SAPAAC April 2025 Newsletter

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Upcoming Events
Announcements
Recent Events

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month is just around the corner! Celebrate with SAPAAC and other Stanford alums at one of these upcoming events.

4/22/25 - Virtual: Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star Book Talk with Mayukh Sen, '14

4/26/25 - Qingdao, Shandong, China: Community Sports Clinic & Park Clean-Up

4/27/25 - Sha Tin, Hong Kong: Tree Planting with Forest for All

5/1/25 - Virtual + Stanford, CA: A Fireside Chat with Raj Agrawal, ’95, MBA ’00

5/2/25 - Palo Alto, CA: Beyond the Farm: Tree Planting With Canopy

5/3/25 - Stanford, CA: Stanford Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Potluck

5/4/25 - Virtual + Stanford, CA: Fireside Chat with Stanford basketball star Ryan Agarwal, '26

5/4/25 - Mountain View, CA: Beyond the Farm: Kannon Do Meditation Center & Garden Beautification

5/4/25 - New Taipei City, Taiwan: Green Bay Beach Clean-Up

5/8/25 - Virtual: The China Business Conundrum Book Talk with Ken Wilcox

[SOLD OUT] 5/9/25 - Seattle, WA: Thai Noodle Classics at The Pantry -- private cooking class, wine included

5/13/25 - Virtual: Stanford Author Talk: Asian Heritage Chefs in the White House

5/16/25 - Stanford, CA: Resilience and Reckoning: AAPI Career Panel and Mixer

Late May TBD - New York, NY: AAPI + environmental/climate discussion [link coming soon]

[SOLD OUT] 6/8/25 - Orange County, CA: World of Terracotta Warriors at the Bowers Museum

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Stanford 2025 Asian American Awards

SAPAAC is part of the Stanford 2025 Asian American Awards, which will take place at Paul Brest Hall in the Munger Graduate Residence, Building 4, on Friday, May 9, 2025. The reception will open at 6 pm and the program will begin at 7 pm, lasting until roughly 9 pm.

Cost: students with a Stanford ID - $15; non-students - $35

Register: https://a3c.stanford.edu/programs/saaa/rsvp

SAPAAC Mini-Grants

Do you have an idea for an event related to AAPI alumni interests? SAPAAC is offering one-time mini-grants to subsidize and help you host an alumni event in your local area.

Mini-grants up to $200, provided through post-event reimbursement.
Not required, but some preference will be given to underserved Stanford AAPI alumni regions.
Eligible for events scheduled through Sept 30, 2025.
Submit your proposal by May 31, 2025 - the end of AAPI Heritage Month.

For more information and to access the application (just a simple Google form), go to SAPAAC Mini-Grant Proposal Form.

RECENT EVENTS

More than 100 alums came together on April 5 at the famous Alamo Square Park in San Francisco for the Stanford+Harvard AAPI Spring Potluck Picnic!

On April 10, SAPAAC co-sponsored a happy hour at Manny's SF with the Stanford Club of San Francisco.

SAPAAC and the Stanford Club of Washington co-hosted an author talk with Katie Gee Salisbury, ‘07, at Yuan Ru Art Center, featuring her debut book Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong. Thank you to all alums and friends in Bellevue who attended.

GET INVOLVED! Do you want to have an impact on AAPI alumni? Work with any of our three working committees, which focus on organizing events, advocating for Asian American issues within the university, and growing our membership. Our next committee meetings will be held in May.

Events

Chair: Andrew Jabara, ‘18, [email protected]

West Coast Leader: Jin Park, ‘91, [email protected]

East Coast Leader: Josephine Lau, ‘06, [email protected]

Advocacy & Education Committee

Chair: Takeo Rivera, ‘08, [email protected]

Membership Committee

Chair: Kuldip Ambastha, ‘04, [email protected]

Other questions for SAPAAC? Email us at [email protected]

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