Joe Pangelinan
Reclaiming the “PI” in AAPI
“I know who I am, and that if I move around in the world, regardless of where I am, I will always be an Islander.”
Joe Pangelinans’ Audio Interview
To read how Joe encourages the new generation of Asian American and Pacific Islanders to “be more involved”, read their special feature.
Joe Pangelinan
Dr. Joseph Pangelinan grew up between the Chuuk Islands of the Federated States of Micronesia and Saipan in the nearby Northern Mariana Islands, territories which greatly influenced by Spanish, Japanese, and U.S. occupation over the years. After attending a Jesuit high school, he pursued Catholic-led higher education in Kansas. There he studied psychology, saw snowfall for the first time, and came to terms with the fact that “AAPI” is realistically mostly “Asian” in the U.S. A proud Islander who found his community online during COVID-19, Joe is director of cultural awareness and diversity and faculty at Washington University School of Medicine.