Asia Game Changer West Awards 2023 Opening: AAPI Youth Rising with Russell Jeung

San Francisco, April 19, 2023 — Asia Society Northern California hosts its fifth annual Asia Game Changer West Awards Gala at San Francisco City Hall, celebrating the organization's 25th anniversary. Asia Game Changer West Awards are bestowed to individuals, organizations, and movements that have inspired, enlightened, and shown true leadership in areas that reflect Asia Society’s core pillars of policy and business, technology and innovation, arts and culture, and education.

The evening’s second honoree, AAPI Youth Rising, is a student-led organization whose mission it is to take small actions to make positive change in their communities. The organization came together in March 2021 when they organized a 1,200+ rally in Berkeley, California to bring awareness to the increase in xenophobia against Asians in America. Now the group has a national reach with 50+ Chapter Leaders across 15 states and counting.

The White House honored the organization at the “United We Stand” Summit on September 15, 2022 for their work. The group has spoken with the TODAY Show, Washington Post, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, Teach For America, “Together As One” by Soul of a Nation, and many others. TIME for Kids wrote about the AAPI Youth Rising Rally when the founder of AAPI Youth Rising was named as Top 5 Time Kid of the Year. American Girl selected the organization the 2022 Girl of the Year Partner Organization for the first Chinese American Girl of the Year, Corinne Tan. Thanks to American Girl, AAPI Youth Rising's message reached 1.3+ billion impressions in 2022 through the partnership announcement.

The awardees are introduced by 2022 Asia Game Changer West honoree, Russell Jeung, Co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate and Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.

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