Notes - Approved

Meeting Notes

Neue Leung
Eliza Arata
Edward Hashima
Kristina Casper-Denman
Oranit Limmaneeprasert
Betty Chan
Eric Chun
Gina Barnard
Susan Chou
Lori Beccarelli
Thoeung Montgomery
Roderic Agbunag
Kevin Xiong
Catherine Pohlman
Rina Roy
Narinedat Madramootoo
Nisha Beckhorn
Kay Lo
Jessie Fuapau

NAME OF COUNCIL/TEAM: Disproportionate Impact: API (2020-2021)
OBJECTIVE OF MEETING: Discuss and plan Focus Group Interviews and assess additional needs for completing the report
DATE OF MEETING: 02/25/2021
TIME: 11:30am
LOCATION/ROOM #: Zoom
CALL-IN NUMBER:1-669-900-6833
CALL-IN CODE: Meeting ID: 991 8480 9597; Password: 846096
FACILITATOR(S): Raquel Arata & Neue Leung
ASSISTANT: Catherine Pohlman
MEMBERS PRESENT: Susan Chou Roderic Agbunag Betty Chan Rajinder Lal Kristina C-D Rina Roy Edward Hashima Neue Leung Kevin Xiong Narine Madramootoo Oranit Limmaneeprasert Nisha Beckhorn Raquel Arata Denise Vinsant Kevin Vang
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UPDATES AND BRIEF REPORTS:
Topic Person(s) Responsible Notes
Check-in Raquel Arata
What we hope this report will do for ARC?
Raquel asked if we can push report back to April, waiting to hear back on that
Reason behind this is to be able to carry out the focus groups
Still looking for more volunteers for focus groups
     
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Question Person(s) Responsible Notes and Decision(s) Next Steps
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DISCUSSION ITEMS:
Question Person(s) Responsible Notes and Next Steps
DI Focus Groups Neue Leung Neue reached out to Yuj
~53 students are considered DI
There are email addresses that people can use to reach out to
Need to draft set of questions and then possibly offer two times students can attend
Let students know the meeting will be recorded
Question
If we aren’t interviewing people individually, are we planning to group students so they feel more comfortable because people tend to feel more comfortable sharing when they feel more connected
Could group by cultural or linguistic backgrounds
Current list is not broken down by those factors due to confidentiality but it could possibly be broken down that way
Another option we have is to open it up to all DI students even if they didn’t originally complete the survey to get a larger size of students to interview
Could break those down into who completed the survey and who did not OR the questions could be phrased for both regardless of whether they took the survey or not
If we open it up to all DI students, then we will definitely need more volunteers to lead the focus groups
If possible, maybe we could match the focus group facilitator to the ethnic group being interviewed
A suggestion to possibly get an outside consulting group to run the focus groups was brought up but the response was that we probably don’t have the time or funding at this time but maybe for the future
Decisions:
Yes, include all DI students
Schedule a focus group team meeting w/ all volunteers
Focus group will create questions

Open discussion on API matters All This is a time devoted to sharing anything that is related to API topics
California
Advocacy for API Attorney General
Effort to raise funds to help APIs who are suffering hate crime
Contact Oranit for more information
SNL (Saturday Night Live) staff member tweeted that he donated $10k and would match up to $10k

ITEMS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION:
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