Rashida Jones became president of the cable news network MSNBC on February 1, 2021. Previously, as the senior vice president she was the MSNBC chief of breaking news and major events at the network. She led coverage of the 2020 Presidential election and the team preparation of Kristen Walker as moderator of the third presidential debate. She is a graduate of Hampton University and majored in broadcast journalism; she has been inducted into the Scripps Howard Journalism Hall of Fame at the university
Deb Haaland was elected as New Mexico’s Lieutenant Governor in 2014 which made her the first American Indian (Laguna Pueblo) woman to be elected to lead a state party. Four years later, she was one of the first two Indigenous American women to be elected to Congress. She was recently confirmed as Interior Secretary thus becoming the first American Indian in United States history to serve as a Cabinet Secretary; this agency is important in The President’s effort to address climate change and conservation. The department is also responsible for the relations between the U.S. government and American Indian tribes. She earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of New Mexico.
Sharice Davids is one of the first two Indigenous American women to serve in Congress. She is a member of the Ho-chunk (Winnebago) people. Her professional efforts are on economic and community development, and she understands the importance of quality public schools and affordable higher education. She was a White House Fellow during the tenure of President Barack Obama. She attended Johnson Community College, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Cornell Law School.
Erika Lee is one of the nation’s leading immigration and Asian American historians. She is a professor of American history at the University of Minnesota and the Director of the Immigration History Research Center. Her grandparents were Chinese immigrants. She has testified before Congress during hearings on discrimination and violence against Asian Americans. She is the Vice President of the Organization of American Historians. She attended Tufts University and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Reflections
Books by Erika Lee that will enable the reader to grasp a greater depth of understanding about immigration and xenophobia:
Lee, Erika. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
___. The Making of Asian America: A History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015, 2nd ed., 2016, Chinese version, 2019.
Lee, Erika and Judy Yung. Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. London: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
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