Harsirat (her-see-rut) Kaur is a community organizer at South Asian Network, a nonprofit organization based in SoCal that offers support to low-income South Asians living in the area with public benefits, citizenship application assistance, language support, domestic violence support, mental health, and hate crime support. Ms. Kaur holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in communication. She has over three years of experience working in the advocacy and policy sector for the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Additionally, she enjoys reading, cooking, and sleeping.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
