Open to: Middle & High School Social Studies, Humanities, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies & English Teachers
Opportunity at a Glance: Join MOCA and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center for a day of learning focused on strengthening Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies in your classroom.
Engage in sessions with historian Mae Ngai, former labor organizer May Chen, and public historian Rachel Bernstein. Participants will also tour MOCA’s exhibitions, With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America and Ed Young’s Bright Worlds: Gesture & Feeling in 60 Years of Picture Books for Children.
The program will explore three chapters from the Foundations & Futures textbook:
- We Are Here Because You Were There: Race, Colonialism & Migration
- Chinese Americans & the Making of Asian American History
- New York Chinatown’s Immigrant Garment Workers
Key dates: Saturday November 14 from 8:45a.m. – 3:00p.m.
Location: Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, NY, NY 10013
Registration deadline: 11/07/2026
Take action: Register
For more information: lnechamkin@mocanyc.org
