This year, our Co-Advocacy Chairs, Melissa Tungare and Evelyn Zhang, wanted to kick off CEP by supporting our local communities where food insecurity is prevalent. The goal of APASA’s Fridge Fest was to collect food from those in the USC community, sanitize all the nonperishable and fresh goods we collected, and deliver them to and clean three different fridges around Los Angeles.
Read MoreSpirits were high and nerves were abound as APASA E-Boarders and Interns ran around TCC and Tommy’s Place trying to make everything perfect for the event. Everyone was excited to see how Got Talent would play out in-person after a year over Zoom, and equally thrilled to welcome our student performers and meet our judges.
Read MoreWe were finally able to find *the* 14 interns *chefs kiss*. Our E-Boarders welcomed them into APASA through lovely personal messages sent through social media, and the annual Santa Monica Orientation was waiting right around the corner.
Welcome to APASA’s Community Road Map, a monthly initiative where we have a conversation with an APIDA organization in the greater Los Angeles area about their mission and the community they serve. In honor of October being National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, our first stop is the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF), a service provider and shelter for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Read MoreAfter giving a brief introduction to how the evening might look, we turned off the lights, raised the volume, and the beautiful opening scene started playing before our eyes. Everybody was captivated by the movie, and the 1hr 37min runtime flew by in an instant.
Read MoreFull visibility of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American experience is lacking in the US, partly the result of the spread of the monolithic misrepresentation of the APIDA community and the widespread “model minority” myth.
Read MoreXimon (they/them) is the current marketing/PR manager for East West Players, which is the longest-running theatre of color in the US.
Read MoreThough the pandemic prevented us from walking through the traditional APASA annual Night Market, we were still able to fill our homes with the delicious smell of Kadhi and learn from the best of the best, Sohla El-Waylly and Priya Krishna!
Read MoreFear struck the hearts of our Cultural Art Expo (CAE) Committee as we frantically racked our brains for mediocre puns the Wednesday before the big event.
Read MoreWinnie Fong currently serves as the present of the LA chapter of Project by Project, where she helps manage over 6 committees and is in charge of spearheading all the projects.
Read MoreThree space crews from separate planets land on an unpopulated planet only to find that an alien species of mimics dwell on this planet and are rapidly sabotaging their efforts to return home.
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