Announcements – Research Project, AAPI House Party, Internships at Newsday, Jobs for Change
(Sorry, these should have run on Friday!)
Study seeking biracial, multiracial, and mixed heritage individuals
One of our regular readers is doing a study. Amanda writes:
My name is Amanda Rivera and I am a doctoral student of clinical-community psychology at the University of La Verne. I am currently working on my dissertation, under the supervision of Christopher Liang, Ph.D.
Please consider participating in my study, which is focused on the unique experiences of biracial and multiracial individuals. Participants will be entered in a raffle to win ONE OF FOUR $50 gift certificates to Target or Barnes and Noble. To participate in the study, individuals must be 18 years or older. The study should take approximately 30 to 40 minutes to complete and your responses will be kept confidential.
If you would like to participate in this study or would like more information please visit the following website link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=wtNOAs5gIR8MuXciq8_2bH6Q_3d_3d
Thank you so much! Your participation will help in developing a greater understanding of experiences among the biracial and multiracial population.
In the event that you have any questions or concerns about this study, you may contact me at amanda.rivera@laverne.edu
AAPI House Party
On May 31st, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (apaforprogress.org), the national network of progressive Asian Americans and allies, is hosting a nation-wide conference call with Konrad Ng, the Chinese American brother-in-law of President Obama. It will be a great chance to hear from someone so close to the President and to learn how the President might approach our community.
It would be great if you could help spread the word. All the details are on our website, but basically, it can just be a dozen friends or so, gathering for a potluck and then calling in and listening to Konrad. We’ll also have another guest or two. After the call, we want the parties to all talk about the issues they think matter, not just on a national level, but also locally. We’ll then record all these thoughts and share them with the Obama administration. It will be a chance to have our collective voice heard.
Jobs for Change
Change.org has launched a new initiative – Jobs for Change:
Our goal is to spark a nationwide movement toward careers in the common good – including nonprofit, government, and social enterprise jobs. We’re currently building a huge database of social change jobs with our partners and have just hired a team of career advisors who will be blogging every day to provide guidance on finding and developing a career in social change.
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Newsday Internships (Unpaid)
Online internships at Newsday.com
Newsday.com, one of the nation’s top newspaper Web sites, has summer
2009 internship opportunities available for college credit. Click the
link below for details and to apply.http://www.newsday.com/ny-abramson-summerinterns2009,0,4154121.htmlstory
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
" I am not Italian!" wrote:
I took the survey! I hope we get to see the results.
I don’t know about you all, but it was the first time I was able to fill out my racial/ethnic background fully and simultenously feel that the surveyors actually cared.
Posted 18 May 2009 at 3:37 pm ¶
M wrote:
Is the survey only for Americans?
Posted 18 May 2009 at 6:21 pm ¶
little mixed girl wrote:
took the survey. i’ll pass it on to friends.
however, there were a number of parts that i had a hard time answering because they didn’t really apply to me…
Posted 19 May 2009 at 9:39 am ¶
Beth wrote:
Especially the things about “people the same race as me.” I don’t think I actually know anyone I’d consider to share my racial background….
Posted 19 May 2009 at 2:51 pm ¶
Cass wrote:
Took the survey as well and enjoyed it, but a question asking about places we have lived for a long period of time would have been beneficial for the study as my experiences living in the Bay Area greatly differ from my experiences in parts of Canada.
Posted 19 May 2009 at 8:42 pm ¶
little mixed girl wrote:
agree with the above.
however, there was a question about being identified differently in different parts of the US. but i’ve only lived in my state, then came overseas…
i also hope the “ppl supported by your income” is not interpreted as me being married with a kid or having kids, when the ppl supported are me and my family.
i’m looking forward to seeing the results.
i always try to take these surveys when i see them (and probably mess up the results haha).
Posted 19 May 2009 at 10:32 pm ¶
Vox wrote:
I took the survey, but there were quite a few parts I had trouble with, too, since both of my parents are mixed.
There were a few questions that seemed to assume that a mixed-race person’s mother is “of color” and father is white (the nanny question, for example — sad to say, in the U.S. a white woman is never going to be mistaken for a mixed child’s nanny; adopted mom, maybe).
Posted 30 May 2009 at 12:19 pm ¶