Author: Risha Dulip

During the pandemic, I decided health and wellness would help me feel some normalcy and like many Americans, I acquiesced to exercise. However, I soon realized that exercising was great but tracking my health and wellness was even better. Enter Fitbit! While I choose the device specific for its features and simplicity, I relished in its ability to not take calls and a momentary reprieve from digital content. While I used the app for a bit without social connections, it…

As posted last week by my colleague Trisha Hernandez, May is the commemorative month to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage. May was chosen as the commemorative month because the first Japanese immigrant arrived in the U.S. on May 7, 1843, and it marks the completion of the transcontinental railroad (May 10, 1869) in which most of the tracks were laid by Chinese immigrants (Library of Congress, n.d.). Rich, diverse, and expansive, the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is…