Russell Jeung ♂️

Dr. Russell Jeung is a professor of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University. He has been there since 2002, after obtaining his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2000. Russell is the founder of [Stop AAPI Hate](https://stopaapihate.org/), a project of [Chinese for Affirmative Action](https://caasf.org/). Stop AAPI Hate is a non profit organization that tracked hate crimes against Asian Americans, which spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Time magazine](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096105/manjusha-kulkarni-russell-jeung-cynthia-choi/) named Jeung, Kulkami and Choi as the 100 most influential people of 2021.