SuChin Pak Is No Longer Settling for Your Definition of Courage

SuChin Pak, 45, has spent more than two decades in the spotlight, which also means, as an Asian American, she’s faced nearly as much time battling racism in the public sphere—most notably during her tenure as an MTV News reporter in the early ’00s. In the foreword of the new book, My Life: Growing Up Asian in America, Pak details those devastating early years in front of the camera, and how racist incidents coupled with internalized xenophobia manifested into debilitating shame and guilt. But in recent years, triggered in part by the wave of hate crimes against the AAPI community,… Read Full Article