Meet our 2025 Host Sites

Below are brief descriptions of our potential host organizations for summer 2025.

We encourage you to learn more about the organizations by browsing their website and social media platforms. We match applicants to host organizations based on interests and skills.

South

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is the first nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities in Georgia and the Southeast.

Through our work, we envision a social movement in which communities of color are fully empowered, active in civic life, and working together to promote equity, fair treatment, and self determination for all.

Founded in 2010 as the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center (AALAC), our organization became part of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation in 2014. Since then, we have re-organized our focus areas more specifically into four groups: Policy Advocacy, Civic Engagement & Organizing, Impact Litigation, and Legal Services.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdvancingJusticeAtlanta

East Coast

Asian Americans United (Philadelphia, PA)

From our beginning, AAU has had a particular focus on youth so that young people in our communities are supported to become individually, socially, and politically aware; to exercise their voice; and to participate in active struggles for justice. Through this work, we create generations of leaders who sustain, fight for, and give back to our communities.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianamericansunited/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianAmericansUnited/

Oregon

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (Portland, OR)

APANO was founded in 1996 with significant support from the Immigrant Refugee Community Organization in Multnomah County under the principle that we are stronger together, and that our communities would benefit from more coordinated leadership particularly in areas of public policy advocacy. The Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon is a statewide, grassroots organization, uniting Asians and Pacific Islanders to achieve social justice. We use our collective strengths to advance equity through empowering, organizing and advocating with our communities.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APANONews

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apanonews/

California

Asian American Liberation Network (Sacramento, CA)

The Asian American Liberation Network’s mission is to build power in the Asian American
community to advance social justice and collective liberation.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaln_sacramento/

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (Richmond, Oakland, and Los Angeles CA)

APEN believes that all people have a right to a clean and healthy environment in which their communities can live, work, learn, play and thrive. Towards this vision, APEN brings together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social and economic justice. Through building an organized movement, we strive to bring fundamental changes to economic and social institutions that will prioritize public good over profits and promote the right of every person to a decent, safe, affordable quality of life, and the right to participate in decisions affecting our lives. APEN holds this vision of environmental justice for all people. APEN’s membership base include Chinese immigrants and Lao, Mien, and Khmu refugees.

California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (Garden Grove and Oakland, CA)

The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative is a statewide grassroots organization that addresses health, environmental, reproductive justice, and other social issues faced by its low-income, female, Vietnamese immigrant and refugee workforce.

Founded in 2005 by Asian Health Services, CHNSC emerged in direct response to an increasing concern of nail salon workers who exhibited serious health issues such as chronic asthma, skin rashes, and reproductive health issues.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ca_hnsc/

Chinese Progressive Association San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)

Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people. CPA’s core strategies include organizing, leadership development, and alliance building. CPA’s membership base include Chinese immigrant adults and Chinese American youth who are organized through the Tenant Worker Center and Youth MOJO. CPA has a rich history of worker organizing and leading local multi-racial alliances, including San Francisco Rising and the Progressive Workers Alliance. Other programs include: Gender Sexuality & Diversities, a queer & questioning space for Asian American high school youth; Common Roots: a joint program with PODER, which brings together Chinese and Latinx youth living in San Francisco.

Instagram: chineseprogressiveassocation

EMAC (Stockton, CA)

EMAC’s mission is to help build safe and thriving Southeast Asian communities within the larger Asian American and Pacific Islander diaspora. We seek to fulfill this mission through community advocacy and civic engagement, providing culturally relevant resources, and cultivating the development of social empowerment through the expression of our values: transformative justice, culturally rooted healing, communal resiliency, and collective liberation.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emacstockton/

Filipino Advocates for Justice (Oakland, Daly City)

Filipino Advocates for Justice, formerly Filipinos for Affirmative Action, was established in 1973 in response to the discrimination and alienation faced by the influx of immigrant newcomers from the Philippines. FAJ is grounded in the spirit of Bayanihan (people helping people). Over the years they have been an advocate for immigrant and civil rights for the Filipino community and served the more vulnerable in the Filipino community by helping recent arrivals, youth and low wage workers navigate the challenges and hurdles of life in the US. Today, Filipino Advocates for Justice uses a comprehensive approach to strengthening the Filipino community, implementing four main strategies: 1) civic engagement and advocacy; 2) leadership development; 3) capacity building for community organizations; and 4) direct services.

Accepting part-time fellows.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fils4justice

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fils4justice

Filipino Community Center (San Francisco, CA)

Founded in 2004, the Filipino Community Center is dedicated to providing a safe space where Filipino families can access services, receive support, and build community. We foster and develop community empowerment, grassroots leadership, advocacy, and organizing to address the immediate and long term issues of our communities locally, and in the Philippines.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/filipinocommunitycenter/?hl=en

Hmong Innovating Politics (Sacramento, CA)

Hmong Innovating Politics is a grassroots organization whose mission is to strengthen the political power of Hmong and Disenfranchised communities through innovating civic engagement & strategic grassroots mobilizations.

We envision a California of empowered communities that thrive in a socially and economically just democracy.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hipcalifornia

Khmer Girls in Action (Long Beach, CA)

Khmer Girls in Action’s mission is to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for racial, gender, and economic justice led by Southeast Asian women and youth.

We envision a safe, healthy and just world where all people are free from oppression and are able to determine their lives and communities!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kgalongbeach/

Pilipino Workers Center (Los Angeles, CA)

Founded in 1997, Pilipino Workers Center (PWC) is a grassroots non-profit that organizes the low-wage and immigrant Pilipinx communities in the United States.

We build collective power to demand better living and working conditions in order to secure the dignity, safety, and economic stability of the Pilipinx community.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PWCSC/

Regional Tenant Organizing (RTO) Network (South Bay, CA)

The Regional Tenant Organizing Network (RTO) brings together local organizing efforts from over sixteen jurisdictions across six counties that fight for tenant rights. The coalition membership ranges from new organizations that have emerged as the housing crisis spreads to the region’s suburbs and smaller cities to more established base-building organizations.

South Bay Youth Changemakers (Santa Clara County, CA)

SBYC builds Asian American youth power by developing young leaders who organize for a more just and sustainable society. We strive to transform economic and social institutions to prioritize people over profit and shape our communities according to our collective needs and values.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sbyouthchangemakers/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sbyouthchangemakers

Viet Rainbow of Orange County (Orange County, CA)

Viet Rainbow of Orange County (VROC) is a grassroots organization based in Orange County, California that builds community and mobilizes intergenerationally. We are grounded in values of equity, healing, joy, and social justice.

VROC strives to create a world where everyone has the resources and agency to thrive with dignity.

We primarily work with LGBTQ+ Vietnamese Americans and their loved ones through research, education, and advocacy, while also strengthening collective power alongside other communities working toward liberation.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VietRainbowOC

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vietrainbowoc/

VietRISE (Orange County, CA)

Founded in 2018, VietRISE is a community organization based in the heart of Orange County’s Little Saigon, home of the largest Vietnamese population in the world outside of Viet Nam. VietRISE advances social justice and builds power with Vietnamese and immigrant communities in Orange County. We build leadership and create systemic change through organizing, narrative change, cultural empowerment, and civic engagement.