Holding Ourselves Accountable: What do Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Really Think?

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 9:30 - 10:30
Place: Ballroom, Second Floor

This plenary will present and discuss the latest research on the attitudes and political views and participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Do our communities see eye-to-eye with the civil rights organizations that represent them? This plenary raises, and is the first step in answering, the question of how to hold ourselves accountable to the communities we serve while staying true to our core values. The research presented will help inform conference discussions around the extent to which, and in what areas, advocates need to foster social justice values in our communities through education and outreach, in order to lay a groundwork that will allow advocates to more effectively mobilize and empower our communities to achieve social change.

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Speakers:

	Claire Jean Kim Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies University of California, Irvine		Stewart Kwoh President and Executive Director Asian Pacific American Legal Center (Workshop Moderator)
	Karthick Ramakrishnan Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Riverside