Seven of Anchorage's 10 candidates for mayor attended Saturday's forum, the city's first hosted by Asian American Pacific Islander groups.
Neil Bhagharva, a member of the Asian Alaskan Cultural Center, gives opening remarks at Saturday’s memorial forum in Spenard. KNBA reporter Rhonda McBride was invited to moderate a recent Asian American Pacific Islander mayoral forum. The organizers crafted the candidate questions. This is her account of the event.
Lucy Hansen, a representative of the Samoan community, read the first question to candidates. She asked about the city of Anchorage’s language access policy, which requires city departments to learn how to assist citizens with language barriers — speaking for about a minute in Samoan.“Would you go over the question again? I’m not sure I understood it at all,” Isley said, before it was asked again in English.
For the most part, the candidates had similar positions on many of the issues, except when they were asked about reports that Asians in Anchorage were targeted by hate crimes during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Isley said preventing racism begins with access and posed a question to the audience about their comfort level in approaching city government.
“I volunteered to make the Filipino rice cake,” said Evelyn Abello, one of the organizers of the forum.
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