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Seattle 2025

Sayat Nokerban, Kuʻuleilehua Makekau, and Chimita Sharapova are influencers redefining what it means to be AAPI on social media.

Media coverage 2025

How Three Creators Are Rewriting AANHPI Identity For A Global Audience

Content creators are redefining “Asian American and Pacific Islander” and who counts as part of the global diaspora.
API Rise co-director Billy Taing poses for a photo in the organization’s office in Los Angeles. (Photo by Malcolm Caminero)

criminal justice 2025

Formerly incarcerated Asian Angelenos face new fears with ICE

After serving lengthy prison sentences and reentering society as adults, members of API Rise recount their experiences in ICE detention and how they were punished a second time for their former crimes.

immigration 2025

Indian immigrants in Florida are growing old in ways their parents never did

Just outside Tampa, Florida, at Anand Vihar, one of the first luxury retirement communities for Indian American immigrants, neighbors share culture, traditions and meals.

Voices reports

Austin 2024

Feature 2024

How this local D.C. bakery has uplifted the Asian American community

Through its civic engagement and pastries such as ube doughnuts and spam musubi croissant, Rose Ave Bakery tries to empower its community.

Feature 2024

For these four Asian Americans, politics is personal

Asian American voters are not a monolith. Here's how the fastest-growing voting bloc is talking about the 2024 election.

Feature 2024

San Francisco plans to cut Pacific Islander services in budget deficit

Pacific Islanders in the Bay Area face higher rates of heart disease and diabetes. But San Francisco plans to cut culturally specific health services for underserved communities in budget cuts.

Feature 2024

From Palestine to the Philippines: University of Washington student activists unite for liberation

Activists from Anakbayan and Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return find common ground standing against Western political and military interference.

Feature 2024

Vietnamese Americans, progressive and conservative, organize around Trump’s 2024 campaign

From Hi-Tek to Jan. 6th: Vietnamese Americans are no strangers to political organizing.

Feature 2024

‘I can finally vote’: Asian language ballots clear path to the ballot box 

For the first time this fall, millions across six jurisdictions will have the option to cast their votes for president in an Asian language.

Feature 2024

California wants to remove homeless encampments, but L.A. organizers seek ‘humane solutions’

As L.A. ramps up homeless sweeps, Koreatown activists fight for their unhoused neighbors.

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