Organizer: Asian American Education Project
Type/Location: Virtual
Description:
Explore how Asian American ethnic enclaves serve as powerful examples of community resilience, shared networks, and identity formation. Participants will engage with ready-to-use lesson plans featuring Sikh farmers in California's Imperial Valley, Filipino Manilamen settlements, and Vietnamese refugee communities in Southern California. Leave with concrete tools to teach about Asian American community building, cultural preservation, and the ongoing contributions of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) communities to local and national development.
This workshop is free for educators and will take place virtually. It will be facilitated by Paula Katrina Camaya.
About the Speaker:
Paula Katrina Camaya is a Filipina educator based in Chicago, Illinois. She holds a B.A in History and a B.S in Secondary Education from Loyola University Chicago. Paula was a community organizer in Chicago working with various organizations to advance justice for immigrants, women, and communities of color across the city. This work influenced her to become an educator and it also influenced her pedagogy. She is a high school history teacher, now working to transition to the elementary education classroom. Paula is passionate about uplifting ethnic studies, indigenous knowledge systems, and civic inquiry in the classroom. Outside of work she loves to read, crochet, travel, and spend time with her family.
Registration:
To attend the event virtually, please register here.