by Marie Choi | Mar 26, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Statewide, Stories
At APEN, we are adapting quickly to this time of rapid change and uncertainty: raising emergency funds to stabilize our communities, fighting for eviction moratoriums and debt forgiveness, and standing up to the rising tide of anti-Asian racism and violence. With...
by Clio | Mar 25, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Events, Oakland, Richmond, Statewide, Stories
We know that working class, undocumented, unhoused, disabled, elderly, immuno-compromised, and low-income community members will suffer the worst impacts of this ongoing pandemic—and that our physical distance from one another will pose new challenges to our...
by Clio | Mar 16, 2020 | Oakland, Power to the Frontlines, Richmond, Statewide, Stories
Support working-class Asian immigrant and refugee families through the COVID-19 pandemic. As we face one of the worst pandemics of our lifetimes, we know that our best chance of weathering the storm is to pool our resources and help the people in our...
by TEAM APEN | Mar 9, 2020 | Stories
Childhood photo of Vivian. Yuri Kochiyama said, “ Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” As we celebrate the many amazing women who have made...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 19, 2020 | Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Power to the Frontlines, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
This week, The James Irvine Foundation announced that our Executive Director, Miya Yoshitani, was named a 2020 Leadership Award recipient. The award comes with a grant of $250,000 to support APEN’s work to mobilize Asian immigrants and refugees to win groundbreaking...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 18, 2020 | Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Oakland, Statewide, Stories
APEN Civic Engagement Coordinator Karen Yeung supervising an APEN canvasser My name is Karen, and I am APEN’s Civic Engagement Coordinator. When I first began volunteering for APEN, I learned that a lot of people are unable to live in a safe and healthy environment....
