Phonnica was a fellow with Seeding Change in 2021 placed at Seeding Change. Below is her reflection with Seeding Change this past summer. I’ve been really grateful for our Seeding Change cohort in allowing me to realign my values with what it means to organize for our community-- to be intentional with my relationships through slowing down and healing together. Being a fellow under the Seeding Change cohort was the first time in a while that I’d be able to routinely engage in long check-i...| www.seeding-change.org
Seeding Change grows a national Asian American movement to promote a just, sustainable, and democratic society. We hope to explore and build a national pipeline for the next generation of Asian American organizers, create an infrastructure for Asian American grassroots organizing, and experiment with building power and scale for our movements toward a vibrant social and economic justice movement.| Seeding Change
Christine was a Seeding Change fellow in 2021 at Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP). Below is her reflection with Seeding Change this past summer. I grew up in Butte county, in a small town an hour north of Sacramento, where my grandfather resettled with his family after fleeing Southeast Asia after the Vietnam (Secret) War. My parents don’t share much about what happened during the war, but I can hear the ache in my mother’s voice when she talks about her life before the war; before she had...| www.seeding-change.org
Building the Path Together: Seeding Change’s Impact| Seeding Change
with Hannah & Nancy In this series, we are highlighting our Seeding Change alums and the fields they have gone into after the program. We believe that we need organizing and change in all parts of our life and work, and that anyone can be an organizer from where they are at. Two of our alums are currently in nursing school. We share their journey in the hopes of expanding our understandings of social change and finding our movement roles. Hannah Seeding Change Graduation 2017 Can you share ab...| www.seeding-change.org
Thank you for supporting our next generation of young leaders creating positive change in their communities. | Seeding Change
Dear friends, We started Seeding Change eight years ago with the understanding that we were going to seed an organization that would contribute to a national movement for social change. At the time, we were asking ourselves these questions: How do we build the next generation of leadership that understands and sees the importance of organizing? How can we support the growth of grassroots organizations and add capacity to them? Given how much time and energy it takes to develop leaders...| www.seeding-change.org
Please find the full text of Belinda's reflection beneath the images. There are left and right buttons on the images to view more. What is something that you learned from the fellowship that you would like to share with others? I learned so much over the summer. The elements of the fellowship, learning from other fellows and their experiences over the summer, my own experience. I've been thinking about organizational structure and what that looks like. How the bases form the larger movements....| www.seeding-change.org
Please find the full text of Thang's reflection beneath the images. There are left and right buttons on the images to view more. What is something that you learned from the fellowship that you would like to share with others? The number one thing I learned is that organizing work is difficult. We come in with rose-tinted lenses and want to be impactful to our community, but we are not reaching the ocean. It’s good to understand where your organizing comes from and understand why you organiz...| www.seeding-change.org
The summer of 2019 was the best summer of my life with the Seeding Change fellows, and it was right before the pandemic. At the beginning of 2020, I started working at Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD), a student center at UC Berkeley that was born out of the legacy of the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF). Shortly thereafter, I went on to start my Master’s at San Francisco State in Asian American Studies. The APASD functions as a spaces that centers self determination, ...| www.seeding-change.org
Below are brief descriptions of our potential host organizations for 2024. We encourage you to learn more about the organizations by browsing their website and social media platforms. We match applicants to host organizations based on interests and skills. East Coast Asian Americans United (Philadelphia, PA) From our beginning, AAU has had a particular focus on youth so that young people in our communities are supported to become individually, socially, and politically aware; to exercise thei...| www.seeding-change.org