CAAL’s 2022 Asian Minnesotan Leadership Summit:

Creating Community Constellations

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Saturday September 17, 2022

CAAL’s 2022 Leadership Summit: Creating Community Constellations will convene Asian Minnesotans across sectors, generations, regions and communities to connect, learn and act together. Leaders from around the state will have opportunities to meet other Asian Minnesotans, learn new skills, gain knowledge about key issues impacting the community, and kick off civic engagement efforts ahead of the November 2022 elections. In the face of invisibility, erasure and violence, we will come together as a community to share space, deepen relationships and grow our collective power for a future where we can all thrive.

Through this year’s theme of Creating Community Constellations, we want to uplift a vision of community abundance and care. Inspired by the quote from Gloria Anzaldua: “We don’t want to be stars, but parts of constellations,” We believe we must boldly step into our brilliance as Asian Minnesotan leaders, while also illuminating the power found in our relationships with one another and our beloved communities.

Join us!

At CAAL, we believe leaders are anyone, regardless of position, who proactively wants to figure out how to grow their knowledge and connections and use their resources to work on issues that matter to the future of Asian Minnesotans.

This event is for you if you identify as Asian, live or spend time in Minnesota and are interested in connecting with fellow Asian Minnesotans and growing your leadership. Students are welcome! There will be a student track for high school and college students.

Registration is now open! Register today!

Keynote Speaker: Gregory Cendana

Dancer, Strategist, Facilitator, and Entrepreneur Gregory Allan Datu Cendana is President of Can’t Stop! Won’t Stop! Consulting and Can’t Stop! Won’t Stop! Education Fund, Chief Creative Officer of Greg Dances, co-founder of The People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation, and #1 International Best Selling Author of #BeTheBossNow. He was the first openly gay and youngest-ever Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership and Advancement. Gregory was also the first openly gay and first Filipino American elected Chair of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, co-founder of the diversity initiative Inclusv, and serves on the board of directors for United We Dream and Asian Mental Health Collective. Gregory was President of the United States Student Association (USSA), where he played an integral role in the passage of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act and the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act. He also co-authored Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) Behind Bars: Exposing the School to Prison to Deportation Pipeline, a first of its kind report on the impact of mass incarceration and mass criminalization in the AAPI community.