Give a warm welcome to Jenny, Cecilia, Felix, and Caroline, our new Youth Organizer In-Training cohort! These 4 OITs are participating in a semester long program part of our Asian youth organizing arm ALLY (Asian Leaders for the Liberation of Youth). This program aims to build towards a community organizing campaign and win concrete changes […]
by Yian Saechao and Justin Sipoloa, Youth Organizers
As growing baby organizers, we have been on a journey to truly organize and empower our youth. Why? Because the youth are our future, and we need to invest to build them up. This means we constantly assess how our organizing connects with the broader fight […]
After about 9 months of extensive planning, 10 ALLY youth made their way to Chicago in August for the first-ever “Beyond Our Boundaries” national Asian youth summit. With over 120 youth from 10 different organizations attendance, the summit sought to bring together Asian American youth throughout the country to learn, build, and grow with one […]
by Justin Sipoloa
PI Youth Organizer
A year ago, APANO’s Pacific Islander Youth Program didn’t exist. When I started at APANO last year, it was explained that I would get to create a program for Pacific Islander (PI) youth geared towards social justice. However, when I was first introduced to the ALLY youth, it was apparent that the “PI” in […]
