Making Waves: The Rise of Asian America Film Screening and Panel Discussion

The Educating for Ohio’s Future campaign’s fight to make our stories seen and heard in classrooms across Ohio is not a new one. With recent attacks on education from every front, it is more important than ever to learn our movement history and understand how the fight for a curriculum that highlights all of our communities is part of the larger movement for ethnic studies. Making Waves: The Rise of Asian America is a timely, thought-provoking documentary about how ethnic studies – and specifically Asian American Studies (AAS) – dramatically influenced and empowered a generation. They leveraged their heightened awareness of history to build community organizations, political power, and collaboration. Helmed by Bay Area filmmakers Jon Osaki and Josh Chuck, the film follows a group of youth who travel to the Texas state capitol to fight for Asian American Studies in the deep South. This type of activism harks back to the Bay Area-based ethnic studies movement of the 1960’s, and the film highlights recent efforts by youth to address anti-Asian hate and learn Asian American history.

This event will feature a screening of Making Waves which will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Jon Osaki, local educators, and community advocates.