2008 and before

2008 was the fourth annual AsEA Conference: Awareness to Action, happening April 18-19 at Chinese American International School and International High School in San Francisco. Unfortunately, the current iteration of AsEA has no records prior to this time, other than knowing AsEA started in 2004 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Likely there were conferences in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Many of the original members are now heads of school, assistants heads, and educational consultants! Three of the original members serve on the current board.

2008 Conference Information

United under the theme "Awareness To Action," the Asian Educators Alliance invites you to the 4th annual AsEA National Conference. This year's Conference will take place on April 18 – 19 at the Chinese-American International School in San Francisco.

We are honored to have as our confirmed speakers* at the conference:

Yul Kwon - winner of CBS' Survivor: Cook Islands. He has worked to raise awareness on issues for Asian Americans
Michael Omi – professor at UC Berkeley's Ethnic Studies Department whose work includes race theory, Asian American studies, and antiracist scholarship
Anisha Desai – executive director of the Women of Color Resource Center
Katherine Dinh - Head of School at Prospect Sierra School (K-8 independent school in El Cerrito, CA)
Ling Chi Wang - distinguished scholar and activist on Asian American issues and coordinator of the Asian American studies program at the UC Berkeley

Founded in 2004, the Asian Educators Alliance (AsEA) is an affinity organization that provides support and outreach for self-identified Asian and Asian Pacific Islander (API) educators.The Asian Educators Alliance 2008 National Conference is by and for API educators. We welcome all self-identified API colleagues in independent, charter, and public schools and current API graduate students or professionals in the field of education. While we appreciate and honor the support of our non-API allies, we ask that they respect our intentions for this space. As an alternative method of support, we encourage our allies to help in publicizing this event to their API colleagues.

*Note that this must have been an early draft, since Jeff Adachi, attorney and former San Francisco Public Defender, was the speaker at this conference. Three of the organizers of this conference are on the current national board of AsEA, and two current national board members, Chris and Stan, attended this conference! This is where they met and, over the years, developed a friendship while serving as affinity group facilitators at NAIS POCC. At a Leaders of Color workshop series run by Alison Park and Steve Morris, they met again and Stan asked Chris if she'd like to reboot the AsEA conference with him.