Public Voices

The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship is a national initiative to dramatically increase the public impact of our nation’s top underrepresented thinkers, and to ensure our ideas help shape the important conversations of our age.

I AM VIETNAMESE AMERICAN AND SICK AND TIRED OF LIVING WITH THE BURDEN OF BEING A MODEL MINORITY

My life as a Vietnamese American in America is nothing like what you see in…

Collective Memory for Queer and Trans Liberation

Sitting by my 95-year-old grandmother’s hospital bed, I listened in rapt attention as she told…

Why We Need The Annual Transgender Day of Awareness on November 20

Just like any traumatic experience, I can remember exactly where I was when the phone…

After Months Online, Students Struggle with Real Life

It’s midterm at universities across the United States, and students and teachers accustomed to three…

History shows Glenn Youngkin’s strategy may be a losing one

Fifty years ago, a Democratic candidate for mayor of Indianapolis hoped to win by stoking…

Gruden’s racist emails are not the only problem facing major league sports

Jon Gruden’s resignation from the Las Vegas Raiders comes after an investigation of workplace climate…

Climate change is here. What can we do about it?

How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking…

The Afghan People are not Political Props for the Left

In the days following the Taliban’s swift conquest of Afghanistan, a disturbing narrative took hold…

Education law requires PE

School has started or is on the horizon in many states.  While confusion lingers about…

Who Can Serve on Boards?

This pandemic has dictated so much of my life and challenged my ability to operate…

Every Tenth of a Degree of Warming Matters

Working in climate policy as someone under 30, every day I wake up with the…

Leaving a PhD Program

“We support whatever decision you make, honey.” I hung up the phone with my mom,…

Derrick Chauvin deserves his prison sentence. Many people of color don’t.

The Biden administration is taking action to tackle racial inequity in an area not often…

Juneteenth A Holiday: Personal Pride And National Irony

My grandparents, Maggie and Ennis Williams, would be proud. Juneteenth, a holiday they ensured was…

New Jobs in the Vaccine Economy and the Green Economy

This week the percentage of eligible people vaccinated in the U.S. passed 43%. The massive…