Job Opportunity: Voting Rights Senior Program Coordinator

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus needs you to help protect the vote.



Are you talented, passionate, social justice-oriented individual who cares about creating a more inclusive democracy and help protect the vote for immigrant AAPI and Latino voters this year?

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, the nation's oldest Asian American civil rights organization, is looking to hire a Senior Program Coordinator for its Voting Rights Program. This role will oversee the civic engagement portions of Advancing Justice-ALC's Election Protection / Language Access project, which protects access to the ballot for immigrant and limited English-proficient AAPI and Latino voters in eighteen Northern California counties.

Here are some more details about the position:

Who says there are no AAPI civil rights heroes?

16-part video series profiles AAPI civil rights icons for Heritage Month



Some history for your Heritage Month... In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus is releasing a 16-part series of short videos profiling AAPI civil rights heroes, from Wong Kim Ark to Larry Itliong to Japanese American internment dissenters.

Here are the videos they've released so far:

New demographic report: A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in California, 2013

Time to drop some demographic data, my friends. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the Asian Law Caucus just released a major new report on California's fastest growing racial groups: A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in California, 2013.

Using the latest data from numerous federal, state, and local agencies, the report outlines pressing challenges faced by Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, including the need for healthcare and humane immigration reform, and the negative impact of the economic crisis.

Some of the report's key findings, according to APALC's press release: