AAPI Women Lead

Today marks AAPI Women Lead's first anniversary as a 501(c)(3)! 🥳 As we reflect on the past year to honor the official day, we have so much gratitude for our team and our community for showing up. AAPI Women Lead started in 2018 and proceeded as a fiscally sponsored organization until last fall, when we became an official nonprofit organization 501(c)(3). Our work is made possible with your support. Thank you for making it possible. To continue our education and research work, donate at aapiwl.org/donate.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Oakland, CA for our 6th annual ImReady Movement Conference. We appreciate all of our partners, sponsors, donors, practitioners, guests, community safety team, and everyone who made this event possible! Shout out to photographer Joyce Xi for capturing these amazing moments. Make sure to sign up for our news letter at www.aapiwl.org to receive updates and to learn about future events!

Thank you to Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) for hosting a funder briefing to support AAPI Women Lead and our historic new initiative the R.E.A.L - Research and Education for Advocacy and Liberation - Institute! Join us on Friday to learn more about our organization, our Institute, AND our landmark study "Naming Our Rage, Building Our Power," the first community-driven study on racial and gender violence against Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander women, girls and non-binary communities. We look forward to being in conversation and community with you.

We are so excited to announce another conference speaker joining us for ImReady2024: "Building New Worlds": Terisa Siagatonu @terisasiagatonu ✨ Terisa Siagatonu is an award-winning touring poet, speaker, educator, and community organizer born and rooted on uncede Ohlone territory otherwise known as the Bay Area. Her voice in the poetry world as a queer Sāmoan woman has granted her opportunities to perform in places such as the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia, the 2019 SF Women's March, and Leone High School on Tutuila in American Samoa: the high school that her father graduated from. Offstage, Terisa is a community organizer in her Pasifika community and creates/facilitates workshops, leads artistic and professional development training, provides mental health support, and delivers keynote speeches across the country on issues that inform her 15+ years of community work involving: youth advocacy, educational attainment, mental health, Pacific Islander/Indigenous rights, climate change, and others. Currently, Terisa is working on a YA novel about the hidden costs of climate change as told through the life of a Samoan-American teen from the Bay Area. Her debut children’s book, The Vastness of Us, will be published by Penguin and released in Fall 2025. 💫 Get your tickets for our ImReady2024 event at https://lnkd.in/g6iiCa7y 💫 Stay tuned for more speakers, practitioners, and offerings! 💫 Head to https://lnkd.in/g6iiCa7y for more details about our conference tickets, donating, and sponsorship. #AAPIWomenLead #ImReady2024 Image Description: a blue flyer with orange details and sparkles, “6th Annual ImReady Movement Conference Speaker Terisa Siagatonu. Artist/Educator/Organizer.” In the middle is a photo of Terisa wearing a hat, large hoop earrings, a white dress shirt, and a leather jacket.

We are so honored and excited to gather with some many incredible people for our 6th annual ImReady Movement Conference. There is time to register and join us for a day of collective study, healing and wellness, skill share and so much more. We have community group ticket opportunities. Email us at community@aapiwomenlead.org Register for the event https://lnkd.in/g5BkCd3A

We are excited to announce one of our practitioners joining us for ImReady2024: “Building New Worlds”: Dr. Manmeet Kaur Rattu @drmini.co✨ Dr. Mini Rattu is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and specializes in Trauma and Stress related conditions and Anxiety disorders. Dr. Mini utilizes evidence-based treatment interventions from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Positive Psychology, and Yoga Psychology. Dr. Mini is also a certified yoga therapist and educator (IAQT, YACEP, E-RYT-500), psychedelic assisted therapist, mindfulness instructor, and formally trained in Compassion Cultivation and Altruism Research Education (CCARE) and Yoga for Mental Health (YogaX) at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is excited to have most recently graduated the nation’s first cohort of Integrated Yoga Therapy for Qualified Healthcare Professionals (IAYT-Q) from Stanford University’s YogaX program. Dr. Mini aims to include culturally relevant program development in her work. 💫 Get your tickets for our ImReady2024 event at https://lnkd.in/gf6CMZQi 💫 Stay tuned for more speakers, practitioners, and guests! 💫 Head to https://lnkd.in/gf6CMZQi for more details about our conference tickets, donating, and sponsorship. #AAPIWomenLead #ImReady Image Description: a blue flyer with orange details and sparkles, “6th Annual ImReady Movement Neuroscience of Trauma + Stress Resilience with Yoga Education, Dr. Manmeet Kaur Rattu, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Yoga Therapist + Educator.” In the middle is a photo of Dr. Rattu.

We are excited to see you all on September 21, 2024 in Oakland, CA! Introducing our panel moderator for ImReady2024: "Building New Worlds": Lily Wong @lilywong0817✨ Lily Wong is an Associate Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. At AU, she also serves as an Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies. Her research and political practice focus on the politics of affective labor mobilized in relation to transpacific coalitional movements against state-sanctioned violence. She is one of the founding board members of the Society of Sinophone Studies (SSS), serves on the Advisory Board of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and supports AAPI Women Lead’s Intergenerational Participatory Action Research project as an advisor. 💫 Get your tickets for our ImReady2024 event at https://lnkd.in/g6iiCa7y 💫 Stay tuned for more speakers, practitioners, and guests! 💫 Head to https://lnkd.in/g6iiCa7y for more details about our conference tickets, donating, and sponsorship. #AAPIWomenLead #ImReady2024 Image Description: a blue flyer with orange details and sparkles, “6th Annual ImReady Movement Panel Moderator Lily Wong. Associate Director, Antiracist Research and Policy Center.” In the middle is a photo of Lily, standing in front of a colorful bookshelf.

Dear Community: a message from our team ⬇ Read our statement on Instagram at https://lnkd.in/grDB32Eg

Support our fundraising goal for our sixth annual ImReady Movement Conference "Building New Worlds" this September! 🌏☄️❤️🔥 Since 2018, AAPI Women Lead has brought together hundreds of Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander women, girls, non-binary, gender expansive communities and our co-conspirators/allies for ImReady conferences to build collective power and work to end violence in our communities. For this year's ImReady Conference, our goal is to continue this tradition and to do even more, and we need your support to make that happen! All donations can be made at our ImReady2024 Donorbox, which you can find at donorbox.org/imready2024! For larger sponsorship opportunities, email us at community@aapiwomenlead.org. Our community-driven events are directly impacted by your giving, and so we invite world-builders like you to partner with us. Be a part of our historic “Building New Worlds” conference for ImReady2024.

Support our fundraising goal for our sixth annual ImReady Movement Conference "Building New Worlds" this September! 🌏☄️❤️🔥 Since 2018, AAPI Women Lead has brought together hundreds of Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander women, girls, non-binary, gender expansive communities and our co-conspirators/allies for ImReady conferences to build collective power and work to end violence in our communities. For this year's ImReady Conference, our goal is to continue this tradition and to do even more, and we need your support to make that happen! All donations can be made at our ImReady2024 Donorbox, which you can find at donorbox.org/imready2024! For larger sponsorship opportunities, email us at community@aapiwomenlead.org. Our community-driven events are directly impacted by your giving, and so we invite world-builders like you to partner with us. Be a part of our historic “Building New Worlds” conference for ImReady2024.