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Building Resilience: AAPI Identity and Mental Health

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Illustration by Subin Yoo

A great deal of stigma remains on conversations regarding mental health. Among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, the issue is often shrouded by silence and shame, allowing misconceptions and minimization of mental health concerns. Amid historic levels of anti-Asian violence, it is crucial to recognize the intergenerational trauma from immigration and racism and share stories that show the fullness of the AAPI experience in order to educate and form alliances.

Join us for an illuminating conversation with Dr. Shinhee Han, psychotherapist and co-author of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, and journalist Heidi Shin.

 

Building Resilience: AAPI Identity and Mental Health
with Dr. Shinhee Han and Heidi Shin


VIDEO RELEASE
(In-Person Program Recorded Thursday, April 21, 2022)

Sunday, May 1, 2022 | 12:00 PM (EDT)

 

 

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New York, NY 10017

 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Shinhee Han, PhD is a senior psychotherapist at the Newschool University Counseling Service and in private practice in New York City. She is an adjunct professor at the Center for Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, offering courses on Asian Americans, Race, and Psychoanalysis. She co-authored Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (2019, Duke University Press) with David L. Eng. She is also a founding member of the Asian Women Giving Circle in New York City, a philanthropic organization that funds Asian women artists creating social activism and change. Previously, she was a psychotherapist at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Barnard College and Columbia University. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she immigrated to Minnesota at the age of 13 with her family.

 

Heidi Shin is a Korean American journalist, podcast producer, and writer. She’s especially interested in the stories of immigrant communities and the inevitable connections between stories abroad and our lives in the US. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, California Sunday Magazine, Snap Judgment, Atlas Obscura, BBC, WGBH, and PRI’s The World, amongst other outlets. Heidi also teaches about podcasting at the PRX Podcast Garage, Harvard University’s Sound Lab, and leads Boston’s Sonic Soiree. You can find her online @byheidishin (Twitter) and @shinherrie3 (IG).