Missouri Asian American Youth Foundation

Pulled together a women's press conference at City Hall to unify against AAPI Hate and to hear from Asian American women how we've been impacted by anti-Asian incidents and hate crimes not just in the past year but for our whole lives. (https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/breaking-the-silence-asian-american-leaders-in-st-louis-fight-uptick-in-bigotry/article_6f68a917-86ba-5359-a3c2-50820bb29162.html).

Last year, we reached 15,000 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters in Missouri in multiple languages to help them figure out voting in a pandemic. We also pulled together communities across the state to ensure a Complete Count in the Census, working in partnership with the Hispanic and Black communities. We are also working on vaccine equity for our elders who are limited English proficient: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/health-science-environment/2021-03-15/asian-americans-in-st-louis-push-for-vaccine-information-in-their-languages

These funds will go toward youth summer fellows to work on empowering our communities to #StopAAPIHate including bullying in schools, which turns into hate incidents and crimes as bullies turn into adults. We have $4,000 of matching funds.