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The first national conference features seven tracks that are designed to build infrastructure for student organizations and teach students grassroots organizing skills so that they can take these experiences back to their campuses and communities and translate them into action. Each track will include five workshops each. This structure also promotes the feel of a smaller conference to allow students to network more effectively. Students from the same schools are encouraged to attend different tracks, which they will then follow throughout the conference so that skills they learn will build upon each other. When registering, please remember to indicate which tracks you would most like to attend.
***NOTE*** This structure does not preclude students from going to one or two workshops in other tracks that they are particularly interested in attending. The seven tracks are:
Track 1: Community Empowerment
Knowing how to organize support for an issue that you believe in is a key component of accomplishing your goal. Yet, it is sometimes difficult for college students to mobilize both on and off campuses. This track focuses on training students on grassroots organizing techniques to enable them to effectively mobilize their peers and others to affect change on college campuses and in the community. View workshops in this track | Back to top
Track 2: Public Policy & Lobbying
One of the most important ways to create change is by participation in the political process. This track focuses on the role students can play through advocating and influencing the political process in government and non-governmental institutions and agencies. By equipping attendees with skills such as lobbying, students will walk away more confident in how they can affect public policy. View workshops in this track | Back to top
Track 3: Building Infrastructure and Maximizing Resources on College Campuses
This track focuses on equipping APA student leaders with the necessary tools to advocate for APA studies programs and greater resources for students on their college campuses. It will also encourage students to explore untapped resources that students were previously unaware of. By interacting with APA student leaders that have been effective in their efforts in creating APA studies programs, students will learn about various successes and struggles that will help them in their own campus efforts. View workshops in this track | Back to top
Track 4: Student Led Campaigns
Students often forget that one of our most valuable resources is each other. While students across the country are involved in important and interesting campaigns that utilize innovative methods for achieving their goals, students in other states or even in other parts of the same state do not often have an opportunity to hear about the struggles and triumphs of these campaigns first-hand. This track features students talking about campaigns that they have led - from the fight for labor rights to the fight for APA studies - and engaging others in a discussion about both successful strategies they employed and pitfalls to avoid. In addition to highlighting innovative campaigns that students have already completed, these workshops also seek to provide support for students that are currently working on campaigns in their local communities. View workshops in this track | Back to top
Track 5: Coalition Building
As APA student leaders, it is important to realize how our communities fit into the bigger picture. Many issues in the APA community also connect to other marginalized communities, especially other communities of color, feminist communities, and LGBTQ communities. Workshops within the coalition-building track will focus on skill building and working realistically to acknowledge challenges that come with coalitions. Another important aspect of coalition-building that our workshops cover is the lessons we can learn from past coalitions that APA communities have been involved in the movement for Ethnic Studies, coalitions on affirmative action issues, etc. View workshops in this track | Back to top
Track 6: APA Issues 101 & Student Activism
This track provides students with the knowledge and background both historical and current issues of pertinence and concern to the Asian Pacific American community. Acting as "Course #101" on a particular topic (i.e. sweatshop abuses, immigration, trafficking), it will emphasize student leadership, advocacy, and action. By providing information on a variety of things that affect the APA community, students will be able to participate in group discussions and walk away with a new knowledge of APA activism they may have not encountered before. This track is intended for a broad range of people, including those new to the APA issues arena and looking to get involved, and those APA students already active on college campuses and looking for a crash course on particular issues within the APA community. View workshops in this track | Back to top
Track 7: Innovative Strategies
Why doesn't anyone ever participate? Are APAs really that apathetic? We're here to tell you that we're not! Students are a unique group and so mobilizing our peers requires innovative methods. This track presents creative strategies students and community activists have used to encourage APAs to get out there and make our voices heard! View workshops in this track | Back to top |
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