Fellow Cohorts

Hey y’all! My name is Andy Huynh (he/him/his) and I am a 2020-2021 MOVE fellow for Asian Health Services Youth Program (@ahs.yp). AHSYP focuses on working with youth to facilitate their growth through health education, professional development, and community service by providing resources such as workshops and curriculums. The projects I am working on include facilitating sex education, creating mental health resources, and creating a curriculum for the spring that utilizes storytelling for persxnal healing and growth. I feel strongly about working with youth as that is the time where they are exploring their identity, creativity, and values and I want to be a source of guidance for them. What I am most excited about is being able to be a part of a community based organization that is outside of the Berkeley campus and engage in work that benefits communities in need of extra support and resources.

Hi y’all! I’m Flora (she/they) and I’ll be working with AYPAL this year! I’ll be working on using visual arts to communicate AYPAL’s vision/mission statement while incorporating youth into the art. I hope to give back to the API community by providing resources through educational visual arts on topics such as gentrification and gender justice. I look forward to learning more about the rich hxstory of Oakland and how to better support the community there!

I’m excited to collaborate with the youth to create resources that not only inform but also resonate with them. During my time with Banteay Srei, I hope to learn more about the issue of CSEC in the Bay Area, build sistahood, and be a resource for the youth.

My name is Kathy, and I am a second-year intending to major in Public Health. My pronouns are She/Her/Hers. This year, I am working with AYPAL as a MOVE Fellow. Given the current circumstances, we have transitioned to online programming. One of AYPAL’s biggest projects is the arts and cultural show called Fresh off the Block or FOB. This takes place during December, so we’ve been trying to navigate the direction of this program to accommodate these new changes. Working with AYPAL allows me to work with the community outside of the school campus and more specifically, the youth. From this, I value how AYPAL’s mission is to amplify the voices of the youth and the issues involved in the community. The transition to online programming makes me look forward to the challenges that we might face as a team. This will help develop my problem-solving skills and help me grow in different ways.

Hello! My name is Michelle Yiu (she/her), and I am a third year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Public Health and Integrative Biology with a minor in Asian American Studies. Hoping to eventually go into the health care field, I am interested in social activism, community health, and holistic health advocacy and education. My primary goal as a MOVE fellow at CPA this year is to fully experience and contribute to community grassroots organizing work in the SF Bay Area Chinese American community. I will be working mostly with youth members in Youth MOJO and College Corner, as well as engaging with the Civic Engagement team as much as I can.

Hi! I’m Parneet. I’m a second-year intended Psychology major. I use the she series, and I’m working with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (or APEN for short) as a MOVE fellow this year. The organization prides itself on fighting for a more equitable and worthy environment for underserved communities, not just in terms of climate change and pollution, but in terms of inequalities brought about by income disparity, tax law, community de-centered corporate interests, and so much more. As this was an election year, my time with APEN has been spent doing direct voter outreach for Prop 15, advocating for reinvestment in our schools and communities. Post-election, we’ve started doing some data analyses on API voter priorities and hope to form a more concrete narrative about what matters to API voters. As the year comes to a close, I hope to start doing more work for the Green New Deal and its investment in our environment, not just in terms of the Earth but the people living on it. It’s the grassroots efforts that make the most change in the issues that truly matter to people, and that’s exactly what’s happening here. I’m proud to be working with such an organization, and I’m excited to see where this work will lead me in terms of my leadership, problem-solving, and of course my worldview.

Hello, my name is Shuge (she/her/hers), and I’m currently a MOVE fellow at the Asian Pacific Environmental Network. In the past six weeks, we’ve been working on the Schools and Community First campaign by hosting civic engagement events, such as texting banking and phone banking. Our campaign is also part of the efforts of AAPI force, as well as the Million Voters project. As a MOVE fellow, I facilitated a phone banking event, as well as an art event where we discussed and envisioned how our schools and communities could benefit from additional resources. Through this fellowship, I’m learning what it means to be a community organizer and how to build relationships with other people. I’m very grateful for the mentorship and support that APEN has afforded me. I’m looking forward to continuing my learning about community building and creating enduring systemic change. In Spring, I plan to work on data visualizations and storytelling projects.