The Department of American Ethnic Studies is proud and gratified to be part of the Affirming Multivocal Humanities, a new set of grants from the Mellon Foundation that recognize the importance of studying race, ethnic, gender, and sexuality studies. This grant to our department will support undergraduate research projects, graduate student mentorship opportunities, and community outreach activities that will help promote the values of ethnic studies work within and outside of campus. Our first two events under the auspices of this grant are the book launches of two of our esteemed faculty members: Prof. Linh Thủy Nguyễn's book, Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production (Temple University Press), on Thursday, May 23rd, 2024, from 5 to 7 pm, at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health of the UW-Seattle campus; and Prof. LaShawnDa Pittman's Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival (University of California Press) on Thursday, June 6th, 2024, from 4:30 to 7 pm, at the Communications Building Room 120 and 202, also at the UW-Seattle campus. Stay tuned for more events slated for the following schoolyear!