Reporting on Vice President Harris’s address to the AAPI Heritage Month Unity Summit, Juana Summers cites our report on AAPI political representation.
From the article:
A recent report from the Reflective Democracy Campaign found that Asian American and Pacific Islander elected officials make up just 0.9% of elected leaders in the U.S. Madalene Mielke, president of the Asian Pacific Institute for Congressional Studies, says that part of the reason there have been fewer Asian elected officials is due to historic barriers.
