Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ) is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1991. It was established to empower Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other underserved groups, ensuring a fair and equitable society for all. The organization’s mission is to promote justice, unify local and national constituents, and empower communities. To this end, AAAJ dedicates itself to develop public policy, educate the public, litigate, and facilitate in the development of grassroots organizations. Some of their recent accomplishments have included increasing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ voter turnout and access to polls, enhancing immigrants’ access to education and employment opportunities, and advocating for greater protections of rights as they relate to the use of “big data.”
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In 2014, AAAJ joined a diverse coalition comprising of civil, human, and media rights groups, such as the ACLU, the NAACP, and the Center for...
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Civil rights and big data: Background material. http://www.civilrights.org/press/2014/civil-rights-and-big-data.html. Accessed 20 June 2016.
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Dalisay, F. (2017). Asian Americans Advancing Justice. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_14-1
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