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\u201cYou can't expect to do better unless you know better. Understanding who we are collectively - Asian-Americans and non-Asians.\u201d\nRepresentative\xa0Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, serves in Illinois' General Assembly - representing Illinois\u2019 17th District since 2019. Jennifer was the co-sponsor of a recently passed the nation\u2019s FIRST Asian-American history curriculum bill - the\xa0TEAACH (Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History Act)\xa0- which is a big deal. Not just that it passed (long overdue), but\xa0that it will hopefully prove as a template in many other states around our country.\nJennifer's many things - a politician, a lawyer, and advocate, a mom. She\u2019s the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants who fought deportation under the\xa0Chinese Exclusion Act. Her sense of justice was instilled from an early age through her parents - active in the civil rights and women\u2019s rights movements - making Jennifer a determined fighter for the voiceless and the vulnerable her entire adult life - taking on transnational human traffickers and aggressively defending the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children. Providing access to justice to our community\u2019s most vulnerable residents - developing legal capacity to represent Dreamers, domestic violence survivors, and low-income residents.\nFor Jennifer - the law is a piece of a greater system to be shaped to be more inclusive for all. But it\u2019s ultimately about building greater empathy and understanding amongst ALL Americans.\nLEARN ABOUT REP. JENNIFER GONG-GERSHOWITZ\n\nWebsite:\xa0gonggershowitz.com\n\n\nIllinois General Assembly:\xa0ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2744\n\n\nTEAACH ACT:\xa0politico.com/news/2021/05/31/aapi-history-education-illinois-491324\n\n\nFOLLOW JENNIFER ON SOCIAL\n\nTwitter:\xa0@gonggershowitz\n\n\nInstagram:\xa0@jengonggershowitz\n\n\nMENTIONS\n\nCHINESE EXCLUSION ACT\n\nPBS SHOW:\xa0Asian-Americans\n\n\nBOOK:\xa0The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)\n\n\nBOOK:\xa0The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston)\n\n\nFILM:\xa0Minari (2020)\n\n\nBOOK:\xa0Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Ronald Takaki)\n\n\nBOOK:\xa0Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (Sucheng Chan)\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices