Thriving Together: Queer apis Building Community, Solidarity, & Movement
Stan Fong is a board member of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance. Stephanie Camba
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Stan Fong is a board member of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance. Stephanie Camba is an undocumented, queer, Pilipin@ poet raised in the Marshall Islands and uprooted to the U.S. a week after 9/11 because food and water shipments to the islands were halted. She has worked on immigrant-rights-based direct action campaigns, created healing and wellness spaces for fellow undocuAPI folx, art based curriculum and workshops centered on experiences in the diaspora, and has used her art to highlight some of the challenges, thoughts, and feelings that she has experienced with status playing a central role in a large body of her work. Suma Reddy is a Co-Director of Asian Pride Project, a multi-lingual LGBTQ arts & advocacy platform that uses the power of storytelling to increase visibility and acceptance among Asian & Pacific Islander families and communities. Suma was also one of the founding members of DeQH, the first South Asian LGBTQ Helpline, and served on the board of SALGA-NYC. Suman Raghunathan is the Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). Suman was an immigration policy consultant for the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, Demos, and United Neighborhood Houses of New York. She also served as Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships for Progressive States Network, where she coordinated the organization’s policy agendas and worked intensively with legislators from over 40 states. Suman received her undergraduate degree in International Relations from Brown University and has a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy in New York City. Sungsub Billy Choo is part of the IMPACT Program at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Choo has also presented at the Midwest Asian American Student Union Spring Conference. Sunu P. Chandy joined the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR) as General Counsel in September 2014. Before that she served as one of the Senior Trial Attorneys with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (US EEOC) over the past 15 years litigating complex civil rights employment matters in federal court through its New York District Office. At EEOC, she litigated in all areas enforced by the agency including class cases based on race, national origin, sex, disability, age and religion based discrimination. In New York, Ms. Chandy served on the Boards of Directors of ALP (the Audre Lorde Project), LeGal (the LGBT Bar Association) and SAWCC (the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. As General Counsel of the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR), Ms. Chandy advises on all legal matters facing OHR as a local civil rights enforcement agency including issuing letters of determination following investigations of discrimination in the areas of employment, housing, education and public accommodation context. In her life beyond civil rights law, Ms. Chandy completed her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in May 2013 and, alongside her partner, is the proud mother, by way of adoption, of their beloved five year old daughter. Susannah Hong is coordinator and trainer for Talking Circles with the Network on Religion and Justice for API LGBTQ People. Talia de la Cruz is a Peer Navigator and involved in TRANS ACCESS at the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center in San Francisco, CA. Tania Unzueta is an immigrant, queer community organizer working with the Not One More Deportation campaign. Over the last 5 years, she has worked with immigrant communities around the country—specifically undocumented students, immigrants in deportation proceedings, and day laborers. She recently took some time off immigration to work as Latino Field Director for the Jesus "Chuy" Garcia Mayoral campaign in Chicago but is now back supporting national organizing against deportations and leading the case-by-case work for Not One More. Tania has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Teng Yang is a gay-identified, Hmong man who currently works as a Computer Graphics Artist. Yang became involved with Shades of Yellow in 2014 as an Artist Lead. He took charge of curating the first ever Queer Hmong Art Gallery. Since then, Yang has joined The Leadership Circle at Shades of Yellow as an active member, helping with Social Media and Communications. Terna Tilley-Gyado is a Steering Committee Member of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) and has previously presented at Creating Change. Dr. Thai Lee is a physician at the San Francisco Department of Public Health and One Medical Group. He serves the community as a board member of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) and a volunteer physician at API Wellness Center. Dr. Lee presented at the 2012 NQAPIA conference with Shades of Yellow (SOY) and has presented at various medical conferences on various health issues throughout the country. Tina Shauf is a queer Filipino from an immigrant family, born in the Philippines. She is a community organizer with the Filipino Community Center in San Francisco, CA. She was the former Chairperson of babae SF, now GABRIELA San Francisco. She is the current Vice Chair of Mass Campaigns of GABRIELA USA. She has conducted many workshops, trainings, and political education since 2007. Tola Ros is the Volunteer Management Coordinator and main tour docent for the National Cambodian American Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial in Chicago. Tony Choi has previously presented at NQAPIA, 2012, 2013; MinKwon Center for Community Action: Biweekly DACA informational workshops, 2013-2014; Colorado Immigrants' Rights Coalition Summit: #UndocuAPI Rising, 2012; Advancing Justice Summit Chicago, 2012; and NYCAASC, 2013. Tori Hong is a Hmong and Korean American, non-binary/genderescent, dfab (designated female at birth), bi, second-generation young person. They graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2014 with a BA in Social Justice, Leadership, and Communications Studies. Tori is proud to be the new Community Coordinator of Shades of Yellow (SOY). They are bringing their passion for social justice, art, and community building to this organization. They hope to ignite holistic social change by working with the queer and trans Hmong and API communities. Tori's activism comes from a legacy of resistance exhibited by both their paternal and maternal families who struggled through war and displacement. Total Nguyen is an undergraduate student at San Jose State University and is the weekly meeting facilitator for both Q&A and oSTEM. Nguyen is an Intern Facilitator for API EQUALITY - Northern California workshop with Youth MOJO! SF. Nguyen’s presenter history includes being a youth representative panelist for SBFT LGBTQ APIs of the Silicon Valley; "LGBTQ Ally Language Immersion" Workshop Presenter at Your Story, Our Movement API Conference at De Anza College; 4 time dance workshop instructor for QACON at UC Berkeley; and 2 time safe sex workshop presenter at Stanford's API Listen to the Silence Conference. Tracy Nguyen was born and raised in San Jose and graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Media Studies and Ethnic Studies. As a student activist, Tracy helped found the first-ever “Celebration of Asian Pacific American Womyn” dinner banquet and organized deeply within the Southeast Asian refugee community. Tracy’s dream is to become a documentary filmmaker and own a hair salon. Currently, she is a part of APIQWTC (API Queer Women and Trans Community), on the board of Queer Women of Color Media Arts Program (QWOCMAP), and is the Program Coordinator at API Equality - Northern California. Una Aeon Kalani Narvaez Flux hails from Kalihi, O'ahu. She is a transgender Native Hawaiian, Chinese, American Indian, and Puerto Rican woman majoring in psychology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. As of Spring 2016, she will be the first college graduate in her family. Urooj Arshad is the Associate Director of International Youth Health and Rights at Advocates for Youth and a steering committee member of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD). She was a member of the Center for American Progress’ Faith and Reproductive Justice Institute and an American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute fellow. She is currently on the Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Global Advisory Board and Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Board. V Chaudhry is a PhD student in cultural/linguistic anthropology at Northwestern University, focusing on activism, subjectivity, and institutional funding for South Asian queer and transgender populations. V received their B.A. at Washington University in 2014. There, V had been involved with LGBTQIA activism, co-founding the university's first queer students of color group and helping run such events as Transgender Awareness Week, Ally Day, and campus Safe Zones trainings. V has also worked with SALGA-NYC (youth intern, 2013), Empire State Pride Agenda (intern, 2013), Queer South Asian National Network (QSANN), the Queer South Asian Anthology Project, and Chicago Desi Youth Rising (CDYR) (member). Victoria Kirby York (pronouns: she/her) is the National Campaigns Director – Religious Exemptions and Welcoming Communities at the National LGBTQ Task Force where she is thrilled to be able to serve in a capacity that allows her to bring her faith to work each day while fighting against religious exemption legislation that seeks to provide a “license to discriminate” while building communities that affirm the importance of faith in the lives of LGBTQ people. She has been organizing in a variety of capacities over the past 16 years regarding a number of progressive issues and candidates at the federal, state, and local level. She most recently served as the Florida Director for Organizing for Action (OFA), the non-profit formed from the President's electoral campaigns to support President Barack Obama's legislative agenda. She has also worked in government, youth education non-profits, and in the private sector. Ms. Kirby York has also served as a member of the Human Rights Campaign’s National Diversity & Inclusion Council, the National Black Justice Coalition's Leadership Advisory Council and as a board member for Howard University, the Center for Black Equity and the Next Generation Leadership Foundation. She has been published in the LGBTQ Policy Journal at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, has been featured on CNN, MSNBC’s Today Show, FOX, the Washington Post and a number of other national and international media outlets. Vincent Wang is a member of AQUA DC. Viveka Ray-Mazumder (Vi) is a 1.5 generation Indian American youth worker and community organizer who grew up in New York in the wake of 9/11. This moved Vi to become active around issues of racial justice, youth empowerment, and prison abolition. Currently, Vi runs a program called KINETIC for immigrant and refugee teenagers in Chicago Public Schools through Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago. Vi is a founding collective member of Chicago Desi Youth Rising (CDYR) and a core member of i2i: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago. Vi is passionate about using art as a tool for social change and about building strong communities and chosen families. Vivian Fried-Chung has served on the NQAPIA Board of Directors since 2012. She recently graduated with an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and will be moving to San Francisco this summer. Prior to Wharton, she worked for the Principal Investing arm of Macquarie Bank as well as the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co in New York. Dr. Vy Lam is the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Specialist on the Human Rights Division at USAID's Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance in Washington DC. Dr. Lam joined USAID in 2012 and works to integrate LGBTI beneficiaries and concerns into USAID’s policies and programs. Prior to joining USAID, Dr. Lam was an interdisciplinary scientist with background in microbiome physiology, radiopathology, viral immunology, cardiovascular disease, and tissue engineering. Dr. Lam received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison where he studied the dynamics of vesicular stomatitis replication and its induction of immunity. Willy Wilkinson, MPH is a writer and public health consultant who has provided training and consultation on providing equal access for LGBTQ populations. He developed the first HIV prevention program for trans men who have sex with other men, and organized the first peer support programs for Asian transmasculine individuals and people of color on the female-to-male spectrum. Willy’s memoir Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency blends experiences of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and parenthood with lessons from cultural competency, public health, and policy advocacy. Learn more at www.willywilkinson.com. Yas Ahmed is the Co-Coordinator of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) and has previously presented at Creating Change. Yesenia Valdez is a queer gender-fluid Chicana activist from Fresno, CA. She’s been a passionate community organizer for Fresno Immigrant Youth in Action- FIYA, and several other organizations in Fresno. She is an aspiring entrepreneur studying psychology. Yesenia prides herself in advocating for liberation and equality for all marginalized groups in our society, and is passionate about working at the many intersections within our LGBTQ Latina/o community. She is excited to be part of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. Zon Moua is part of Southeast Asian Girls and is the LGBTQ Program Director at Freedom Inc. in Madison, WI. About NQAPIA The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBTQ AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge homophobia, transphobia, and racism. NQAPIA Current Programs Annual Training and Issue Briefing for Leaders of LGBTQ AAPI organizations This weekend long Summit focuses on networking, learning about current issues, sharing strategies, building local organizational infrastructure, and building national collaborative programs. Prior convenings were held in Honolulu (2013), San Jose (2011), Chicago (2010), Denver (2008) and Oakland (2005). In 2014, we organized a series of Regional Summits. National Conference This conference brings together grassroots LGBTQ AAPI activists from across the nation. Prior national conferences were in Washington, DC in 2012 (350 attendees) and Seattle in 2009 (250 attendees). New York’s 2004 conference (400 attendees) helped lay the groundwork for NQAPIA’s initial convening. LGBTQ Immigrants’ Rights & Racial Justice We are spearheading educational and advocacy campaigns on immigrants’ rights & racial justice that include local community forums, press conferences featuring AAPI immigrants, a national postcard campaign, and coordinated nationwide action. Promoting Visibility NQAPIA aims to improve the visibility of LGBTQs in the mainstream AAPI community and of AAPIs in the broader LGBTQ community. This multilingual education campaign includes outreach to the Asian ethnic media and educational pieces translated into several Asian languages. Capacity Building Resources, Workshops, and Trainings This includes a descriptive directory of all of the nation’s LGBTQ AAPI groups, sharing best practices and model documents, and fiscal sponsorship. NQAPIA will also host local, regional and national trainings, around organizational sustainability, capacity building, direct action organizing, and more. A National Voice NQAPIA raises the LGBTQ AAPI voice in current issues and we promote LGBTQ AAPI engagement. NQAPIA is a member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, the coalition of national AAPI advocacy organizations and brings a racial justice lens to the LGBTQ policy agenda. NQAPIA Team NQAPIA Board of Directors Bex Ahuja, Management Center, Brooklyn, NY Anj Chaudhry, Brooklyn, NY Vivian Chung, Wharton School of Business/UPenn, Philadelphia, PA Stan Fong, Atlanta, GA August Guang, Providence Youth & Student Movement, Providence, RI Almas Haider, Washington, DC Mandy Hu, San Francisco, CA Shivana Jorawar, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, Washington, DC Kevin Lam, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Alison Lin, Oakland, CA Michelle Lee, Koreans United for Equality, Los Angeles, CA Kham Moua, OCA APA Advocates, Washington, DC Eri Oura, Oakland, CA / Honolulu, HI Phillip Ozaki, Lambda Legal, New York, NY Aya Tasaki, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY monna wong, API Equality - Northern California, San Francisco, CA * Affiliations for identification purposes only. NQAPIA Staff and Consultants Glenn D. Magpantay, Executive Director - glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org Sasha W., Organizing Director - sasha@nqapia.org Ryan Viloria, Conference Coordinator Linda Le, Bookkeeper Christina Adams, Administrative Assistant Janani Balasubramanian, Social Media Consultant Roberta Sklar, Media Consultant Mia Nakano, Website/Tech Consultant Julia Yang, Database Consultant NQAPIA Member Groups: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander Organizations The South Trikone-Atlanta, GA Khush Texas, Austin, TX VAYLA-New Orleans, LA Midwest Shades of Yellow (SOY), Minneapolis, MN Invisible to Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago (i2i), IL Trikone Chicago, IL Freedom Inc., Madison, WI
Asian Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA), Washington, DC Asian Pacific Islander Queer Sisters (APIQS), Washington, DC hotpot!, Philadelphia, PA Khush-DC, Washington, DC
Asian Pride Project, NY Dari Project, NY Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) Q-WAVE, NY SALGA, NY PFLAG NYC Chapter – API Project
Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA), Boston, MA Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance (QAPA), Boston, MA Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), Providence, RI Pacific Northwest API Pride of Portland, OR Trikone - Northwest, Seattle, WA UTOPIA - Seattle, WA Project Q of API Chaya, Seattle, WA Pride Asia, Seattle, WA Northern California API Equality-Northern California, San Francisco, CA Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community (APIQWTC), Bay Area, CA Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), San Francisco, CA South Bay Queer and Asian, San Jose Trikone, San Francisco, CA UTOPIA - San Francisco, CA
API PFLAG San Gabriel Valley, CA API Equality - Los Angeles, CA Barangay - LA, CA Satrang, Los Angeles, CA Koreans United for Equality (KUE), CA UTOPIA - San Diego, CA Viet Rainbow Orange County (VROC), CA API Pride Council, Los Angeles, CA AQWA, Los Angeles, CA Malaya Project, Los Angeles, CA
Pride Marianas, Saipan Guam Alternative Lifestyle Association (GALA) Nolu Ehu, Waianae, HI National Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) Network on Religion and Justice (NRJ) Desi lgbtQ Helpline (DeQH) Back Cover
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