First Vote
America’s fastest growing ethnic collective is also one of its least represented. First Vote explores Asian American voter experiences in battle ground states.
While Asian American voters are the fastest growing ethnic collective in the United States, they are also among the least represented as elected officials, their voices rarely heard in major policy debate. For filmmaker Yi Chen, these facts are more than statistical, they’re personal and, as she contemplates exercising her own right to vote, they become motivational. In First Vote, Chen chronicles her introspective journey into America’s battleground states. Exploring themes of immigration and identity, she engages in honest and revealing conversations with Asian American voters throughout our country’s most coveted districts in Ohio and North Carolina. Following the political participation of four Asian American voters, First Vote crafts an insightful look at Asian Americans' experience at the polls.