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SUMMARY:2023 Roundtable Series: U.S. Department of State
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The AANHPI Roundtable Series provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to learn from public service leaders in our community in an intimate and conversational setting for one hour. Each roundtable features public service leaders from one organization and accommodates 25-30 attendees. This year\, CAPAL is launching a series of monthly Roundtable discussions. These events will be held on a virtual platform. Registration is FREE for all attendees. \nThis session will feature the U.S. Department of State with Timothy R. Johnson. \nThe U.S. Department of State protects and promotes U.S. security\, prosperity\, and democratic values and shapes an international environment in which all Americans can thrive. \nSpeakers\nTimothy R. Johnson | National Recruitment Officer \nTim Johnson is a Foreign Service officer who joined the Department of State mid-career after 14 years in the private sector as a Human Resources professional. He is currently assigned as a Recruitment Officer within the Recruitment Division of the Talent Acquisition Office. Tim’s overseas assignments include various management and consular positions in El Salvador\, Colombia\, Russia\, Iraq\, and Chad. Domestic assignments include positions with International Narcotics & Law Enforcement\, Overseas Buildings Operations\, European-International Organizations\, the Office of Foreign Missions\, and currently with Global Talent Management as a National Recruiter. \nTim earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he double majored in Criminal Justice and Political Science. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Duke University School of Law\, and a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from the University of South Carolina. Tim’s hobbies include international travel and collecting all matter of items related to travel. He was excited to join Global Talent Management as a National Recruiter since recruitment is one of his favorite HR functions. Tim enjoys meeting and greeting people and telling them about where he works. He looks forward to making a contribution towards securing the future of the Department of State. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/3LY4wgX|title:DOS%E2%80%99s%20Roundtable%20Meeting%20Registration%20Zoom%20||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2023-roundtable-series-u-s-department-of-state/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Roundtable Series: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The AANHPI Roundtable Series provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to learn from public service leaders in our community in an intimate and conversational setting for one hour. Each roundtable features public service leaders from one organization and accommodates 25-30 attendees. This year\, CAPAL is launching a series of monthly Roundtable discussions. These events will be held on a virtual platform. Registration is FREE for all attendees. \nThis session will feature the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative with Jamila Thompson\, Daniel Lee\, Jing Jing Zhang\, and Charita Castro\, PhD. \nThe Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is an agency of more than 200 committed professionals with decades of specialized experience in trade issues and regions of the world. \nWe negotiate directly with foreign governments to create trade agreements\, to resolve disputes\, and to participate in global trade policy organizations. We also meet with governments\, with business groups\, with legislators and with public interest groups to gather input on trade issues and to discuss the President’s trade policy positions. \nUSTR was created in 1962 and has offices in Washington\, Geneva\, and Brussels. \nSpeakers\nJamila Thompson | Senior Advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative \nJamila Thompson serves as senior advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative.  Ms. Thompson previously served as chief of staff to Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District\, and deputy chief of staff for U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA).  In addition to managing and developing the office’s policy team and operations\, she was directly responsible for appropriations\, budget\, trade\, tax\, foreign affairs\, human\, civil\, and voting rights\, oversight\, and other policy areas. Prior to joining Congressman Lewis’ office\, Ms. Thompson worked as a legislative assistant for Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA).  Before coming to Capitol Hill in 2001\, she was a volunteer coordinator and translator for various non-profit organizations. \nMs. Thompson also served on the Mayor’s Advisory Commission on Caribbean Community Affairs in Washington\, D.C. and is a senior fellow and mentor with Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership. In Spring 2015\, Goucher College named Ms. Thompson as one of the inaugural recipients of its Distinguished Alumnae and Alumni Award; Ms. Thompson also holds a Masters of Arts in Global Diplomacy from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). \n  \nDaniel Lee | Assistant U.S. Trade Representative \nDaniel Lee serves as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Innovation and Intellectual Property.  As head of the Office of Innovation and Intellectual Property in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)\, he oversees the development and implementation of U.S. trade policy\, including trade negotiations and\nother engagement with foreign countries\, related to intellectual property and innovation issues. \nLee previously served as a Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative and as a Director in the same office\, leading engagement on intellectual property and innovation issues with Africa\, Australia\, Canada\, Japan\, Mexico\, Southeast Asia\, and parts of Latin America.  In addition\, he served as Director for Japan Affairs at USTR and also worked at the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. \nLee is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. \n  \nJing Jing Zhang | Director of China Affairs \nJing Jing Zhang serves as Director of China Affairs at USTR\, which is the office responsible for the development of U.S. trade policy with the PRC\, Taiwan\, Hong Kong\, and Macau. With respect to the PRC portfolio\, Ms. Zhang oversees issues areas such as labor\, the social credit system\, and BRI activities in Africa and Latin\nAmerica. She co-manages the Taiwan portfolio with her colleague Tim Wineland. Additionally\, Ms. Zhang also covers all issues related to Hong Kong and Macau. Prior to joining USTR in 2018\, Ms. Zhang worked in the private sector for an international consultancy focused on government affairs strategy. \n  \n  \n  \nCharita L. Castro\, PhD | Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Labor Affairs \nCharita Castro\, PhD is currently a Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Labor Affairs where she oversees its global forced labor and human trafficking portfolio\, multilateral and regional fora concerning trade and labor (G7\, G20\, OECD\, ASEAN\, APEC\, ILO)\, and trade-related labor issues in East Asia\, including China. She has 20 years of federal government experience in senior policy\, research\, and management positions working collaboratively to deliver concrete results that improve the lives of workers and children\, especially those in or at-risk of child labor\, forced labor\, and human trafficking. \nPrior to USTR (2011 – 2018)\, Dr. Castro served as the inaugural Chief of Research and Policy for the Office of Child Labor\, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking at the U.S. Department of Labor\, managing a 25-person staff of civil servants; overseeing a $80 million portfolio of international projects; supervising the publication of the Department’s three Congressionally-mandated and Presidential Directive reports on child labor and forced labor; and leading the development of the U.S. government’s Sweat & Toil and ComplyChain smartphone apps\, the first-ever human rights focused mobile applications connecting the people and product components of supply chains for the federal government. \nDr. Castro began her federal career as a Presidential Management Fellow in 1999\, and also served at the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Health and Human Services. \nShe received her Doctor of Philosophy in public policy from the George Washington University; Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis; and Bachelor of Science in psychology from Tulane University.  From 2004 – 2005\, she was a Fulbright scholar to the Philippines researching occupational safety and the impact of hazardous work on child laborers in agriculture.  She is currently serving as one of 120 IF/THEN Women in STEM Ambassadors to promote the next generation of female scientists\, and a life-sized 3D statue of her was featured at the Smithsonian’s FUTURES exhibition to honor Women’s History Month in 2022. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/USTR-CAPAL22|title:Office%E2%80%99s%20of%20the%20U.S.%20Trade%20Representative%20CAPAL%20Roundtable%20Session||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-roundtable-series-office-of-the-u-s-trade-representative/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221020T130000
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SUMMARY:2022 Roundtable Series: U.S. Government Accountability Office
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The AANHPI Roundtable Series provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to learn from public service leaders in our community in an intimate and conversational setting for one hour. Each roundtable features public service leaders from one organization and accommodates 25-30 attendees. This year\, CAPAL is launching a series of monthly Roundtable discussions. These events will be held on a virtual platform. Registration is FREE for all attendees. \nThis session will feature the U.S. Government Accountability Office with Kris Nguyen and Karen Chen. \nGAO\, often called the “congressional watchdog\,” is an independent\, non-partisan agency that works for Congress. GAO examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal agencies with objective\, non-partisan\, fact-based information to help the government save money and work more efficiently. We support Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities\, and help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government. We provide Congress with timely information that is objective\, fact-based\, nonpartisan\, nonideological\, and balanced. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/GAO-CAPAL22|title:U.S.%E2%80%99s%20Government%20Accountability%20Office%20CAPAL%20CAPAL%20Roundtable%20Session||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \nSpeakers\n  \nKris Nguyen | Director \nKris Nguyen serves as a Director on the Education\, Workforce\, and Income Security (EWIS) team. During the executive candidate program\, Ms. Nguyen served as an Acting Director on the Strategic Issues (SI) team and led work on a range of topics\, including reviews of data on federal fees\, fines\, and penalties; demand for Treasury securities; and the Paperwork Reduction Act. Ms. Nguyen testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on regulatory and budget issues. She is leading an effort to enhance clarity of GAO writing and build competency around cause. Prior to being selected for the executive candidate program\, Ms. Nguyen served as an Assistant Director in EWIS and led work that examined access and affordability issues in higher education. Her work has resulted in over $31 billion in financial savings\, and improved services for student loan borrowers and military veterans receiving education benefits. In 2007 and 2008\, as a detailee to the Senate Committee on Health\, Education\, Labor\, and Pensions\, Ms. Nguyen worked on student loan issues. She has also contributed to several institutional stewardship activities including recruiting and hiring; fundraising for GAO’s Combined Federal Campaign; and strategic planning for EWIS. Ms. Nguyen received numerous distinctions during her GAO career including a Managing Director Award in 2005\, Meritorious Service Awards in 1994\, 2007\, and 2014\, and Results through Teamwork Awards in 2014 and 2019. She joined GAO in 1989 and spent several years working in the Philadelphia Field Office\, and rejoined the agency in 2002. Prior to rejoining GAO in 2002\, Ms. Nguyen served for a number of years as an auditor at the U.S. Department of Education. Ms. Nguyen graduated from Drexel University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. \n  \n  \nKaren Chen | Analyst and Co-Chair \nKaren is an Analyst in the Government Accountability Office’s Natural Resource and Environment team. She has worked on issues related to preparing and responding to the effects of climate change and federal support for outdoor recreation programs and water infrastructure. Karen has been involved with the Asian American Liaison Group for three years\, first as a Project Coordinator and now as the Co-Chair of Operations. Prior to working at GAO\, Karen was a Research Analyst at the World Resources Institute\, researching the effects of nonfederal climate policies. Karen holds a Masters of Public Administration degree from the University of Washington. Additionally\, Karen received her BA in Integrative Biology and minored in music at the University of California\, Berkeley. Outside of GAO\, Karen is a yoga instructor and enjoys running\, baking\, and reading. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-roundtable-series-u-s-government-accountability-office/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Roundtable Series: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The AANHPI Roundtable Series provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to learn from public service leaders in our community in an intimate and conversational setting for one hour. Each roundtable features public service leaders from one organization and accommodates 25-30 attendees. This year\, CAPAL is launching a series of monthly Roundtable discussions. These events will be held on a virtual platform. Registration is FREE for all attendees. \nThis session will feature the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) with Jasmine Suarez\, Dorothy Miranda\, Eric Cho\, and Anna Chen. \nAt the FDIC\, we work diligently to ensure financial safety for depositors across America. FDIC’s mission is to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system by: insuring deposits; examining and supervising financial institutions for safety and soundness and consumer protection; making large and complex financial institutions resolvable; and managing receiverships. Find out where you fit in at the FDIC – routinely ranked one of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/FDIC-CAPAL22|title:Federal%E2%80%99s%20Deposit%20Insurance%20Corporation%20CAPAL%20CAPAL%20Roundtable%20Session||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \nSpeakers\n  \nJasmine Suarez | IT Intern\, Divison of Information Technology \nJasmine A. Suarez is a graduate student at Colorado State University\, pursuing her Master of Science in IT Management with a specialization in Cybersecurity. She began her IT career as a CAT support specialist\, which blossomed into an opportunity to serve as a contractor with the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information Technology\, leading infrastructure modernization deployments for 90% of CONUS and OCONUS locations with a team of lead project managers\, solution delivery SMEs\, engineers\, and DevSecOps teams. Her current focus is contributing to application lifecycle support\, acquisitions\, and cloud migrations for mission-essential applications as a member of the Corporate Business Application Services Section (CBASS) at the FDIC. She is passionate about finding and sharing opportunities to support Agile transformation initiatives internal and external to the Federal government\, in addition to working hands-on to build better solutions for those she serves and the future of government. Her colorful background has equipped her with the insight and shared experiences essential to conducting broad research and strategic decision-making requisite to identifying and assessing opportunities to improve and develop technical infrastructure from a non- traditional lens. Her passion for IT continues outside of the Corporation as a mentor\, volunteer\, and advocate for DEIA in STEAM\, encouraging and building a community for underrepresented women and\ngirls aspiring to enter the public sector and IT field. \n  \n  \nDorothy Miranda | Special Assistant to the Deputy Director CIO for Management \nDorothy Miranda is currently participating in a one-year temporary assignment as the Special Assistant to the Deputy CIO for Management. In this role\, she attends key meetings\, conducts research and analysis of issues\, assists in evaluating and overseeing projects and initiatives\, and offers advice on issues and decisions. In her permanent role\, Dorothy serves as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Division of Insurance and Research. In this role\, she analyzes financial information pertaining to the banking industry and conducts projects in support of the Corporation’s effort to identify\, monitor\, and address existing and emerging aggregate risks to the Deposit Insurance Fund. \nPrior to this\, she served as a Systems Accountant in the NFE Servicing and Control Section since February 2020. In this role\, she managed and supported accounting and financial system development relative to PeopleSoft modules\, software updates\, and other applications. She also monitored new developments\, translated user needs into software requirements\, provided technical guidance\, and supported the implementation of new systems or changes/upgrades to existing systems. \nShe began her career in the FDIC in June 2015 as an Accountant in the Resolution Valuation and Analysis Section where her primary duties involved asset related analyses\, liquidation expense projections\, loss reserve estimations\, and quality assurance efforts. She has also completed several details as a Financial Analyst in the Data Collection and Analysis Section and the Financial Analysis Section with FDIC’s Division of Insurance and Research. Prior to her career at the FDIC\, Dorothy worked as a Senior Loan Consultant for five years. \nDorothy received her license as a Certified Public Accountant in 2016\, her Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 2015\, and her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences in 2010. \n  \nEric Cho | Deputy Director\, Division of Information Technology \nERIC CHO is the IT Acquisition Deputy Director in the FDIC Chief Information Officer Organization. Eric previously led the DHS Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL)\, an initiative aimed at experimenting with innovative techniques for increasing efficiencies in the procurement process (2015-2019). Eric’s former roles include acquisition policy counsel on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (2012–2015) and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (2008–2010)\, director of acquisition operations at GSA/FAS Integrated Technology Services (2011–2012). Before joining the government\, he was director of operations at an internet start-up in southern California that specialized in MP3 and streaming media. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the George Washington University Law School and a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars. \n  \n  \n  \nAnna Chen | Financial Institution Specialist\, Division of Risk Management \nAnna Chen joined the FDIC in 2019 as a Financial Management Scholar in the Orange County Field Office. She then completed her Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting and International Business and minor in Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2020\, she joined the San Francisco Field Office as a Financial Institution Specialist. She has served in a variety of key roles such as Operations Manager and participated in many examinations including at large and troubled institutions. She is passionate about sharing her experiences and giving back to the community as a mentor for college students who aspire to a career in the public sector with a finance focus. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-roundtable-series-federal-deposit-insurance-corporation/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Roundtable Series: Chemonics International
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The AANHPI Roundtable Series provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to learn from public service leaders in our community in an intimate and conversational setting for one hour. Each roundtable features public service leaders from one organization and accommodates 25-30 attendees. This year\, CAPAL is launching a series of monthly Roundtable discussions. These events will be held on a virtual platform. Registration is FREE for all attendees. \nThis session will feature Chemonics International with Mary Christenson\, Zohya Parmar\, and Hasna Rizwan. \nChemonics International is an international development consulting firm. For more than 40 years\, Chemonics has remained dedicated to helping people live healthier\, more productive\, and more independent lives. From our founding in 1975\, we have worked in more than 150 countries to help our clients\, partners and beneficiaries take on the world’s toughest challenges. Today\, we reimagine global supply chains to deliver essential medicines to the right place at the right time. We take a promising new way of powering a village in Kenya and adapt it to a village in Colombia. We embrace project management as a discipline\, not an afterthought\, so our clients get maximum impact for minimum risk. And we think big\, about applying lessons learned across all of our projects\, about bridging the gap between segregated technical fields and about forging partnerships that unite the world’s best minds to solve its toughest problems. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/Chemonics-CAPAL22|title:2022%E2%80%99s%20Roundtable%20Series%20Chemonics%20International||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \nSpeakers\n  \nMary Christenson joined Chemonics International in 2016 as an Operations and Project Management Associate in the Asia Region where she supported projects in Indonesia\, Pakistan\, and Vietnam. After working in Asia\, Mary moved to the Project Development Support Division as an Operations Manager. Currently\, Mary is a Talent Manager\, recruiting professionals for the US Government Business Line. Mary holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from George Washington University and a B.A. in Economics and English Literature from DePauw University. Between her degrees\, Mary spent two years in South Korea as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. Mary grew up as a third culture kid in various countries\, in a Korean and American household. During her free time\, Mary loves reading\, yoga\, plants\, music\, and the outdoors. \n  \n  \n  \nHasna Rizwan joined Chemonics International Inc. as a Cost Editor/Publications Associate in March of 2022. She comes from a multicultural background. Hasna is mixed Pakistani Filipina Salvadoran American. She graduated in 2021 with a Master’s in Emergency and Disaster Management from Georgetown University. Hasna completed her Bachelor’s in Global Leadership in Disaster Response from George Washington University in 2020. Currently\, she is pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Health and Society from Harvard. When Hasna is not working or studying\, she is an active community member. She has been a volunteer at numerous organizations\, including FAITH Social Services and INMED Partnerships for Children. Hasna is passionate about empowering\, mentoring\, and supporting underprivileged youth. Further\, Hasna is the Founder and Coordinator of Mamdouh\, a professional network in DC\, Maryland\, and Virginia. The network has rapidly grown to over 600 members. Hasna seeks to bridge generation gaps\, empower early-career professionals\, and foster community building through this initiative.\n \n  \n  \n  \nZohya Parmar is from Los Angeles\, California and pursued her BA at Boston University at the Pardee School of Global Studies for International Relations\, concentrating in ethnic violence and sustainable development in Asia and Africa. She has spent 3 and a half years working in adult literacy curriculum development and teaching for Spanish\, Arabic\, and Somali speakers. She has also spent some time working in the private sector\, briefly at a law firm\, Latham & Watkins and then shifted to Chemonics International Inc. as an archivist in the East and Southern Africa division. She was able to gain project\nlifecycle\, closeout\, and compliance skills\, before becoming a Senior Operations Associate for GHSC-PSM Health System Strengthening. After spending 1.5 years as a Senior Operations Associate\, she was able to become a Specialist on the Strategic Assessments Team conducting warehousing and distribution risk reviews and compliance/audit prep for the health sector. Ms. Parmar has a background in education and health in development. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-roundtable-series-chemonics-international/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Washington Leadership Program Session VI: Grassroots Activism & AANHPI Identity
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on local movements and initiatives from the AANHPI community to create change and directly impact communities across the U.S. Topics of discussion include identity-building\, community outreach\, and empowering oneself to take the first steps to make an impact. Attendees will learn about the tools in which to initiate calls to action\, tap into networks\, and leverage one’s personal passions and experiences as a means to uplift those around them. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2022-WLP6|title:2022%E2%80%99s%20WLP%20#6||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \nModerator\nJoon I. Kim  \nJoon I. Kim serves as Associate Vice President of External Affairs for Comcast Corporation. In this role he is responsible for strategic partnerships with Asian Pacific Islander American community groups and left of center national policy advocacy organizations. Joon works with these organizations to develop and advance their engagement with programs such as Internet Essentials\, Comcast RISE\, and digital equity. His expertise lies in mentorship\, organizational development\, designing and implementing culturally competent programs that combine targeted outreach and coalition building with digital and grassroots organizing. Prior to joining Comcast in 2021\, he spent 21-years working political advocacy advising center left political parties\, advocacy campaigns\, labor unions and corporations in Australia\, New Zealand\, Europe and the U.S. \n  \nPanelists\nJasmine Stoughton  \nJasmine Stoughton is the Program Manager of PPI’s Mosaic Economic Project\, which brings together a network of diverse women who are experts in economics and technology – fields where women’s perspectives are grossly underrepresented. Prior to joining PPI\, Jasmine was the Program Director at The Welman Project\, a small nonprofit organization in Fort Worth\, TX. Jasmine has served as a senior staffer on multiple statewide and local campaigns\, and she worked in the office of State Representative Shawn Thierry during Texas’ 85th Legislative and Special Sessions. Jasmine holds a BA in Political Science from St. Edward’s University in Austin\, TX. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJames Chan \nJames Chan currently serves as the national API Civic Engagement Director at SEIU (Service Employees International Union)\, an organization of 2-million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society. He most recently served as the Florida State Director at SiX (State Innovation Exchange)\, where he supported the work of progressive state legislators in messaging and pushing forward progressive policies with grassroots partners. He has worked at the Florida 501c3 Civic Engagement Table\, for former Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink at the Florida Next Foundation\, as well as Target Corporation’s government affairs team. James is an alumnus of Leadership Florida as well as New Leaders Council. In 2019\, former U.S. Senator and Florida Governor Bob Graham presented James with the Young Floridian of the Year award. James has been named a Rising Star in Florida Politics by INFLUENCE Magazine. He has also been trained through the APAICS National Leadership Academy to run for public office\, as well as the Victory Institute Empowerment Fellowship. James earned his MPP from the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and his BA in Political Science and Business Administration from the University of Florida. \nMohan Seshadri  \nMohan Seshadri is the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance. He is also currently serving as the co-chair of the Asian American Power Network. Previously\, Mohan managed electoral and organizing programs for Planned Parenthood across Central and Eastern Pennsylvania. From 2019-2020\, they served as the Executive Director of the Governor’s Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs. He co-founded multiple community organizing programs across Pennsylvania including the Philadelphia chapter of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance\, the Lehigh Valley chapter of DSA\, and the AAPI PA Power Caucus. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEric Jeng  \nIn the last 4 years – Eric spearheaded community outreach and advocacy programs in Nevada focusing on educating\, connecting\, and empowering the Asian and Pacific Islander community. Previously\, Eric was an executive assistant for a Washington\, DC-based private equity firm. Eric also worked as the national travel coordinator for a presidential campaign from 2015-2016 and on grassroots organizing effort for a national PAC since 2013. Eric got his start as an advocacy intern for the Taiwanese Americans Citizens League and as a research fellow at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Eric later joined the Small Business Administration (SBA) to work on President Obama’s key policies such as small business innovation and entrepreneurship in underserved communities. Eric attended National Taiwan University and graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (Go Badgers!). \n  \n  \n  \nNadia Belkin \nNadia Nisha Belkin is the founding Executive Director of the Asian American Power Network. She comes to this role with vast experience in the progressive political and infrastructure building spaces both nationally and at the state level. Prior to this role\, Nadia served not only as the National Deputy Field Director but as the Colorado State Director at America Votes. As the first woman of color to hold both positions\, she facilitated the development of electoral plans and long-term power building in the progressive issue advocacy arena. Nadia grew up in Colorado and has invested in local and statewide civic engagement through her work on grassroots and hard side campaigns. As an Indian American Muslim woman\, Nadia has worked to elevate the voices and profiles of people of color. In 2020\, she was named in The National Association of Asian Pacifics in Politics and Public Affairs “40 Under 40” list for her work and commitment to building out AAPI voter engagement in key battleground states. She remains professionally focused on producing innovative and strategic ideas which will cultivate relationships within the progressive community across multiple audiences. \n  \nPeter Lee Hamilton \nPeter Lee Hamilton is the founder and chair of Young Asian Pacific American Leaders (YAPAL)\, a national civic-engagement organization for Asian Pacific Americans. He is also the founder and lead organizer of the National Korean Student Alliance (NKSA) and the Korean Association Presidents’ Summit (KAPS)\, a community organization for Presidents of collegiate Korean Student Associations and Organizations around the country. He is currently completing his JD/MBA at the University of Virginia and received his Bachelors of Arts in Government from Georgetown University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-washington-leadership-program-session-vi-grassroots-activism-aanhpi-identity/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Washington Leadership Program Session V: Educational Equity: Where do we stand?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on educational disparities within the AANHPI community as well as the experiences of AANHPIs within the education system. Topics include the integration of AAPI history into school curriculum\, affirmative action\, the model minority myth\, as well as access to educational resources. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2022-WLP5|title:2022%E2%80%99s%20WLP%20#5||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nOpening Remarks\nShital C. Shah \nShital C. Shah serves as the Senior Advisor on Strategic Partnerships at the US Department of Education. Prior to joining the Office of the Secretary at the US Department of Education as Director of Strategic Partnerships\, Shital was the Director of Philanthropic Engagement at the American Federation of Teachers and also served on the 2020 Biden-Harris Transition Team for the US Department of Education. While at the AFT\, she cultivated and strengthened relationships with philanthropic and education industry partners to garner support for improving children’s well-being\, creating powerful learning\, building teacher capacity\, and fostering school and community collaboration. She has spent over a decade working in the field of community schools policy and practice\, providing strategic support and guidance to state and local affiliates related to policy\, advocacy and school and district implementation of approaches to the community school strategy and extended learning time.  During her time with the national Coalition for Community Schools\, as the Manager of Policy & Partnerships\, she lead partnership development as well as federal and state policy coordination. \n  \nModerator\nRebecca Lee \nRebecca Lee is Deputy Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans\, Native Hawaiians\, and Pacific Islanders. Rebecca was previously Communications Director for the Initiative under the Obama Administration. Prior to returning to the Initiative\, Rebecca was a small business owner consulting for AA and NHPI organizations. Rebecca has held public affairs roles at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was a 2012 Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) under the federal government’s premier leadership development program. Rebecca received her Master of Public Health from Columbia University and bachelor’s degree in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University\, where she led a diverse coalition to found the Asian & Asian American Center. She served as Chair of CAPAL in 2013 and is co-founder of anti-bullying nonprofit Act To Change. \n  \n  \n\nPanelists \n \nDr. Victor C. Thompson \nDr. Thompson was born in Long Beach\, California\, son of Victor and Desma Thompson of American Samoa. He is the Retired Director of the Division of Student Support Services for the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE)\, and has 36 years of experience in education. He is a former high school Spanish Teacher\, and Principal. He is the Executive Director of the National Pacific Islander Education Network. He enjoys running\, surfing\, and playing the ukulele. He is married to the former Marie Gilpin of Greentown\, Pennsylvania and they have four children\, Ele\, Ema\, Andrew\, and Amelia Hope. All the members of his family have earned college degrees. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBenetick Kabua Maddison \nBenetick Kabua Maddison is the Assistant Director and Project Specialist for Youth\, Climate\, and Nuclear Issues at the Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI)\, a nonprofit based in Springdale that serves the Marshallese community\, raises awareness of Marshallese culture\, and facilitates intercultural dialogue to foster positive social change. Benetick has years of experience working with his peers and the public to promote educational attainment and educate about Marshallese traditional culture and history and issues affecting his people and homeland. Born in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aelōñ Kein Ad)\, a low-lying island nation in the North\, Central Pacific\, Benetick moved with his family to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas in 2001. He is a graduate of Springdale High School (International Baccalaureate) and a student at NorthWest Arkansas Community College. \n  \n  \n  \nSolomon Chen \nSolomon Chen is the educational policy research associate for the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. As someone who was home-schooled throughout K-12\, Solomon describes himself as a product of school choice and hopes all families enjoy the best educational opportunities for their students. Solomon is a former Falls Church Anglican Fellow and previously worked with the civic education program at the Philanthropy Roundtable as well as Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute. Solomon holds a degree in political science from Biola University and was a member of Biola’s Torrey Honors Institute. \n  \n  \nDr. Kani Ilangovan \nDr. Kani Ilangovan (she/her) is the founder and a board member of Make Us Visible NJ. She is also a child\, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and mother. As a psychiatrist\, she sees the lifelong impact of racial trauma and the physical and mental toll on children and our communities. She is so thankful to the NJ legislature and Governor Murphy for signing the AAPI Curriculum Bill into law and establishing the DOE Commission on Asian American Heritage. Thousands of people collaborated to get the AAPI Curriculum bill and DOE Commission on Asian American Heritage passed. It was a massive mobilization effort and she is so grateful to the 60+ allied organizations who advocated for this cause. \n  \n  \n  \nRoby Chatterji \nRoby Chatterji is an Associate Director for K-12 Education at the Center for American Progress. He previously worked at Whiteboard Advisors; Washington Partners; and as an education policy fellow for the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor\, where he worked on school infrastructure and teacher preparation policies. He also interned at the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Federal Communications Commission on issues of broadband equity and digital learning\, and started his career in education policy as a 5th grade teacher in Phoenix\, Arizona. Roby received his bachelor’s degree in political science and history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain scholar\, a master’s degree in elementary education from Arizona State University\, and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-washington-leadership-program-session-v-educational-equity-where-do-we-stand/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Washington Leadership Program Session IV: Public Health & COVID-19: Our Stories
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will discuss the current state of public health\, with a focus on the effects of COVID-19\, within the AANHPI community. Topics of discussion include disparities in access to healthcare\, variety of experiences and responses from the AANHPI community with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic\, and AANHPI data disaggregation in regards to public health. Key takeaways of the discussion will allow attendees to gain a broader understanding of how issues within public health\, especially pertaining to COVID-19\, wield disproportionate and varying effects within the AANHPI community. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2022-WLP4|title:2022%E2%80%99s%20WLP%20#4||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nModerator\nDr. Erwin Tan \nErwin J. Tan MD is a board certified internist and geriatrician and the AARP Director of Thought Leadership- Health. Erwin previously served as the director of Senior Corps at the Corporation for National and Community Service. From 2004 to 2010\, he served as an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was an attending physician in the Division of Geriatric Medicine. He was also a co-investigator in the Baltimore Experience Corps Study. From 2003-2004\, Erwin was a White House Fellow serving as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Before coming to the Washington\, D.C. Metropolitan area\, Erwin was a faculty member at the University of California\, San Francisco School of Medicine\, where he served as Geriatric Medicine Fellow and a Primary Care Medicine Resident. Erwin was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves. He received a bachelor’s from Brown University and graduated from New York University School of Medicine as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. Erwin was born in Indonesia and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. \n  \nPanelists\nBarbara Wei \nBarbara Wei is an entrepreneur\, academic and public health professional. After spending 10 years as a corporate consultant\, she returned to school to earn her MPH at Harvard and found Aime (pronounced I-Me)\, a social enterprise dedicated to improving the success of Asian-American youth through social-emotional education. In addition\, she works on academic research related to Asian American leadership and health and homelessness with professors at Harvard and the University of Chicago. She is a CAPAL alumna and calls Montgomery County\, Maryland her hometown\, even though she lives in Chicago now. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLeafa Taumopeau  \nLeafa Taumoepeau is a San Mateo County Retiree from Behavioral Health and Recovery Services. She is Executive Director of a community base organization known as Taulama for Tongans\, located in San Mateo. Leafa works with the Tongan Community as well as other Pacific Islanders in San Mateo County and neighboring counties. Their mission is to outreach\, educate and connect the diaspora to appropriate help\, by using expertise in culture and language. \n  \n  \n  \nJackie Leung  \nJackie Leung\, JD\, MS\, is the Executive Director of the statewide nonprofit\, the Micronesian Islander Community (MIC) and is an Assistant Professor at Linfield University. Jackie’s background is in public health advocacy\, policy\, and research. Her work includes working in perinatal healthcare\, Medicaid\, early childhood education\, healthcare access\, chronic diseases\, COVID-19 wrap around services\, and leadership pathways for community health workers. As a public health professional\, Jackie is aware of the time requirements and stress associated with pursuing a degree in higher education. She serves in several leadership positions including serving as a Salem City Councilor\, co-chair of the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs\, and a traditional health worker representative on the Oregon Maternal Mortality & Morbidity Committee. In her free time\, Jackie enjoys spending time with her family and long scenic drives along the coast and through the agricultural landscapes that make Oregon the beauty it is today. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nVivian Huang  \nDr. Vivian Huang a dual board-certified physician and medical epidemiologist\, trained in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Public Health. Dr. Huang has extensive experience working in global health\, with assignments to war affected Syria (primary care) and Swaziland (MDR-TB/HIV) with Doctors without Borders and Sierra Leone (Ebola response) with Partners In Health. She has also worked with the Marshall Islands government to eliminate tuberculosis and leprosy there in 2019. In addition\, she has worked extensively with the NYC Health Department on the COVID-19 response and led COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. She is one of three public health leaders that established NYC’s COVID-19 contract tracing program in June 2020. Dr. Huang directed all adult immunization activities for the NYC Department of Health from 2016-2017. She supported Indian Health Service in the early stages of COVID-19 emergency response & preparedness and was the Chief of Diabetes with the Navajo Area Indian Health Service from 2017-2020. She has also served as the Hepatitis B Director at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in NYC from 2013-2015\, receiving several awards for her work in hepatitis B and community health. She currently serves as the Regional Medical Director with Dynavax Technologies\, which manufactures Heplisav\, the only adult 2-dose\, 1 month hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Huang’s life-long passion is working with vulnerable\, at-risk populations and has strong interests in Asian American & Indigenous health inequities including diabetes\, hepatitis B\, tuberculosis and immunizations. As the APIC policy director\, she is passionate about elevating the Asian American voice in the realm of public health and strongly believes that being invisible is also a form of discrimination/racism and determined to dismantle this barrier. \nDr. Huang is a New Yorker at heart and now lives in Phoenix\, Arizona. In her spare time\, she enjoys the great outdoors\, including horseback riding\, hiking\, camping\, scuba diving\, skiing\, running\, yoga\, star gazing and viewing as many sunsets & sunrises as she can manage. She loves participating in fundraising races (anything from 5Ks to half marathons). She is also a passionate beginner bird watcher & ukuleleist.  \n  \nVincent Tam \nVincent Tam worked in NYC during the COVID-19 pandemic in city-run vaccination sites throughout the city\, primarily in Manhattan Chinatown. Employed in a variety of roles from translator\, outreach\, site lead\, etc. he is still at the forefront of working with the Asian community in combating the pandemic. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-washington-leadership-program-session-iv-public-health-covid-19-our-stories/
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SUMMARY:2022 Washington Leadership Program Session III: No Longer Your Sidekick: AANHPI Advocacy & Representation in the Media
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will address representation from the AANHPI community in the media\, as well as how activists and artists are using emerging media platforms as a means to spread awareness and create change. Topics of discussion include AANHPI narrative-building and storytelling in the media\, disparities within representation\, and avenues in which to advocate for one’s community. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2022-WLP3|title:2022%E2%80%99s%20WLP%20#3||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nModerator\nNeil Decenteceo \nThe proud son of Filipino immigrants\, Neil Decenteceo was born in New York City but raised in South Florida. He was a CAPAL Public Service Intern in 2017\, when he had his first public service experience working with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. Today\, he is a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State and will be serving at his first post in Sydney\, Australia\, later this year. Neil previously served on the speechwriting team for Administrator Samantha Power at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He was also a Communications Specialist in the USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security\, where he helped to tell the story of Feed the Future\, the U.S. Government’s initiative to end global hunger and poverty. Neil earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in political science at the University of Florida. \n  \n  \n  \nPanelists\nCurtis Chin \nA graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Michigan\, Curtis Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, National Endowment for the Arts and more. Chin has screened his films\, Vincent Who? and Tested\, with over 600 entities in sixteen countries including the White House\, Amnesty International\, and the Government of Norway. A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, his memoir\, “Everything I Learned\, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” will be published by Little\, Brown in Fall 2023. He can be found at CurtisFromDetroit.com. @curtischin \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTrisha Gray \nTrisha was born in Honolulu\, Hawaii with dreams of working in the entertainment industry! After attending Kamehameha Schools\, Trisha attended Chapman University and then began a magical career at The Walt Disney Company\, where she helped to manage the Disney Junior Educational Resource Group. It was in the preschool-friendly division of Disney Channels where Trisha championed social-emotional learning themes and diversity in children’s programming\, and helped bring many culturally inclusive storylines to life. Trisha also helped to champion diversity through tech while at Netflix\, as a Content Analyst for Kids and Family Content. It was becoming apparent that the tech wasn’t reflective of all of the new diverse content available to consumers\, so Trisha’s team in Editorial Creative worked to create more diverse collections on the Netflix homepages. Trisha is currently back at Disney Junior as a creative executive overseeing popular shows such as Mickey Mouse Funhouse and Rise Up Sing Out. \n  \n  \nMelissa Bisagni  \nMelissa Bisagni is a film curator\, consultant and festival programmer specializing in Indigenous and Asian American film. She is currently the Festival Director for the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival. Melissa is also a member of the Four Quarters Collective along with Nzingha Kendall\, Joanna Raczynska and KJ Mohr and a contributing partner in the Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival Organizers Collaborative. She served for 15 years as the Film and Video Program Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian\, where she continues to work in Museum Learning and Programs. Melissa’s other passion\, education equity\, has given her the opportunity to work with other parents and community leaders advocating for children in the DC public school system through district-wide Head Start\, Kindred Communities and DC PAVE. \n  \n  \n  \nFrank Chi  \nFrom helping create the “Notorious RBG” phenomenon to his social justice short films which have gained over 50 million views on social media\, Frank’s work helps lead narratives around justice and inclusion in American life. His latest film\, the documentary short “38 at the Garden” about Jeremy Lin’s 2012 “Linsanity” run\, will premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in June. Frank began his career in politics and collaborated with partners like Senator Elizabeth Warren\, MoveOn\, Indivisible\, and Planned Parenthood to create some of the most impactul and creative content to come from progressive politics. He has been profiled in Communications Arts and NBC News\, and has written for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. A native of New Haven\, CT\, Frank graduated from Bowdoin College. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \n  \n  \n  \nAmrita Kular \nAmrita Kular works directly on social strategy\, content marketing and media relations. Prior to joining SALDEF\, Amrita pursued a career in marketing for a variety of fields including cosmetic dermatology and undergraduate admissions. She has always had a passion for storytelling and building communities on social media platforms. \nAmrita graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of California\, Riverside. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-washington-leadership-program-session-iii-no-longer-your-sidekick-aanhpi-advocacy-representation-in-the-media/
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SUMMARY:2022 Washington Leadership Program Session II: Breaking Barriers: AANHPI Leaders in Public Service
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on identity-building and navigating the workplace as an AANHPI\, particularly within the public sector. Topics of discussion include overcoming challenges related to representation\, microaggressions\, stereotypes\, and how to effectively advocate for oneself. Key takeaways include insight into leadership-building skills\, self-empowerment\, and professional development. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2022-WLP2|title:2022%E2%80%99s%20WLP%20#2||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nOpening Remarks\nRohini Kosoglu  \nRohini Kosoglu currently serves as Senior Advisor to Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on the Biden-Harris Transition Team and previously served as Senior Advisor on the Biden-Harris Campaign. Before that\, she was a Spring 2020 resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Kosoglu has a dedicated career in public service and was the first South Asian American woman to serve as Chief of Staff in the United States Senate. She served as Vice-President Elect Harris’ Chief of Staff for her Senate office and later for her presidential campaign. Before that\, she was Policy Director for U.S. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado\, where she oversaw economic\, health care and budget issues. She has negotiated several bipartisan bills into law and served as a senior health care advisor during the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act. She also previously served as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. Originally from New Jersey\, Kosoglu is a graduate of the University of Michigan and George Washington University and is a mother to three young children. \n  \n\nModerator\nKazouapa Lee  \nKaozouapa “Liz” Lee is a proud Hmong daughter of St. Paul’s Eastside. She has spent the last decade advocating  for issues like health equity\, bridging the economic achievement gap\, increasing affordable housing\, and re-investing in public transit. Kaozouapa works to bridge the gap between people and policies. She formerly served on CAPAL’s Board of Directors in 2016. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPanelists\nNeriel David Ponce  \nNeriel is an anti-racism facilitator\, project & operations specialist\, and current Senior Manager with ProInspire. He brings with him over a decade of working with social impact organizations serving youth leaders\, grassroots organizers\, the im/migrant rights movement\, and racial justice. In 2013 he co-founded RAISE\, a pan-Asian undocumented youth-led collective\, leading workshops\, speaking on panels\, and coordinating covenings with other national undocumented\, immigrant\, youth-led organizations. Neriel’s facilitation experience encompasses political education and activism workshops with Chinatown Youth Initiatives (CYI) Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)\, co-directing the annual Immigrant Youth Empowerment Conference (IYECon)\, and managing operations and training educators with the Center for Racial Justice in Education. His immigration story has also been highlighted in The Huffington Post\, The Daily News\, NBC News Asian America\, The Progressive\, and the award-winning documentary: Why We Rise\, recipient of the 2014 Loni Ding Award for Social Justice at the CAAMFest Film Festival. Neriel earned his BA from CUNY Hunter College\, studying cultural anthropology and Asian American studies. In his free time he loves to explore new cities\, hike our national parks\, practice yoga\, drink coffee\, and edit food pictures. Neriel is committed to creating a world where we are rooted in community and each other\, and can all live a life honoring our full humanity. \n  \nJohn C. Yang \nJohn C. Yang is the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC in Washington\, D.C.\, where he leads the organization’s mission to advance the civil and human rights of Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all through policy advocacy\, education\, and litigation. He has served in leadership positions for the American Bar Association\, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association\, and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans\, among many others. Prior to Advancing Justice | AAJC\, John had served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration\, the Asia-Pacific Legal Director of a Fortune 200 company\, and as a partner at a large D.C.-based law firm. He also serves on the diversity council for several Fortune 500 U.S. companies. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEugena Oh  \n\nEugena Oh is the President & CEO of the “I Have A Dream” Foundation\, and is responsible for leading the national movement to empower all youth to achieve their dreams through education and mentoring. She believes deeply in racial equity and is excited to be working with the passionate team\, volunteer leaders\, and Dreamers\, to create positive social change. \nAs the child of Korean immigrants who were first-generation college graduates\, and a first-generation American college graduate herself\, Oh understands that education – and in particular higher education – is key to achieving ones professional and personal dreams. \nSince joining “I Have A Dream” in 2011\, Oh has served in several roles including Chief Operating Officer\, Interim President & CEO\, Chief Governance Officer\, Legal Counsel\, and Director of Talent\, Administration\, and Special Projects. Prior to joining “I Have A Dream”\, Oh practiced commercial and products liability law\, and served in development\, strategy\, and operations roles within several non-profit organizations\, including Teach For America – New York City\, Rock The Vote\, and Washington State Court Appointed Special Advocates. \nOh’s personal honors include receiving the “Trailblazer” award from the Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater NY (2019)\, being named to New York Non-Profit Media’s inaugural class of 40 Under 40 Rising Stars (2015)\, and receiving the University of Pennsylvania’s Asian Alumni Association’s Outstanding Alumna Award (2008). She was born\, raised\, and currently resides in NY with her partner and young children. \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-washington-leadership-program-session-ii-breaking-barriers-aanhpi-leaders-in-public-service/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Washington Leadership Program Session I: The AANHPI Diaspora: Immigration & Intergenerational Experiences
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on the phenomenon of the AANHPI diaspora within the U.S. Topics will include effects of immigration\, intergenerational trauma\, and how our identity is shaped and informed by these experiences. Key takeaways of the discussion will allow for participants to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the myriad of intergenerational experiences within the AANHPI community\, and avenues in which to leverage one’s identity as a tool of empowerment. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2022-WLP1|title:2022%E2%80%99s%20WLP%20#1||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \nOpening Remarks\nKrystal Ka’ai \nKrystal Ka‘ai is the Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans\, Native Hawaiians\, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) and the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans\, Native Hawaiians\, and Pacific Islanders. In this role\, she is responsible for advising the Biden administration on the coordination and implementation of federal programs and initiatives to advance equity\, justice\, and opportunity for Asian American\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities. Prior to joining WHIAANHPI\, Krystal worked on Capitol Hill for over a decade\, including serving as the Executive Director of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) for eight years. She previously held positions with the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs\, the State of Hawai‘i\, Office of Hawaiian Affairs\, and the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation. Krystal was born and raised in Hawai‘i and is the first Native Hawaiian to ever lead WHIAANHPI. \n\nRepresentative Judy Chu  \nJudy Chu was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2009.  She represents the 27th Congressional District\, which includes Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley of southern California. Rep. Chu currently serves on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and also serves on the House Small Business Committee. In 2009\, she became the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress in history.  \n\n\n\n\nModerator\nShyam R. Gadwal \nShyam R. Gadwal is the Vice-President of Programs at Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholars. APIA Scholars is the nation’s largest non-profit organization devoted to creating opportunities that provide access to higher education and professional success of Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) students. Shyam comes to APIA Scholars having spent almost a decade at Teach For America (TFA) on teams leading teacher training and enterprise initiatives. He served on TFA National’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Advisory Committee supporting the leadership development of AANHPI staff and teachers. He has consulted and coached leaders around the world at organizations such as Teach For India\, Urban Teachers\, and Imaginable Futures. In his free time\, he enjoys practicing various types of yoga and riding his motorcycle with his childhood best friend. \n\n\n\n\nPanelists\nDale Asis \nDale Asis has dedicated over 25 years to social justice\, philanthropy\, and environmental issues. Currently\, he is the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)\, a US nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental justice. Dale also is the founder and President of the Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide\, a US-registered public charity dedicated to promoting Filipino diaspora philanthropy worldwide. He also co-founded two coalitions: The Coalition of African\, Arab\, Asian\, European\, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII) and the United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations (United Congress). He earned his Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences (MAPSS) degree at the University of Chicago and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also an adjunct professor at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills\, IL. \n  \n  \n  \nVanessa Tufaga \nTalofa lava and Malo lelei! Vanessa Tufaga (she/her/hers) received her B.A. in Political Science and International Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is honored to say she is a 2021 CAPAL S&I Alumni\, who completed an internship with Peace Corps’ Strategic Partnerships & Intergovernmental Affairs office and did her Community Action Project with Papa Ola Lokahi. She helped co-create Nesian Lounge and recently received certifications in Community Organizing\, Liberation Theory & Praxis\, Cultural Competency and Health Justice from Pacific Islander Community Association Washington (PICA-WA)’s Oceania Leadership Institute (OLI). Currently she holds the position of a Co-Treasurer and Board Member for the Pacific Community of Alaska (PCA) and a Member of the Data & Research Committee for the National Association of Pasifika Organization (NAOPO). Outside of community work\, she loves hanging with her family\, indulging in Tiktok and cycling on her off time. \n  \nDr. Jesi Lujan Bennett \nDr. Jesi Lujan Bennett is of Chamoru descent with familial ties to Dededo and Barrigada\, Guåhan (Guam). She is a faculty member in Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Bennett studied at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and earned a PhD in American Studies and Museum Studies. Her areas of interest include Chamoru visual culture with a particular focus in the relationship between colonialism\, militarization\, migration\, and self-representation within the Mariana Islands and the Chamoru diaspora. Bennett’s research examines the outmigration of Chamorus and the way in which these diasporic communities articulate their indigeneity in new geographic and cultural contexts in light of significant political and social change in Micronesia. \nLi Zhou \nLi Zhou is a politics reporter at Vox focusing on Congress and the rise of Asian American political power. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-washington-leadership-program-session-i-the-aanhpi-diaspora-immigration-intergenerational-experiences/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Roundtable Series: U.S. Department of State
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The AANHPI Roundtable Series provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to learn from public service leaders in our community in an intimate and conversational setting for one hour. Each roundtable features public service leaders from one organization and accommodates 25-30 attendees. This year\, CAPAL is launching a series of monthly Roundtable discussions. These events will be held on a virtual platform. Registration is FREE for all attendees. \nThis session will feature the U.S. Department of State with Timothy R. Johnson. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Today” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3uCoSCv|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Roundtable%20U.S.%20Department%20Of%20State%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\n \nTim Johnson is a Foreign Service officer who joined the Department of State mid-career after 14 years in the private sector as an HR professional.  His overseas assignments include various consular and management positions in San Salvador\, Bogota\, Moscow\, Baghdad\, and N’Djamena.  Domestic assignments include positions with International Narcotics & Law Enforcement\, Overseas Buildings Operations\, European-International Affairs\, the Office of Foreign Missions\, and Global Talent Management.  \nTim earned his Bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he double majored in Criminal Justice and Political Science.  He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Duke University School of Law\, and a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from the University of South Carolina.  His hobbies include international travel and collecting all matter of things related to travel. \nTim was excited to join Global Talent Management as a Recruiter since recruitment is one of his favorite HR functions.  He enjoys meeting and greeting people and telling them about where he works\, and looks forward to making a contribution towards securing the future of the Department of State. \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-roundtable-series-u-s-department-of-state/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2022 Roundtable Series: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The AANHPI Roundtable Series provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to learn from public service leaders in our community in an intimate and conversational setting for one hour. Each roundtable features public service leaders from one organization and accommodates 25-30 attendees. This year\, CAPAL is launching a series of monthly Roundtable discussions. These events will be held on a virtual platform. Registration is FREE for all attendees. \nThis session will feature the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency with Patrick Yuen\, PhD. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Today” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3uj0tTC|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Roundtable%20National%20Geospatial-Intelligence%20Agency%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nPatrick Yuen received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Master’s and\nDoctoral degrees from the University of Arizona. His major is electrical engineering with technical focus\non image processing and remote sensing. After graduation he worked for several commercial satellite\nimagery companies. He has now been working at National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for five\nyears as an imagery scientist and a course manager at the NGA College. His other previous roles at NGA\nincluded acting as the co-lead of the outreach working group in the Asian Pacific American Council\n(APAC). He is now also an NGA ambassador to assist recruiters in outreach programs. \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2022-roundtable-series-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2021 Washington Leadership Program Session VII: Our Voice\, Our Power: AANHPI Cross-Community Alignment
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will address topics surrounding where the AANHPI community aligns itself in terms of providing solidarity and building cross-community connections outside the AANHPI realm. Key topics will include AANHPI involvement and perspective of recent social movements and events\, repercussions of the complexity of the AANHPI community and how that translates to cross-community alignment\, and ways in which to move forward and build productive dialogue and bridges. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2021-WLP7|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Washington%20Leadership%20Program%20Series%20Session%20VII-%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nDylan Rodríguez is a teacher\, writer\, and scholarly activist. He was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and served as President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021).  He has worked as a Professor at the University of California\, Riverside since 2001\, and was the faculty-elected Chair of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate (2016-2020). Prior to his Senate leadership\, he was the Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies (2009-2016). \nDylan’s work addresses the normalized proliferation of oppressive violence in everyday state\, cultural\, and social formations.  He conceptualizes abolitionist and other forms of movement as part of the historical\, collective genius of rebellion\, survival\, and radical futurity.  \nHe is the author of three books\, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press\, 2021)\, and is co-editor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press\, 2016).  Follow Dylan at Twitter (@dylanrodriguez)\, Instagram (dylanrodriguez73)\, and Facebook (www.facebook.com/dylanrodriguez73) \n  \nChhaya Chhoum co-founded Mekong NYC\, a community-based organization in the Bronx empowering the Cambodian and Vietnamese community through arts\, culture\, community organizing\, and advocacy. She is currently the Executive Director of Mekong NYC. Follow Chhaya at mekongnyc_@instagram\, facebook.com/MekongNYC @mekongnyc \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSky Wildcat\, Cherokee and Muscogee\, comes from Tahlequah\, OK. Sky is a graduate of Northeastern State University with a B.A. in geography and psychology and a M.S. in higher education. She is currently a student in the higher education PhD. program at the University of Arkansas. She is a former Remember the Removal bike rider and UNITY Earth Ambassador and 25 under 25 recipient. Sky dedicates her work to the Indigenous peoples of this land and currently works as a project coordinator for the University of Missouri and works on several projects\, including developing and administering an Indigenous Health Toolkit training for health providers to better treat Indigenous patients and assists in conducting research.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAmalia Chamorro leads education policy for UnidosUS (formerly National Council of La Raza)\, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization. Her work encompasses early childhood education\, K-12\, and higher education. In this role\, Amalia provides strategic direction and manages activities for the education policy team. Her work focuses on closing opportunity gaps and advancing equity for Latino students and English learners at both the federal and state levels (priority states include Arizona\, California\, Florida\, and Texas).  \nAt UnidosUS\, Ms. Chamorro is responsible for identifying promising education policy innovations\, conducting and publishing policy research\, and carrying out legislative advocacy. Amalia brings over 15 years of public policy and advocacy experience at the local\, state and federal levels. Prior to joining UnidosUS in 2018\, Amalia was Vice President of Public Policy at United Way Bay Area\, where she launched the organization’s policy and advocacy initiative to cut poverty. \nMs. Chamorro holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College and a bachelor’s degree in political science/international relations from UCLA. She serves on the board of Hispanic Lobbyists Association and is co-chair of the Hispanic Education Coalition.  Follow Amalia at @AmaliaChamorro @WeAreUnidosUS \n  \nPeniel Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD). His career focus has been on “Black Power Studies\,” which encompasses interdisciplinary fields such as Africana studies\, law and society\, women’s and ethnic studies\, and political science. \nPrior to joining the UT faculty\, Dr. Joseph was a professor at Tufts University\, where he founded the school’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy to promote engaged research and scholarship focused on the ways issues of race and democracy affect people’s lives. \nIn addition to being a frequent commentator on issues of race\, democracy and civil rights\, Dr. Joseph’s most recent book is The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. He also wrote the award-winning books Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days\, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. His book Stokely: A Life has been called the definitive biography of Stokely Carmichael\, the man who popularized the phrase “black power.” Included among Joseph’s other book credits is the editing of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era and Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level. (UTexas.edu) \nModerator\nAerica Shimizu Banks is a tech policy expert and inclusion innovator. She is the founder of Shiso\, a consultancy that applies an intersectional equity lens to business development\, tech\, and policy challenges. She creates systems and frameworks to elevate and restore equity in our institutions. She was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur and a Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine.  \nShe served on President Biden’s innovation policy committee; founded Pinterest’s DC office and led federal affairs; led diversity and equity initiatives on Google’s legal team and served as the Black small business liaison for the DC area; co-founded BEACON: The DC Women Founders Initiative; was a political appointee in the Obama Administration; and advanced environmental justice policies in Washington state. She holds an MSc in Environmental Policy from Oxford University and a BA in Environmental Studies and Public Affairs from Seattle University. To learn more about Aerica\, visit aerica.co. \n [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:2021 Networking and Career Fair
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nNetworking and Career Fair\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The annual Networking and Career Fair is an unique opportunity for students and young professionals to interact with top employers in the Washington\, DC area. This career fair is free and open to the public. A broad range of federal/local government agencies\, non-profits\, and private sector employers have attended past CAPAL career fairs.[/vc_column_text][vc_message]“I have attended CAPAL’s career fair for the past few years here in Washington DC.  I am always amazed at the caliber of talent I see each year.  The students are very well prepared to have meaningful discussions around their career goals\, as well as intriguing insights into how and where they may fit into the mission of our organization.  I look forward to our continued support of this event and others at CAPAL.” –Tamieka Jones\, AARP[/vc_message][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]For employers\, the career fair is a unique opportunity to meet and recruit qualified students and young AANHPI professionals in the region. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][vc_message]“Every year is rewarding! USDA Rural Development (RD) has participated in CAPAL’s career fair for the past 3 years. The students and recent graduates that participate are of high caliber and seem genuinely interested in learning more about RD and what we do. Even when we do not have positions actively available\, we still participate to provide outreach and information about our organization. RD is a proud supporter of CAPAL and looks forward to participating in the career fair next year and years to come!” –Dominique Brown\, RD Student Employment Programs Manager[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPlease sign up for our mailing list and follow us on Facebook\, Twitter\, and Instagram for the latest updates on our 2021 Career and Networking Fair! \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=”Registration Deadlines” tab_id=”1618947584180-950713c7-6d89″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nAttendee Information\nAdmission is free for all attendees. \n**Attendees\, be prepared to have your video on\, and come prepared with any resume\, materials\, etc**[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nEmployer Information\nEarly Bird Pricing (end June 19\, 2021) \nGovernment: $500\nPrivate Corporation: $700\nNon-profit: $150 \nEmployer Regular Pricing (closes 7/12) \nGovernment: $650\nPrivate Corporation: $850\nNon-profit: $200[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nEmployer Schedules\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”1. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” tab_id=”1620848461126-20c6d297-c3e5″][vc_single_image image=”16733″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1620848461126-f1e66c5d-5c0b” el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_column_text]10:00-10:30– Webinar/ Panel Q&A \n10:30- 11:00– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n11:00-11:30– Webinar/ Panel Q&A \n11:30-12:00– Webinar/ Panel Q&A \n12:30- 12:45– Drop-In \n12:45-1:00– Drop-In \n1:00-1:15– Drop-In \n1:15-1:30– Drop-In \n1:30-1:45– Drop-In \n1:45-2:00– Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1620850474159-9e63ea9c-470e”][vc_column_text]Jennie Bishop \nLing Summers[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”2. Federal Aviation Administration” tab_id=”1620849740059-32b4c9a9-86e1″][vc_single_image image=”16734″ img_size=”437×155″ alignment=”center”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1620849740060-bff69b98-fe8d”][vc_column_text]10:00-10:30– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n10:30-11:00– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n11:00-11:15– Drop-In \n11:30-12:00– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n12:00-12:30– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n12:30-12:45– Drop-In \n1:00-1:30– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n1:30-2:00-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1620850376217-00802159-b6f4″][vc_column_text]Tamara Smith \nCesar Collantes \nSanijela Zanovic[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”3. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation” tab_id=”1620849876138-1647b8fa-b6fc”][vc_single_image image=”16735″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1620849876139-9f126142-1642″][vc_column_text]10:30-11:00-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n11:00-11:15-Drop-In \n11:15-11:30-Drop-In \n11:30-11:45-Drop-In \n**all times are in ET \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1620850344858-2e242d1d-19ed”][vc_column_text] \nKim\, Cheh Kim \nAshlea K. Moyers \nAnnalie Sanchez \nCynthia M. Childers \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”4. AmeriCorps” tab_id=”1622210725002-0e94b810-2d4a”][vc_single_image image=”16767″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]AmeriCorps is empowering communities to tackle domestic challenges. AmeriCorps VISTA is an anti-poverty program helping local organizations expand their capacity to alleviate poverty. \nMembers in the VISTA program serve full-time one-year terms with nonprofit organizations and public agencies to generate the commitment of private sector resources\, encourage volunteer service locally\, and empower individuals and communities. \nThis service opportunity is a chance to build skills and your resume while earning financial support during this AmeriCorps service commitment.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1622210725003-367131f8-e3cf”][vc_column_text]10:00-10:30-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n10:30-10:45-Drop-In \n10:45-11:00-Drop-In \n11:00-11:15-Drop-In \n11:15-11:30-Drop-In \n11:30-12:00-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n12:30-12:45-Drop-In \n12:45-1:00-Drop-In \n1:00-1:30-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n1:30-1:45-Drop-In \n1:45-2:00-Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1622210725004-ced8a119-e2f2″][vc_column_text]Cristalynne Dupree[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”5. USDA/Agricultural Marketing Service” tab_id=”1623435315022-22a51bc7-2759″][vc_single_image image=”16833″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) administers programs that create domestic and international marketing opportunities for U.S. producers of food\, fiber\, and specialty crops. AMS also provides the agriculture industry with valuable services to ensure the quality and availability of wholesome food for consumers across the country. \nNearly 4\,000 AMS professionals work every day to support the country’s diverse agricultural operations\, which range from individual farmers to international businesses and employ 1 in 12 people. AMS services and its millions of dollars in annual grant investments also create opportunities by supporting economic development in small towns and rural communities that stand as the backbone of American values. \nMuch of the agency’s support for agriculture is provided through commodity-specific efforts\, such as its Dairy; Specialty Crops; Livestock and Poultry; and Cotton and Tobacco Programs. AMS also oversees the National Organic Program; Science and Technology Program; and the Transportation and Marketing Program. AMS also provides regulatory oversight for over 20 research and promotion programs\, and enforces other Federal regulations such as the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and the Seed Act.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1623435315027-0532bc54-f138″][vc_column_text]10:00-10:30-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n10:30-10:45-Drop-In \n10:45-11:00-Drop-In \n11:00-11:15-Drop-In \n11:15-11:30-Drop-In \n12:00-12:30-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n12:30-12:45-Drop-In \n12:45-1:00-Drop-In \n1:00-1:15-Drop-In \n1:15-1:30-Drop-In \n1:30-1:45 -Drop-In \n1:45-2:00-Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1623435315028-0a95d60d-57b0″][vc_column_text]Joe Allen \nCharmin Jacobs \nAli Muhammad \nTravis Hubbs \nJacqueline Fitzgerald \nThanh-Thanh Pham[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”6. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service” tab_id=”1623785786123-e6eebd4f-8080″][vc_single_image image=”16846″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]You too can make a difference in our world! The work of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is meaningful and varied. Our mission is to work with others to conserve\, protect\, and enhance fish\, wildlife\, plants\, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. We manage the 150 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System of more than 560 National Wildlife Refuges and thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. Under the Fisheries program we also operate 70 National Fish Hatcheries\, 65 fishery resource offices and 86 ecological services field stations. \nOur positions include Wildlife Biologists\, Fish Biologists\, Biological Science Technicians\, Wildland Firefighters\, Law Enforcement\, and other administrative support positions. Watch your wildlife career take flight at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1623785786125-b008e7d4-98d7″][vc_column_text]10:00-10:15-Drop-In \n10:15-10:30-Drop-In \n10:30-10:45-Drop-In \n10:45-11:00-Drop-In \n11:30-12:00-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n1:00-1:30-Webinar/Panel Q&A \n1:30-1:45 -Drop-In \n1:45-2:00-Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1623785786126-f8b71ef6-8c13″][vc_column_text]Rachel McCracken \nChristine Ogura \nMarilet Zablan \nShari Brewer[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”7. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency- Office of Water” tab_id=”1624038801028-57ed2172-9b5f”][vc_single_image image=”16855″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1624038801029-5f6a381b-4248″][vc_column_text]11:00-11:30– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n11:30-11:45– Drop-In \n11:45-12:00– Drop-In \n1:00-1:30- Webinar/Panel Q&A \n1:30-1:45– Drop-In \n1:45-2:00– Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1624038801030-5581acc1-d66f”][vc_column_text]Adrienne Harris \nMelinda Lopez-Alavarado \nAmelia Nguyen[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”8. U.S. Government Accountability Office” tab_id=”1624386453353-5a75aa5f-3ded”][vc_single_image image=”16871″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1624386453355-926f113c-0da9″][vc_column_text]10:00-10:15- Drop-In \n10:30-10:45– Drop-In \n10:45-11:00– Drop-In \n11:00-11:15– Drop-In \n11:15-11:30– Drop-In \n11:30-11:45– Drop-In \n11:45-12:00– Drop-In \n12:00-12:15– Drop-In \n12:30-1:00– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n1:00-1:15– Drop-In \n1:15-1:30– Drop-In \n1:30-1:45– Drop-In \n1:45-2:00– Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1624386453356-8f37edf5-1904″][vc_column_text]Karen Chen \nGrace Kwon \nChi Mai \nJames McCully[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”9. United States Secret Service ” tab_id=”1624892486664-515f9d92-3619″][vc_single_image image=”16883″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]We protect our nation’s highest elected leaders\, visiting foreign heads of state\, and national special security events; and safeguard the U.S. financial infrastructure and payment systems.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1624892486666-1305d613-ade6″][vc_column_text]10:00-10:45- Webinar/Panel Q&A \n11:00-11:45– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n12:00-12:45– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n1:00-1:45– Webinar/Panel Q&A \n**all times are in ET \n*link to join sessions will be sent via email by the U.S. Secret Service Representative*[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1624892486670-27369c75-2921″][vc_column_text]Elmer Pagaragan[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”10. USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service” tab_id=”1624977016840-37ebe7b2-1b50″][vc_single_image image=”16882″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) protects the health of U.S. agriculture and natural resources against invasive pests and diseases\, regulates genetically engineered crops\, administers the Animal Welfare Act\, and helps people and wildlife coexist. APHIS also certifies the health of U.S. agricultural exports and resolves phytosanitary and sanitary issues to open\, expand\, and maintain markets for U.S plant and animal products.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1624977016844-b9baa28b-812b”][vc_column_text]Check back for schedule updates! \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1624977016845-554462c6-9176″][vc_column_text] \nSophia Kirby \nLaura Artis \nGeeriee Lewis \nJudy Craney \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”11. U.S. Department of State” tab_id=”1624977265557-b6735abf-7bba”][vc_single_image image=”16945″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] \nThe U.S. Department of State is America’s leading foreign affairs agency that works to shape and sustain a peaceful\, prosperous\, just\, and democratic world and fosters conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. Our employees are champions of American diplomacy\, using their knowledge and experience in everything from architecture to engineering and technology to medicine to achieve success as they serve with integrity and professionalism.   Contribute your different perspectives\, life experiences\, and innovative thinking as you collaborate with colleagues throughout the world who work to support and advance U.S. interests worldwide. \nVisit careers.state.gov to learn more. \nU.S. citizenship is required. An equal opportunity employer. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1624977265561-de1970d8-a160″][vc_column_text]10:00-10:15– Drop-In \n10:15-10:30– Drop-In \n10:30-10:45– Drop-In \n10:45-11:00– Drop-In \n12:00-12:15– Drop-In \n12:15-12:30– Drop-In \n12:30-12:45– Drop-In \n12:45-1:00– Drop-In \n1:00-1:15– Drop-In \n1:15-1:30– Drop-In \n1:30-1:45– Drop-In \n1:45-2:00– Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1624977265563-7a3c231f-a776″][vc_column_text]CB Toney \nGeorge Sibley \nTeri Scott \nLaura Gritz \nAmanda Johnson[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”12. 	National Institute of Standards and Technology” tab_id=”1626120456219-db469466-9031″][vc_single_image image=”16984″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was founded in 1901 and is now part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST is one of the nation’s oldest physical science laboratories. Congress established the agency to remove a major challenge to U.S. industrial competitiveness at the time—a second-rate measurement infrastructure that lagged behind the capabilities of the United Kingdom\, Germany\, and other economic rivals. \nFrom the smart electric power grid and electronic health records to atomic clocks\, advanced nanomaterials\, and computer chips\, innumerable products and services rely in some way on technology\, measurement\, and standards provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. \nToday\, NIST measurements support the smallest of technologies to the largest and most complex of human-made creations—from nanoscale devices so tiny that tens of thousands can fit on the end of a single human hair up to earthquake-resistant skyscrapers and global communication networks. \nWe invite you to explore our web site to learn about our current projects\, to find out how you can work with us\, or to make use of our products and services.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1626120456223-850c0bf9-81d2″][vc_column_text]10:15-10:30- Drop-In \n10:15-10:30– Drop-In \n10:30-10:45-Drop-In \n10:45-11:00-Drop-In \n11:00-11:15-Drop-In \n11:15-11:30-Drop-In \n11:30-11:45-Drop-In \n11:45-12:00-Drop-In \n12:30-12:45-Drop-In \n12:45-1:00-Drop-In \n1:00-1:15-Drop-In \n1:15-1:30-Drop-In \n1:30-1:45-Drop-In \n1:45-2:00-Drop-In \n**all times are in ET[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Representatives” tab_id=”1626120456225-d13b36e6-d030″][vc_column_text]Susan Engle[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nCheck back for updates regarding employer schedules and opportunities.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=”blue” active_section=”1″ el_class=”.lblu-btn6″][vc_tta_section title=”Networking Event 2:15-2:45 ” tab_id=”1620850263875-2d70beb7-7de4″][vc_column_text] \nParticipating Employers\nNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency \nFederal Aviation Administration \nFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation \nAmeriCorps \nUSDA/Agricultural Marketing Service \nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service \nU.S. Environmental Protection Agency- Office of Water \nNational Institute of Standards and Technology[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2021-networking-and-career-fair/
CATEGORIES:Career & Networking Fair,front-display
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ORGANIZER;CN="Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)":MAILTO:info@capal.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210714T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210714T193000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
CREATED:20210420T171314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210730T144852Z
UID:16630-1626285600-1626291000@www.capal.org
SUMMARY:2021 Washington Leadership Program Session VI: What is your Experience with America?: Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will address the journey and experience of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.\, acknowledging pivotal moments\, challenges\, and ongoing developments across generations\, cultures\, and communities. Key topics will include the effects of colonization\, generational trauma\, identity-building\, and methods of advocacy and empowerment in today’s landscape. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2021-WLP6|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Washington%20Leadership%20Program%20Series%20Session%20VI-%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nMichelle Pedro is a Marshallese American that was born and raised in Orange County\, California. She has lived in Oregon for 7 years and moved to Springdale\, AR. Currently\, She is the Policy Director and Communications Specialist for the Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese (ACOM). When she is not working\, she loves to listen to people and their migration/voyage of life stories. She enjoys learning about different cultures and people. Michelle’s main purpose is to serve and love on people\, especially from the Marshallese community. Follow Michelle at Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAmelia Vakalutukali\, born in Fiji and migrated to the United States in 1998. Currently residing in Everett\, Washington and contracting as a Program Director for the PICA-WA (Pacific Islander Community of Washington) Western Washington Region. Graduated from Lynnwood High School class of 2001. Certified First Aid & CPR Instructor\, attended Everett Community College\, WA and then onto American River College\, CA. Academic endeavors include completing her Bachelors in Science and Nursing. Former Youth Director at Metro Church in Windsor\, CA. Married to Ro Vakalutukali for 10years in October 2021 and blessed with two wonderful boys Joseph and Samuel. Follow Amelia at Pacific Islander Community Association- www.picawa.org \n  \n  \n  \n  \nHe kupa no ka ʻāina kaulana ʻo Waialua. Maka Kasson-Fisher is a native Hawaiian leader and active community member of Oʻahu’s North Shore. He is a Program Specialist for the Hawaiian Cultural Affairs & Natural Resources division at the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority. He is a member of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and the current President of the Waialua Hawaiian Civic Club. He is a cultural practitioner in hula\, lua (Hawaiian martial arts)\, and ho`oponopono (family conflict resolution). He graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo with degrees in Cultural Anthropology & Hawaiian Language and strives to ensure the preservation and perpetuation of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and culture. Ka ʻike a ka mākua he hei na ke keiki. Maka is married to Nāpua and together they have 2 young children. As parents they continue to share traditional knowledge and practices to the keiki (children) to ensure that their moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy) and kuleana (responsibilities) are passed on and protected. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJavan Santos is a proud CHamoru and a CAPAL ’17 S&I alum. Born and raised in Guam\, he has been working in policy research work for six years\, since he was a youth leader in high school. Javan earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Guam\, where he furthered his understanding of the politics of a Pacific island and a U.S. territory. Javan has used his policy and research experience in a variety of projects\, most notable was his work as a research assistant in a project contracted by Guam’s Commission on Decolonization. There\, he contributed to an over 400 page long research report analyzing policy futures for a decolonized Guam. Today\, Javan continues his policy work in two ways. He is the policy manager for the Kennebunkport Climate Initiative\, where he works to mobilize youth for climate advocacy\, an issue that disproportionately harms Pacific islands. He is also an editor for the Yappie\, a youth-led newsletter\, where he writes articles analyzing policies affecting Pacific Islanders and the AAPI community. Follow Javan at @I_am_javan on IG @TheYappie on IG Also\, and subscribe to theyappie.com \n\n\nModerator\nRepresentative Patrick Pihana Branco is proud to serve as the State Representative for District 50 (Kailua and Kāneʻohe Bay). He is Vice Chair of the Water & Land Committee and is also a member of the Finance as well as the Corrections\, Military & Veterans Committees. Drawn to public service\, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service as a Diplomat in 2012\, serving tours in Colombia\, Pakistan\, the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan\, the Secretary of State’s Operations Center\, and Venezuela. Rep. Branco is a fourth-generation Kailua resident. He is also a graduate of Kamehameha Schools\, Hawaiʻi Pacific University\, and Johns Hopkins University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2021-washington-leadership-program-session-vi-what-is-your-experience-with-america-native-hawaiians-and-pacific-islanders/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.capal.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)":MAILTO:info@capal.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210707T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210707T193000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
CREATED:20210420T171300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210730T144956Z
UID:16624-1625680800-1625686200@www.capal.org
SUMMARY:2021 Washington Leadership Program Session V: Environmental Racism & Inequality: How did we get here?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on the uneven impact of environmental issues on communities across the U.S. Key topics of discussion will address the unequal effects of COVID-19\, raise questions about who gets access to basic resources (clean water and air)\, as well as the prevalence of food deserts across the country. Topics will also address how the AANHPI community specifically is affected by these phenomena. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2021-WLP5|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Washington%20Leadership%20Program%20Series%20Session%20V-%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nDestiney Mack\, a 24-year-old Dallas\, Texas native\, climate organizer with the Sunrise Movement. A national campaign to advance a livable future and good jobs for all through a Green New Deal. A graduate of Salem College\, Destiney completed her B.A in Environmental Studies with a concentration on policy and advocacy. She is fascinated by the complexity of human and environmental interactions and works to combat the inequities of social and ecological degradation. Destiney focused her research on ecology\, sustainability\, conservation and\, most important to her\, environmental justice. At Sunrise Movement\, Destiney supports cultural transformation to help Sunrisers to see themselves as drivers of justice\, equity\, and anti-oppression. She works with partner organizations to design political education to strengthen Sunrise’s organizing towards our collective fight towards liberation. She enjoys using her communication and organizational skills to serve her family and local community by being an advocate against inequity. Along with her love for organizing\, she enjoys bike riding\, hiking\, and anything outdoors and hopes to get a dog this year. Follow Destiney at Instagram: _destineymack Twitter: desme_ Facebook: Destiney Mack \n  \n  \n  \nRozette De Castro is currently an International Government Relations Specialist at Ocean Conservancy\, a conservation nonprofit headquartered in Washington D.C. Her work focuses on community engagement around combating plastic pollution in Vietnam as well as strategic research\, planning and policy analysis for the organization’s International Government Relations team. Rozette holds a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and when not in front of her work laptop- she is out hiking or sitting at local coffee shops daydreaming of her next beach adventure. Follow Rozette at @zettedecastro (Twitter) \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLealani Manuta was born and raised on Ramaytush Ohlone lands (aka San Francisco). After getting her B.A. in Community Studies at the University of CA\, Santa Cruz Lealani became an environmental educator with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy\, a Bay Area regional and international solidarity community organizer. She is the founder of the Serve the Sounds podcast\, co-facilitator of the Migratory Story\, Urban Trail Blazers\, Voiceover and Point Reyes National Science Adventure programs at the Crissy Field Center. Lealani serves as the co-chair for FACES\, Filipino American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity and does communications work for OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates in San Francisco. Her day job consists of amplifying untold and hidden hxstories of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and San Francisco/Bay Area for youth and their families. She organizes within the seams and bridges of racial solidarity/equity\, Asian American & Pacific Islander legislative advocacy and environmental justice. Please contact her at lealanidm@gmail.com for environmental justice and environmental racism workshops and other speaking engagements.  Follow Lealani at @baylani_lealani \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nLynette Pham currently works as the Regional Field Organizer at Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii. She has previously worked for the Alaska Democratic Party and Alaska Young Democrats and engaged in coordinating events and programs with the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action.   \n\n\n\nModerator\nVic Vong is Greenlining’s 2020-2021 Environmental Equity Fellow\, centering communities on the frontlines of climate change through proactive and targeted investments in social and built infrastructure. Vic is a sociologist and policy analyst hailing from Occupied Duwamish Land\, also called Seattle. Using their expertise on holistic community engagement\, Vic is currently advising the City of Santa Cruz on integrating equity into their 2030 Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Vic brings expertise in advancing environmental equity through grassroots organizing\, community-based organizations\, and federal agencies. During the COVID-19 crisis\, Vic experienced and witnessed how public health crises multiplied existing racial and social disparities. Vic’s other interests include making environmental justice memes\, seeing how plants and animals (including humans) change over time\, and smelling flowers. Follow Vic at Twitter @vongvic\, IG: vicsaffirmations \n  \n [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2021-washington-leadership-program-session-v-environmental-racism-inequality-how-did-we-get-here/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)":MAILTO:info@capal.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210630T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210630T193000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210730T145059Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Washington Leadership Program Session IV: Google Knows Me Better Than Me: AANHPI Data & Privacy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will discuss current data and privacy laws of users\, particularly with online platforms such as social media\, search engines\, news sites\, etc. Key topics of discussion include the effects of data collection and tracking\, boundaries surrounding online privacy\, targeted ads and disinformation\, effects of increased targeting on user behavior\, and the ethics of data ownership. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2021-WLP4|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Washington%20Leadership%20Program%20Series%20Session%20IV-%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nTejas N. Narechania is the Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California\, Berkeley\, School of Law\, where he writes about (and teaches courses on) telecommunications regulation and intellectual property\, among other subjects.  He is also a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. \nBefore joining Berkeley Law\, Professor Narechania clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States (2015–2016) and for Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2011–2012). He has advised the Federal Communications Commission on network neutrality matters\, where he served as Special Counsel (2012–2013). He has a J.D. from Columbia Law School\, where he received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize and was the Executive Notes Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He also has a B.S. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and a B.A. (Political Science) from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nProfessor Narechania’s research projects have appeared in the Columbia Law Review\, the Georgetown Law Journal\, the Michigan Law Review\, the Stanford Law Review Online\, and the Washington Law Review\, among other outlets. His projects have been cited and discussed by the White House\, in the work of the Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit\, as well as in the New York Times and the Washington Post\, among other venues. Follow Tejas at Twitter: @tnarecha \nK.J. Bagchi is a veteran of Capitol Hill and public interest organizations\, having served most recently as Senior Policy Counsel at New America’s Open Technology Institute. He was previously the tech policy attorney for the civil rights organization Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC and legislative counsel for former Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA). He led AAPI  & small business engagement at the DNC and held development positions at the AAPI Victory Fund and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. He graduated from UC Davis and received his law degree from Seattle University School of Law. \n  \n  \nTazin Khan is the founder and CEO of Cyber Collective\,  illuminating the intersection of tech\, ethics and democracy through style\, humor and authenticity. Her specialty lies in compliance\, product architecture mapping and risk analysis. When Khan isn’t consulting into fortune 500 enterprise clients\, her efforts are focused in educating the public about data security and privacy. Khan activates all parts of her identity to present thoughtful\, and hilariously engaging social media content to connect with her audience and induce social and individual behavioral change.  Beyond the practical information she shares around security and data privacy\, Khan started Cyber Collective\, a community-centered research organization that hosts works to understand the ways data and privacy impact consumers. (Linkedin) \n\nModerator\nEmily Chi is the Assistant Director of Telecommunications\, Technology\, and Media at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC\, where she is responsible  for developing and providing public policy research\, strategies\, analysis\, and education on telecommunications\, technology\, and media diversity. Prior to joining Advancing Justice- AAJC\, Emily worked as a researcher on various projects at the Harvard Kennedy School\, including Product & Society at the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy and the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.  Emily received her B.A. in Legal Studies and Political Economy from the University of California\, Berkeley. She received her MPP at the Harvard Kennedy School\, where she served as Co-Chair of the Asian American Pacific Islander Caucus and contributed to the Asian American Policy Review. (AAJC) [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2021-washington-leadership-program-session-iv-google-knows-me-better-than-me-aanhpi-data-privacy/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)":MAILTO:info@capal.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210623T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210623T193000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
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SUMMARY:2021 Washington Leadership Program Session III: Self Care is Community Care: AANHPI Mental Health & COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will address the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the AANHPI community in terms of mental health and wellness. Key topics of discussion will include overcoming barriers to access to resources\, addressing the mental health stigma in the AANHPI community\, and discussing ways in which to cope and support others. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DC_8L_AywFyU|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Washington%20Leadership%20Program%20Series%20Session%20III-%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nKrystle Canare is a strong advocate for mental health and addressing disparities experienced by underserved and under-represented communities. Krystle is currently a full-time Program Specialist for Georgetown University’s Center for Child and Human Development where she coordinates the day-to-day operations of the Center of Excellence for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation. Prior to working at Georgetown\, Krystle worked as a senior project coordinator for the National Council for Behavioral Health and consultant for the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration. Krystle has served as an Ambassador for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders during the Obama Administration\, Steering Committee Member for the National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health\, and currently serves as the Vice President of the Asian Mental Health Collective and is a Health Equity Ambassador for the American Psychological Association. Krystle’s mental health advocacy and non-profit leadership expands to the Filipino American community as COVID-19 Task Force Fellowship Director for the Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO)\, Advisor to the Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue\, Inc’s (FIND\, Inc) Alumni Network\, and Coach for the National Federation of Filipino American Association’s Empowering Pilipino Youth through Collaboration (NaFFAA EPYC) program. She is the former Region Chair for NaFFAA’s Capital Region and President of the Philippine American Foundation for Charities\, Inc. Raised in the Washington D.C metropolitan area\, Krystle graduated from the University of Maryland\, College Park with a B.S in Neurobiology & Physiology. Krystle attributes her passion for community building to the university’s Filipino American History & Biography course\, Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy Office\, and the Filipino Cultural Association. Follow Krystle at: @krystle_can (Twitter)\, @krys.dc (IG)\, @asianmhc\, @iecmhc\, @fylpro \n  \n \nDJ Ida is the Executive Director of the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association. She has a doctorate in clinical psychology and has worked with the AANHPI communities for over 40 years at the local and national levels with the primary focus on improving the qulaity of services and broadening the definition of mental health to take a more public health approach. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAngela Edward is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is an activist and a Micronesian American daughter with powerful experience serving persons from marginalized communities. Angela holds a Master of Social Work from Missouri State University. In the past decade\, she has worked with families facing homelessness\, young people\, community elders\, persons diagnosed with comorbidities\, individuals impacted by mental illness\, and with Asian American & Pacific Islander community members. Angela has served hundreds of women\, youth\, families and community members through direct services and advocacy in the state of Michigan over the past two years. She is dedicated to honoring her ancestors through community healing\, civic engagement\, youth advocacy and empowerment\, and community organization with and for the Micronesian community. Follow Angela at www.angelaedward.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJennifer J. Chang (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in counseling psychology at Teachers College\, Columbia University\, completing her doctoral dissertation study about Asian American activists and their experiences of racial\, ethnic\, and activist identity development. She holds a B.A. in psychology from Bryn Mawr College and M.S.Ed. in mental health counseling from CUNY Queens College. Jennifer wears many hats as a therapist\, researcher\, scholar\, activist\, organizational consultant\, facilitator\, mentor\, friend\, daughter\, sister\, and proud Auntie. Her work as a researcher and clinician focuses on multicultural issues and the co-development of intersectional identities\, with a specialty in Asian American psychology. With over 20 years of non-profit and community experience\, Jennifer is a skilled youth educator and non-profit trainer with expertise in leadership development\, managing group/team dynamics\, destigmatizing mental health\, utilizing mindfulness for social justice\, and addressing issues related to diversity\, inclusion\, and equity (racial microaggressions\, LGBTQIA+ inclusion\, etc.). As a consultant\, her mission is to empower individuals and teams to manage diverse organizations with more mindful (co-)leadership and also facilitate difficult dialogues with more confidence and cultural competence. Her guiding motto in this work is: “Leadership comes in all shapes and sizes.” \n  \n  \n Anjana Sreedhar has a Masters in Public Administration from NYU. She has worked with Advisory Board\, a healthcare research and consulting firm\, and is an activist promoting anti-racism. She comes into the healthcare space with a keen understanding of the dynamics of power and policy and how they affect quality of life for Americans. While working as an administrative fellow at NYU Langone Health in New York City\, she wrote an impactful account of the intersection of health policy\, social justice\, and history in Health Care of a Thousand Slights\, Connecting Legacy to Access to Healthcare. \n  \n\n\nModerator\nMatthew J. Miller\, Ph.D. (he/him) is Professor and Co-Graduate Program Director of the counseling programs at Loyola University Chicago where he currently holds the Fr. Walter P. Krolikowski\, SJ Endowed Research Professorship. He directs the Race\, Culture\, and Health Equity Lab\, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Counseling Psychology\, and is a former Member of the Board of Directors for the Asian American Psychological Association. His research program (a) examines ways in which racism and cultural experiences relate to mental health in AAPI populations and in other diverse communities\, (b) evaluates the measurement of racial and cultural constructs\, and (c) tests evidence-based culturally responsive mental health interventions. He is also a filmmaker and the creator of SPOKENproject\, where he produces documentary style mental health films in order to share mental health information and resources with communities in an accessible way. He is currently developing and testing a first-person narrative documentary style video intervention designed to increase one’s ability to cope with racism experiences and reduce racism-related stress. Follow Matthew at Twitter: @mmille27; @SPOKEN_project[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2021-washington-leadership-program-session-iii-self-care-is-community-care-aanhpi-mental-health-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)":MAILTO:info@capal.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210616T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210616T193000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
CREATED:20210420T171217Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Washington Leadership Program Session II: From “Niche Demographic” to Defining Swing Voters
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on the role of the AANHPI community in the 2020 election\, particularly as a voter bloc in swing states/counties. Key topics of discussion include: AANHPI voter participation (both historically and currently)\, AANHPI voter engagement and mobilization\, as well as the growing power/voice of the AANHPI community in politics. Key takeaways can include avenues in which to get involved in elections and grassroots organizing as well as public service. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” style=”flat” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2021-WLP2|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Washington%20Leadership%20Program%20Series%20Session%20II-%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nChantale Wong had a long and distinguished career in public service.  During that period\, Chantale was a participant in some of the most significant events in our US history. Having spent the majority of her professional career in public service and in locations around the world representing the United States in key positions\, she regrets at not having captured those moments of significance.  She retired after 23 years and has begun a new journey as a photographer.   \nHer work has included photography in several continents.  Several of her photos were selected for the “UnPresidented: Inauguration of Donald J. Trump and the People’s Response” photobook that documented the 3 days surrounding the Trump Inauguration\, with one of her images landing the cover of the photo book.  She has also produced many landscape images that captures the essence of time and place.  Her portrait work captures the souls of the subjects – chronicling urban blight in East Baltimore or photographing crew teams on the Anacostia early in the morning and at Hanover Bridge in Baltimore.  Her travels to Cuba\, India and Nepal and the epic trip on the Trans Siberia Railway have produced stunning images of cultures remote and afar.  The current focus of her photography journey has brought her to photo journalism documenting events of our communities.  Since 2017\, she has chronicled the annual Civil Rights pilgrimage to Selma\, Montgomery and Birmingham with Congressman John Lewis – earning her the role of being the official photographer and videographer for other civil rights pilgrimages of the Faith and Politics Institute.   \nShe is a board member of several non-profit organizations including Focus on the Story – an organization dedicated to supporting and encouraging photographers of diverse backgrounds to explore the power of visual storytelling to spark social change. \nChantale is the founder of CAPAL and chair of CAPAL’s Advisory Council.  She has volunteered in every Presidential campaign since President Bill Clinton and many congressional\, state and local races.  Follow Chantale at chantalew (Twitter)\, chantale1 (IG) \n  \nGrace Choi is the Director of Policy in the New York City Mayor’s Office. Recently\, she served as the Constituency Director for Asian American & Pacific Islander Outreach for the Stacey Abrams for Governor Campaign. Previously\, she was the Associate Director for Global Gender Policy and Advocacy at Save the Children. She served in President Obama’s Administration as Policy Advisor in the Secretary of State’s Office on Global Women’s Issues and as Staff Assistant in the White House Liaison’s Office at the U.S. Department of State. \nPrior to her political appointment at the Department of State\, Grace worked for the Council of Korean Americans (CKA)\, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) in Congresswoman Judy Chu’s office\, the Presidential Inauguration Committee\, President Obama’s 2012 Presidential Campaign\, the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea\, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Refugee Affairs Division. \nShe is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member\, is a Council of Korean Americans Member\, was a Member of the White House National Security Leadership Workshop\, and served on the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership Board of Directors as Vice Chair for Programs. She holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College. Follow Grace at Twitter: @choigrr and Instagram: @choigr \n  \nLinh Nguyen has extensive political campaign experience\, specializing in outreach strategies to young voters\, Asian-Pacific Islanders\, and communities of color\, while working for a number of candidates across the country. She spent the 2020 presidential year with Sen. Cory Booker as his Director of Coalitions and was the Political Director for #TheNew campaign: a creative collaboration between RUN AAPI and Meena Harris’s Phenomenal Woman. She later joined the Democratic Party of Georgia as their AAPI Coalition Director\, overseeing engagement with the Asian-Pacific communities during the Georgia runoff elections. Linh rounded out the election cycle with the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s Office of Public Engagement to welcome in the Biden-Harris administration. She consulted in creative programming and partnerships. Currently\, Linh consults on API engagement in disaster relief and public health emergencies with Gov. Newsom’s Office of Emergency Services and is the Executive Director of RUN AAPI. Follow Linh at @L4nguyen @runaapi on IG and Twitter  \n  \nA graduate of Georgia State University in Economics\, Vyanti Joseph is a long-time community organizer and advocate for immigrant and human rights in Georgia. She had a professional career in Business Intelligence and Program Management before moving into social advocacy spaces in the last couple years. In 2020\, Vyanti recently joined the Asian American Advocacy Funs as their Organizing Director. Previously\, she served on the GA AAPI Advisory Council for Biden Harris and was the first AAPI Director hired in the 2020 GA election cycle\, working on Senator Warnock’s campaign in the primary and the runoff. She is also co-founder of the GA chapter of They See Blue\, a national organization that helped propel historic winning margins in the South Asian voter turnout\, as well as No Safe Seats\, a progressive organization mobilizing women in Metro Atlanta. Vyanti has dedicated many volunteer hours to organizing relief for refugees\, the unsheltered\, food-insecure communities\, and gender violence victims. Her Indo Caribbean roots\, friendly nature\, and love for relationship building across organizations have propelled her work in helping marginalized communities. Follow Vyanti at @vyantijoseph @asianaf \n  \nModerator\nChristine Chen is a co-Founder and Executive Director of Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote)\, one of the most trusted national\, nonpartisan organizations. APIAVote’s mission is to work with local and state community based organizations (CBOs) to mobilize Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in electoral and civic engagement. Since 2007\, APIAVote has been building power in AAPI communities by investing in their capacity and infrastructure to mobilize voters. This investment\, as well as\, proactively training and resourcing community leaders across the country\, paid off in the 2020 election cycle and Census. Under Chen’s leadership\, APIAVote strengthened and expanded APIAVote’s partners into 28 states and made two historical milestones; attracted\, then candidate Joe Biden to speak directly to the AAPI electorate\, a  first in history for a Presidential nominee\, and second\, contributed to the groundwork that led to the highest AAPI voter turnout in history. \nChen has been a champion for the empowerment of AAPI communities from the start of her career. Moving to Washington\, DC\, from Ohio\, she took on organizing and leadership roles at the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA)\, and started a consulting firm\, Strategic Alliances USA which was built on her broad and deep pool of relationships and skills in the AAPI community and in government. Chen’s firm included clients such as the Linsanity documentary\, Comcast\, and USDA to coordinate their outreach to Hmong farmers in Arkansas. \nWhile serving as Executive Director of OCA National from 2001 to 2006\, Chen served as a member of the executive committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights\, founding member of APIA Scholars\, and served on numerous boards including the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans and Demos Board of Trustees. She currently serves on the Kennedy Center Community Advisory Board and the Center for Asian American Media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2021-washington-leadership-program-session-ii-from-niche-demographic-to-defining-swing-voters/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2021 Washington Leadership Program Session I: Deconstructing “AANHPI”: Disparities & Inequalities within the AANHPI Community
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on the complexities and disparities that exist within the AANHPI community. Key topics will include perceptions and implications around the term “AANHPI”\, varied AANHPI experiences\, identity-building\, and ways in which to encourage and build greater bonding and sense of community among AANHPIs. \nNote: All WLP Sessions will be recorded live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Our Recording Here” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSpc0c9tQ7rc|title:CAPAL%E2%80%99s%20Washington%20Leadership%20Program%20Series%20Session%20I-%20Registration||” el_class=”.lblu-btn7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\nKham S. Moua (he/him/his) is SEARAC’s Director of National Policy and spearheads their national policy portfolio through policy and political analysis\, community engagement\, and legislative and regulatory advocacy. Prior to SEARAC\, Kham was the Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy at OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates. While there\, he helped found the AAPI Technology and Telecommunications Table\, the only national coalition focused on those issues from an AAPI framework. Before OCA\, he worked on state and local advocacy at Hmong National Development and Hmong American Partnership. Kham is also previously served as a board member for the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA). Kham is a Hmong American born in a Thai refugee camp and has spent over a decade community building\, organizing\, advocating\, and lobbying on a wide range of issues\, ranging from immigration to education reform. Follow Kham at @searac \n  \n  \n \n  \nSina Uipi (she/her) is the Policy Associate for Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC) who leads its national advocacy and policy work. EPIC is a national Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) organization that is pro-Black\, pro-Indigenous\, and pro-LGBTQ\, based in Tongva Territory (Los Angeles\, CA). As the DC-based staff\, she is housed at the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)\, a coalition of 37 national Asian American\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Islander organizations. In her current role\, she advocates for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in issues such as health\, education\, immigration\, civil rights\, and housing and economic justice. In addition\, she ensures messaging through NCAPA’s civic engagement committee and communications group caters specifically to the NHPI community. She also supports in managing NCAPA’s health policy committee. Follow Sina at IG: @empoweredpi Facebook: Elevate Your Voice Twitter: @empoweredpi \n  \n  \nKiran Kaur Gill is the Executive Director at the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Kiran is an accomplished professional with exemplary executive experience\, she was the former president and CEO of PARS Environmental\, Inc.\, a full-service environmental consulting firm based in Robbinsville\, New Jersey. Additionally\, Kiran has been a long-time advisor and volunteer for SALDEF\, playing a critical role in the expansion of our Law Enforcement Partnership Program and the expansion of our SikhLEAD Internship to New Jersey. \n  \n  \n  \nModerator \nSeema Agnani (she/hers) serves as Executive Director of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD – pronounced “capacity”)\, a coalition of 100 community-based organizations that advocate for and organize in low-income Asian American and Pacific Islander communities towards a vision of economic and social justice for all. She has more than 25 years of experience in community development\, capacity building\, and immigrant rights. She was a founder and Executive Director of Chhaya CDC working in the South Asian community of New York City\, leading the organization during the great recession and the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11. She coordinated the Fund for New Citizens at The New York Community Trust\, a donor collaborative focused on immigrant rights in New York City. Seema is originally from the Chicago area where her parents emigrated to from India.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2021-washington-leadership-program-session-i-deconstructing-aanhpi-disparities-inequalities-within-the-aanhpi-community/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2020 Washington Leadership Program Session V: Be the Change: Energy & Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on energy and environmental challenges and will highlight impacts\, mitigation strategies\, and the transition towards a more sustainable future from an AANHPI perspective. Key topics of discussion include international\, national and local efforts to combat climate change\, as well as steps that we can take as individuals to address this global issue. \nSpeakers\nDestiney Mack\, a 23 year old Dallas\,Texas native\, climate organizer with the Sunrise Movement\, a national campaign to advance economic\, racial\, and gender equality through the creation of millions of new jobs and a Green New Deal. A recent graduate of Salem College\, Destiney completed her B.A in Environmental Studies with a concentration on policy and advocacy. As a Trainer with the Sunrise Movement\, Destiney balances coordination between grassroots environmental justice organizations and youth climate “hubs.” Her work includes designing curriculum for new organizers in developing strong leadership skills. She is fascinated by the complexity of human and environmental interactions and works to combat the inequities of social and ecological degradation. Throughout college\, Destiney focused her research on ecology\, sustainability\, conservation and most important to her environmental justice . She enjoys using her communication and organizational skills\, combined with her studies\, towards being a voice in the youth climate movement and an agent of environmental justice. Along with her love for organizing she enjoys bike riding\, hiking and anything outdoors.  \n  \n  \n  \nNina Lobo is the Mid-Atlantic Policy Associate at Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA). She enjoys developing community-based solutions focused on climate resilience and environmental stewardship\, using her civil engineering degree as a foundation. She has 3+ years of project development and research experience in emerging clean energy markets. Her work has primarily been in community solar and is growing to include green stormwater infrastructure for community organizations in the Washington\, DC area. Nina draws motivation from her international roots and a deep love of nature\, community\, and harmony. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRuchira Shah has a decade of experience working in the climate and energy sphere in a number of different capacities. Currently\, she is Director of Product at Geli\, a startup focused on optimizing energy storage assets. Prior to arriving at Geli\, she has worked at Tesla\, SolarCity\, SunLink\, and the Breakthrough Institute. Ruchira has an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. In a previous life\, she was a struggling actor in Los Angeles. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSusan Jin Davis\, Chief Sustainability Officer\, has more than 25 years of experience in the communications\, media\, and technology industry. In her current position\, Ms. Jin Davis is responsible for identifying sustainable strategies and priorities and for implementing the Company’s Sustainability Program across all of Comcast NBCU business units and functions. Prior to her current role\, Ms. Jin Davis was Senior Vice President of Operations Compliance and was responsible for implementing product policies\, operationalizing regulatory and legal requirements\, reducing costs to the cable business\, and managing business compliance. In 2011\, Ms. Jin Davis negotiated a historic Memorandum of Understanding between Comcast and the Asian American community as part of the Company’s merger with NBCUniversal that creates ground-breaking commitments in the areas of programming\, supplier and employment diversity\, and community investment. She serves on Comcast’s Internal Diversity Council and is a Company liaison to the Comcast and NBCUniversal Joint Diversity Council. She is an executive sponsor of Asian Pacific Americans at Comcast\, a Company employee resource group. Ms. Jin Davis was also responsible for launching Comcast’s Internet Essentials Program in 2011. With Internet Essentials\, Comcast has connected more than 2 million U.S. households\, serving approximately 8 million people\, to high-speed Internet at home. Ms. Jin Davis has also been integrally involved in the Company’s approach to digital literacy\, providing resources to customers on safe Internet use with particular emphasis on helping families understand the Internet and teaching children how to responsibly use Comcast’s services. She created and led the Company’s On-Line Safety Advisory Council\, an external body of leaders in the area of on-line safety. Ms. Jin Davis was recently recognized by Forbes as one of “Five Women of Color Who Should Be On Your Radar Screen.” She has completed the Women in Cable Telecommunications Senior Executive Summit at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business\, the Women’s Executive Leadership Program at the Wharton School of Business\, and CTAM’s Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School. She received the 2010 Paragon Award of the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Cable and was a fellow in the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute of the Women in Cable Telecommunications. She has been named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Cable” by CableFAX and one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Minorities in Cable” by CableWorld for many years. Ms. Jin Davis is actively involved in Comcast’s diversity efforts\, particularly as it relates to the Company’s relationship with the Asian American community. She serves as the Chair of the Board of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies and is a director on the Boards of the Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund\, the Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship\, and the Juvenile Law Center. Ms. Jin Davis also serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. She lives in Kennett Square\, PA with her daughter\, Sophia. \n  \nModerator\nDakota Pekerti is an Energy Analytics Engineer at Growing Energy Labs Inc. (GELI)\, a San-Francisco based tech startup where he works to develop renewable energy storage projects by navigating the complex regulatory and economic relationships between renewable energy generation and storage necessary for decarbonizing the energy grid. Dakota is also currently a Fulbright Student Fellow for 2019-2020 and slated to travel to Indonesia in April 2020 to do research on sustainable logistics optimization. Prior\, Dakota was a rotational associate at Optoro\, a Washington D.C. based tech startup that develops software to help large retailers route and manage their returned inventory\, keeping it out of landfills. At Optoro\, Dakota has filled a variety of roles across different departments including product management\, quality engineering\, solutions consulting\, financial forecasting\, account management\, and product marketing. Dakota is also part of Optoro’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) committee\, helping to lead company-wide speaker series\, unconscious bias trainings\, and affinity group events. Dakota graduated from Swarthmore College with a BS in Engineering and a minor in Environmental Studies. While at Swarthmore\, Dakota represented Swarthmore at a number of sustainability-oriented events and competitions such as the COP21 in Paris\, 2016 PA Power Dialogue\, Columbia Economics Review Environmental Policy Competition\, and more. In his spare time Dakota enjoys learning new languages\, mixing music for house parties\, travelling\, practicing capoeira and kendo\, and experimenting with new spices in the kitchen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Recording Here!” color=”primary” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6-lRdos5wlQ|||”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2020wlp5/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200708T200000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
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SUMMARY:2020 Washington Leadership Program Session IV: Hidden Faces of Immigration
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on the major immigration issues and challenges we face today and will highlight prominent AANHPIs in policy making and public service within this subject matter. Key topics of discussion include issues such as sanctuary cities\, undocumented migration\, family sponsorship\, work visas\, refugees\, and comprehensive immigration reform. \nSpeakers\nGlenn D. Magpantay\, Esq. is a 30-year veteran of the LGBTQ rights movement. He is currently the Executive Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)\, a national federation of Asian American\, South Asian\, Southeast Asian\, and Pacific Islander lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender organizations. He received the Walter & Evelyn Haas\, Jr. Fund’s award for Outstanding LGBTQ Leadership for Immigrants’ Rights in 2017. He was named as one of INSTINCT MAGAZINE’S “25 Leading Men of 2004. He organized the first ever LGBT testimony before The White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islander in 2000. He spoke at the National March on Washington for Lesbian\, Gay\, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in 1993. Before NQAPIA\, Glenn was a nationally recognized civil rights attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)\, where he practiced voting rights law. He has published several scholarly articles and has been quoted in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, USA Today\, Associated Press\, MSNBC-TV\, NBC Asian America\, and The Advocate. Glenn chairs the LGBT Committee of the Asian American Bar Association. He inspire new minds as a Professor of Asian American Studies at Hunter College/ CUNY and Columbia University. Glenn attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook on Long Island\, and as a beneficiary of affirmative action\, graduated cum laude from the New England School of Law\, in Boston. \n  \n  \nJacinta Ma is the Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at the National Immigration Forum (Forum). She spearheads the development and implementation of the Forum’s policy priorities. She has more than 20 years of experience in law\, policy\, and civil rights. Before joining the Forum in 2014\, she was the Deputy Director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Washington\, DC where she oversaw a team of lawyers and other professionals working on civil rights issues that affected the Asian American community. She has a wide-range of experience as a civil rights attorney on issues as diverse as employment discrimination to transportation equity to litigating bias-motivated threats or intimidation cases. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center. Originally from southern California\, Jacinta earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nQuyen Dinh is the Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC). Originally formed in 1979\, SEARAC was founded by a group of American humanitarians as a direct response to the refugee crises arising throughout Southeast Asia as a result of U.S. military actions. Today\, SEARAC represents the largest refugee community ever resettled in America as a civil rights organization and works to empower Cambodian\, Laotian\, and Vietnamese American communities to create a socially just and equitable society through policy advocacy\, advocacy capacity building\, community engagement\, and mobilization. As Executive Director\, Quyen has advocated for Southeast Asian Americans on key civil rights issues including education\, immigration\, criminal justice\, health\, and aging.  Quyen has spoken widely about Southeast Asian American communities and has appeared in American Radio Works\, NBC\, Public Radio International\, and Voice of America. Under Quyen’s leadership\, SEARAC has authored national legislation and passed California legislation calling for transparent\, disaggregated data for the Asian American community. Quyen has also extended SEARAC’s coalition presence and leadership in other civil rights and social justice movements through her leadership roles with the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)\, Detention Watch Network (DWN)\, the Diverse Elders Coalition (DEC)\, RISE for Boys and Men of Color\, and Allies for Reaching Community Health Equity (ARCHE) Action Collaborative. Prior to SEARAC\, she built lasting infrastructure for the International Children Assistance Network (ICAN) in San Jose\, California serving Vietnamese immigrant parents\, grandparents\, and youth.  Born to Vietnamese refugees\, Quyen identifies as a second-generation Vietnamese American.  She holds a Masters of Public Policy from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California\, Berkeley.  Quyen was born in New Orleans\, LA\, and grew up in Orange County\, CA and San Jose\, CA.  She currently resides with her husband in Washington\, DC. \n  \nLakshmi Sridaran currently serves as the Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). From 2014 to 2019\, she was SAALT’s Director of National Policy and Advocacy where she led the organization’s external engagement and developed SAALT’s policy and legislative agenda\, which primarily focuses on immigration\, racial profiling\, and combating hate violence. Prior to that she served as the Policy Director for The Praxis Project\, a Washington D.C. based national movement support organization focused on health justice in communities of color. Before moving to D.C.\, Lakshmi completed six years of work in New Orleans\, Louisiana immediately following Hurricane Katrina\, working in Black-led organizations to help improve federal contracting opportunities for Black and women-owned businesses; institute participatory budgeting to expose inequitable distribution of federal recovery dollars; and preserve public schools and infrastructure from rapid privatization. Lakshmi is grounded in her early organizing experiences\, which include fighting for living wages for campus workers; working to reverse Prop 209\, which banned affirmative action in California; helping ensure land retention for Black farmers in her home state of Georgia; and conducting voter outreach in Haitian and Latinx communities in Miami leading up to the 2004 presidential election. Since 2009\, Lakshmi has served on the Board of the Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project\, originally founded in Mississippi in the 1980’s to use mathematics as an organizing tool to ensure quality education for every child. She holds a Masters degree in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from The University of California\, Berkeley. \n\nModerator\nShyam Gadwal (he/him/his) is the Vice-President of Programs at Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholars joining the organization in January 2020.  APIA Scholars is the nation’s largest non-profit provider of college scholarships for low-income\, first-generation Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) students. Shyam comes to APIA Scholars having spent ten years at Teach For America (TFA)\, most recently as the Chief of Staff for the Baltimore office along with positions on TFA’s National teams. In addition\, he served on TFA National’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Advisory Committee supporting the recruitment of AANHPI teachers and the leadership development of AANHPI staff.  Shyam joined Teach For America as a high school science teacher in Houston\, Texas in 2006 as an Amgen Fellow. In 2010\, Shyam co-founded MERIT Health Leadership Academy\, a comprehensive academic program supporting Baltimore high school students aspiring to be health professionals.  Together with public and private partnerships MERIT encourages a supportive college persistence culture and access to paid health-based internships.  He currently serves on the organization’s Board or Directors. Shyam graduated from University of Maryland\, Baltimore County (UMBC) as a Meyerhoff and MARC Scholar with a degree in Biology.  In his free time he enjoys cooking Indian fusion dishes and practicing various types of yoga. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Recording Here!” color=”primary” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKLj-Lrm83yE%26t%3D3689s|||”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2020wlp4/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200624T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200624T200000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
CREATED:20200522T182943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200812T020533Z
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SUMMARY:2020 Washington Leadership Program Session III: AANHPI Womxn in Public Service: Overcoming Challenges in the Workplace
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will connect participants with AANHPI women leaders\, giving voice to their professional experiences as minorities in public service. This session focuses on the challenges faced by AANHPI womxn in public service and the workplace. Key topics of discussion include gender pay disparity\, experiences of discrimination or alienation in the workplace\, and the impact of the #metoo movement on AANHPI womxn in public service. \nSpeakers\nSandy Hoa Dang\, is a social entrepreneur\, education expert\, leadership trainer\, and management consultant. Her passion is to develop and mentor young people to obtain quality education and to maximize their leadership potential to benefit society. In 2011\, Ms. Dang was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the board of Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF)\, an independent U.S. Government agency with a mission to strengthen bilateral relations between United States and Vietnam through education exchanges. From 2014 to 2018\, she served as the Executive Director of VEF. During her tenure\, Ms. Dang initiated a leadership development program that includes Public Narrative and Adaptive Leadership for VEF Fellows who are scientists\, engineers\, and policy makers. She trained over 120 VEF Fellows in Public Narrative and Adaptive Leadership. She is the Co-founder and Principal of 11plus Philanthropy\, a consulting company that provides leadership training\, capacity building\, and strategic planning to individual donors\, foundations\, and nonprofit organizations. Born in Hanoi\, Ms. Dang left Vietnam when she was ten years old. After living in rural China and Hong Kong refugee camps for 3 years\, Sandy with her family resettled in the United States at the age of thirteen. Because of her personal experience\, Sandy has made it her mission to create educational opportunities for children and youths. For more than a decade\, she served as Founder and Executive Director of Asian American Leadership\, Empowerment\, and Development (AALEAD)\, an organization that provided education to immigrant and refugee children. During her decade long tenure\, she helped thousands of students to obtain academic achievement. Ms. Dang has received numerous awards for her outstanding public leadership\, including being named Washingtonian of the Year in 2001. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts Global (AVSE) Education Summit. In addition\, she also serves on the Community Advisory Board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art and Community Advisory Board of WETA\, and a Board Member of the Center of Asian Pacific American Women Leadership. Ms. Dang earned a Bachelor’s degree from Duke University\, Masters in Social Work from Catholic University of America and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. She is also fluent in Cantonese and Vietnamese. \n  \n\nSue Ann Hong joined the Center for Asian Pacific American Women (CAPAW) May 2018 as the interim Executive Director. As of January 2020\, she is the President & CEO. Her career was with State Farm Insurance Companies for over 28 years\, including Data Processing\, Diversity & Inclusion\, Corporate Business & Technology Portfolio Management and P&C Auto Claims. She’s led up to 600 employees in multiple locations\, managed 1000 contract employees and supported customers and State Farm agents in 23 states.  She’s worked in various locations\, including MI\, IL\, NY and GA. She infuses the philosophy of building trusting relationships\, collaborating and bringing people together to achieve common goals. A 2002 Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute (APAWLI) Fellow\, she continues her journey as a Whole Person Leader in her belief it’s the journey versus the destination. Her goal is to support CAPAW’s vision to build Whole Person Leaders one person at a time. Sue Ann graduated from the University of Kansas with a BSB in Business Management and earned a MBA from Western Michigan University. She is also a certified Life Coach (CLC). She currently resides in Atlanta\, GA. \n  \n  \n  \nSheri Daniels has been leading Papa Ola Lōkahi\, the Native Hawaiian Health Board since 2016. Papa Ola Lōkahi (POL) is the organization charged by the United States Congress with administrative oversight of the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act [Public Law 102-396]. In this role\, she leads efforts to improve the overall health and well-being of Native Hawaiians and their families\, through strategic partnerships\, programs and public policy. Born\, raised\, and currently residing on Maui\, she has over two decades of experience in social service programs along with years of supervisory experience\, including both government and non-profit management. It is through these capacities that Dr. Daniels has worked closely with Hawai‘i’s unique and diverse population to overcome inequities. Sheri is actively involved in various community and civic organizations locally\, nationally and internationally. She was recently added to the International Indigenous Council for Healing Our Spirit Worldwide in 2018. In 2019\, Dr. Daniels was added to both the Advisory Council on Minority Health (Office on Minority Health) and the Department of Health’s Tobacco Prevention & Control Advisory Board. A graduate of Kamehameha Schools Kapālama\, Dr. Daniels received her bachelor’s in family resources from the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She carries a master’s in counseling psychology from Chaminade University of Honolulu\, in addition to a doctorate from Argosy University\, and currently holds several license certifications. She is married with 4 children who are students in the Kula Kaiapuni (Hawaiian language immersion) program. \n  \nBen de Guzman is the Director of the Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs (MOAPIA). He has been a leading voice at the local and national level on issues of racial equity\, immigrants’ rights\, veterans affairs\, and LGBT justice for twenty years. He comes to MOAPIA from the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs\, where he served as the  Community Outreach Specialist. During his tenure there\, he helped execute two major first time events for the Office- the “District of Pride” LGBTQ cultural performance event and the 32nd Annual 17th Street High Heel Race\, presented by the Mayor’s Office as lead organizer. He also served as both the Public Information Officer and the Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Officer for the agency. As an advocate for equity and recognition for Filipino veterans of World War II\, he played a key role in two of the most significant legislative victories on behalf of these soldiers. He led communications\, outreach\, and political strategies for the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project that led to the passage of the Filipino Veterans of WWII Congressional Gold Medal Act in 2016. He also served as the National Coordinator for the National Alliance for Filipino Veterans Equity\, where he organized a national legislative campaign that created the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund in 2009. For almost ten years\, he was principal staff at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)\, where he managed the policy and programmatic work for NQAPIA and its federation of 40 Asian American\, South Asian\, Southeast Asian\, and Pacific Islander LGBT groups around the country. As the public face of the organization\, he spearheaded efforts to promote both national LGBT campaigns around comprehensive immigration reform and a national LGBT Pride Month campaign from Asian American/ Pacific Islander advocacy organizations. His work in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities has spanned across the age spectrum. As a trainer for OCA: Asian Pacific American Advocates APIAU Leadership 101 program\, he has trained over 1\,000 youth and college students. As the National Managing Coordinator for the Diverse Elders Coalition\, he led a national program to coordinate cross-sectoral work to bring together elders of color\, LGBT elders\, and Native American/ Indian American elders to engage the 2015 White House Conference on Aging. He has authored articles and op-eds that have appeared in mainstream and special interest media\, anthologies\, and academic publications\,including the Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today. In 2015\, he received a Community Service Award from Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser\, and is pleased to come to MOAPIA and help recognize exciting new leaders moving forward. Ben is the son of Filipino immigrants and was born and raised in New Jersey. He first moved to the District in 1997 and is a proud resident of Ward 1. \nModerator\nSamantha Chiu is a lead scientist in Washington\, D.C. specializing in quantitative survey research and data collection in hard-to-reach populations. She has designed and managed fieldwork operations in post-conflict\, crisis\, and war zones around the world. More recently\, she has worked in Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, China\, Haiti\, Indonesia\, and Malaysia.  Samantha currently consults with Booz Allen Hamilton for the Department of Defense. Samantha’s past clients include USAID\, Counterpart International\, World Bank\, U.S. State Department\, and Facebook. In a pro-bono capacity\, Samantha is the Head of Research for Witness Change and the past-Chair of Business for Statistics Without Borders.  As a PhD student\, differential privacy and attitudes towards data privacy preserving mechanisms with University of Maryland\, Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing\, and the US Census Bureau. Samantha is a subject matter expert on the gender gap; original projects include: The Gender Research Initiative\, Women in Muslim Countries Project\, Coding with Girls\, Women Who Code — Accra\, Ghana\, and an impact program with Women in Statistics and Data Science. She has managed and trained international and domestic field teams to collect national-level data where non-prior exists; with special attention to quality control and sampling validity. Samantha believes in the power of data to strengthen the voices of at-risk communities. \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Recording Here!” color=”primary” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLMMQ1qgy1bE%26t%3D2s|||”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2020wlp3/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200617T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200617T200000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
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SUMMARY:*EVENT POSTPONED* 2020 Washington Leadership Program Session II: Democracy 2020: Making It Work
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will discuss the critical importance of civic engagement to the AANHPI community\, the challenges and barriers to greater civic engagement\, and the different ways that members of our community can become involved in our democracy. Key topics of discussion are the power of voting and the importance of the 2020 census\, as well as other avenues of civic engagement including a career in public service. \nSpeakers\nTina Wei Smith was appointed as the eighth Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) on December 9\, 2019. In this capacity\, Ms. Smith is responsible for directing the efforts of the Initiative and of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)\, including overseeing an Interagency Working Group. She is also responsible for advising federal agency leadership on the implementation and coordination of federal programs as they relate to AAPIs across the federal government. The Initiative\, which is co-chaired by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross and Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao\, works to broaden Asian American and Pacific Islander access to economic resources and opportunities and thus empower AAPIs to improve the quality of their lives\, raise the standard of living of their families and communities\, and more fully participate in our economy. Prior to joining the Initiative\, Ms. Smith spent over 5 years at Asbury University as the first director of the Global Engagement Office. In this role\, Ms. Smith created new international education initiatives and curriculum to increase cross-cultural understanding and prepare students for an increasingly global economy. Ms. Smith previously worked at The Heritage Foundation in the Office of Distinguished Fellow\, Elaine L. Chao. She previously served at the U.S. Department of Labor in the Office of the Secretary and the Office of Public Liaison. She also served in the U.S. House of Representatives and staffed Congressman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (NJ-11). Ms. Smith immigrated to the United States with her parents at a very young age\, and she acquired her U.S. citizenship in high school. Despite her family’s humble beginnings and the challenges of being newcomers\, she witnessed first-hand how she and her family have been blessed by the many opportunities here in America. As a result\, Ms. Smith has committed herself to public service and giving back to help others access opportunities to improve their lives and their future. Ms. Smith is a 2015 Fulbright grant recipient\, where she spent time supporting international education and bridging partnerships between universities. Ms. Smith is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (Master of Public Policy and M.A. in Higher Education). Ms. Smith and her husband\, Kevin\, call Kentucky home and they are proud parents to three young children. \n  \n  \nChristine Chen\, the founding executive director from 2006-2008 returned to APIAVote in January 2011 to serve as its current Executive Director.  During her tenure she had strengthened and expanded APIAVote’s partners into 28 states.  APIAVote’s research and polling of Asian American voters and their regional trainings and field programs have strengthened the local grassroots programs in reaching and mobilizing Asian American and Pacific Islander voters. More recently\, APIAVote has launched extensive initiatives to have a full and complete count of the Asian and Pacific Islander community in the 2020 Census. Through all these efforts\, APIAVote has played a key role in elevating the Asian American and Pacific Islander electorate to an unprecedented national level in recent years. In addition Chen serves as President of Strategic Alliances USA\, a consulting firm specializing in coalition building\, institutional development\, and partnerships among the corporate sector\, government agencies\, and the nonprofit and public sector. Chen is well-known by activists across the county. Her track record in building coalitions and working at the grassroots and national levels established her as one of the strongest voices in the APIA community. She has more than two decades of experience in organizing and advocating on issues such as immigration\, hate crimes\, affirmative action\, census\, racial profiling\, voting rights\, election reform\, and various derogatory and racist media incidents. Profiled by Newsweek magazine in 2001 as one of 15 women who will shape America’s new century\, Chen served from 2001 to 2005 as national executive director of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA)\, one of the leading APIA civil rights organizations in the country.  Chen currently serves on the Steering Committee for National Voter Registration Day\, Kennedy Center Community Advisory Board and the board for the Center for Asian American Media \n  \nSteven L Herman is the White House Bureau Chief for the Voice of America. During the Trump administration\, he has been a regular participant in the White House media pooling system\, questioning the president in the Oval Office\, on Air Force One\, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and at overseas news conferences. Steve has traveled with the president to more than a dozen states and 16 countries. The veteran journalist spent more than a quarter of a century in Asia\, including years of reporting from Tokyo and subsequently as a VOA correspondent and bureau chief in India\, South Korea and Thailand. He also served in 2016 as VOA’s Senior Diplomatic Correspondent\, based at the State Department. Among the major news stories Steve has covered on scene over the decades include the MGM Grand Hotel fire (1980)\, Squeaky Fromme’s prison escape (1987)\, the Kobe Earthquake (1995)\, the Tokyo subway sarin attack (1995)\, the handover of Hong Kong (1997)\, the end of the Sri Lanka civil war (2009)\, the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011)\, Typhoon Haiyan (2013)\, the Erawan Shrine bombing (2015) and the Gorkha earthquake (2015).  Steve has reported from dozens of other countries and territories\, including Afghanistan\, Argentina\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, Burma\, Cambodia\, China\, Colombia\, England\, Fiji\, Finland\, the Gaza Strip\, Guam\, Israel\, Kashmir\, Kyrgyzstan\, Macau\, Mexico\, Morocco\, North Korea\, New Zealand\, Oman\, Pakistan\, Peru\, Saipan\, Saudi Arabia\, Switzerland\, Taiwan\, Ukraine and Vietnam. \n  \n  \n  \nVivian Chang (she/her/hers) is the Civic Engagement Manager at the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)\, overseeing efforts on Census 2020\, civic engagement\, citizenship\, and political work. Her role builds on her leadership of APALA’s field program in Nevada\, coordinating and mobilizing AAPI communities for record voter turnout. She previously worked in federal science policy\, as well as served two years as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Philadelphia\, Pa.\, and Moline\, Ill. She is dedicated to advancing social and economic justice informed by the collective power of communities\, and to improving physical environments. Throughout her time at Carnegie Mellon (undergrad) and Princeton University (MPA)\, she dedicated time to cultivating AAPI community and building solidarity across communities of color. Vivian is a native of Columbus\, Ohio\, sprouting from dual Taiwanese and Buckeye traditions. \n  \n  \n  \nModerator \nNamrata Mujumdar is a startup leader on a mission to empower the average citizen in the political process. Having spent years working at the highest levels of government on Capitol Hill\, for the Obama Administration as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of the Treasury\, as an advisor to the former Governor of Ohio\, and raising money for the DSCC\, she understands how citizens can make an impact through collective action. She’s co-founded FUND:THIS\, a platform that empowers young citizens and newly engaged donors to raise for and donate to candidates and organizations solving problems they care about. The platform uses a Generation Z-focused user experience to help any citizen with the passion for a solution to leverage the power of collective action. Namrata has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and BA and BSBA from the Ohio State University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register Here” color=”primary” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_hlcbarh1S7OqkslJyPL-JQ|||”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/postponing-washington-leadership-program-democracy-2020-making-it-work-june-18-2020/#new_tab
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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SUMMARY:2020 Washington Leadership Program Session I: COVID-19 Present and Aftermath for Asian America
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This session will focus on providing space for education and comfort for the after effects of COVID-19. Key topics of discussion includes mental health\, physical health\, and building strength by learning tactics to descalate or resolves potential conflicts created by xenophobia in our everyday lives.  \nSpeakers\nAs the founder and CEO of Novelly\, Anna Gabriella Casalme is dedicated to creating a genuinely youth-driven civic engagement experience. Anna is the proud daughter of Filipino immigrants and she brings over 5 years of experience at the intersection of child health and well-being\, design thinking\, and technology. She has previously worked at AltaMed Health Services\, the California Planned Parenthood Education Fund\, and the School-Based Health Alliance. She completed her MSc in Childhood Studies from the University of Edinburgh\, where she was a Rotary Maternal and Child Health Scholar and a Saltire Scholar. She received her B.A. in Human Biology and interdisciplinary honors in Education from Stanford University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBruce Leal is a DC Commissioner appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser to the Commission on Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs. Bruce leads the Commission’s Pacific Islander Task Force and serves on the National Pacific Islander COVID-19 Response Team. He has worked on federal and state education policy\, immigration\, and housing issues for state and federal elected officials. Prior to his appointment in 2018\, Bruce was a Legislative Fellow for the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies\, serving in the Office of Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI). He studied Psychology and Philosophy at the George Washington University and received a Master’s in Education Policy from Johns Hopkins University. Bruce is a former special educator\, DC slam poet\, and political strategist. He currently ​works on strategic initiatives to advance racial equity at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. \n  \n  \n  \n\nJill Yu\, Managing Director & Co-Founder of “Act to Change.” In 2015\, Jill served as an Advisor at the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She worked on critical initiatives including “Act to Change”\, promoting enrollment for healthcare\, organizing the philanthropic and public and private partnership event at the White House\, and working with senior federal agency executives in how their agency can better serve Asian American populations. Jill came to federal service as a Presidential Management Fellow. Prior to federal service\, Jill was a Staff Attorney for the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law\, and worked on the cross-section of foster youth and education as well as policy issues impacting vulnerable youth. Jill is an active member of the National Filipino American Lawyers Association. Jill also founded and served as the inaugural President of the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Washington\, DC\, an affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRahul Kulkarni is the CEO of Sukhi. He has a background in employee wellness\, mindfulness\, public health\, and mental health. He’s also a former McKinsey consultant\, worked in international development (UN World Food Program in Ecuador\, USAID in Uganda)\, and spent 6 months conducting group therapy sessions in Boston at a North Suffolk mental health clinic. \nHe studied clinical psychology at Tufts Medical\, abnormal psychology at Cornell\, and received an MBA from MIT. He completed 10 days of silence and meditation training at a Buddhist Ashram in India\, and recently led corporate mindfulness workshops for teams at The World Bank\, Lyft\, and Verizon. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nModerator\nMs. Denise Lew is a retired Air Force Colonel currently employed as a health care consultant with Deloitte Consulting LLP. She has a B.A. in Health Arts and Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters of Public Administration with an emphasis in Health Administration from California State University\, East Bay. She is a board-certified healthcare executive\, a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives\, and has over nine years of experience with Deloitte and 26 years of prior active duty Air Force experience in healthcare administration. \nIn the Air Force\, Denise served in C-suite equivalent roles in military hospitals and clinics as well as executive positions in DoD regional and Air Force headquarters offices\, supporting DoD policy implementation for healthcare delivery\, human resources\, strategic planning\, quality management\, patient safety\, customer service\, recruitment and retention\, career paths and succession planning\, and leadership development. In her role with Deloitte\, she serves as a subject matter expert for the Military Healthcare System (MHS)\, specializing in the TRICARE health plan benefit and Military Treatment Facility (MTF) operations. \nDenise is also actively involved in mentoring Asian practitioners in her firm\, as well as volunteering as  mentor for CAPAL’s summer internship and fellowship programs\, for young healthcare executives in ACHE\, and for transitioning veterans in AcademyWomen’s eMentor program. She is past chair of the Asian Healthcare Leaders Forum committee of ACHE\, and is a member of Ascend and the Asian American Government Executives Network (AAGEN).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Watch Recording Here!” color=”primary” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DuV5pOpuFgEI%26t%3D1s|||”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2020wlp1/
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191203T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
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SUMMARY:2019 Giving Tuesday Pie Smash Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Date | Tuesday\, December 3\, 2019\nTime | 6:00 – 9:00 PM\nLocation: Ellipse Rooftop Bar \n1522 K St NW\, Washington\, DC 20005 \n\n#GivingTuesday #CAPALNEXT30\n\nDecember 3\, 2019 marks CAPAL’s 6th annual Giving Tuesday Happy Hour. The purpose of this event is to raise and increase support for CAPAL in the areas of awareness\, capital\, and partnerships. The Pie Smash is CAPAL’s major promotional event during the Giving Tuesday campaign. This is a lighthearted event designed to incentivize donors to give by attaching a dollar amount ($100) to each pie. If a Board Member is able to reach that amount\, they can designate someone (e.g.\, the donor who helped them reach that amount) to smash a pie in their face. Leading up to the event and during\, the Board Members will raise money from their networks\, and can use the event as an incentive or a follow-up.  You can donate to our individual Board members through our Giving Tuesday official donation website and donate to our organization as a whole through our Facebook fundraising page. \nThis year\, our Giving Tuesday theme #CAPALNEXT30 highlights the decades of CAPAL’s dedication to its mission. It allows us to look at how CAPAL will envision itself for the next 30 years while acclaiming the services it has provided\, through the growth of the #AANHPI community in the public service sector.  CAPAL will dedicate to its mission more as we look forward for the next 30 years to all the opportunities as we have given the AANHPI. \nPlease note that the four Board members (Cathy Yu\, Liz Zung\, Keith Preciados\, and Will Lam) will not be pie smashed\, though they will take any donations.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nSome photos from last year’s event!\n[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”15518\,15519\,15520″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nCan’t make the event? Donate below. All donations made on or before December 3\, 2019 will go towards the CAPAL Giving Tuesday Campaign. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”DONATE” color=”primary” align=”center” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.capal.org%2Fsite%2Fdonateform%2F|||” el_class=”red-btn2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPlease RSVP below. If you are unable to see the form below\, try a different browser. \n  \nRegister\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2019-giving-tuesday-pie-smash-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Ellipse Rooftop Bar\, 1522 K St NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20005\, United States
CATEGORIES:front-display,Happy Hours
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190730T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190730T200000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
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SUMMARY:2019 CAPAL Board Informational Session
DESCRIPTION:The Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) was originally founded in 1989 by seven AANHPI professionals in D.C. with a mission to empower Asian American\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) youth by increasing access to public service opportunities and building a strong AANHPI public service pipeline. Since then\, we’ve grown from an all-volunteer nonprofit organization to one with up to 20 volunteers on its board and two paid full-time staff. We recognize that each board member brings a unique set of skills and experiences\, and are looking for passionate\, hard-working individuals who believe in our mission and are driven to strengthen CAPAL’s unique model for developing the next generation of AANHPI leaders in public service. \nApply Here\n\nRegister\n \n\nWe encourage you to join our mailing list\, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2019-capal-board-informational-session/
LOCATION:WeWork Dupont\, 1875 Connecticut Ave NW\, 10th Floor\, Washington\, DC\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190725T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190725T200000
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CREATED:20190719T082204Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Board Recruitment Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the end of another successful summer of CAPAL events and meet the current Board to learn what opportunities there are for you to volunteer and contribute to CAPAL including how you can join the Board of Directors! Broaden your skills and work with a highly motivated team of young professionals interested in building leadership and public policy knowledge among the AANHPI community. You will have the opportunity to lead teams and fundraise to execute exciting programming that will educate and inspire the next generation of AANHPI leaders. \nLearn more about our current Board of Directors by clicking here. \nApply Here\n\nRegister\n \n  \n\nMore About CAPAL’s Happy Hours\nCAPAL happy hours serve as a regular opportunity for young professionals to network in the Washington\, DC metro area. Each happy hour is themed and highlights ongoing CAPAL programs and campaigns. \nThe Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) seeks to empower Asian American\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) youth by increasing access to public service opportunities and building a strong AANHPI public service pipeline. We envisions a future with equitable AANHPI representation throughout all levels of government and public service. \nWe encourage you to join our mailing list\, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2019-board-recruitment-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Hawthorne\, 1336 U St NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190724T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190724T200000
DTSTAMP:20260817T145758
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SUMMARY:2019 Washington Leadership Program Session VI: What's in a Name? Labels as Political Identity
DESCRIPTION:This session will focus on how United States immigration and naturalization law has shaped the myriad communities under the AANHPI umbrella\, from the territories to the continental US. Participants will interrogate how labels are applied to AANHPI minority identities\, whether surrounding refugee or national or legal status\, and how different communities are impacted by policies with respect to those labels. Registration for the event will begin at 5:30pm with our program following promptly at 6:00pm. All WLP sessions are free to the public\, but seating is limited. Please register online to reserve your seat. Dinner will be provided.   \nSpeakers\n  \n \nVimala Phongsavanh currently serves as the Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS).\nPrior to joining APAICS\, Vimala served as the Policy Director at the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) where she worked to build power for Asian American and Pacific Islander women and girls through leading the organization’s reproductive justice agenda.\nBefore moving to Washington\, DC in 2017\, she led advocacy efforts at Common Cause Rhode Island and led successful campaigns in democracy including the passage of legislation such as automatic voter registration\, online voter registration\, post-election audits\, and ethics reform. She worked as a lobbyist to pass state legislation for the disaggregation of Southeast Asian student data.\nAdditionally\, she served as the Director of Programs at the Center for Southeast Asians where she led the organization’s strategic direction\, vision\, and program management.\nIn 2009\, Vimala ran for local office in her hometown for a seat on the Woonsocket School Committee and became the first Lao American elected to a school board in the country\, and the first Asian American elected to office in the city. Vimala served on the committee for two terms and as the committee’s Chairwoman.\nVimala was born\, raised and educated in Rhode Island\, and currently lives in Arlington\, Virginia. She has a BS from Providence College\, and an MPA from the University of Rhode Island. \n  \n \nNeil G. Ruiz\, Ph.D. is associate director of global migration and demography at the Pew Research Center. He studies the international movement of people across borders\, high-skilled immigration to the U.S. and around the world\, demographic analysis of Asian Americans\, and comparative legal immigration systems. Prior to joining the Center\, Ruiz was the executive director of the Center for Law\, Economics & Finance at George Washington University\, and he has also worked as a migration and economic development expert at the Brookings Institution\, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He is a political economist with a doctorate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, a master’s degree from Oxford University\, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California\, Berkeley. Ruiz regularly speaks about U.S. immigration and international migration research with major print and broadcast media. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJanelle Wong is Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and a core faculty member in its Asian American Studies Program.  She received her PhD in 2001 from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Wong is the author of Immigrants\, Evangelicals\, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change (2018\, Russell Sage Press)\, Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions(2006\, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics. The most recent is Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities (2011\, Russell Sage Foundation)\, based on the first national\, multilingual\, multiethnic survey of Asian Americans. She was a Co-Principal Investigator on the 2016 National Asian American Survey\, a nation-wide survey of Asian American political and social attitudes. Wong is a research fellow at AAPI Data and a public fellow at PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute).  Wong is also the co-founder of Chinese American Progressive Action\, a project dedicated to amplifying progressive Chinese American perspectives related to racial justice (follow at @actioncapa) \n  \nModerators\nPriscilla Baek \nRegister\n**If you are unable to attend\, please notify us 24hr in advance to open your spot for another person** \n \nWe encourage you to join our mailing list\, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for the latest updates. \n\nMore About The Washington Leadership Program\nThe Washington Leadership Program (WLP) provides a space for young AANHPI students interning in Washington\, D.C. to come together\, build community\, and explore their heritage within the context of public service. Through six sessions over the summer\, WLP introduces students to AANHPI public service leaders who can inform and inspire students’ own civic engagement. \nThe Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) seeks to empower Asian American\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) youth by increasing access to public service opportunities and building a strong AANHPI public service pipeline. We envisions a future with equitable AANHPI representation throughout all levels of government and public service. \n\nBy registering for CAPAL’s Washington Leadership Program\, you give permission to be recorded or photographed during the session. Food provided at this event may contain nuts\, dairy\, gluten\, and other allergens. Vegetarian options will be available.
URL:https://www.capal.org/site/event/2019-washington-leadership-program-session-6/
LOCATION:DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:front-display,Washington Leadership Program
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