The Asian American Coalition collection primarily documents the first ten years of the organization’s existence from 1998 to 2008 with a smaller percentage of documents being from after 2009 to 2014. The collection contains documents such as the founding constitution, an issues paper which laid out why the organization was necessary, internal emails between the original student leaders which highlight their goals as an organization, communications with the University administration where they expressed many of their demands to the University, fliers and meeting notes for the various events they hosted on campus and in the community, and early newspaper coverage of the organization from the Daily Iowan.

Panel features members of Waterloo's ethnic communities group: Jeanne Angel, an ESL facilitator for the Waterloo schools; Ibrahim Shehata, representing the Muslim community; Amela Mehic, representing the Bosnian community, and Douglas Zhu, representing the Chinese community.