As students return to classrooms, so does bullying. These activists want to stop it.

For Jadyn Lontoc, a high school senior in Southern California, the Atlanta-area spa shootings in March was the breaking point after months of escalating violence against Asian Americans.

“It’s really infuriating to just sit here in the comfort of my home watching all this happen and feeling like I’m not doing anything to help in any way,” Lontoc, 17, told NBC Asian America. "Seeing all the headlines stacking on top of each other of people who look like me, my family, my grandparents — it was a very scary and very angry time for me.”

So she channeled her frustration into activism. In the spring, she applied for the high school internship program at Stop AAPI Hate, a national nonprofit organization that collects and analyzes hate incidents against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Along with 100 student interns, she conducted research on the extent and impact of anti-Asian racism on youths, and found that more than 70 percent of Asian American and Pacific Islander students across the country experienced racism in the past year.