Our conference is split into 2 workshop sessions. You may choose to attend 1 workshop per session, making 3 total.
Session 1
Youth Organizing 101: How API Youth are Leaders of the New School
BY Susan Cheng & Jonathan Paik
Location: WOODS COVE B
Location: WOODS COVE B
With the upcoming political landscape, Korean Resource Center will discuss our impact of work in regards to the 2016 Presidential election as well as the impact of the election on people's lives. We will introduce youth organizing and campaign language as well as identify problems and issues within the API community that folks feel need to be prioritized and addressed in the 2017 year. We will build collective power to the API community by teaching folks how to address individual and mutual struggles.
"Junior Partners": Asian Americans and an Anti-Black World
BY Patrick Chen
Location: MOSS COVE B
Location: MOSS COVE B
Anti-Blackness is global and pervasive in Asian American communities. This workshop should provide historical context for how and why Asian Americans have participated in Anti-Blackness to further their own political goals. This workshop should provide a space for attendees to discuss how to challenge Anti-Blackness internally, in their own communities, and in the broader fight. This workshop is facilitated by a non-Black Chinese American.
Return to Sender? Adopted Asian Americans Without Citizenship
BY Julayne Lee
Location: MOSS COVE A
Location: MOSS COVE A
Due to a loophole in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, several, perhaps thousands of inter-country adoptees to the US who were never naturalized as US citizens are living without citizenship. Of those who’ve been deported to their country of origin, some have not survived. This continued war on adoptee bodies will end when all inter-country adoptees have US citizenship. Attend this workshop to hear from adoptees working to pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act which will ensure all inter-country adoptees can live full, complete lives in the only country they’ve ever known. *Due to confidentiality, no photography or filming will be permitted during this workshop.
Queer & Trans Caucus
BY Aian Mendoza; Location: WOODS COVE C
Queer & trans folx are subject to various forms of violence, and our existence truly is resistance. This is a space for us to be in community and uplift each others voices. Possible topics: combating violence, navigating family, well-being, community building, resource sharing, disability justice, neurodiversity, pre-colonial views of gender &/or sexuality, etc. *Intentional space for folx who identify within the LGBTQQIA+ community*.
Session 2
Art as Advocacy: The Tag Project
BY Wendy Maruyama
Location: MOSS COVE A
Location: MOSS COVE A
The Tag Project and EO9066 is a body of work about the Japanese American Incarceration experience. This will be a slide presentation of my work, and how community art projects can bring social awareness to the public. Some of the work I will share talks about the displacement of Japanese Americans and how the artwork metaphorically expresses the loss of the home, the family unit and combines it with the bleak landscapes of the camp locations.
Gentrification and Chinatowns
BY Patrick Chen
Location: MOSS COVE B
Location: MOSS COVE B
This workshop will provide historical context for how gentrification is impacting urban, low income API communities and other communities of color. This should build knowledge foundation to facilitate student activism in defense of vulnerable Chinatown residents.
Peaceful Protests: Practical Tactics for De-Escalation
BY Eddy M. Gana Jr.
Location: WOODS COVE B
Location: WOODS COVE B
What do you do when an agitator is derailing your message or action? What if an organizer is in crisis? Participants will be provided scenarios and given hard skills for learning and practicing how to verbally deescalate a situation. Open learning environment in which people of all skill levels are welcome.
SEA Youth: Immigration to Education
BY Erica Khaine
Location: WOODS COVE C
Location: WOODS COVE C
This workshop will go over the impact of refugee immigration on the educational journeys of Southeast Asian Americans. Southeast Asian American youth struggle with the issue of invisibility and hypervisibility, resulting in some of the lowest college acceptance rates and highest high school dropout rates among minorities. The significance of the refugee crisis of the 70’s did not simply disappear, but its effects can be felt for generations. As more Southeast Asian natives seek to create a new home in America, we cannot let their stories go unheard.