WATCH: 'Race & Coronavirus: A Bay Area Conversation' virtual town hall about COVID-19 impact on Asian American community

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- ABC7 is confronting hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic with "Race and Coronavirus: A Bay Area Conversation."

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Our interactive town hall on April 2, which you can watch in its entirety in the video player above, featured a panel of expert contributors amid real-time audience interaction.

Our panelists included:

• Aimee Allison, founder and president of She the People
• Zahra Billoo, executive director of CAIR-SF Bay Area
• Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, MD, professor of medicine at UCSF
• Cynthia Choi, co-executive director at Chinese for Affirmative Action
• Russell Jeung, Asian American Studies chair and professor at San Francisco State University
• Evan Low, California State Assembly
• Tzi Ma, actor in Disney's "Mulan"
• Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of Latino Community Foundation
• Kyle Navarro, RN, nurse at SFUSD School
• David Nguyen, Instagram Influencer
• Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County district attorney
• Paul Saffo, long range forecaster at Stanford
• Jeff Yang, writer

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• 'Race and Coronavirus: A Bay Area Conversation': Virtual town hall addressing COVID-19 impact on Latino community


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