What we have learned from Make Us Visible NJ

We are thrilled that the AAPI curriculum and DOE Commission bills have been signed into law by Governor Murphy! We are so grateful to Senator Vin Gopal, Assemblymember Raj Mukherji and Senator Gordon Johnson for introducing and advocating for these bills. We are so proud of our student and teacher advocates who have done a fabulous job of describing why these bills are so important. A parent's impulse to protect their kids is our most basic instinct and at a time when 1 in 3 AAPI parents report that their child has experienced a hate incident in school in this past year, these bills are so important. Our love and our concern for kids fueled this movement and brought NJ parents, educators, students and allies together from north, south, east and west. We are united and stronger together.

These bills would not have passed without the tireless efforts of everyone in our broad, local coalition, but especially the organizations listed (in alphabetical order): AAPI Montclair, Asian Youth Act, Jersey City AAPI Coalition, Livingston AAPI Youth Alliance, Livingston Multicultural Parents Association, Make Us Visible NJ, Parents and Children Education Club, Princeton Chinese Community, Ridgewood Ambassadors for Global Citizenship, SALDEF, SOMA Action, SOMA Cross Cultural Works, SOMA Justice, and United Asian Voices of West Orange. These advocates organized and mobilized their communities creating cultural events, rallies and opportunities for collective action. Together we called, wrote and met with our legislators to communicate the urgency of these bills. This unity and these connections are deep and strong and have gotten us to where we are today and will guide us in the next phase of implementation.

We will keep working together to see that this AAPI Curriculum is implemented across the state.

We are so grateful to SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) for requesting to archive materials from our campaign. This is what we sent them in case others are interested as well.

Here are our newsletters

Here are our testimonies

Here is our organizational history

Here are our press releases

Here is our press

Here are our events