Apply for the APIs CAN Speak Bureau Program!

APIs CAN will be launching our first ever Speaker 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