A UW researcher was deemed ineligible for a fellowship because she’s Hmong, which is Asian American, which — as a whole — are not underrepresented in the sciences. Today, the story of Kao Lee Yang, the “model minority myth” and the problem with lumping all Asians into one racial category. Plus, big vaccine news and COVID stats moving (slowly) in the wrong direction.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0E0sKkRA59jr3mdcppj7kX?si=JvCa_p4JTVa3C94sSfX5Cg