At API Equality – Northern California, our work is powered by the heart and soul of community members who share our vision. Volunteers of all ages and backgrounds offer their time, energy, and skill to our programs and activities. This month, we are looking for new volunteers to help drive our work. Here are some
On February 24, 2014, the effort to repeal the School Success and Opportunity Act — California’s new law ensuring that all children have a fair opportunity to succeed in school — failed to qualify for the ballot. California’s School Success and Opportunity Act — also known as AB 1266 — went into effect on January ensuring that schools have
Our staff, interns, and volunteers at API Equality – Northern California are proud to uplift Alain Dang’s life work and legacy of activism. Alain was a community leader by example. He helped create API Equality – Northern California, served as a founding board of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), and worked as a
TOBY WU is a gay Chinese American from New York City. He moved to the Bay Area over 3 years ago to study at Stanford’s Teacher Education Program and is now a first grade teacher at a new charter school in Oakland, California. His passion for education is in engaging students with how they learn
We’ve been at the edge of our seats with a pressing issue affecting transgender student rights in California. Our friends at the Support All Students Coalition sent out the following press release today regarding the AB 1266 Referendum, which if passed, would harm trangender students’ opportunity to fully participate in school and have a fair shot
At API Equality – Northern California, we believe it is possible for our work to be driven and funded by our community, and true sustainability is our 2014 New Year’s resolution. In 2013, over 400 of you—volunteers and supporters–contributed to our work by giving what you could, when you could, whether that was $10, $100, or $1000. In the
API Equality – Northern California is looking for daring, dedicated, and enthusiastic people who have a passion for social justice and the LGBTQ API community to join our Steering Committee. Steering Committee members work as a team to make key decisions to shape the direction of the organization and work to advance overall our impact
