Rooting Storms:
Remembering
What Remains

A project created and led by inaugural CJD Fellow: Jacqueline V. Thanh, MSW

Climate Justice Design Fellowship and Harvard University Logos

 

An ongoing Storytelling and Reimagining Data Equity project that aims to capture Asian American diasporic stories in New Orleans and the Gulf South.

“Cultural people have to become political. It’s not just political people like myself that have to become cultural. Our culture can’t just be ornamental and recreational.” -Dr. Haunani Kay Trask

History

From 2000 to the present, at least 28 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Louisiana

Asian Americans are projected to be the nation’s largest immigrant group by the middle of the century.

1.6% (76,000) of the Louisiana population is Asian. Source

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We have a moral obligation to contextualize the little data we have and practice equity through community driven culturally integrative change.

We have an unprecedented opportunity to weave generations through creating a space to tell Asian American stories beyond quantitative data limitations.