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Looking to find community on campus? The Graduate Student Organization Series features profiles of social, professional, and affinity groups for graduate students to help you expand your personal and professional communities. This article features the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Alliance (APIGSA). Read on to find out how you can get involved!
Looking to find community on campus? The Graduate Student Organization Series features profiles of social, professional, and affinity groups for graduate students.
This article features the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Alliance (APIGSA).
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MISSION The Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Alliance (APIGSA) at UC Santa Barbara is an organization that strives to create and maintain spaces of support for graduate students of Asian panethnicity, while advocating for a more critically accurate representation of Asian American students. APIGSA aims to carry forward critical conversations that are frequently read illegible and absorbed into the background. The Asian panethnic community's plurality of experiences contributes to a rich archive of shared knowledge that networks across ostensibly separate incidents of social injustice. APIGSA members welcome opportunities to critically engage notions of community in their development as students, individuals, and community members.
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ACTIVITIES APIGSA's activities/events tend to fall into one or more of four categories: general meetings, self-care, activism, and social. Over the past year, the organization has hosted and/or co-sponsored game nights and self-care/community care events facilitated by UCSB mental health professionals, which often include dinner and crafts. General meetings provide time for announcements from the wider UCSB community. APIGSA has also been proud to sponsor care packages and micro-grants for members, and care packages for Black graduate students. The APIGSA board meets every other week and the organization hosts at least 2 events a quarter. |
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HOW TO GET INVOLVED Email APIGSA at: apigsa.ucsb@gmail.com |
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MEET THE BOARD Naomi Joseph (she/her): President Janna Haider (she/her): Vice President Donna Anderson (she/her): Treasurer Misa Nguyen (she/her): Community Liaison
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