I didn’t come to Minnesota like most other Asian Minnesotans. I wasn’t facing persecution; I wasn’t reuniting with family, and I didn’t come because of financial reasons. Instead, I came here to go to graduate school. 

I had every intention of going back home, but I was recruited by the Minnesota Department of Transportation where I spent the next 30 years. After that, I worked for the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota as the Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Infrastructure Finance.

I retired last summer after a successful professional career, but my ongoing work in the community hasn’t stopped.

To understand how community building has evolved over the last ten years, you need to understand how it began.

When I first moved to Minnesota, I had concerns about the growing Asian population. It was back in the 1970s when most people began arriving as refugees. They needed a tremendous amount of resources and support. But most importantly, they needed a voice.

We needed to come together because a collective voice is better than no voice at all.  So, we created the Council of Asian Pacific Minnesotans, a state agency that works for equality for Minnesotans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage.

And I helped create the Asian Pacific Caucus in the DFL party. Together we made our voices heard.  In 1996, I supported and knocked on doors to help elect Satveer Chaudhary as the first South Asian State Representative in the state. A few years later, I did the same to elect Mee Moua as the first Hmong American in the Minnesota Senate. 

Politically, it’s important we create a common bond, because individually we’re such a small number. I’m happy that CAAL is working to strengthen that bond. It’s a continuous fight and struggle but we must continue to strive for it. The longer we’ve been here, the less we remember the conflicts from back home. That was more prevalent 40 years ago. Now, it’s less of an issue, thanks in large part to the work CAAL is doing by bringing everyone together.

In my retirement, I continue to sit on several boards, including the Hmong American Partnership and Trellis. I’m committed to raising the voices of all Asian Minnesotans who are aging. I want to make sure they get the right resources, so they have a respectable life.

I encourage all Asian Minnesotans to use their voices – and raise them too. If you think there are disparities, then go fight for what’s right and make sure others are paying attention. 

Don’t complain. Do something about it.

I did.

And there’s nothing accidental or reluctant about it.

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Dear Community,

Voters in St. Paul made history last year by electing an all-female city council. What’s more? The city council also has four members of Asian descent, the most Asian Minnesotans of any city council in the state. This representation is critical for St. Paul as it is home to the second largest Asian American population in Minnesota.

That’s why I’m excited for our upcoming panel this month with St. Paul city council president Mitra Jalali, council vice president HwaJeong Kim, and council member Cheniqua Johnson. As the council starts to set their priorities, it’s critical for them to be responsive to our community needs. What the council decides to invest in impacts each of our lives directly and I invite you to join us to learn how the council functions and share how the council can work better for the people. I hope to see you there. 

You can read all about this work, and much more, in this month’s newsletter. And be sure to sign up to get this content in your inbox.

ThaoMee Xiong

Executive & Network Director, CAAL

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To see our months of planning, preparation, and long email chains finally come to life was an experience I’ve never felt before. Not only to see how many community members showed up to speak, table, and support but also to know that this was a product of our hard work. For us, community building and change making is a clunky process, but it’s authentic. Where parents, students, and community members used to work toward the same goals in our district separately, the Edina Asian American Alliance had brought these levels of the district together to address our concerns as one.

Personally, this isn’t something I thought was possible before. Adults don’t listen to students, right? They’re not really asking my opinion. However, I soon realized that my perspective as a student was not only valuable to our endeavors, but actually guided our work. For EAAA, changemaking means harnessing the power of our different viewpoints and collectively deciding our actions. Through my work with EAAA, I’ve not only grown closer to my Asian American identity but I’ve also found a distinct pride for the work we do together. There will hopefully be many more years of festivals and celebrating together. In the meantime, I’m reminded every day of how our work is sustained through our dedication to each other, our community, and our pride in our identities.

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“Knowing our long history in the United States was an important step in first awakening my sense of solidarity with people fighting racism and oppression. That history destroyed the myths I was told as a child about Asian Indians in America, stories in which we are expected to be perpetual foreigners and docile professionals seeking only upward economic mobility. I was inspired by the Bengali people who first arrived on America’s shores in the nineteenth century and found refuge in Black and Puerto Rican communities and the Punjabi emigres who–inspired by the early American labor movement–built momentum to end British colonial rule back home. I was angered by the 500 white workers who beat and expelled the entire South Asian population from Bellingham, Washington in 1907. In 1911, South Asians were deemed by the U.S. Immigration Commission to be “the least desirable race of immigrants thus far admitted” into the country. Our existence in this country has always been political, and that fuels my sense of urgency to achieve justice and liberation for those most marginalized in our society.

“I know my choices are to remain silent and invisible or actively engage and resist, and I choose resistance every day. This resistance can take many forms. It involves constant internalized work to understand how my personal, professional, and ancestral identities give me unique daily choices to create a more just, equitable Minnesota. If developing a liberatory consciousness is my goal, I must notice and name when I think or act in ways that perpetuate forms of oppression that permeate our relationships, our institutions, and our culture. Remaining curious and open with others is difficult in these polarized times, but it can be a simple act of resistance when doing the difficult work to build solidarity across lines of difference.”

“My hope is that Asian Minnesotan communities continue to build and use power in ways that benefit those most marginalized. While this work has been happening for decades, the pandemic and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice proved once again how powerful we as Asian Minnesotans can be in shifting hearts, minds, and institutions when working in solidarity at the intersection of multiple identities—in our own families, in our communities, and across the state. It gives me great pride to see how far we’ve come in the past ten years, and I’m committed to and optimistic about the work yet to come.”

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“The killing of these men and countless others like them highlights unjust systems in our society, one that continues today. That experience made me realize how public programming can connect the past and present and how activism, solidarity, and organizing can take on many forms.

“My journey into community advocacy began many years ago, as my family left the only home we knew of. I was born in a small farming village in central Laos, a country and landscape forever altered by the aftermath of war. At the age of two, my parents devised a plan to leave everything they knew. They sold all of their rice rations to secure passage on two small boats waiting on the shore of the Mekong River.”

“However, when our family arrived, there was only one boat. My mother climbed onto the boat carrying my baby sister. While my father ushered my older brother, sister, and me on board, he pushed the boat onto steady water and managed to hop on. As a child, my parents would recount the journey, etched in my memory. They told me that before we left Laos, my name was written on the sandy shore of the Mekong River, a reminder that connected me to the land of my birth.

“Once on the Thailand side of the border, our family was detained. Although we were refugees, according to the government of Thailand and border patrols, we were considered undocumented immigrants. It was not until days later that the UNHCR moved us to a refugee camp. After years in refugee camps and countless medical exams, my journey as an Asian American began in 1986.

“It was not until years later, when I started college, that I soon realized the absence of the narratives and perspectives of my people from American history. Understanding my own journey and the stories of countless other refugees from Laos helps me realize the complexity of war and conflicts.”

“My personal experience has been a guiding principle for me as I found my calling to develop community-engaged and community–impacted programs. Coming full circle, I have since joined and led coalition work to advance issues in communities like the one where I grew up in–a vibrant refugee community that faced low education attainment, a high unemployment rate, and limited access to resources. The gathering and telling of stories has been a medium in which to help achieve my passion for advocating for justice and equity. When our stories are told, we become empowered to encourage others to tell theirs and collectively organize to create change. “

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“I would sit and listen to the stories of her journey to America, not quite at an age where I could appreciate the incredible lessons and history she lived through. She was a survivor of the Japanese occupation in China, the war in Vietnam, immigration to Minnesota, and later in her life— a global pandemic.

“I was always left in wonder, amazed by her willpower and mental tenacity. But it made sense. She held each tragedy close, right next to the gratitude she had for the people and community that supported her. From securing housing and navigating countless paperwork, to opening a savings account, to learning the bus transportation system. Every step was made possible through the unwavering support of the multi-generational Minnesota Asian American community. These people made it possible for a non-English speaking immigrant in her forties without immediate family to establish a life in Minnesota. 

“I was fortunate enough to be a part of and witness the community my grandmother established for herself. It made growing up easier. I never saw myself as a minority but as part of a vibrant community of color and a network of Vietnamese immigrants who cared for one another. My K-12 experience was also informed by attending low-income schools and students of color with whom I could embrace and celebrate our unique and interdependent experiences and identities.”

“Community became a core value and the social capital I carried throughout. In college, I was with the Asian American Student Union; as an artist, my first professional play was with an all-Asian cast; and without doubt, I will continue to find and create opportunities for communal care. 

“Although the Asian American community in Minnesota might be considered smaller than the coastal states, in our midst, we nurtured and uplifted one another, shared resources with boundless generosity. Our story is a testament to the power of community and the remarkable strength that emerges when people come together.

“Earlier this year, my grandmother passed away. The communities we created together showed up, and together, we cried and grieved the wondrous life she lived. Until the end, her life is a reminder; it is crucial in all my endeavors I lead with love. Her spirit of love manifests a drive in me to uplift and support those around me, extending the same compassion and guidance generously bestowed upon us. That is the legacy of her story interwoven with mine.”

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“When I think about how that has changed over the last decade within the context of my Asian identity, it takes me back to college when I first felt othered and had to come to terms with the opportunities and limits my Asian-ness came with. Cue flashback music.

“I’m 22. Graduated from NYU. Living as a thespian in NYC. And I’m finding that I had to move to the mainland to understand what a privilege it was to grow up in Hawaii where I was a part of the majority. As a teenager, I knew on a national scale and in the media, I was a part of the minority. But in Hawaii, the world looked like me and that was powerful. In New York, it didn’t and I was powerless. I knew after graduating that I had the headwinds of typecasting against me. Forever confined to the “Asian folder” in casting offices unless I was somehow “ethnically ambiguous” enough. It’s in this commercial theater climate that I felt my dreams of Broadway could have an expiration date. I found my first taste of freedom from how I presented racially on stage when I was a part of an all Asian company of Hello, Dolly! produced by the National Asian Artist Project in 2013.

“I found community in that experience not only in my castmates who looked like me, but who were also on a similar creative journey getting to express ourselves in our Sunday best like the countless casts of Hello, Dolly! before us. I learned then that there’s power in collectively challenging the norms of how something is traditionally portrayed and staged while seeing what else reveals itself in the process. I’ll never forget thinking that for those in the audience seeing Hello, Dolly! for the first time that Dolly Levi would always be a Chinese woman in their minds. Forever changing the perception of what a leading lady can look like for any young aspiring artists or patrons.”

“Fast forward to April 2023, I’ve gained a new perspective on how theater can shape perception thanks to an experience performing with Theater Mu. But this felt bigger than Hello, Dolly!. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Theater Mu has been centering storytelling on the Asian experience for 30 years. Suffice to say, I was late to their party, and so happy to be there. I had the privilege of performing with three Hmong artists in a musical centered on Hmong experiences written by Hmong playwright Katie Ka Vang. The fact that 10 years ago an all Asian cast in a non-Asian show was considered groundbreaking and now we are professionally producing world premiers of original work conceived by BIPOC artists centering on their marginalized experiences is a sign of progress we can all be proud of. I found community in my castmates once again. Not because we were grateful for the opportunity to perform as Asians in a traditionally White musical. But because we were getting to express our whole selves in a story centered on our existence. There was community in the vulnerability and courage of creating in the hands of each other. We now live in a world where a Hmong musical exists. We can’t undo or unknow that. Community did that.

“So how has community building evolved over time? For me, it’s become less about the people and numbers, of which can have its limits. It’s more about what gets learned, created and perpetuated in community. Community used to mean people brought together by shared circumstance, staying insular and exclusive. Today, community means collective learning and evolving in service of betterment. Thinking back to my Dolly days, it’s now not enough to just change someone’s perception. We must push to change someone’s world. Make it better. Make it more accessible. Make it safer so that we are not crawled under rocks, but out in the sun. Knowing less. Learning more. Belonging and creating more in community. “

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“Our lives changed forever during World War II, when my own government forcibly removed us from our home and placed us in prison camps based solely on our race.  After 3 ½ years in prison, my parents lost everything they had worked for trying to make a comfortable life in America. We had nothing left in Seattle.  Is it any wonder that I grew up thinking, “Is there something wrong with being Japanese?

“Learning to accept myself as a Japanese American was a long and involved process that started when I arrived in Minnesota at the age of ten directly from an American concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho.  Our family chose Minnesota because my brother was serving in the U.S. Military and trained at Fort Snelling.  He found the people of Minnesota to be very friendly and accepting.  

“In Minnesota I tried to be as “American” as possible, using an English name, “Sally,” instead of my Japanese name, “Shigeyo.”  I was always the only Japanese, let alone person of color, in my classroom all the way from elementary school through high school. I did not congregate with other Japanese families who had also moved to Minnesota after the war. I found my friends and community in my Caucasian neighborhood. 

“While studying at the University of Minnesota, I met and fell in love with a Japanese exchange student. His employer sent us to Japan to establish a branch office. A whole new chapter of my life began. I learned what a beautiful country Japan was. I loved all of its arts and crafts, and I developed a true appreciation for my culture and heritage. I was thankful to raise three children in a place where they would not have to face the same prejudice and discrimination that I knew as a child.”

“Unfortunately, my life in Japan ended abruptly when my husband died unexpectedly from a brain aneurism, but I returned to Minnesota with a new attitude about being Japanese American. I resumed my teaching career and became involved with the Twin Cities Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), mainly to meet others who shared a similar background with me. In 1997, our group brought the Smithsonian Institute’s photo exhibit “Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps 50 Years Later” to the downtown Minneapolis Public Library. Several of us who were survivors of the prison camps acted as docents for the exhibit, where I met many Minnesotans who had never heard about how the government established concentration camps to keep Japanese Americans confined during WWII. This opened my eyes to the need to educate the public on this chapter of American history. I began to speak at schools, churches, and community groups to tell my family’s story. I felt like I was standing up for not only the 120,000 other Japanese Americans who were victims of incarceration, but also for all of the communities in our country who have been negatively impacted by misguided government policies.

“In the past 25 years of my retirement, I have made it my mission to emphasize the importance of speaking up whenever we see injustice, and help my neighbors realize how easily our civil liberties can be taken away if we are not vigilant. We cannot be bystanders, because if we remain silent we are condoning the injustice. Our JACL rallying cry is, “Nidoto nai yoni” — NEVER AGAIN!”

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I’m an echo. Grandmother, Mother, Me. My echo lost power as it traveled with me from Kolkata, India – to North America – before the age of 2 years old. Growing up in Canada with immigrant parents, I felt what so many first generation kids did who grow up in the west, “I don’t fit anywhere,” and I didn’t. I wasn’t Indian enough and I wasn’t Western enough. I’d lost my community. I continued to feel lost through our move to Minnesota as a teen, and into adulthood.  Then I met my chosen family at a work picnic in 2021 and my echo became a chorus. I found my community.

My organization encourages us to join a Business Resource Group (BRG) to find affinity. I did and I’ve been working to build the Asian and Pacific Islander community through my work as an AaPI BRG leader ever since. I joined the Minnesota AaPI BRG team and I began to tell our stories through internal social media. I wanted more people to feel included, so I applied to the MOVEE program at CAAL so I could learn how to advocate for social justice. There I learned how I could build community with the power of an organization behind me.

I’m not an echo; I’m part of a harmony of Asian American activists who insist the needs of our community are heard by people in power. I didn’t have to worry about how “Indian” I was anymore. I’m Asian American and I’m Indian American. I write and rewrite my identity as I tell my story and encourage others to tell theirs. I share my passion for community development unapologetically in personal and professional spaces. We have a lot of work to do and I’ve learned that we don’t do it alone. We sing together.

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On the One Year Anniversary of Atlanta Spa Shootings, We Call for Reflection and Action

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On March 16, 2021, eight people, including six Asian women massage workers, were killed at three spas in the Metro Atlanta area. As we mark the one year anniversary of this tragedy, we honor the victims, the survivors, and their families. We place their healing, care, and peace at the heart of our remembrance. We are grateful to the local and national communities of care that blossomed over the past year and that have centered the families of victims and survivors.

We have centered those most directly impacted by connecting them to critical services, and raising funds for victims and their families. For our broader community, we continue to tend to the process of healing by finding inspiration in the traditions of our elders. We are also continuing to advocate for policies and solutions that address the root causes of violence and hate so that we may all live in safe communities. 

We have held our community members close as we navigate loss, grief, and trauma not only in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings but in experiencing continued violence, misogyny, and racism against Asian Americans in Georgia and beyond. Most recently the brutal murders of Michelle Alyssa Go and Christine Yuna Lee within weeks of each other in New York City have renewed the fears and anxieties of Asian and Asian American women and femmes who are subjected to both gender and race-based discrimination and violence. In Albuquerque, NM, two Asian massage workers were killed during robberies at Asian spas, heightening the fears felt by Asian American and immigrant small business owners. 

These highly visible tragedies also call our attention to the everyday experiences that the most vulnerable members of our communities face in the cross-hairs of white supremacy, misogyny, and imperialism: the racial and sexual exploitations wrought by the presence of U.S. militarism in Asia and the Pacific; the resulting geopolitical upheavals that force migration; the daily terrors of a system that criminalizes immigrants, massage workers, and sex workers; housing and financial insecurity; and the ongoing abuses and dangerous conditions that migrant, low-wage, service workers face daily. 

To heal we must grapple with these truths and address white supremacy and misogyny as the root causes of violence and hate. To do so requires us to hold uncomfortable dualities. It means acknowledging the pain and fear that motivates some victims and community members to call for carceral solutions such as increased police presence, hate crimes legislation, and other forms of punishment; while at the same time interrogating how these responses criminalize and cause harm in the name of public safety. 

Grappling with the truth also means confronting anti-Blackness in our Asian American communities. We cannot allow the tragedy of the shootings in Atlanta to justify policies that expand law enforcement and its disproportionate impacts on Black communities. Rather, alongside our Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Arab, and Pacific Islander allies, we are inspired to reimagine what justice, healing, love, and hope can look like for our communities. 

Over the past year, we witnessed messages and acts of community care, empowerment, and solidarity reverberating in streets, parks, and community centers as more people have come together, bound by grief, and committed to radical change. 

Together, we commit to push beyond the oppressive boundaries of white supremacy and anti-Blackness and build sustaining communities of care. We can address the needs of victims of racialized and gender-based violence while also holding our elected leaders accountable for creating policies that center our communities. This includes investing in community-based organizations that are often on the frontlines of caring for victims, survivors, and vulnerable communities in the languages they use and with sensitivity to their cultures, livelihoods, and immigration statuses. Our elected leaders must provide long-standing investments and resources for the families of victims and survivors well after the immediate crisis has abated, access to victims’ compensation funds, fully fund violence prevention and restorative justice programs, and public infrastructure and institutions focused on public health and education.

Together, we can struggle in more powerful ways for community safety and healing, for racial and economic justice, for stable housing, for access to quality health care, including mental health and education and a liveable wage, for the right to vote, for the right to organize, and for art and beauty in our neighborhoods. On this anniversary, we remember the lives taken and the families who still struggle without their loved ones, and we recommit to expanding and deepening our community of care for all communities, beginning in Atlanta and spreading throughout the country and the world. 

In Solidarity,

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

Asian American Advocacy Fund

Korean American Coalition – Metro Atlanta

New Georgia Project

Raksha, Inc

Georgia Organizations

Athena’s Warehouse Inc.

Atlanta Antifascists

Atlanta Jews of Color Council

Avondale Alliance for Racial Justice

Better to Speak

Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)

Carter Media Group

Center for Civic Innovation

Cherokee Family Violence Center

CivicGeorgia

Common Cause GA

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Compassionate Atlanta

Council on American Islamic Relations – Georgia

Emory Law Chapter – National Lawyers Guild

Environment Georgia

Fair Fight Action

Faith in Public Life

Families Against Racism

GALEO & GALEO Impact Fund

Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc.

Georgia AFL-CIO

Georgia Alliance for Social Justice

Georgia Budget and Policy Institute

Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Georgia Interfaith Power and Light

Georgia Muslim Voter Project

Georgia Working Families Party

Global Village Project

Grantmakers for Southern Progress

International Rescue Committee Atlanta

L’Arche Atlanta

Men Stopping Violence

Migrant Equity Southeast

Nabilah for Georgia

Necessary Trouble Georgia

New American Pathways

Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative

POSITIVE IMPACT HEALTH CENTERS

Purpose Possible

Re’Generation Movement

REMERGE

Rep GA Institute Inc.

Southern Poverty Law Center

SURJ Atlanta

Taiwanese American Professionals – Atlanta

The Georgia Human Rights Clinic

The Lola

They See Blue GA

Twice Consulting Services LLC

Tzedek Georgia

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

Virginia-Highland Church (UCC)

Women Watch Afrika

YWCA of Greater Atlanta

National/ Out of the State Organizations

18 Million Rising

AAPI Equity Alliance

AAPI Women Lead

AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund

AAPIs for Justice San Antonio TX

Act To Change

ADL Southern Divisoin

AHRI for Justice

Alianza Sacramento

Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment

APAICS

APALA-Sacramento

APANO Communities United Fund

Apex Express

API Middle Tennessee

APIA Vote-MI

APIENC

Apna Ghar, Inc.

Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)

Asian American & Pacific Islanders for Justice (San Antonio TX)

Asian American Alliance

Asian American Arts Alliance

Asian American Documentary Network

Asian American Film Lab

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)

Asian American Liberation Network

Asian American Organizing Project (AAOP)

Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA)

Asian American Resource Workshop

Asian American Studies City College of San Francisco

Asian American Women Artists Association

Asian American Women’s Political Initiative (AAWPI)

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC

Asian Americans United

Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus

Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote)

Asian Arts Initiative

Asian Counseling and Referral Service

Asian Law Alliance

Asian Organizations for Muslim Arab Desi Inclusivity (AOMADI)

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO, Seattle Chapter

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO

Asian Pacific Development Center

Asian Pacific Environmental Network

Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence (API-GBV)

Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA)

Asian Prisoner Support Committee

Asian Solidarity Collective

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)

Asian Women Giving Circle

ASIAN, Inc. 美亞輔鄰社

Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)

BPSOS Center for Community Advancement

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative

California Primary Care Association

Campaign for a New Myanmar

CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)

Center for the Pacific Asian Family

Centro Legal de la Raza

Chinese American Museum of Chicago

Chinese American Service League

Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

Chinese Progressive Association

Chinese Progressive Association

Chinese Progressive Association, Boston MA

CHUANG Stage

Coalition of Asian American Leaders

Colorado Asian Culture and Education Network

Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists

District Attorney Sherry Boston, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit

DRUM – Desis Rising Up & Moving

Earth Action, Inc.

East West Players

Eastwind Books of Berkeley

EMBARC

Everyday Impact Consulting

Faith and Community Empowerment

Faith in Florida

Faith in the valley-merced county

Fayetteville Police Accountability Community Taskforce

First Congregational Church of Santa Barbara

Franciscan Action Network

GAPIMNY—Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders

GGE Media

Gold House

Grassroots Asians Rising

Greater Boston Legal Services Asian Outreach Unit

HA:N United Methodist Church

Hamkae Center

HANA Center

Hate Is A Virus

International Campaign for the Rohingya

J CHEN PROJECT, Inc

Japanese American Citizens League

Japanese American Citizens League, Seattle Chapter

Japanese American Citizens League, Twin Cities Chapter

Japanese American National Museum

Kamayan Coalition

KAN-WIN

Karen Organization of San Diego

Khmer Girls in Action

Korean American Coalition – Los Angeles

Korean American Community Foundation

Korean American Family Services (KFAM)

Korean American Federation of Los Angeles

Korean Community Center of the East Bay

Koreatown Youth & Community Center (KYCC)

LA City Councilmember Paul Koretz

Leadership and Education for All Foundation (LEAF)

LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics)

Leviathan Lab

Little Tokyo Service Center

Make Us Visible Florida

Make Us Visible NJ

MALO Motivating Action Leadership Opportunity

Mekong NYC

Model Majority

Mujeres Latinas En Accion

National CAPACD- National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development

National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)

National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)

New American Voices

New Breath Foundation

New Mexico Asian Family Center

New York Day of Remembrance Committee

North Carolina Asian Americans Together

OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates

OCA Asian Pacific Advocates of Greater Seattle

OCA Greater Chicago

OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates Greater Cleveland Chapter

Office of Councilmember John S. Lee, 12th Council District of the City of Los Angeles

Office of Councilmember Mai Vang, District 8, City of Sacramento

Ohio Chinese American Association

Phil Jones Bass ( American Acoustic Development LLC)

PIVOT

Poder Latinx

Poligon Education Fund

Project by Project

Prophetic Resistance Boston

PrYSM

Q-Wave

RUN AAPI

San Diego Japanese American Citizens League (SDJACL)

Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority, Inc.

Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)

Sikh Coalition

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)

South Bay APALA

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)

Southeast Asian Development Center

StageSource/Asian American Playwright Collective

Stand With Kashmir

Stories Within

Taiwanese American Citizens League

Thai Community Development Center

The Almond Group

The Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Lactation Collaborative of California

The Center for Asian Pacific American Women

The Center for Victims of Torture Georgia

The SEAD Project

The Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC)

Theater Mu

Theatre Communications Group

Transforming Generations

Tsuru for Solidarity

Ventura County Activists for Bernie Sanders 2020 #OurRevolution

VietAID

Vietnamese American Roundtable

Vietnamese Association of Illinois

Vietnamese Social Services of MN(VSS)

Visual Communications Media

Woori Center

Woori Juntos

 OCA – Sacramento – Asian Pacific American Advocates

1Hood Media

1Hood Power

9to5

Advancement Project. National

AI for the People

All organizations

All Saints Episcopal CHurch

ARISE

Art for Social Change at Lewis & Clark

Asian American Federation

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago

Asian Media Access

Asian Services in Action, Inc. (ASIA)

Asian Youth Center (AYC)

Austin Youth River Watch

AYPAL: Building API Community Power

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center

Bocoup

Bold Action Works

Bridge Beyond

Building Movement Project

CAIR-Minnesota

Campaign for a New Myanmar

Can’t Stop! Won’t Stop! Consulting & Education Fund

CAPA21 (Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans)

Cayuga Centers

Center for Biological Diversity

Center for Faith, Justice, and Reconciliation

Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies, University of Southern California

Charity Cultural Services Center

Chinese for Affirmative Action

Climate Justice Alliance

Coalition for a Diverse Harvard

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Collaborative on Race

Community Care Alliance

Community Justice Action Fund

Community-University Health Care Center

Compassion in Oakland

Defend Yourself

Diversity Discussions

Domestic Violence Action Center

East Bay Asian Youth Center

Embrace Services, Inc.

Endangered Species Coalition

Episcopal Church of the Saviour

Equal Justice Society

Equality Labs

Estolano Advisors

Everytown for Gun Safety

Eviction Defense Collaborative

Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area

Faith in New Jersey

Faith in New York

Faith Organizing Alliance

Film Fatales

Food Empowerment Project

Food Not Bombs Salt Lake City

For Freedoms

Fort Collins community action network

Freedom Network USA

Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM)

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

HapaLis Prods

Healing by Choice!

Hep B United

Hepatitis B Foundation

Hmong Americans for Justice

Hmong Innovating Politics

Huwaida for Congress (MI 10)

Immigrant Justice Network

Immigration Hub

Indigenous Environmental Network

Indivisible

Interfaith Worker Justice – New Mexico

International Campaign for the Rohingya

International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO & CLC

International Union, UAW

Japanese American Service Committee

Jewish Liberation Fund

Joint Action Committee

Journal of International Women’s Studies

Journal of International Women’s Studies

Justice Is Global

KAYA: Filipino Americans for Progress

Keep Beyond

Korean Community Services – Orange County

Kovner Center for Behavioral Health and Psychological Testing

Latino Community Foundation

Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee

Libra Foundation

Live Oak County Democrats

MALO Motivating Action Leadership Opportunity

March For Our Lives

MN8

Montagnard American Organization (MAO)

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative

Muslim Justice League

Muslim Power Building Project

National Council of Jewish Women

National Education Association

National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC)

National Organization for Women

National Partnership for New Americans

National Tongan American Society

Native Organizers Alliance

New American Leaders

New England Foundation for the Arts

Newtown Action Alliance

Northridge Indivisible

OCA Greater Tucson

Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence

One East Palo Alto

OPAWL – Building AAPI Feminist Leadership

Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)

Orange County Congregation Community Organization

Parent Education for Exceptional Children 

Peace Action

People of Color Sustainable Housing Network

PracticePro

Project Safeguard

Protect Oakland Chinatown

ProtestAccess

Public Wise

R.A.C.E.

Racial Equity Institute

Rainforest Action Network

re:power

Reflex Design Colleective

Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment

Revolutionary Love Project

Rice Rockettes

Rodfei Tzedek, the social justice team of Congregation Rodef Shalom

Safe Medford

SAHARA

SAJE

Sakhi for South Asian Women

Sakura Foundation

San Jose Nikkei Resisters

SEAC Village

Seattle Works

Serita Yoga

She the People

Social Changs

Social Transformation Project

Solidaire Network

South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (SAAPRI)

Southeast Immigrant Rights Network

SURJ Marin

Taiwanese American Professionals – DC

Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence

The Art of You

The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus

The Healing Trust

The New York Women’s Foundation

The Ocean Project

The Ruby

TJ Alumni Action Group

Tsuru for Solidarity Minnesota

UCLA Labor Center

Unified Asian Communities

Union for Reform Judaism

UNITE HERE Local 8

United Women in Faith

Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF)

Vermont Interfaith Action

Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign

VietRISE

VOICE

Voice of Witness

We All Rise

Welcoming America

Western Colorado Alliance

Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Women & Girls Foundation Southwest Pennsylvania

Women Donors Network & WDN Action

Women’s Foundation of Florida

Women’s Foundation of Minnesota

Youth Leadership Institute

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