The Chinese-American Vote in California amid Extreme Partisanship and Anti-Asian Hostility

On July 1, 2021, the Chinese Chapter held a webinar to examine the role that Chinese Americans have played and can play in our political system. Tom Campbell, former US Congressman and UC Berkeley dean, joined us for an in-depth discussion on the current status of California politics, whether there is a need for a new political party to challenge the seeming monopoly that the Democratic Party has on the state, and the role that Chinese-Americans and Asian-Americans play in state politics in this period of extreme partisanship and anti-Asian hostility.

Watch Recorded Video HERE

About Tom Campbell:

Tom Campbell served as Dean of the Fowler School of Law at Chapman University from 2011 to 2016. He came to Chapman in January 2009 as a visiting Presidential Fellow and Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. Prior to joining Chapman, he was the Bank of America Dean and Professor of Business from 2002 to 2008 at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Tom was a Professor of Law at Stanford University from 1987-2002; Associate Professor at Stanford, 1983-1987; a member of the United States Congress from 1989-1993 and 1995-2001; a member of the California State Senate from 1993-1995; and the director of the California Department of Finance from 2004-2005. He has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he also served as a member of the board of editors of the Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and to US Court of Appeals Judge George E. MacKinnon; a White House Fellow; executive assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and, director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission.