2021 AYPAL MEDIA
FCYO Report - “20 Years of Youth Power: The 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan”
HuffPost - “Asian American Activists Want So Much More Than To Not Be Attacked”
by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
“Honoring Women and Non-Binary Youth Leaders in Grassroots Youth Organizing”
by Dr. Veronica Terriquez, ERI Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Research Brief - “Women and Non-Binary Youth are at the Forefront: The Gendered Leadership of Grassroots Youth Organizing Groups”
by Dr. Veronica Terriquez, Nyereath Nhial, Jennifer Soto
2020 AYPAL Media
San Francisco Foundation: “Investing in Young People on the Frontlines of Social Change”
https://sff.org/investing-in-young-people-on-the-frontlines-of-social-change/
Northern California Youth Organizing Funder Collaborative
https://ncg.org/northern-california-youth-organizing-funder-collaborative
2020
PRESS RELEASE - AYPAL: Building API Community Power Awarded California Arts Council Local Impact and Youth Arts in Action Grants
The California Arts Council (CAC) announced a grant award of $15,200 for our young people to create meaningful community change in Oakland Chinatown through their Local Impacts grant program and $4750 to uplift the voices and narratives of API and youth of color in Oakland through cultural visual and performing arts through their Youth Arts in Action grant program to AYPAL: Building API Community Power.
2019 AYPAL HIGHLIGHTS
AYPAL staff hosting during the national Obama Foundation MBK Rising! event February 2019
“Our Sisters’ Keeper: The MBK Responsibility to Sisters and the LGBTQ+ Community”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeiFF5yG9k
Obama foundation Program Profile Featuring AYPAL youth: https://www.obama.org/mbka/communities/urban-strategies-council/
2018–2019 AYPAL Media
Youth Platform Against Gentrification: www.westillhereoakland.com
Disaggregated Data implementation video OUSD January 2019: https://vimeo.com/313232421
OUSD Strike and Media Campaign Feb 2019 “Save APISA” KPIX news coverage of AYPAL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFXb2t9F34
https://vimeo.com/317307762
SEARAC API Fact Sheet Launch with AYPAL Quote: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-american-pacific-islander-youth-face-bullying-lack-visibility-report-n1014566
2017-2018 AYPAL Events
20th Annual May Arts Festival Preview: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/may-arts-festival/Event?oid=15869491
3rd Annual Fresh Off the Block Preview: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/fob-fresh-off-the-block/Event?oid=11787140
2016-2017 AYPAL Media
Coverage of AYPAL and other organizations work around displacement happening in Chinatown: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/08/02/oakland-chinatown-advocates-demand-community-benefits-from-developer-fear-displacement-and-destruction-of-neighborhood
Events Challenging Gentrification
Video Clips of two events AYPAL youth completed which bring attention to API related issues and anti-displacement action
2016 Anti-Displacement Campaign
News articles highlighting AYPAL’s involvement in challenging proposed developments in Oakland that could lead to increased displacement in Chinatown especially
2016 Disaggregated Data Campaign
“In 2016, AYPAL, a community-based organization working to empower Oakland’s low-income Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant and refugee families, and the Oakland Unified School District Office of Equity passed a “Disaggregated Data Resolution” expanding the options that students can identify for their race.”