Thriving Together: Queer apis Building Community, Solidarity, & Movement
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Joo-Hyun Kang is the director of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), a multi-strategy campaign to end discriminatory and abusive policing in NYC. Her past work includes directing programs at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice; serving as the first staffer and director of the Audre Lorde Project, a center for LGBTSTGNC People of Color organizing. Her organizing, activism and training history spans racial/economic/gender justice and LGBTQ/immigrant rights. Joo-Hyun is an acupuncturist, and loves those tiny needles. Jorge Gutierrez is an UndocuQueer activist born in Nayarit, Mexico and was raised in Santa Ana, California. He is a graduate of the California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. Most recently he is the founder of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, a national LGBTQ Latina/o organization focused on organizing and advocacy on the diverse issues impacting the trans and queer Latina/o community in the United States. In addition, he has co-founded DeColores Queer Orange County, co-founded the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (CIYJA), and founded the Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (QUIP). Joy Messinger is five feet of East Coast sass, Southern charm, and Midwestern hospitality. A bisexual/queer cis femme adoptee, Joy likes to spend her time building queer & Asian American community, cooking & baking for those she loves, and finding a way to make Mean Girls quotes applicable in everyday situations. She organizes with Invisible to Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago and does freelance & consultant work in the reproductive justice, sexuality education, youth leadership development, and nonprofit public health worlds. Find her at www.joymeetsworld.net. Junella Maurice Tuason Casia-Johnson is a Filipino American transgender person who has assisted in cultural diversity training and holds a degree in IT Computer Science. They share their experience as a trans individual and the oppression they face in their own traditional culture and due to religious and cultural disparities. Justin Ruaysamran, Esq., is corporate counsel at Prudential Financial. As part of his legal practice, Justin has taken on a number of pro bono cases, including criminal, family law and immigration. Karen Marie M. Villa is a Candidate for Master of Arts in Sociological Practice at California State University in San Marcos. Villa is a member of Barangay Los Angeles, API Equality-LA, and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF). Villa has worked in the Asian American community for over ten years, including HIV/AIDS prevention and outreach, LGBTQ marriage equality, and the recruitment and retention of Filipino Americans into higher education. Karen Naimool. With over 10 years of experience working directly with clients with severe trauma, Naimool has developed and facilitated trainings at all levels of education. Naimool has presented workshops and trainings at non-profits throughout the United States and the Caribbean on understanding the needs of their LGBTQ constituents and working with trauma. Naimool has also facilitated workshops and trainings at colleges and universities on cultural competence, disproportionality of the child welfare system of New York and working with LGBTQ populations. Naimool is currently a board member at SALGA-NYC. Karen Su works for the University of Illinois at Chicago within the Asian American Studies Program and is the Project Director for their Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Initiative. Kevin Kumashiro is the Dean of the School of Education for the University of San Francisco. Dean Kumashiro came to USF from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where he was a professor of Asian American Studies and Education, and served as Chair of the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Interim Co-Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. Kumashiro is an award-winning author and editor whose books include Troubling Education, Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning toward Social Justice, and Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture. Kevin Lam is a queer, second generation Southeast Asian American community organizer. Growing up with refugee parents, Kevin learned values of community, respect, love, hard-work, and family. In May 2015, he earned his master's degree in Humanistic & Multicultural Education at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Kevin serves on the board of NQAPIA and has been the Program Manager of the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM). He is dedicated to promoting visibility of the AAPI community, and addressing the issues impacting these communities. He is excited to share his passion for social justice, and drag with everyone. Kevin Lee is a member of AQUA DC. Kham Moua currently works in Washington, DC as the Policy Associate for OCA National - Asian Pacific American Advocates. Kham is also involved in AQUA DC and is a board member of NQAPIA. Kim Hunt became the Executive Director at Affinity Inc. after serving on the Board of Directors. Kim is co-founder and managing partner of O-H Community Partners, Ltd. (OHcp), which provides capacity building and technical assistance services to nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies. Kim was a senior planner with the Chicago Transit Authority, is a published author, and has Master’s degrees in public policy and urban planning from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago, respectively, and a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Iowa State University. Kim has three children and has been happily partnered for over 12 years. Kimler Gutierrez is the Program Manager at API Equality-LA. Gutierrez has years of experience leading workshops, conducting trainings, facilitating sessions, and presenting on numerous topics and on a variety of issues. Kingston Kodan is a visual artist living and working in the Washington Metropolitan area. He currently serves as President of KhushDC. KhushDC is a social support, advocacy and political group. KhushDC provides educational seminars, hosts a monthly peer facilitated support group, sits on the DC Mayor's API LGBTQ Taskforce, and collaborates with sister organizations in the expansion of a language resource directory used to aid asylum seekers and provide family support. KhushDC was also recently a part of the historic Leaders of Color LGBTQ White House Summit. Kit Yan is a Brooklyn based slam poet from Hawaii. Kit performs theatrical slam poetry pieces about his life as a queer, transgender, and Asian American through stories about family, love, and social justice. Kit has been seen on television programs such as HBO’s Asian Aloud, PBS’ Asian America and MYX TV. His recent performances include the True Colors Youth Conference, the New England Queer People of Color Conference, and the Brooklyn Museum. Kit’s work was recently featured in Flicker and Spark and Troubling the Line, two new queer and transgender poetry anthologies, and has a forthcoming book with Transgenre Press. Korinne Sugasawara is a queer multi-ethnic Californian constantly searching for the East Coast’s authentic Mexican food. She enjoys quietly nerdy activities, like hoarding indie comic books, squeezing into Spandex to lift weights, and writing jokes only her sister finds funny. Kristina Tendilla works for Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago and has presented workshops/trainings on racial and economic justice, immigration, election work, direct action, oral history, and arts. Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader. Born in the Nu'uanu District of O'ahu, Kumu Hina was educated at Kamehameha Schools and the University of Hawaii. She was a founding member of Kulia Na Mamo, a community organization established to improve the quality of life for māhū wahine (transgender women), and served for 13 years as the Director of Culture at a Honolulu public charter school dedicated to using native Hawaiian culture, history, and education as tools for developing and empowering the next generation of warrior scholars. Kumu Hina is currently a cultural advisor and leader in many community affairs and civic activities, including Chair of the O'ahu Island Burial Council, which oversees the management of Native Hawaiian burial sites and ancestral remains. In 2014, Hina announced her bid for a position on the board of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, one of the first transgender candidates to run for statewide political office in the United States. Hina is married to Hema Kalu, from Niuafoʻou Island in the Kingdom of Tonga. They live together in Nu'uanu, Honolulu. Lakshmi Sridaran is the Director of National Policy and Advocacy at South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). Lakshmi Sundaresan was a 2014-2015 AmeriCorps Member at Asian Human Services (AHS) Chicago and is a first year medical student. Sundaresan worked as an HIV/AIDS counselor and, through her work at AHS, has facilitated community workshops and helped extend the agency’s outreach efforts with Chicago’s API and LGBTQ communities. Lance Dwyer is a current member of the Gay Asian Pacific-Islander Association of San Francisco and is a former NQAPIA board member. Dwyer has considerable experience conducting trainings through various professional capacities, including providing HIV education training to community members for the Asian & Pacific-Islander Wellness Center. Dwyer has also presented and facilitated at numerous conferences over the years, most notably the Men's caucus and Pin@y caucus during the last NQAPIA conference in DC. Lance Toma, LCSW, is Executive Director of Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center in San Francisco, CA. Lance has over 20 years of nonprofit management and leadership experience and works toward a strategic and collaborative community vision, with deep commitment to API, LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS, and people of color communities. Lance currently serves as board vice chair of the National Minority AIDS Council, a founding and current steering committee member of the California LGBTQ Health & Human Services Network, co-chair of the San Francisco HIV/AIDS Providers Network, and board member of the Community Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief (CAEAR) Coalition. Larry Tantay is currently the Youth Pride Coordinator at the Community Awareness Network for a Drug-Free Life and Environment (CANDLE), co-leading LGBTQ support groups for youth and providing LGBTQ cultural competency training. Prior to CANDLE, he was the YMSM Project Coordinator at APICHA Community Health Center and provided workshops about sexual health and community empowerment to API LGBTQ folk in NYC. Tantay is also an applied theatre artist and received his M.A. in Applied Theatre from CUNY School of Professional Studies. He has created pieces on Filipino identity with Tagalogue and FAHSI's Leading Youth to Find Empowerment (LYFE) group. Laura Fugikawa is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at Northwestern University and is a co-founder of the Chicago Queer Asian American Archives. Laurin Mayeno is a mixed race (Japanese/Jewish/Anglo) woman who is the proud mother of a multiracial, gay son. Her experience as a mom opened her eyes and inspired her to use her voice to create safe, supportive families, schools, and communities for LGBTQ youth. As founder of Out Proud Families, she reaches out to mixed-race families and families of color via video, social media, workshops, and presentations. Her children’s book, based on her son Danny, will be released in 2016. She has worked as a trainer and facilitator on topics of cultural diversity, equity, and multicultural communication for over 16 years. Leslie Kuo is interested in how contemporary art documents and influences cultural identity and how self-identity plays a role in one's engagement with art. Leslie worked in the contemporary art scene of Shanghai for 6 years and is now a development officer for exhibitions at the Jewish Museum (New York). She proudly works to progress the Asian Pride Project mission as a co-director and ally. Lester Manzano is the Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs within the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University. Liz Thomson (she/they) is a member of Invisible to Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago (i2i) and a current Ph.D. student in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Thomson identifies as a bi, gender non-conforming, Vietnamese adoptee, cis female and is always interested in multiple, intersecting identities. Thomson has presented numerous workshops and trainings around LGBTQ, gender, sexuality, and Asian American issues. Lolan Buhain Sevilla is a queer Filipino butch cultural worker & organizer who strives to root their art in community, study and practice. They have over a decade of cross-sectoral nonprofit administrative, development, event coordination, and programmatic experience. Lolan currently works at the NYC Anti-Violence Project; is the Board of Directors Co-chair for CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities; and serves as a curatorial team member of the Filipino American Museum's Gathering the Grassroots conference. Additionally, Lolan is a member of the National Writers Union, local 1981, has been published in several magazines, and is the author of Translating New Brown, as well as the co-editor of Walang Hiya …Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice. Luke Meierdiercks is a Vermont native and recent graduate of The Second City Improv Conservatory. Chicago credits include Read the Room (The Second City Training Center), L’Imbecile (Babes with Blades), and Wish Upon a Star (Vera Productions). Recently, Luke performed as Elder Shumway in The Book of Merman (Pride Films & Plays) and can be seen in Pride Films & Plays' August production of The Boy from Oz. Mala Nagarajan is part of the Queer South Asian National Network (QSANN) and Vega Mala Consulting. Mala also has experience with Trikone-NW, NQAPIA, Equal Rights Washington, Rainbow Dragon Fund, 2008 NGLTF Policy Institute Fellow, and Seattle PFLAG. Malcolm Shanks (pronouns: they/he) is a longtime community educator, organizer, and aspiring healer. As an Organizer in the Academy for Leadership & Action, they prioritize building big teams, finding new opportunities for inter-movement collaboration, and promoting the leadership of trans & gender non-conforming people of color. Prior to the Task Force, Malcolm cultivated a background in facilitating social justice education on radical leftist movement history for queer people of color and community organizations. They are passionate about using healing, the veneration of ancestors, and visionary thinking as movement tools. Mandy Hu, Esq. is a NQAPIA board member, lawyer, San Franciscan, Chinese-American, skeptic who is prone to crying at happy immigration stories and videos of interspecies animal friendships. Often mistaken for a teenage boy, Hu was carded at an R-rated movie on the night of Hu’s 33rd birthday. The theme of Hu’s life is joy-through-complexity! Manuel Falcon Padua’s artivism started as Barangay LA Director of Advocacy in 2011 and he has since been an active committee member and advisory board member of the Filipino LGBTQ organization. His passion for advocacy started in HIV prevention with Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team in Los Angeles. With an interactive approach he increased HIV awareness & HIV testing, often creating games to educate underserved populations. As a result, Manuel graced the pages of Frontier magazine as one of LA Gay and Lesbian Center's representatives for their Gay Heroes campaign. His current work can be found at www.facebook.com/Mannyfestdesign. Margaret Holt. As standards editor of the Chicago Tribune, Margaret Holt works closely with reporters and editors about issues of accuracy, fairness and ethics. She has a particular interest in urban issues and diversity of coverage and regularly meets with community leaders and groups to talk about coverage. A graduate of the University of Missouri, Holt has held a variety of reporting and editing jobs. She joined Tribune Co. in 1987 as business editor of the Sun-Sentinel of South Florida. Holt moved to the Chicago Tribune as sports editor in 1993. In 1995, she began working on customer and accuracy issues and has represented the Tribune in workshops and conferences on accuracy and credibility. A member of the Native American Journalists Association, Holt also is active in the Mid-America Press Institute and is serving as board chair. She volunteers in outreach programs, including youth journalism Mark Martell began his career in higher education in 2000 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Campus Housing. After, he worked for Semester at Sea and for Inspiration Corporation. In 2005, he returned to UIC to work at the Student Employment Office and recently at the Office of Career Services. Martell has taught at Harold Washington College and for the UIC College of Education. Presently, he is completing a PhD in educational policy studies at UIC and is researching the racialized experiences of UIC Asian American students. Mark Ro Beyersdorf is a queer, mixed-race Korean American activist and media strategist. He is currently a Senior Associate at BerlinRosen Public Affairs. Previously, Mark was a Program Associate with the Educational Equity Program at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). He also worked as a Field Organizer for the 2008 Obama Campaign in Ohio, a staff member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus for then-chair Congressman Mike Honda, and an Immigration Advocate at the Queens Public Defenders office. Mark is also a Co-Coordinator of the Dari Project, which published the first bilingual anthology of LGBTQ Korean American essays, and a member of the Board of Directors of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities. Marsha Aizumi is the proud mother of a transgender son. She is on the PFLAG National Board of Directors, President of PFLAG SGV API, and an educational consultant for four school districts. Marsha is the author of Two Spirits, One Heart, a memoir about her journey from sadness, shame and fear to unconditional love and acceptance. In 2014, Marsha received the Seattle JACL Civil Rights Award, the National JACL Biennium Award for education and humanities and Congresswoman Judy Chu’s Community Service honor. Marsha has spoken to over 100 organizations around the country sharing her story of love and hope. Mashuq Deen is a former SALGA NYC Board Member and Transgender Chair and is currently one of the organizers at Sampoorna, a global organization for trans* & intersex Indians across the globe. He has spent five years training SALGA support group facilitators and spearheaded advocacy and training on trans* issues locally in NYC as well as working globally with other agencies. He is also an award-winning theater artist. Mathilda de Dios is the Associate Director at The Free Write Jail Arts & Literacy Program in Chicago. Committed to building a multicultural arts movement for social justice, Mathilda leads literacy workshops with the girls at the jail and has previously served as a community organizer, contributor and editor to publications such as the Future 500: A directory of youth organizing and activism in the United States (2002), the BUILD Voices Anthology (2008), Filipino American psychology: A Collection of personal narratives (ed. Nadal, 2010), and the Know Your Rights Curriculum (2013) with the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. Mathilda has Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Urban Studies from Colorado College and a Masters in Education from University of Illinois at Chicago. Matthew Johnson is the Hepatitis Program Director at Asian Health Coalition (AHC). Johnson helps lead a multi-sector collaborative of 12 partners comprising community-based organizations, health advocacy agencies, and healthcare providers to outreach, educate, screen, and link to medical care at risk populations around hepatitis B. Johnson has been working in public health for over 10 years and joined AHC in 2013. His interests lie in health equity and social justice to improve the lives for those in need. Johnson has a Master’s in Public Health. Maulik Pancholy played Jonathan on the Emmy®, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award-winning NBC comedy 30 Rock and played Sanjay on Showtime’s award-winning, dramatic comedy Weeds. He also starred on shows on NBC, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Disney, and others. Pancholy has appeared in numerous films, such as 27 Dresses, Friends with Money, and Hitch; several independent features; and extensively in theater. Pancholy was recently appointed by President Obama to serve as a Commissioner on the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He works on a wide range of issues affecting the AAPI community, including bullying prevention, healthcare, immigration and youth engagement. He is also active with a number of non-profit and social policy organizations. In 2013, OUT Magazine named Pancholy to the “Out 100,” an annual list of the year’s most compelling LGBTQ people, and in 2014, he received the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award. Maya Jafer is a Holistic Doctor, Actor, Dancer & Transgender Activist. She identifies as a post op. transsexual woman from India, now settled in Los Angeles as a U.S. citizen. Maya holds two doctoral degrees in Holistic Medicine from Mangalore, Karnataka, India and Seattle, WA. She has over 25 years of training & experience in the Holistic Field. Maya’s passions are acting, dancing and activism. She is featured in the award winning documentary "Mohammed to Maya," which has screened in 55 film festivals around the world (MohammedtoMaya.com). She is also in the Golden Globe Award winning Amazon Original Series ‘TRANSPARENT’. Melisa Stephen is part of SWOP-Chicago at NU Divest in Chicago, IL. Mia Nakano is highly involved and has presented at many events and conferences. Nakano is a current board member of Banteay Srei (2013-Present); board member of the Queer Cultural Center (2012-Present); Executive Director of the Visibility Project (2007-Present); and the Founding Photo Editor + LGBTQ section founder/editor of Hyphen magazine (2003-2007 and 2013-Present). Michelle Lee is part of Koreans United for Equality in Los Angeles, CA. Ming Wong is the Supervising Helpline Attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), where he manages their legal information helpline, which handles thousands of calls each year on a range of issues from LGBTQ people nationally. He also manages NCLR’s legal internship programs. Ming serves as the Secretary of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and has been active in The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the guild. He has a JD from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law with a focus on Public Interest law. Mioi Hanaoka identifies as queer & genderqueer. She is an advocate for social change, serving on the leadership team of API Equality – Northern California. Mioi has also been in the tech industry for 9 years. She started out in systems administration and is now a software engineer at Cisco Meraki. Being witness to the stark differences between a for-profit corporation and a non-profit organization, she has recently been inspired to create change within her company. Mioi has been busy working on creating a queer & allies group as well as various diversity and inclusion initiatives including getting gender-inclusive restrooms in her office. 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