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Weekly Digest
October 18, 2022 |
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Edit - The previous version misnamed Taiga Takahashi as Taiga "Takeshi" Send Us Your Events! As JACL chapters and our partner organizations return to in-person programming, please be sure to send us chapter events or other community events to share with JACL members here in the Weekly Digest or on our social media channels! We want to showcase the variety of programs, events, and partnerships that our members take part in and offer opportunities for new members or supporters to get involved. You can send us information using the contact form on the JACL.org homepage. Thank you! - JACL Staff |
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A Few Spots Left For Our New Member Orientation! |
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How can you make the most of your JACL membership? Join our special virtual program to engage with JACL leadership including Executive Director David Inoue, meet other new members, and find out all JACL has to offer. We will have prizes! |
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This Saturday! JACL NY/SC Kaiwa Convos with Dr. Emily Murase! |
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This Saturday during our 2022 Fall Retreat we will be meeting with Dr. Emily Murase! Join our Instagram Live at 4:30 PST to hear all about the lives of Japanese Americans and how we can advocate for our community. Dr. Emily Murase serves as Executive Director of the San Francisco Japantown Task Force, Inc. to preserve and promote one of the last remaining Japantowns in the country. Previously, she served as Director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, dedicated to advancing gender equity in the workplace and preventing gender-based violence, for over 15 years. Her partnership with major employers to showcase best practices earned her the UN Institute for Training and Research Gender Equity Award. She led a multi-year city-wide anti-domestic violence initiative that resulted in a record 4 years without a single domestic violence homicide. Dr. Murase received the "Modern Day Abolitionist Award" from the SF Collaborative Against Human Trafficking for establishing a 24-hour response to child sex trafficking. In 2010, she became the first Japanese American ever to be elected to the San Francisco Board of Education and concluded her tenure in 2018. She is on the board of the SF-Osaka Sister City Association and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Dr. Murase holds a master's in International Pacific Affairs from UC San Diego and a Ph.D. in communication from Stanford. She resides in San Francisco with her husband Neal Taniguchi. They have two adult daughters, Junko and Izumi. We can’t wait for this Saturday! |
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Celebrate Filipino American Heritage Month with the White House this Thursday |
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Please join the White House Initiative on AA and NHPIs as we bring together Biden-Harris Administration officials, community leaders, and artists for a special Filipino American History Month celebration on October 20. Together, we will mark 30 years since the first Filipino American History Month was celebrated — and honor our community's shared legacy of service and resilience. |
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San Diego JACL Monthly Dialogue with Taiga Takahashi |
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Changemakers Summit 2022 from Act to Change, Hate is a Virus, and Stop AAPI Hate |
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From our friends at Act to Change: Changemakers Summit 2022 is a national AAPI Youth Conference created in partnership with Act to Change, Hate is a Virus, and Stop AAPI Hate . Designed to support, connect & develop the next generation of AAPI youth activists, our conference this year will center around the theme of Intergenerational & Intersectional Activism. The Changemakers Summit will take place virtually on October 29, 2022 from 10:00am – 3:00pm PDT. The target audience is AAPI youth ranging from middle school to college students. As a broader forum for the AAPI community to center and support youth leaders, we invite educators, mentors, and other leaders within the AAPI community to participate and share their knowledge. We plan to host a variety of workshops, speaker panels, and community discussions that attendees can choose to partake in, across three different tracks: 1. Who Are We? (Identity Development) 2. What Impacts Us? (Issue Exploration) 3. How Can We Create Change? (Skill-Building) |
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Before They Take Us Away Screening at Berkeley Video & Film Festival, October 30 |
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The Berkeley Video & Film Festival presents the Bay Area premiere of the award-winning documentary film, Before They Take Us Away WHEN: Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m. WHERE: East Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 TICKETS: Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at: berkeleyvideofilmfest.org or by calling: (510) 843-3699 For more information, please visit the Before They Take Us Away website at: https://www.beforetheytakeusaway.com/ or e-mail: theitosisters@gmail.com. |
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MPA Entertainment Law and policy Fellowship |
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Date Change- San Diego JACL Monthly Virtual Dialogues: Gary Sosa |
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Irei - A National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration Launches at JANM |
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Led by USC Ito Center Director Duncan Ryuken Williams and Project Creative Director Sunyoung Lee, the Irei Monument Project expands and re-envisions what a monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as monument (慰霊帳 Ireichō), an online archive as monument (慰霊蔵 Ireizō), and light sculptures as monument (慰霊碑 Ireihi). Drawing on traditions of monuments built in America’s internment and concentrations camps—such as the Manzanar Ireito, the Amache Ireito, and Rohwer’s Ireihi (Soul Consolation Towers or Monuments)—the project aims to memorialize the past and repair the fractures caused by America’s racial karma. The Ireichō (a large-sized book of names) contains the first comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in US Army, Department of Justice, Wartime Civil Control Administration, and War Relocation Authority camps. Embedded into the very materiality of the Ireicho are special ceramic pieces made from soil collected by the project from seventy-five former incarceration sites from Alaska to Hawaii, Arkansas to California, and from almost every other region of the United States. |
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2023 JACS Program Grant Applications Available Now! |
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Applications for the 2023 JACS Program Grants have opened and are available now through the November 9th deadline. You can apply and learn more about the JACS Program below. |
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Get Ready for Vote Early Day with our Friends from APIA Vote! |
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From our friends at APIAVote! This is an amazing opportunity to help your community get out and vote, and we’d love to have your organization join us on October 28! You can learn more about Vote Early Day here and sign up to be a partner here. |
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JACL is hiring for a new position in the San Francisco National Headquarters Office! Director of Finance/CFO - Regular - 32 hours/week
- Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid/work from home schedule available)
- The Director of Finance/CFO is responsible for the financial health of the organization with an annual budget of $2 million and growing. JACL has a diverse source of revenues from membership dues, charitable contributions, corporate sponsorships and partners, annual convention, grants, and a newspaper with advertising revenue.
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