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  • Apply Now for Commonwealth Seminar Spring 2022 Session

    Applications for our “virtual” Spring 2022 Session are now available!

    Congratulations to Our Winter 2022 Seminar Class!

    Our historic, first All-Women class in Seminar history

    Check out one of our most unique and remarkable graduations ever

    thanks to our incredible class and Graduation Speaker, Senator Lydia Edwards

    Watch our Winter 2022 Graduation HERE

    Leverett Wing Featured in the Boston Globe and

    GBH-TV’s “Greater Boston”

    Seminar President & CEO Leverett Wing recently co-authored his third op-ed in the past year for the Boston Globe with State Rep. Tram Nguyen and Northeastern University’s Stephen Chan reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the murders of six AAPI women in Atlanta, Ga. You can read their piece “A Path Forward” HERE

     

    Leverett also appeared with Rep. Nguyen on GBH-TV’s flagship news show Greater Boston to discuss issues still facing the AAPI community. Watch his appearance HERE

    Please read Leverett’s original Boston Globe op-ed regarding the epidemic of anti-AAPI Hate from April of 2021: “A Seminal Moment for the Asian American Community” HERE

    Applications for our “virtual” Spring 2022 session are now available!

    Download the application at our website HERE

    Or Apply on-line HERE

    Applications due Monday, May 9th… Session begins May 18th
    Check out our newest job listings (HERE), including posts from:

    – Third Sector New England
    – State Senator Sal DiDomenico
    – YW Boston
    – MA Gaming Commission (appointed position)

  • Register Now: 2022 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston

    Boston, April 9, 2022, — Only two weeks after the 126th running of Boston Marathon on April 18, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo will be held at Hynes Convention Center on May 3 to 5. Please secure your place early at https://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/

    Exhibition hall of 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo (file photo)
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  • Rep. Ayanna Pressley Participates in Historic Hearing on Medicare for All

    WASHINGTON, March 29, 2022 – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), a member of the House Oversight Committee, participated in the committee’s hearing on universal healthcare coverage, a historic moment and momentum for the Medicare For All Movement.


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  • Mayor Wu Attends the First Large Banquet since the Pandemic @BostonChinatown

    Feb. 25, 2022, — Boston Chinatown Business Association(CBA)held the Chinese New Year banquet on March 23, 2022 at Empire Garden restaurant. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston City Council President Ed Flynn, State Rep Aaron Michlewitz and other government officials attended this banquet along with 400 guests. This is the first large gathering in Boston Chinatown in nearly two years.

    Ed Flynn presented a Boston City Council citation to CBA. Director-General Sun of TECO Boston congratulated CBA for the great achievement in promoting and revitalizing the Chinatown economy in his remarks.
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  • Omicron Variant Poses Challenges to Global COVID Containment

    【Dahai Zhao, a doctoral supervisor at SJTU School of International and Public Affairs, the Executive Director of YALE-SJTU Joint Research Center for Health Policy, has been interviewed by CGYN for the 66th time (112 times by CGTN / Shanghai TV altogether) since the COVID-19 pandemic. When interviewed by CHEN Tong, a journalist of CGTN Shanghai, ZHAO commented on the Omicron variant and its corresponding prevention and control strategies on “The World Today”.】

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  • Stilwell and China: A Hundred Years of Faith and Friendship

    Few Americans and Chinese today know the fame, glory and controversies of General Stilwell, who served as the Chief of Staff of Allied Forces in the China-Burma-India Theatre. As one of the most important yet controversial figures of WWII, General Stilwell left an intriguing legacy for historians to study and scrutinize. This essay, neither a judgment of General Stilwell’s military career nor a defense of him over his conflicts with other historical figures, is an honest review of his faith in and friendship with the common Chinese people.

    Song Ching Ling and Stilwell.
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  • IRS to Provide Face-to-Face Help on March 12

    The IRS will open many of its Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs) on the second Saturday of each month in February through May 2022 to offer in-person help.

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  • RSM Issues Statement on the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine

    The last few days have been horrifying and difficult for all of us. We know many of you have questions, and we wanted to make our position, and our history, very clear:

    We stand with the Ukrainian people against Putin, his regime, and the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

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  • The 2nd Annual Greater Boston Lunar New Year Rolling Parade on Feb 27, 2022

    Feb. 25, 2022, Boston, — C.A.C.A. Boston Lodge and the Chinese American Heritage Foundation are sponsoring the 2nd Annual Greater Boston Lunar New Year Rolling Parade this coming Sunday. Vehicles will assemble along Surface Road between Beach Street and Essex Street starting at 12:00 noon. Massachusetts State Police will be on hand to direct traffic and escort the motorcade along the parade route starting at 1:00 pm.

    Lunar New Year Rolling Car Parade arrives at Malden Police headquarters in 2021. (file photo)
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  • UCA Applauds Demise of DOJ’s China Initiative

    By United Chinese Americans (UCA)

    We at UCA are not only relieved, but encouraged to see the first positive step the DOJ has taken to end the flawed and controversial “China Initiative.”
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