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SCHEDULE

9:30 - 10:00—Welcome & keynote

  • Christine Chen, Executive Director, APIAVote

 

10:00 - 11:30—Plenary

  • Gem Daus, Filipino American Studies Professor, University of Maryland & Public Health Analyst, Department of Health and Human Services

  • Deepa Iyer, Activist in Residence, University of Maryland & Former Executive Director, South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)

  • Phil Nash, Asian American Studies Professor, University of Maryland & CEO, Nash Interactive, Inc.

 

11:35 - 12:30—Session 1: What are the problems?

  • Workshop 1: Intersectional Feminism

    • Devan Shea, DC Chair, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) & Policy and Outreach Associate, Center for Health and Gender Equity

  • Neha Singhal, Immigrant Rights Organizer, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)

  • Workshop 2: Racism

    • Wendy Laybourn, Graduate Student, School of Sociology at University of Maryland

  • Workshop 3: Black and Asian Solidarity

    • Mikael Owuna, Blogger, Owning-my-truth.com & Co-host of Hyphenated* Lives

 

12:35 - 1:30—Lunch

 

1:35 - 3:30—Session 2: What is to be done? (Round robin skill share)

  • Session 1: Worker Solidarity and Campaigning for a Cause

    • Manjur Ahmed, President, Bengali Students Association

    • Katie Plank,  United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)

  • Using the Arts for Social Change

    • Members of TOTUS (UMD’s social justice and spoken word class)

  • Initiating, legitimizing, and maintaining organizations and coalitions

    • Yves Gomez, Student & Co-Founder, Legitimizing and Uniting a Network of Undocumented Americans (LUNUA)

    • Rosa Lozano, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400

 

3:35 - 4:30—Townhall

 

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