Wun was working as an organizer and educator, she noticed “a lack of organizing in some other fields”-for example, when her sister experienced sexual harassment at her corporate job, there were no real strategies in place to help her organize her company to address it. A former high-school teacher, college educator, sex worker, and sexual-assault counselor, she co-founded AAPI Women Lead in 2018 with her sister, Jenny Wun. Wun, a 2020 Soros Justice Fellow and a recipient of the 2021 California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Excellence in Civil Rights Award, leads national research projects on race, gender, and violence, and her work has appeared in numerous academic journals, anthologies, and online publications.
Yesterday, on the anniversary of the spa shootings, I spoke with Connie Wun, Ph.D., executive director of AAPI Women Lead, an organization that works to challenge and help end racial and gender-based violence in solidarity with other communities of color. It’s been one year since Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan, Delaina Ashley Yaun, and Yong Ae Yue were murdered in Atlanta-a year of terrible grief for their families and loved ones a year of sorrow and fear for many within Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities, which continue to face mounting harassment and violence.
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