In a joint letter submitted today (1/26/21), prominent Asian Americans in the arts, entertainment, law, business, nonprofits, academia, medicine, and philanthropy urged Governor Gavin Newsom to appoint California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu as the state’s next Attorney General.
The over 160 signatories include luminaries such as civil rights leaders Dale Minami, Stewart Kwoh, and Karen Korematsu; former Hawai‘i Attorney General David Louie; LGBTQ+ rights advocates Helen Zia and Mia Yamamoto; YouTube co-founder Steven Chen and founding Google board member Ram Shriram; award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang; bestselling author Amy Tan; famed architect Maya Lin; AIDS researcher and former TIME Person of the Year Dr. David Ho; award-winning filmmakers Janet Yang, Richard Chew, and Freida Lee Mock; and actor and social justice activist George Takei.