Young Shin Explained

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Young Hi Shin is an environmental justice activist who co-founded and directed the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), which fought for workers’ rights in the San Francisco Bay Area.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]} She advocated for awareness around occupational health and an end to language discrimination for limited English speakers.^[10] Shin also works as a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and has published in the academic journal Signs.^{[11] [12]}

Shin immigrated to the United States from Korea.^[13] In 1983, Shin co-founded AIWA. In 1991, Shin was among 301 delegates who convened in Washington, D.C. for the First National People of Color Environmental Summit.^{[14] [15]} The work of Shin and Pam Tau Lee, co-founder of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, at the 1991 summit ensured that occupational health issues were included in the draft of "Principles of Environmental Justice" created during the summit.^[16] Additionally, both Lee and Shin are reported to have infused English classes with political education to enable immigrant women to better communicate workplace and environmental hazards.

In 2002, Shin was published in a report by Women's Environment & Development Organizations titled "a small world after all: Women Assess The State of the Environment In the U.S. and Beyond."^[17]

In 2013, she was featured in the documentary Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World, which was directed by Gary Delgado.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lee . Charles . 26 May 2022 . AANHPI Heritage Month: Coming Full Circle on Environmental Justice .
2. Web site: Environmental Justice for Asians and Pacific Islanders Reimagine! . 2023-10-04 . www.reimaginerpe.org.
3. Web site: Lee-Park . Zoe . 2023-06-16 . The U.S. loves erasing Asian American history — including in the environmental justice movement . 2023-10-04 . San Francisco Chronicle . en-US.
4. Lee . Pam Tau . 1992 . Environmental Justice for Asians and Pacific Islanders . Race, Poverty & the Environment . 3 . 1 . 1–21 . 41554027 . 1532-2874.
5. Ng . Lisa . 2019-09-01 . Cyborgs for Environmental Justice: East Asian American Stories from the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit . Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects.
6. Hardisty . Jean . 1993-06-01 . Environmental Justice . Political Research Associates . en.
7. Web site: Berndt . Brooks . 2021-03-25 . 30th Anniversary: The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit . 2023-10-04 . United Church of Christ . en-US.
8. 1992 . Foundation News . Foundation News . Council on Foundations . 1992 . 33 . 28.
9. Web site: 2020-07-20 . Supporting the Leadership and Agency of Asian Immigrant Women . 2023-10-04 . The San Francisco Foundation . en.
10. Book: Labor Notes . 1991 . Labor Education and Research Project. . en.
11. Web site: 2011-01-17 . Young Shin – Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies . 2023-10-04 . en-US.
12. Chun . Jennifer Jihye . Lipsitz . George . Shin . Young . June 2013 . Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates . Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . en . 38 . 4 . 917–940 . 10.1086/669575 . 146488995 . 0097-9740.
13. Web site: Berger . Rose Marie . 1997-07-01 . Asian Immigrant Women Advocates . 2023-10-04 . Sojourners . EN.
14. Kim . Roger . Matsuoka . Martha . 2013 . Building a 21st Century Environmental Movement That Wins: Twenty Years of Environmental Justice Organizing by the Asian Pacific Environmental Network . AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community . en . 11 . 1–2 . 1545-0317.
15. 2011 . Sze . Julie . Asian American Immigrant and Refugee Environmental Justice Activism under Neoliberal Urbanism . Asian American Law Journal . 10.15779/Z38TZ9N . Sze . Julie .
16. Book: Shah, Sonia . Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire . South End Press . 1997 . 9780896085756 . 93 . English.
17. Web site: 2002-08-01 . A Small World After All (2002) . 2023-10-04 . WEDO . en-US.