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Join Us for the 15th Annual API Youth Summit

The 15th Annual Asian Pacific Islander (API) Youth Summit is a one-day event that welcomes all high school youth who are interested in exploring social topics that are important to them. Topics range from mental health to AAPI hate to beauty standards. Participants will dive deeper into these topics through workshops led by CYC youth. Interested participants can go to the registration link below to find out more about the workshops and rank the workshops they are most interested in. Upon registering, each participant will be assigned two workshops to attend.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Over $1,000 worth of raffle prizes will be given out at the event.

Date: Saturday, April 30, 2022

Time: 9:30am PST to 2:30pm PST

Location: City College of SF Chinatown/North Beach Campus, 808 Kearny Street, Bamboo Room 402

Cost: Free

Who: High school youth (Adults can register and participate if space is available)

Agenda:

9:30am – 10am: Registration and breakfast
10:00am – 10:20am: Opening
10:25am – 11:40am: Session 1 workshops
11:45am – 12:15pm: Youth performances
12:15pm – 12:45pm: Lunch
12:50pm – 2:05pm: Session 2 workshops
2:10pm – 2:30pm: Closing

Workshops:

  • Accessibility, Advocacy, and Adaptivity in District 7
  • Gender Roles and Feminism 
  • Health is Wealth 
  • Mental Health Matters
  • Strawberry Grove (Young Asian Women Against Violence personal project gallery walk)
  • The New Beauty Standards
  • The Sudden Rise of Asian Hate After the Pandemic
  • Tone Tags, Trigger Warnings, and Bears, Oh My!
  • War Must Cease: Increase the Peace

Thank you to our partners and sponsors for making this event happen:

City College of San Francisco (CCSF)

SF Department of Children, Youth, & their Families (DCYF)

Department on the Status of Women (DOSW)

Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD)