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7:00 PM EST
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About Event
Our mission at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC is to advance the civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all. Advancing Justice | AAJC is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1991 in Washington, D.C.
The American Courage Awards is an annual event hosted by Advancing Justice | AAJC, honoring individuals, groups, and corporations in recognition of their extraordinary courage or commitment to the cause of Asian American and Pacific Islander civil rights.

2019 ACA Honorees (Left to Right) Paul Lee, Karen Korematsu, Karen Narasaki, Sally Chen, Jang Lee
Our
Honorees
American Courage Award:
Weijia Jiang (She/Her)

CBS News Senior White House Correspondent
Changemaker Award: Hollaback!
Accepted by Emily May (She/They), Co-Founder / Executive Director Hollaback!
Bridge Builder Award: Bank of America

Our
Sponsors
If you’d like to become one – please contact Gayle Yamada, Vice President of Development at GYamada@advancingjustice-aajc.org
Social Justice Hero
Dream Builder

Community Champions



Protectors
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Gina Shishima and E. David Sosa
Truist
WilmerHale
Defenders
Ginger Lew and Lennart Ehn
National Association of Broadcasters
Scott and Linda Mar Weidman
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Advocates
Crowell & Moring LLP
Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Law Offices of William C. Hou
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nichols Liu LLP
Paul and Kay Shishima
Activists
GRF CPAs & Advisors
Michael Bosworth
Sponsors confirmed as of 11/18/21
Our
Speakers

John C. Yang (He/Him)
President and Executive Director
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC

Parkin Lee (He/Him)
Board Chairman
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC

Emily May (She/They)
Co-Founder and Exective Director
Hollaback!

Thong M. Nguyen
Vice-chairman, Head of Global Strategy & Enterprise Platforms
Bank of America

Gina Shishima
Board Vice Chair
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC

Jason Ve
Vice President, 88rising
Advancing Justice | AAJC National Advisory Council Member

Broderick Johnson
Executive Vice President, Public Policy & Executive Vice President, Digital Equity
Comcast NBCUniversal

Michelle Ye Hee Lee
President of Asian American Journalists Association
Comcast NBCUniversal
Special Guests

Ren Guartico

Mari Shiratori

Serena Yang

Maulik Pancholy

Ruby Ibarra
Past Honorees
Scroll through our gallery to see past American Courage Award honorees.
For a full list of all awardees, visit advancingjustice-aajc.org/past-awardees
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Asian Americans have been part of the American story since its earliest days, and are now the U.S.'s fastest-growing racial group with the potential and power to shape our nation and the policies that affect us. Our mission at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC is to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.
Please support our annual signature fundraising event on November 18, 2021. While tickets to attend this virtual event are FREE this year, we appreciate any contributions as your support will enable Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC to continue protecting our communities and advancing social justice.
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Hollaback! joined forces with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC to address anti-Asian/American harassment in the wake of the coronavirus. This partnership became a model for additional partnerships across various identities. Hollaback! is a global, people-powered movement to end harassment — in all its forms. We believe that we all deserve to be who we are, wherever we are.
Weijia Jiang is CBS News' senior White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Jiang's reporting is featured across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including the "CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell," "CBS This Morning," and CBSN, CBS News' 24/7streaming news service.
Jiang has covered the White House beat since 2018, including the transition between the Trump and Biden administrations. She has also reported extensively on the increased violence against the AAPI community and the resulting policy changes. Jiang has traveled on Air Force One on several occasions, both domestically and abroad. She has covered major stories for the Network including the President's impeachments, the 2020 Presidential campaign and election, and the confirmations of Judges Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. During her coverage of the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the answers to her questions during press briefings often made news.
Jiang joined CBS News in 2015 as a correspondent for Newspath, the Network's 24-hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters around the world. Since then, she has reported extensively on both the Obama and Trump administrations, the 2016presidential campaign and election, the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush; and the congressional baseball shooting that wounded Rep. Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). She has also covered a number of national stories such as Hurricane Harvey, the catastrophic category 4hurricane that hit Texas in 2017.
Before coming to CBS News, Jiang was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WCBS-TV in New York (2012-2015) where she covered Superstorm Sandy; the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.; and the Boston Marathon bombings.
Previously, Jiang worked at WJZ-TV in Baltimore (2008-2012) and WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Md. (2006-2008) where she was honored with an Edward R. Murrow Award and an Associated Press Award for feature reporting. When she was a graduate school candidate in 2006, she worked for WBRE-TV in Scranton, Penn., as a Washington, D.C.-based reporter. She discovered her passion for broadcasting at the age of13 as a student reporter and anchor for Channel One News in Los Angeles.
Jiang graduated from the College of William and Mary in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a minor in chemistry, and from Syracuse University in 2006 with a master's degree in broadcast journalism. In 2012 she was inducted into the prestigious Professional Gallery at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
She was born in Xiamen, China, and raised in West Virginia, where she immigrated with her parents when she was 2 years old. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and their daughter.