Jude Paul Matias Dizon (him/his) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California. His interests broadly pertain to racial equity in higher education, policing and incarceration, and Asian American and Pacific Islander students.
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We Need to Act Now to Save the Postal ServiceI fear for my mother’s health every day that she goes to work. U.S. Postal Service workers like my mom and her 600,000 plus colleagues are in need of protection on the job, now more than ever. Despite precautions, almost 900 postal employees have tested positive for COVID-19 and 44 have died during the pandemic.
For Such a Time As ThisOn one particularly hot afternoon in Contra Costa, California, 20 Adult Education specialists entered an air-conditioned conference room, greeted by me and a couple of my colleagues. We were set to begin an undocumented student allyship training developed by the community college where we worked.
Confronting Violence in Postracial AmericaThe 2008 and 2016 elections exposed our nation’s drastically divergent views on the state of race relations in the United States. In the intervening eight years, some believed that our country’s racial progress had reached the telos of “post-racial” society and required no further action.
