Smashing the Model Minority Myth: A Celebration of MN AAPI Leaders

May was Asian-American and Pacific Islander month, and Literacy Minnesota celebrated with a panel of Minnesota AAPI leaders sharing the amazing work that they are doing for everyone in their Minnesota communities.

View the panel at: https://youtu.be/Mf1x2gio-Xc

Panelists: Dr. Rose Chu, Senior Policy Fellow at MNEEP and Professor Emerita at Metro State.
MK Nguyen, Neighborhood Leadership Program, Nexus Community Engagement Institute. About MK.
Wendy Vang Roberts, MAVA.
Samantha Vang, Minnesota House of Representatives. About Rep. Vang.

Description: Join Literacy Minnesota and special guests for a Zoom celebration of Asian-American and Pacific Islander lives in Minnesota! Come and learn about AAPI representation in education and the arts from Dr. Rose Chu, Senior Policy Fellow at MNEEP and Professor Emerita at Metro State; politics and policy from State House Representative Samantha Vang; diversity and equity in volunteerism from Wendy Vang Roberts, Training Manager at MAVA; and local organizing from MK Nguyen from St. Paul Promise Neighborhood. Celebrate the achievements and activism of Minnesota’s AAPI communities, and connect to resources that the literacy field can use to lift up and support our AAPI teachers, volunteers and learners.

Want to learn more? Check out these three local organizations that support and lift up the Minnesota AAPI community. They are doing great work!

Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans https://mn.gov/capm/community/nat-orgs/

Coalition of Asian American Leaders https://caalmn.org/

Asian American Organizing Project https://aaopmn.org/

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