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VAYLA incubates AAPI leaders for a more just tomorrow. VAYLA exists as an embodiment and commitment to activating tomorrow’s AAPI leaders in New Orleans and beyond. We engender leadership to address social inequities facing our community while anchored in an anti-racist, Queer, Feminist lens. At the forefront of these issues we focus on environmental justice, reproductive justice, and civic engagement initiatives.

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Press Release

May 31, 2021

Farewell to APAHM not AAPIs by Our Executive Director

For Immediate Release: May 31, 2021 Contact: Ellen Lu, Program Coordinator, contacts@vayla-no.org New Orleans, Louisiana – As we close out Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we emphasize the importance of … Continued

Press Release

Apr 9, 2021

AAPI Rising: Other Is Not My Identity Press Release

For Immediate Release: April 9th, 2021 Contact: Ellen Lu, Programs Coordinator, contacts@vayla-no.org New Orleans, Louisiana – Today VAYLA New Orleans announces the official launch of our petition for inclusion, demanding … Continued

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Mar 23, 2021

#AAPIWOMEN LEADING VAYLA | #ĐÀNBÀAAPI HƯỚNG DẪN VAYLA

Community, As I enter my third year at VAYLA, I am reminded that leading as a first generation Asian American woman and daughter of refugees means that leadership is grief … Continued

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VAYLA New Orleans

20 hours ago

In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, VAYLA is offline. We honor not just Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in the Civil Rights Movement, but the legacy of Coretta Scott King, without whom #MLKDay would not exist. Today and always we are honoring the incredible movement work of all ancestral leaders who effect change in their communities without recognition.

Our celebration of movement leaders is coupled with the current US Senate vote on pivotal Voting Rights Legislation. Over the years, many protections of the Voting Rights Act have been overturned. Without federal protections, states continue to suppress voters unchecked with harsh voter ID laws, limited polling locations and hours, and barriers to mail-in ballots. Without equitable measures for voting, AAPIs and many other marginalized demographics face a multitude of barriers to this cornerstone of democracy.

Currently, there is debate of whether the filibuster should be reformed in order to allow a proper vote on the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Acts. MLK’s family is calling on political leaders to fulfill their promises to implement federal voting rights as a true celebration of his honor.

We all require and deserve the right to safely and knowledgeably vote in each election. Join this call to action by calling your senators to demand they create national standards for safe, expansive, and accessible voting.

Call Senator Cassidy at 202-224-5824 or visit cassidy.senate.gov/contact
Call Senator Kennedy at 202-224-4623 or visit kennedy.senate.gov/public/email-me-form

#MLKDay #MLKDayofService #MartinLutherKingJr #Solidarity #CorettaScottKing #JohnLewis #ThichNhatHanh #WhenGiantsMeet #MovementLeaders #VotingRightsLegislation #SelmaMarch #CivilRightsMovement #FreedomtoVoteAct #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #AAPIsRising #VotingRights #VoterSuppression #VAYLAVotes ... See MoreSee Less

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