Advancing Asian American visibility

Devin Jiang, a senior in the Joseph R. Biden, JR. School of Public Policy and Administration, has accomplished much during the last few years at the University of Delaware. His résumé includes internships with the White House, a U.S. presidential campaign, the Office of U.S. Senator Chris Coons, and the Delaware State Senate. He also participated in the Semester in Washington, D.C. program, where he rode Amtrak from Wilmington to Washington, D.C., traveling the same route as a certain former Senator from Delaware.

Jiang was also elected as a Delaware delegate to the 2024 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago.

"After learning that the state's last Chinese presidential delegate was in the 1980s, I knew our community could not wait another 40 years for this kind of representation and hope," he said in regard to what it meant to him to represent the First State.

As he grew his network and completed his undergraduate coursework in public policy, he remained active in supporting the causes and issues affecting his community. As a person of Chinese American heritage raised in Wilmington, Jiang advocated for the support and visibility of Asian Americans by helping to pass three pieces of legislation in the Delaware state legislature and co-founding a nonprofit to form bipartisan solutions to anti-Asian American violence.