DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A conversation with her son inspired Weonhee Shin to begin addressing the lack of Asian American representation in Georgia classrooms.
“He said, ‘I don’t see anyone who looks like me,’” Shin recalled. “And I realized then, it hadn’t even occurred to me to expect that.”
That moment led Shin, a Decatur parent and former educator, to co-found Asian American Voices for Education (AAVEd) — a nonprofit organization working to bring Asian American history into K–12 classrooms through ready-to-use curriculum kits…