Author: API Equality - NC

Rise UP! Immigration Week of Action 2015

For NQAPIA’s Immigration Week of Action on April 13th-18th, API Equality – Northern California interviewed Jenna Rapues, Kat Evasco, Penny Baldado, and Amy Lin through StoryCorps. We shared highlights of their stories through a social media campaign for the Week of Action: These four interviews will be also be shared with local artists Kat Evasco and John Caldon on the

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Team APIENC

“Being a part of team APIENC, even for just this short while, has been a transformative process for me. I’ve learned a lot about myself and most importantly, about what I want to contribute as part of this community.” – Michelle Lin At API Equality – Northern California, our volunteer committees power our work. Our committees include: Fundraising,

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Coming out to CAA Parent Advocates

by Betty Cao On February 7th, I facilitated an LGBT workshop with the immigrant Chinese parent leaders I work with at Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA). The CAA’s Parent Advocates program develops monolingual speaking Chinese parents into leaders in their schools and communities through social justice workshops, skills-building trainings and community engagements. In my three

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AAPI Institute at Creating Change 2015

We’re excited to connect with our #QAPI friends, partners, and allies at the 2015 National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change Conference in Denver, Colorado on February 5-8. You can find a list of the activities we’re co-coordinating with our partners below, including the fifth annual AAPI Institute on Thursday, February 5th. Many of these events

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MLin

MLIN identifies as an Asian American, Chinese American, gender non-conforming person (and goes by they/theirs pronouns). After recently graduating from Chapman University, MLin moved back to the Bay Area to navigate the real world. Currently, Michelle is interning at a Chinese news media “app” start-up and API Equality – Northern California. MLin’s social and political

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