Boram Lee, PhD, was a graduate student at Harvard University last spring when she had her first experience with anti-Asian racism on campus. 

Lee, who is from South Korea, was riding her bicycle on campus when a stranger suddenly began verbally harassing her. 

“I was biking along, and this guy just yelled at me and swore at me,” she says. 

The incident took place in March, shortly after the coronavirus pandemic began spreading rapidly across the U.S........