Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism talks to Kevin (@kevinsxu) about the racialization of pandemics during the COVID-19 health crisis,... Read More
Amna Nawaz (@IAmAmnaNawaz), senior national correspondent of PBS NewsHour talks to Kevin Xu (@kevinsxu) about her career in journalism, being the first Asian American journalist to moderate a presidential debate, and how she deals with... Read More
Cohosts Kevin Xu (@kevinsxu) and Tony Nagatani (@anthonynagatani) got together (virtually) on the Saturday after Super Tuesday to share some analysis of the results, the binary primary that’s shaping up between Sanders and Biden, the... Read More
Jenn Fang of Reappropriate.co returns to the podcast for our monthly recording with Kevin and Tony to discuss a whole host of issues: South Carolina Primary, Super Tuesday, how much will Joe Biden’s lack of... Read More