AAPI Women Lead
Programs

#ImReady​ conference brings together AAPI movement leaders, community members, and allies from across fields and experiences to learn about the political and social issues impacting AAPI women-identified, women, girls and their communities. The conference is a platform for attendees to identify and share their experiences as marginalized communities in the US. As an educative platform, the conference focuses on movement-building in solidarity with other communities of color. #ImReady conference is also a call to action conference by which attendees also plan and develop strategies to create social change.

"Throughout the year, AAPI Women Lead will host movement building series meeting which will serve as community-building gatherings as well as listening sessions. These small meetings of 20-30 participants will operate as spaces for participants to identify and discuss current issues impacting the AAPI communities. The movement building sessions will also serve as a meeting place for participants to collect and share their personal stories and resources around issues of violence, activism, movement-building and leadership.
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Our research program examines the layers and intersecting forms of violence that impact self-identified Asian and Pacific Islander women and girls across the United States. Through mixed methods including Youth Participatory Action Research, surveys and focus groups/listening sessions, we identify the types of violence that API women and girls experience. Our research also identifies community-driven responses and solutions to violence against and within the communities.’ Findings, policy and practice recommendations are distributed at #ImReady conference.

In this program youth participate in Youth Participatory Action Research where they explore issues impacting their communities. Interns develop leadership and research skills. Our program includes trainings on social justice, transformative justice, community building, and self + community care. Youth create and lead a community campaign based on the outcomes of their research.

Our summer leadership and capacity development program will include community partner organizations that work on issues of healing, leadership development, community organizing, advocacy, and “empowerment.” Institutes will include seminars, workshops, and activities that will help strengthen the capacity of individual participants and communities in general. Through the healing and leadership institute, attendees will learn about history of Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the United States, participate in leadership development workshops including community organizing in workplace, participatory action research and advocacy, and holistic forms of healing. In this space, attendees will be able to tell their stories for the purposes of leadership, organizing, and healing.