Join us for our 15th Anniversary Celebration: Our Voices, Our Power

Date: Monday, October 21, 2024

Time: 5:30 - 8:00 PM

Location: Empire Garden, Boston Chinatown

Celebrating 15 Years of Changing the Face of Leadership and Power!

Ahead of a historic election, join us and visionary trailblazers from across the country for an unforgettable night celebrating the power of our voices, our stories and our votes.  As we celebrate 15 years of changing the face of leadership and as we look towards the future, we invite you to dream with us as we build power with our aunties, sisters, mamas and grandmamas into November and for the long-term.

HONORARY CO-CHAIRS

  • Ayanna Pressley

    CONGRESSWOMAN

  • Jill Tokuda

    CONGRESSWOMAN

  • Katherine Clark

    CONGRESSWOMAN

    HOUSE MINORITY WHIP

  • Andrea Campbell

    MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL

FEATURING

  • Erika Moritsugu

    DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE ASIAN AMERICAN AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SENIOR LIAISON

  • Geeta Aiyer

    Time's 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL CLIMATE LEADERS

    FOUNDER/PRESIDENT, BOSTON COMMON ASSET MANAGEMENT

  • Sabrina Pourmand

    AWARD-WINNING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR

    ACTING CEO/FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RIDEBACK RISE

  • Nicole Kang

    ACTRESS/PRODUCER/ACTIVIST

  • Catzie Vilayphonh (AAWPI ‘24)

    AWARD-WINNING SPOKEN WORD POET

    FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO PERFORM ON HBO'S DEF POETRY JAM

Host Committee

Former Philadelphia City Councilmember Helen Gym (Chair) | Andrea Dew Steele | Chisun Lee | Emily Nielsen Jones | Jaya Aiyer | Jessica Tang | Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright | Lena Wu (AAWPI ‘16) | Maria Jobin-Leeds | Rose Felix Cratsley | Cambridge City Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui | Suzanne Lee | Victoria Huynh (AAWPI ‘23)

For sponsorship opportunities, contact Darlene Vu at Darlene@aawpi.org.

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AAWPI is the only national-level political leadership organization for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women. After the Georgia mass shooting of 6 AAPI women, we realized how urgent it was to change the invisibility that leaves us so vulnerable to the anti-Asian violence we still see today. So after 12 years in Massachusetts, we expanded nationally and launched a National Civic Impact Fellowship & Incubator Program for low-income and immigrant Asian American and Pacific Islander women in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. We've funded their civic impact projects (at $10k) which are designed to mobilize and create social change and equity for our communities. Then, we support fellows with training, individualized coaching, mentoring, and grassroots actions in partnership with community organizations such as AAPI PA Power Caucus and Chinese Progressive Association/Boston to ensure their projects are informed by what's already going on on the ground. In the last three years, through civic impact projects, voter registration and grassroots actions with our community partners, we have activated over 50,000 AAPI women in Georgia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. By 2028, we plan to scale to Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina, with the goal of exponentially turning out AAPI women to vote in states where AAPIs are the fastest growing population and AAPI civic engagement and voter activation is critical. 

We are building what previously didn’t exist: a national infrastructure to activate, mobilize and elevate AAPI women at all stages of the political pipeline. But more than anything, we are creating a new way of building AAPI political power: one rooted in radical love, joy and a commitment to uplifting each other. Because of the unique space we’re creating, we made Politico's 2023 National Power List for being a force shaping race, culture, policy and politics, alongside Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown and Vice President Kamala Harris.

At this historic moment for AAPI women, we hope you will join us to celebrate our collective power, and energize our communities to continue fighting for a future we deserve.