May 10, 2020
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF), a Coalition member in San Francisco, California, is no stranger to the subjects of isolation and resilience. The “Ellis Island of the West” processed over a million immigrants to the United States between 1910-1940, most of them from Asia. In this interview, AIISF’s new Executive Director Edward Tepporn, who was previously the Executive Vice President of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, talks with the Coalition about the relationship between public health and xenophobia, the strength we can find in former detainees, and the role history can play during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Read More…)
