Author: Lavender Phoenix

POW! A Call to Action from the APIENC Justice League

Communities of API Equality – Northern California, We’re excited to announce that during May, API Equality – Northern California (APIENC) will be kicking off a month-long fundraising campaign: POW! Power Our Work: Building LGBTQ API Leadership. In 2015, API Equality – Northern California’s leadership development work relied 62% from individual donors . . . such

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API Equality – Northern California is Hiring an Executive Director!

Title: Executive Director, API Equality – Northern California Full time, based in San Francisco Deadline: On-going; priority for applications submitted by Friday, March 25th Salary: DOE, Excellent benefits JOB DESCRIPTION Asian Pacific Islander Equality – Northern California (APIENC) seeks an Executive Director who will be responsible for overseeing and executing the mission, vision, and day-to-day

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2015 Highlights and 2016 Goals

2015 was quite a year. We connected, convened, and inspired hundreds of people to share their stories, learn about queer and trans API history and activism, practice organizing skills, march for trans lives and justice, and build relationships across generations. Here are some of our highlights: We launched the API Queer Justice Leadership Exchange, a

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Berkeley 10K: Become an APIENC Champion!

TEAM APIENC RUNS BERKELEY has become an API Equality – Northern California tradition. This year marks our 3rd annual Berkeley Run where our awesome volunteers run, walk, or even skip for LGBTQ API justice. Our goal for our end-of-the-year fundraiser is to raise $10K for 10K! What’s even more amazing is that we already have

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Storytelling, StoryCorps, and Reflections

Through our partnership with StoryCorps, Dragon Fruit Project interviewers and storytellers have come together to share stories of love, struggle, identity, and activism. Check out some of our interviewer’s reflections on the experience, and hear about why they think storytelling is important! Yifan Mai, Dragon Fruit Project Committee “With these interviews, we got into some

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