Sandra P.: Hey y'all, I'm Sandra Pham.
Minh V.: And I'm Minh Vu.
And this is Asian in Austin.
So for this month's episode, we decided to share a conversation that
we actually had earlier this in May at the Austin Asian Professionals Summit.
We were really honored to be invited by the organizers of the summit, Y.
J.
Lin and Rebecca Le, or at least those were the ones who did
the initial outreach to us.
And we since then learned that it was a big collaborative effort
with a whole slew of organizations.
I think like the Asian American Resource Center, the Greater Austin Asian
Chamber of Commerce, there is support from the Austin Asian Film Festival,
Orchid Events, and North Shore Media, just a whole like collaboration of
AAPI folks wanting to really create an opportunity for professionals in
the city to come together and learn more about different work that like
nonprofits are doing for the community.
So Sandra and I were able to join that summit and I was able to help
moderate a specific conversation with some of our, our nonprofits.
And we're really excited to kind of share this conversation with you all.
I think it's really important to learn more about the different
services that our brothers and sisters are doing in the nonprofit
space and providing to our community.
And even the event itself was a lot of fun.
Sandra, what do you think of the, the event?
Sandra P.: Yeah, I think it was really great to see the community
and the city kind of mobilize around just creating more bridges between
corporations that are either based or have a pretty large presence.
And so, I mean, you name it, the Dells and the Samsungs and et cetera, indeed,
and really kind of understand that there's importance in creating these
ERGs or employee resource groups and make sure that there's representation
and specifically the AAPI community and making sure that we also supporting
these local organizations, right?
We're thinking about fundraising and where employees can also
give their time and money.
So yeah, really great and positive to see the investment here.
And I hope that we just continue to see more.
Minh V.: Yeah, so in this episode, you'll hear from representatives at
the Asian Family Support Services of Austin, Asian Texans for Justice, the
Austin Asian American Film Festival, and the Austin Asian Community Health
Initiative, who will share more about what they, what they do for the community.
So let's get into it.
All right.
Thank you all for being here with us today on a Friday afternoon, 5 p.
m.
We're here.
We're doing it.
We're trying to build community.
I love it.
I love seeing this room and everyone that's here.
Thank you again for sharing your time with us.
I'm super excited to have this.
Like diverse group of leaders here representing all different aspects of
services that we offer our community.
I'll do a quick introduction of myself.
My name is Minh Vu.
I co founded and co host a monthly podcast that amplifies
Asian American stories in Austin.
So me and my co host Sandra over there interview a couple of folks every month
to learn more about how their identity impacts their lives and what it means to
kind of come into your own AAPI identity.
And so I'm really excited to be able to help moderate this discussion
today with our esteemed panelists.
What I think we hope to get out of this discussion is really
learning about ways that we can activate the places that we work at.
to be able to support the work that these organizations, these leaders
do for the community as well, too.
So hopefully we'll get into a good little discussion about that.
And I think to start, I'd love because we have such a breadth of services
from, like I said, cultural arts, civic engagement, direct support services.
I'd love to learn a little bit more about what each of your organization
does and the types of programs and services you offer the community.
So Zahra, do you want to start us off?
Zahra S.J.: Hi, everyone.
Good evening.
My name is Zahra Shakur Jamal, and I'm a director of outreach
and education at the Asian Family Support Services of Austin or AFSA.
AFSA has been serving the Central Texas Asian API and immigrant
community for the last 32 years.
And we are Asian and immigrant facing, and we serve survivors of domestic violence,
sexual violence, and trafficking.
And so we do that by offering a range of direct services, folks call our
hotline or get connected through law enforcement or other service
providers and can get services ranging from getting access to shelter or
safe housing to legal needs, right?
We had a lot of folks that have family law needs or immigration law needs to
healing and really the whole gamut of services, including long term economic
support and economic capacity building.
So how do we get folks on their feet after they've left an abusive relationship?
So they're able to support themselves and their families and can really
thrive and not just survive the abuse that's happening to them.
We also want to make sure that we disrupt cycles of violence and we
can't do that just by serving clients and folks that are experiencing abuse.
So we take every opportunity in community to have conversations and normalize
conversations about healthy relationships.
And violence and access to mental health services within the community
to prevent violence from happening and also offer opportunities for
folks to connect with resources when they are experiencing violence.
Minh V.: Thank you.
I appreciate that.
That sounds like really important and meaningful work.
Certainly some heavier topics.
I'm curious, and I'll ask each of our leaders this too, but Zahra, if you
can expand, why might it be important to focus specifically on the AANHPI
community with those types of services?
Zahra S.J.: Absolutely.
So I am a Pakistani American.
I grew up in a Muslim household, and I know that In the work that I'm doing with
a lot of communities, not a lot of us grew up having conversations around even just
what a healthy relationship looks like, and what you can expect in a partner.
And so we find that there's so much stigma in talking about violence
when violence is happening.
We know that folks that speak other languages, well, I speak
Urdu, and I think a lot about how difficult it is to identify
vocabulary that is in everyday use.
to talk about violence.
So there's so many additional barriers that we know folks in our communities
face when they're experiencing violence.
That's on top of not being super familiar in some cases with our legal systems and
our educational systems here, learning English or speaking English with some
proficiency, but not as a native speaker.
And so we have complex systems here that can Be helpful as people are
seeking supports and justice, but it's not easy to do that alone.
It's not easy to do that while you're overcoming all the cultural
barriers, whether it's shame or lack of accessible vocabulary to talk about
violence and healthy relationships.
So that's why we think that, It's so important for us to have these
conversations in our community.
In fact, we were founded 32 years ago by a group of volunteers that were
volunteering at what's now SAFE, which was the local shelter in Travis County.
And they found that a lot of people from Asian Pacific Islander communities were
not coming forward to seek services.
And that's not because the shelter isn't well intentioned and wants to reach out
and support everybody that is experiencing violence, but they weren't set up.
To meet the needs of the communities that we serve.
So that's how we started.
And we hold that very close to our mission, the ability to serve in a
way that is culturally grounded and offer lots of professional training
opportunities to law enforcement and judges and other providers so that people
are able to serve our communities better.
Minh V.: Thank you, Zahra.
Hailey, I'd like to turn it over to you and ask a similar question.
Can you share a little bit more about what your organization provides
to the community, the programs and services, and why might it be
important to focus specifically on our community with those services?
Hailey E.: Yeah, so I guess I'm wondering how many of you have been
to the doctor in the past month?
Minh V.: Doctor's visit?
Anyone?
Hailey E.: Yeah, so about half of you, maybe.
Was it fun?
Was it easy?
No, it's not.
And so, and I'm assuming since you're all here and I don't see any
interpreters here, you all speak English.
And so, what AACHI does is we help folks navigate that whole process.
And the difference is though, We don't really think about the
steps that it takes to go to the doctor to get your fix, right?
So you don't just appear at the doctor's office, right?
You have to call, make an appointment.
You have to confirm your appointment or else they'll cancel it.
That actually just happened to me.
I even confirmed and they canceled it anyway.
You have to get into your car or call a lift, go on the bus.
Then you have to go to the doctor.
You have to fill out your paperwork.
You go to the doctor's, into the doctor.
You have to listen to the thing, do the visit.
Then you leave.
Drive back home or get your ride back home.
A week or two later, you get a bill that looks like it says that you're
being charged like 5, 000, but it's actually your insurance saying that
like, this is how much we paid.
But it kind of looks like a bill.
And also, your doctor's office then sends you a bill for the same amount.
And you have to deal with that.
I want you to imagine doing that process entirely alone with no access to the
language skills that are needed for that.
So, try to get a Lyft in Korean.
Learn Go to the bus stop and read the sign in English, if you don't speak English.
Even whenever you go to the doctor's office.
So, there are laws that say that federally qualified health centers have
to provide translation interpretation, but it's really at that one spot.
So they can, you can go to the doctor, you'll get your translation, but when
you get home and you get that 5, 000 bill, all you see are those 5, 000.
If you don't read English, You're freaked out, right?
And you need someone to help you, or you might actually owe that money, and
then you get called to collections.
So, what AACHI does is we help everyone through that whole process, even before
that, like, trying to get health coverage.
Most of these services really only have language access at one part.
of the process.
So we're here to fill in the gaps to make sure that the process
is entirely accessible so people can get the care they need.
So what we do is we have these really special positions called
community health workers.
Community health workers are people who represent the community they
serve, speak their languages.
They come from those communities.
Most of the time they've been doing this job pro bono for free
and their free time for years.
So we have our community health workers who go and provide
one on one health navigation.
They also do health education classes for lots of different folks.
I forgot to mention, there's some stats that I've been looking at lately.
30 percent of folks who speak Asian languages in the Cedar
Round Rock Georgetown area speak English less than very well.
That means they have limited English proficiency and 60 percent of our
Asian community are foreign born.
Even though our stats show that Asian Americans have, like, really great
rates of health insurance and stuff, they're not thinking about all of
the different complex identities that are within this community.
So, that's what we're here for, is to address those things.
Minh V.: Thank you.
Yeah, and I think for a lot of us who might be able to relate, like,
growing up in multi generational homes, It becomes a family project
to navigate the health system.
It's like, I laugh, but it's traumatizing as well too, because especially if
you're a young adult in the family, having to help your elders, it can be a
lot to take on as a, as a young adult.
And so it's great.
That you have resources through your organization.
Sabrina, I'll turn it over to you to talk a little bit more about Asian
Texans for Justice and what y'all do and why it's important to focus on
the community with y'all's services.
Sabrina S.: Yeah.
So I'm the operations and development manager here at Asian Texans for Justice
so we are an advocacy organization dedicated to connecting the 1.
9 million AAPI Texans to their civic powers.
So what does civic power look like?
It means everything from voting to testifying to even learning about
Asian American studies in school to developing the next future
generation of our community's leaders.
So we work to do that to ultimately create a Texas where all can
feel bold in their belonging.
A little bit of, about the programs that, like I said,
is we invest from communities.
We invest in communities to be able to access language, culturally competent and
linguistically accessible voter materials.
So voting is kind of difficult.
You have so many different polling locations.
You have so many different candidates to look from, things like that.
So we are nonpartisan, which means we just provide them information.
We let them know these are the voting dates.
These are the steps that they need to take.
To be able to vote and then provide help to translations, election
protections, and things like that.
And then similarly, once the elections are over at the Capitol in Texas,
legislative session is every other year.
We connect our community to what's going on at the Capitol.
Every law, every legislation impacts our community directly.
And most often times, our voices in our communities are not represented at
the halls of the Capitol or not being heard when they're hearing bills that
could potentially impact our community.
And so our goal is to help connect our community to that power to be
able to testify, whether in person or submitting a written testimony, um,
being able to connect them with that and again, training our future generation
to be able to learn that and be able to become the future leaders in their
community, training them the tools of advocacy, what advocacy looks like.
Similarly, we are statewide, right?
Texas is a big state.
Prior to ATJ's founding, there was no dedicated AAPI advocacy
organization that serves statewide.
And so what we do is we help build the coalition and build the infrastructure
for Asians everywhere across Texas to be able to have access to that
ability through sub granting, training, through helping uplift their work.
We create kind of that baseline infrastructure for
our community's advocacy.
And yeah.
Minh V.: That was great.
Thank you, Sabrina.
What I'm hearing too is like, so often these systems that we have to operate
in aren't built for all of us, you know, and it's really important to
have organizations such as y'alls be able to help the community navigate
these systems that, like I said, often aren't built for people like us.
So I really appreciate all the, the work that y'all are doing.
And Hannah, I want to learn a little bit more.
I mean, storytelling is, My favorite, but with the Austin Asian American
Film Festival, tell us more about that and what y'all offer the community.
I'm back on stage
Hanna H.: again.
Welcome back.
Um, the first panel, my commission position is actually
just what I do for fun.
So this is actually my work.
It's Austin Asian American Film Festival.
I'm the executive director for it.
We've been around for 20 years.
We're going into the spring.
Sweet 16 of our actual film festival program.
But our organization has been doing an organizing grassroots wise for
20 years in the city of Austin.
We actually have a history exhibit about our organization at the history
center that will be up until July 2nd.
So if you're ever downtown and want to swing in and take a look, we have
an exhibit about our long legacy.
But a little bit more about what seems like just one festival in
our name is we're actually a.
Full-fledged nonprofit.
We used to be a volunteer run and we've expanded from just doing a
few days a year festival program to, we're doing things year round.
You might've seen our logo or our name around for film screenings at
the AARC or maybe in partnership with some of our friends over here.
And we also provide a lot of services.
to local Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Highlander filmmakers.
So we're really, uh, behind crafting more of like a grassroots led identity
and group and network for those as well, who are aspiring filmmakers,
but also established filmmakers, who here has watched an Asian or Asian
American film in the last like two days.
It's like probably almost everyone.
Maybe on YouTube.
Raise your hands.
Y'all watch TV.
Y'all watch movies.
And if you haven't, go turn on your Netflix or whatever
streaming platform you want.
There's plenty to watch.
What we're doing with the festival program, which this year it'll be
June 26th to 30th at AFS Cinema, is we're bringing new independent films.
So stuff you cannot find anywhere else.
on streamers yet.
This is stuff that's just made.
It's doing the film festival circuit.
It's gathering awards.
We are deep in the planning for the one coming up, and we have some fantastic
news to share in the next week about our films that we're confirming
and guests that we plan to bring.
I'll tell them in privately later, so.
Come find us.
You might hear some of it, but our opening night film will be quite fantastic.
And I hope y'all can come out to, to that night on the 26th.
The work that we're doing is really championing Asian American stories.
That's like the simplest way to put it.
And not just on like the screen and like in front of you, but behind the
camera, that stuff doesn't get made.
By the people that are on the screen, like they're working certainly, but
it's really all those that are involved in the creative process of getting
film together and making and creating and iterating and approving it.
That is so important, right?
And there's a statistic that always sticks to me that I want to share, which
is, it's from USC Annenberg school, a school of media, and they have a statistic
that 75 percent of the leading roles for AAPI in the last, I think, like, 10 or
20 years is, it's pretty much the rock.
That's like the leading Asian American, yeah.
So it's the rock.
So that's not enough, right?
That's not enough representation for one male person in our community
to be the main Asian American lead.
So that means there's not enough roles going to other Asian American leads.
And we need to change that.
And I really, truly believe it starts with audience building
and with Artist development.
So these two areas are where you'll see us focus on.
Some of our other year round programs you'll see is we curate
in Asian American Video Club.
And so we'll get a few suggested films that are playing at AFS
Cinema or other cinemas around town, and we'll get you a discount.
The AFS Cinema discount's always 4 off the ticket for the
films that we're suggesting.
So that's the same as if you had an AFS membership.
And AFS is Austin Film Society.
They run a art house cinema in the Highland area.
That's also where we host our film festival.
And In terms of why it's important, I mean, I think most of us here
can attest to the very, very few faces that looked like ours on
the TV screens growing up, right?
Like, the fact that The one Hey Arnold episode, Christmas
episode from 20 years ago now.
Minh V.: For when?
Yeah.
Cowboy.
He's a country artist.
It's like taking its way back
Hanna H.: and we all talk about it.
That's like a core memory for a lot of Asian, young Asian Americans
now, or millennial Asian Americans.
So there should be more, right?
And then even just Joy Luck Club, when that came out, and then the distance
between when Crazy Rich Asians came out.
That was 20 years.
That's crazy.
So we want to shorten that.
And we've seen that.
We've really seen that activeness in on the national sphere, but on
the local scale, we are very aware that will probably be the first
film festival you come out to.
Maybe you've gone to a screening here or there, but most people will not have
attended a film festival when they come out to ours, and we kind of teach you
the process, but on a more local scale.
We're also providing a, a really intimate chance for you to sit
in the audience with your peers.
And with a filmmaker, that's more than likely from your community, too.
Minh V.: Alright, so a lot of us in the crowd are likely part of employee resource
groups at the companies that we work with.
And as we think more about finding ways to kind of build those inroads between
the private and public sector, The nonprofit sector, the work that y'all do.
There's a question of like, how, how can we collaborate further together?
Could one of y'all maybe share an example of like an intentional type of partnership
that y'all entered into with a local company and what did that look like?
How did it come about?
I'm just going to pass it to the panel.
So anyone who wants to chime in there and y'all listen, cause we
need to be hearing this so we can advocate for them at our companies
and come up with these ideas too, to support the work that they're doing.
Sabrina S.: So I'll start off.
One thing that everyone can do at their employer is to do
like the employer match system.
So I'm going to answer from the development perspective
because that's what I do.
So development is fundraising.
And so one thing that y'all have the option to do, um, Assuming everyone works
at like a bigger company is they'll always do an employer or they usually do an
employer match where if you donate 50 from your paycheck to whatever organization,
usually it has to be a 501 c three.
But if you do like 50, a paycheck that goes to us and then your
employer will actually match it so that donation becomes doubled.
And that's a Really, really amazing thing for a lot of us as non profit
organizations, because that's a consistent source of funding to
keep the programs that we do going.
And that's something that everyone can ask their employer
about, about the employer match.
Minh V.: Yeah, that's a, that's a great point.
I know at my company, we definitely have like an annual budget that they
give their employees up to a certain amount that will, they'll match
your donations to the nonprofit.
So definitely, if you haven't done that at your company, or if your company
doesn't offer that, it might be worth suggesting that as a employee perk.
Hailey E.: We're all 501c3's here.
So
Minh V.: they all are on that list that you can donate to.
And
Sabrina S.: it's like a set it and forget it kind of thing.
Like you just do it once.
And you don't have to think about it and it's really easy and we love it.
So
Minh V.: any other examples that y'all would want to,
Zahra S.J.: I can chime in.
So I think that there's a couple of different ways that I think about it.
I think that a lot of us that are, if you're curious about any of our
nonprofits, follow us on socials, attend some programming, I'll say.
A lot of the partnerships that we've had with corporations were really
driven by that one person that was like, I would like my company to be
a more responsible participant in this community that I am part of.
And so a lot of folks will.
Take the time to learn a little bit about the work that the nonprofit is doing.
And we do a lot of ERG events.
So like we'll come talk about our work, talk about something
that's relevant to you.
So for example, a lot of folks will have a share, something about the model
minority myth and how to work against it, or how to be more aware of it in the
spaces that we're occupying as highly educated, in some cases, doing pretty
well, Asian folks that are in this space.
Corporate setting, right?
So I think that really thinking about what are relevant ways of hosting
these conversations in the spaces you occupy and introducing any one
of our nonprofits in those settings, because people are looking to connect
and give back and have community.
And so I think that's a nice way to do it.
We also find that individuals will step forward, right?
So.
So we have client facing work, and if someone's interested in supporting
a client one on one, there are some high training requirements.
I know Hailey will probably share that, some of those.
But there are opportunities for you to work directly with survivors of violence.
We also run a school based program.
So, Serving as a mentor to a young person from a newly arrived
immigrant or refugee family.
That's within attending a public school system.
Usually a Title I school in our case in AISD.
So there are opportunities like that as well.
Again, we have a gala every year.
So if you're a gala goer, sponsor a table.
Let's go dress up.
It's on November 2nd this year.
So get a table, bring some friends.
There are many ways to support us and your time is as important as the
dollars, but we also need the dollars.
And the last thing I'll say is that I think that we, all of us, are connected
to folks that, when we think about interpersonal violence, we often think
that it's this thing that happens very far away from where I am, right?
And I Went to law school and I, you know, I'm educated and I'm doing well
and we think that those are protective factors and one would hope that they
are, but they unfortunately are not so a lot of spaces that we occupy.
We have to be brave and normalize these conversations, right?
And the statistics are so high, right?
One in four folks will experience interpersonal violence.
The numbers for sexual violence are also pretty high, and those
numbers are underreported.
And we know that the numbers are even further underreported
in Asian communities.
So really just normalizing the conversation, putting yourself out there.
And if you need help in having those conversations, then
that's what we're here for.
Reach out and host those conversations in all the spaces that you're in.
Minh V.: Yeah, thanks for those answers.
And I think one thing that I hear is being creative about how you partner
with these organizations and that all of them are open to that type
of creativity and that partnership.
Think about your company OKRs, your company goals, see how it can intersect.
I work in corporate clearly, honestly, like you can advocate for these
nonprofits that way and make it an easier self or the employer to invest and to
cough over open their purse strings.
You know, I know one last example that I'll share is I know
another company that I've seen.
seen do like a field day where they split into two teams, they
nominate, they participate on behalf of one of the organizations
to help raise money for them.
So employee engagement is a big buzzword in corporate too.
So yeah, I was
Hailey E.: going to say, I think ERGs could run fundraisers within themselves.
I think that's a really great idea.
Another thing is that some of us have products that we sell, like
they have, uh, Asian Texas for justice have really cool t shirts.
Deal?
Sabrina S.: Yes.
Hailey E.: And so you can buy some for your whole ERG and then that's
going to go to their work, or we have the family style passport.
You can buy one for your whole ERG and then go eat out together.
And then I think one more thing is just volunteering.
So, Just keep in mind, volunteering, especially for these folks who we're
helping is a little challenging, a little complicated because there's a
lot of shame involved with receiving help and it's just complicated.
So.
I think something to keep in mind is that we actually need
your expertise in the fields that you're in and even the resources.
So like we actually reached out to Waymo and we were like, Hey, do you
want to give us some free rides?
Cause our clients need rides.
So maybe you could advocate for services or resources that you
could share with nonprofits that we wouldn't normally have access to.
Minh V.: That's great.
Yeah.
Thank you.
All right.
We've got a couple minutes for Q and A.
I think all of y'all have tables in the back or most of y'all.
So if you have, if you want to learn more, please go learn more over there.
But yeah.
Any questions?
What y'all got?
Y'all got something.
Audience Member: Hello?
Hello?
Hi.
First, I just want to say thanks everybody for making this event happen.
I'm a huge supporter of AARC.
I come here as often as I can and I thank you for being you and
what you do for the community.
I have a selfish question.
I'm half Vietnamese and Hannah mentioned earlier, the statistic
is that Austin is like 8 percent Asian, but mixed race doesn't count.
Hanna H.: Yeah, it's just the way the census is set up.
So when they Pull out the numbers.
They don't include people who are checking off boxes for like multiple,
or if you're writing in, you can get those counted individually and like
pull that category individually.
But unfortunately, when you start to pull together a group, like a,
a NHPI, it gets real complicated.
So whenever you see demographic reports, you can ask and see if it includes
anyone that's like selected multiple.
So we know that any count of our.
Community is always some sort of undercount.
Audience Member: Right, right.
No, I, I imagine.
I was just kind of curious, like, you know, so where does my number go?
It just, like, disappears.
Hanna H.: You might be in, like, a greater number or, like, more singular category.
So, it really depends on how, when people are pulling reports, they're just pulling
raw data and making those findings.
So you can ask questions of the report generator, like, what did you
include when you made this category?
It might depend on that.
So the recent demographer report, I asked her specifically, like, Oh,
does this include mixed race Asians?
Like if they check more than one box and she said, no, this number does not.
Well,
Audience Member: thank you.
I was just curious.
I
Minh V.: think that, thank you for bringing that up.
I mean, I think that just exemplifies the theme here about systems that
are created in our communities aren't always being inclusive.
Thinking about the different nuances of challenges that our community might face.
And so just really highlights even more the important work that
these organizations are doing.
And I want to ask everyone to give them a round of applause, please,
for all the work that they've done.
And thank you for joining us.
Thank you all for being here.
Really appreciate it.
Sandra P.: Hey, just want to give a shout out to you.
Great job.
I know that was really fun.
And I'm biased.
You're an amazing moderator, but just such a good conversation to
have with such key community leaders, which was just really nice to hear.
And honestly, I learned so much about some of the key services
and things that that exists that I didn't even know about myself.
Minh V.: Yeah, I appreciate that.
Yeah, I think one that really stood out to me was when Hailey was talking about the
health navigators that they have at the Austin Asian Community Health Initiative
and just thinking about Growing up.
I don't know about you But like there was a lot of things that me and my brother
would have to help our parents with sometimes government related things like
documents or just like Things that felt like me as maybe a 10 year old shouldn't
necessarily have to know about just yet, but the reality was, you know, me and
my brother knew potentially could help fill in the gaps, at least in terms of
like language proficiency and what some of these documents were asking for.
And we had to use context clues too.
But I just think about how Helpful it would have been to know that a resource
like this existed and to have our family be able to like benefit from that.
So I'm really glad that they have something like this.
Sandra P.: Yeah, me too, for sure.
And I'm even just thinking about in the future.
I mean, there's some really big things that are happening, right?
The election in November and thinking about how I know this,
these groups are going to rally and figure out how to support them.
So I know a few of them talked about resourcing, how they can even get
On the bus to polling stations and how we can communicate how they can
get lists and all these things just to make it easier and barriers that
are in place that may prevent this community from being able to vote.
And it is important that they have access.
So yeah, really just big applause and go out and support these organizations.
If you have not already, I know really big things that are coming up and you know,
I'm sure they could use time resourcing and volunteers and things like that.
Minh V.: Yeah.
And I just really appreciate to the wide range of like services that
we heard from, like you're talking about just civic engagement, Asian
Texans for justice, and even the film festival, which just recently passed
the Austin Asian American Film Festival.
I went this year, saw the opening night of the new wave documentary
and had a lot of, a lot of fun.
And I think.
A lot of these different organizations provide really important aspects of
community, either through direct services or through art and entertainment and
representation, like the film festival.
So you can check out more of their stuff and resources in the episode description.
We'll have links there, but Yeah.
Appreciate you listening in with us and definitely also we have
a list of AAPI led organizations in our bio and on our website.
So if you're interested in learning more about different organizations in the
community, definitely check that out.
And yeah, just encourage you all to get involved.
Thanks for listening.
Sandra P.: Bye all.
Minh V.: Bye.