As a member of the Experts of Color Network, I was able to participate in the Public Voice Greenhouse training with the Op-Ed Project,whose mission is to train and promote under-represented voices to diversify the overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male editorial pages. Some of the writings developed from that training are posted below, along with blogs written over the year.

In Celebration of Human Rights Day: Girls’ Rights are Human Rights

Economic Inequality, Stagnant Wages, and the Rising Racial Wealth Gap

• “Poor People Do Not Deserve to Have Children”
• A Path to Nowhere: Study Shows Limited Career Ladder in Fast Food Industry
• High Down Payment Requirements Mean High Barriers to Home Ownership
• The Color of Money: Racial Wealth Gap Tripled from 1984 to 2009
• New HUD Report Shows Continued Discrimination Against People of Color
• A Recession for the 93 Percent, Good Times for the 7 Percent
• Congress should prioritize raising the minimum wage
• Harris limits economic mobility for the emerging workforce
• We need structural reforms to fight poverty

Asian-American Identity, Racial Injustice and Inequality

• We Are Not White
• So, You Say You Don’t See Race? We Need to Talk
• Standing in Solidarity Against Racial Exhaustion
• Dr. King’s Dream of a Better System
• A Renewed Call to Fulfill Dr. King’s Dream
• In the Detroit Bankruptcy, There’s Sacrifice But It’s Not Shared
• The March on Washington is as Relevant as Ever
• Richard Cohen Perfectly Embodies How Far We are from “Post-Racial”
• Heritage Study’s Co-Author Thinks Hispanics Have Lower IQs than Whites
• This Passes for a Harvard Dissertation?