2024
The theme for 2024 was Flipping the Script, and the conference was hosted at Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. Again, we invited high school students students to participate in programming led by Nishat Alikhan, Eric Khong, and Asako Kurosaka-Jost and have their own parallel track to the conference. This was the first conference to offer the Leadership Lab, the faculty of which consisted of:​​​​​​​ Chia-Chee Chiu, Geetha Holdsworth, Doreen Oleso, Rochelle Reodica. Ricco Siasoco, and Kavan Yee.
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The Keynote Speakers were Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto, authors of Of White Ashes. ​Local Committee members were Angela Jiang, Pia de Leon, Sumana Moudgal, Rosaline Tio, Steve Frappier, and Toni Rose Deanon. Sponsors were Harvard-Westlake School, Mount Vernon School, Sage Hill School, SoCal POCIS, Westminster School, and anonymous donor ("in honor of all the bachans").
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2024 Conference Information
Workshop Block A: Friday 10:45-11:45
The Balikbayan Project: The Possibility of Return
Defying Erasure: Multi-Generational Perspectives on Japanese American Identity Stories of Resistance, Positionalities, and Tensions
Ensuring AAPI Stories are part of the American Story
Modalities for Support in and around Upper School Humanities Classrooms
Navigating conversations about race-conscious admissions with Asian communities of affluence
Sharing Vulnerable Spaces of Belonging with our Students through Creative Expression
Workshop Block B: Friday 1:45-2:45
Incorporating Culturally-Responsive Mental Health Practices for our Asian American Youth
SPAM: Decolonizing Beyond the Can and Celebrating Joy In Every Bite
Sidekicks no more: Embracing Our APISA Identities in Contemporary MG and YA Literature
Identities, Place, Justice, and Empowerment: Universal Lessons from K-12 Social Justice Educators in Hawaiʻi
Blasian Glory: Investigating the Intersection of Black and Asian
Pushing Against Invisibility: A Deeper Look Into the Underrepresentation of Leadership for Asian American Women
Workshop Block C: Saturday 10:30-11:30
Flipping the Script on the Asian American Wealth Gap
Empathy as a Radical Act
Silent and Invisible: Intersectionality and issues for Female AAPI Educators
Queering Practices, Flipping Mindsets: How We Unlearn Whitestream Ways of Being
The Masked Practitioner: AAPI Educators Married to Whiteness, Professionally and Personally
How to Build and Sustain AAPI Affinity Spaces That Thrive
Workshop Block D: Saturday 2:30-3:30
The Rise of Asians in American Pop Culture
Voices Unheard: The Challenge of Being a Chinese Educator in an Era of US-China Tensions
Understanding Intergenerational Trauma
Outsiders Outside: Reclaiming the Outdoors for our Students and Ourselves
Breaking the Chains: disrupting the Model Minority Myth for Emppowered APIDA Student Wellbeing
