This week the CAUSE Leadership Academy cohort and I had the privilege of visiting the California State Capital in Sacramento to meet and speak to leaders and politicians working directly in the Capitol.
Week 3: Learning Beyond the Office
Week 3: Informative & Inspirational
Week 2: Stronger Together
This Monday was our very first Civic Leadership Workshop of the internship program. To start off, we met at the Kizuna office in Little Tokyo. Like CAUSE, Kizuna is an organization that works to create a APA leadership pipeline through their programs. Kim, who is on the Board of Directors, introduced us to Kizuna and used the opportunity to emphasize the importance of supporting other community organizations, with both our time and our money.
Week 2: New Opportunities
This was my first week at Assemblymember Chris Holden’s Office and it was very exciting! This week has been full of new opportunities, such as press releases, meetings with organizations, inputting constituent comments, and brainstorming outreach and social media campaigns for the Assemblymember. With the help of the immensely supportive staff at the District Office, I have learned a great deal about the inner workings of an elected official’s district office.
Week 1: First Steps
This week was orientation week for the CAUSE Leadership Academy and we learned a lot about what is expected of us from this program and how we are going to grow over the next few weeks. On the first day, I was nervous, partly because it was one of the first times I had driven in LA traffic and also because I had already been on summer vacation for a month and now I had to refocus and resettle into a professional environment.
Week 1: Orientation Retreat
In the short time that we spent in the Temecula heat, tightly packed in the confines of a beautiful Airbnb, I spent hour after hour reflecting on the lessons I was learning. These lessons not only came from the workshops, but also from the personal anecdotes shared by the CAUSE supervisors and my fellow CAUSE interns.
Kickoff Press Conference
Workshop #5
Networking Reception
Workshop #4
24th Annual Gala
Workshop #3
Leadership Network Reception
Pasadena, CA – CAUSE held the first CAUSE Leadership Network Reception on March 30, 2017 at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center. Speakers highlighted the need for Asian Pacific American (APA) media representation and shed light on how APAs are perceived in the media as well as what can be done to increase representation.
Workshop #2
Arsalyn Youth Conference
Workshop #1
Pasadena, CA – CAUSE kicked off the CAUSE Political Institute with its first workshop on February 21, 2017 at the Hilton Pasadena. Dan Schnur, Professor from USC, and Charlie Woo, CAUSE Board Chair, welcomed the new fifteen-member cohort as they embark on a course to develop as political leaders for the Asian Pacific American community.
Community Engagement Interns
Voter Education Workshop in Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA – On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, CAUSE hosted a multilingual Voter Education and Registration Workshop at the Grand Plaza Senior Apartments in Chinatown, Los Angeles. CAUSE Board Chair Charlie Woo and Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles Project Coordinator Maxine Hu, conducted the workshop and presentation with simultaneous translation in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese.
