by Marie Choi | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Stories
In every change there is opportunity. In 2021, Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network, announced that she would be transitioning out of her role as E.D. As we celebrated Miya’s leadership, we took this opportunity to consider moving...
by Christine Cordero | Feb 3, 2022 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Stories
by Christine Cordero, APEN Co-Director ** I first encountered APEN’s work 15 years ago. At the time, I was volunteering at an environmental health organization based in Oakland, working with communities in the Philippines fighting for the removal of a dangerous and...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 20, 2021 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Stories
Please see the statement below by Vivian Yi Huang, APEN’s new incoming Co-Director, about Miya Yoshitani’s transition out of her role as Executive Director and Vivian’s vision for APEN. ** In my time working with Miya, I’ve learned a lot from her...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 17, 2021 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
All of us deserve to walk down the street without looking over our shoulders for fear of being attacked – to go to work, drop off our kids at school, get groceries, and gather with friends without fear of being assaulted or worse. Earlier this year, after...
by Miya Yoshitani | Sep 1, 2021 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Stories
After twenty years on staff and nine years as APEN’s Executive Director, I am transitioning out of my role as Executive Director. I am deeply humbled and grateful to have been a part of APEN’s growth to become the powerhouse that it is, to organize our Asian immigrant...
by TEAM APEN | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Issues, Location, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
We are honoring the lives of Mr. Thongsoun Phuthama and his wife, Boua Vanvilay, who passed away from COVID-19 on December 22 and 25th respectively. Thoungsoun and Boua were both active leaders in Richmond’s Laotian community, and their passing, amidst so much other...
