Palestinian-American, Iranian-American state leaders want to check their own ethnic identity on Colorado forms

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Palestinian-American, Iranian-American state leaders want to check their own ethnic identity on Colorado forms

This year’s class of Colorado legislators includes two Democrats who fall into the ethnic group MENASA, which stands for Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian. This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared on cpr.org. They are Iman Jodeh, a state senator from Aurora who is Palestinian-American, and Yara Zokaie, a state representative from Fort Collins who is Iranian-American. When they fill out…