27 Apr Intimacy and Vulnerability: A Facilitated Sharing Session for AAPI Advocates and Staff
This is a facilitated sharing session, where Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) victim advocates and staff will share their experiences and stories based on prompts.
From 3:00 PM until 4:30 PM ET
At Online via Zoom
Free
Presented by the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence / Brittney Asher, bhasher@api-gbv.org
This is a facilitated sharing session, where Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) victim advocates and staff will share their experiences and stories based on prompts. Facilitated by Dr. Ada Cheng, this session is designed based on the understanding that staff members have experienced vicarious trauma and exhaustion due to the pandemic and the current political climate of our time. The format of the intimate sharing is intended to create space for intimacy, vulnerability, connection, and hopefully care for the participants.
Please note: we are limiting attendance for this session to 30 participants. If you find out that you can no longer make it after signing up, please cancel your registration through Zoom or email Brittney Asher at bhasher@api-gbv.org, so that we can open the spot up to another participant. Thank you!
About the facilitator:
An educator-turned artist, storyteller, and creator, Dr. Ada Cheng has utilized storytelling to illustrate structural inequities, raise critical awareness, and build intimate communities. Committed to amplifying and uplifting marginalized voices, she has created numerous storytelling platforms for BIPOC and LGBTQIA community members to tell difficult and vulnerable stories based on their lived experiences.
Since she resigned from her tenured position in sociology at DePaul University in 2016, she has been featured at storytelling shows and done her two solo performances in theaters, universities, and conferences across the nation. She has given numerous keynotes since then. In 2019, she delivered her solo performance, Not Quite: Navigating Citizenship and Belonging, as the keynote for Women and Girls in Georgia Conference at the University of Georgia. In 2021, she delivered keynotes for Chicago Cultural Alliance’s Activating Heritage Conference, AAPI Heritage Month at Dominican University, AAPI Heritage Month at Environmental Protection Agency, and Immigrants in Our Midst Conference. Her interests encompass academia, storytelling/performance, and advocacy.
You can learn more about Dr. Ada Cheng and see some of her previous work here!