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Our Impact

Lifting up Asian American voices and honoring the stories of all people to transform Georgia schools.

15,000+

Students in Georgia

have received learning opportunities, bite-sized lessons, and AANHPI Heritage Month Kits.

800+

Teachers and Teachers-in-training

have received Professional Development and curriculum materials through GCPS and AAVEd’s GEFC.

800+

AANHPI Heritage Month Kits

history education curated by our board of educators and distributed across Georgia classrooms.

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Asian American History

curriculum materials and professional development introduced to Georiga educators in 2022 through AAVEd.

Our Mission

We envision a Georgia where all students and families understand our interconnected histories and create meaningful social change in solidarity with one another.

Our Impact

In 2025, we curated and distributed 800+ AANHPI Heritage Month Kits. To date, we have reached over 800 educators and 15,000 students in over 30 school districts.

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Our Community

At AAVEd, we believe a multi-faceted teaching of U.S. history creates unity. We build understanding by helping students learn how many cultures have shaped the nation.

Educator Resources

Excellent Asian American History lesson plans already exist!

Here in Georgia, AAVEd is developing resources specifically aligned with the GA Department of Education Standards of Excellence. These will show how Asian American history is woven together with the histories of all people in the United States. We look forward to sharing these with you in Fall of 2023!

Georgia Educator Fellowship Cohort Lesson Guides
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Research and Publications
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Bite Sized Lesson Guides
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Linda Hinh

Board Chair

Linda is a First-Generation Vietnamese American that was born in Louisiana, but raised in the suburbs of Atlanta where she currently lives with her husband, son, and fur-baby. She’s a graduate of Georgia State University (GSU) and is a Technology Underwriting Director for a national insurance carrier.   

Linda’s passion is to ensure that everyone has the same rights and opportunities in life, with a focus on the Asian American Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community.  Among other activities, this passion includes chartering an Asian-Interest sorority to GSU and co-founding her current company’s AANHPI Business Resource Group. After learning about AAVEd and their critical mission to incorporate Asian American studies in the Georgia school curriculum, she realized that this was lacking during her education and knew that she needed to be an advocate.  Asian Americans have a rich history filled with struggles and successes that contributed to the course of American History. Linda is a strong believer that knowing more about your own history as well as others allows us to build empathy and create allies.  

Asif Jessani

Board Member

Asif Jessani is a professional volunteer. He currently serves as a board member for Artworks Gwinnett, Gwinnett County Parks Foundation, and Gwinnett County Public Library Foundation. He also serves as an advisory board member for the United Way of Greater Atlanta – Gwinnett and Atlanta Speech School. With a passion for early childhood education, he is also involved with Gwinnett County’s early learning initiative, Building Babies’ Brains. As part of the Ismaili Muslim Community, he has been a volunteer preschool teacher for the past 24 years.

Asif is also actively involved with the communications and outreach team for the Ismaili Muslim Community and previously led the marketing and media team for the United States Ismaili Games. When he isn’t volunteering, Asif takes on the responsibility of partner at CCS: Marketing & Technology, which provides chief marketing and technology officer services and branded items for mission-driven organizations.