First APIA Comprehensive, Community Driven Survey Release Event (Virtual)

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
1:00-3:00pm
Massachusetts State House, Room 437

Join virtually the Asian American and Pacific Islander Commission (AAPIC) of Massachusetts and partners for the official release of the Massachusetts Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Community Survey Report—the first comprehensive statewide community survey of its kind focused on the experiences, concerns, and aspirations of Massachusetts’ diverse AAPI communities. The event will provide an overview of the report that has been conducted in partnership with the MA AAPI Commission, APIs CAN, the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston, and the Asian Community Fund at The Boston Foundation, and conducted by the MassINC Polling Group.

APIs CAN Advocacy Day on Beacon Hill

On Thursday, May 1, APIs CAN hosted its first Advocacy Day at the Massachusetts State House in partnership with the Asian American Pacific Islander Commission (AAPIC), and timed to coincide with the beginning of May’s National AAPI Heritage Month. We had speakers from the Massachusetts House AAPI Caucus, the AAPI Commission, and other state leaders. During the first half of the advocacy day, participants heard from our speaker bureau graduates, state law makers, AAPI leaders, and recently announced 2025/26 Advocacy Agenda. After the speaking program attendees had the opportunity to meet with their representatives to discuss critical issues impacting working class, AAPI communities here in MA, including immigration justice, language access, education, housing, data equity, and more.

Apply for the APIs CAN Speakers Bureau Program!

APIs CAN will be launching our first ever Speakers Bureau program this Spring 2025. Please consider applying or sharing this with your networks. The deadline to apply is February 28, 2025.

This program will provide coalition organization staff members and community leaders the opportunity to be trained formally as public speakers, advocates, and policy experts. The training curriculum will focus on supporting working class, AAPI, and immigrant leaders with media training, message development, and storytelling skills building to incorporate community voice in the launch of the coalition’s policy agenda.

Through the program, participants will learn to engage effectively with mainstream media sources and include their lived experiences in public narratives around AAPI safety and racial wealth equity as evidenced by an increase in the number of speaking engagements and earned media placements secured for working class AAPI community members by APIs CAN and its coalition members.

You should apply for this program if you want to:

• Deepen your legislative advocacy skills

• Improve your public speaking

• Build and activate your own organizing campaign

• Learn how to leverage strategies and tactics for meaningful change

Program Timeline:

• Applications due February 28, 2025 by 5pm ET

• Selected participants will be notified by March 12, 2025

• Program will start in April and end in May 2025

• Program will include 3 full-day events over the spring, culminating in an legislative education day at the MA State House in May 2025