We launched #TogetherWeSpeak this Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to spotlight Los Angeles-based female API activists who are empowering their communities through action and by speaking up. We asked each woman: What advice […]
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Asian American Activists: What Does Los Angeles Mean To You?
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we launched #TogetherWeSpeak to spotlight Los Angeles-based female API activists who are empowering their communities through action and by speaking up. We […]
APAHM 2018: Thai CDC’s Chanchanit Martorell Says Her Work is Never Done
In 1995, the Los Angeles Times wrote about a young activist working to help 72 Thai nationals who were being held against their will inside a garment factory in […]
APAHM 2018: CADRE Executive Director Maisie Chin Says She ‘Will Not Be Used’
More than two decades ago, Maisie Chin was working on an initiative with South Los Angeles schools to get more kids into college when a white teacher pulled her […]
APAHM 2018: Blogilates’ Cassey Ho is Here to Help Everyone Live Their Best Lives
Cassey Ho has made a name for herself in the fitness community, but it may surprise some to learn that there was a time when the fitness guru wasn’t […]
APAHM 2018: Workers’ Rights Advocate Aquilina Soriano-Versoza On Community Empowerment
Aquilina Soriano-Versoza, who’s dedicated her social justice career to bettering the lives of low-wage domestic workers and immigrants in the Filipino community, was once angry. She was angry seeing […]
APAHM 2018: Sonya Passi’s Mission to Help Domestic Violence Survivors Find Financial Independence
Sonya Passi has seen it happen too many times: domestic abuse survivors finally building up the courage to leave their abusers, only to be forced, because of financial insecurity, […]
APAHM 2018: Comedian Jenny Yang Is Done Being a ‘Good Asian’
Jenny Yang’s story could easily double as the premise of an Asian American sitcom: She grew up in a diverse neighborhood in Torrance, California, to Taiwanese immigrant parents. After […]
APAHM 2018: Activist Sahar Pirzada’s Fight Against Gendered Islamophobia
Sahar Pirzada had one thing to say when she found out the Singaporean government was using religion, especially Islam, as an excuse to drag their feet on sexual education […]
APAHM 2018: Artist Phung Huynh Explores the ‘In-Betweennness of Being Asian American’
Phung Huynh, a Los Angeles-based artist, centers her work on what she calls the “in-betweenness of being Asian American.” Often, art is evaluated and examined from a Western paradigm. […]
APAHM 2018: Anna Akana Tackles Mental Health Awareness and API Representation
Actress, writer, comedian and YouTube personality Anna Akana has valuable advice for aspiring Asian American entertainers trying to make it in Los Angeles: “Never live in Santa Monica! The […]
#TogetherWeSpeak: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2018
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the City of Los Angeles and Kore Asian Media are highlighting API women who have used their perspectives and voices to […]
APAHM 2018: ACLU Jails Monitor Esther Lim Pushes for Criminal Justice System Reform
Esther Lim says she can’t forget the kids she met in juvenile correction facilities in which, as a grad student, she worked as an intern interested in pursuing criminal […]
APAHM 2018: Mia Yamamoto On Her Unending Fight for the Poor and Marginalized
For Mia Yamamoto, courage is telling the truth. Her life serves as testament. Born in a Japanese internment camp in Poston, Arizona, Yamamoto — born Michael — combated racial […]
APAHM 2018: Doreena Wong On a Lifetime in Civil Rights Advocacy
An activist and community organizer for over 40 years, Doreena Wong knows a thing or two about what it takes to fight injustice. “You have to feel good about […]
