To kick off upcoming celebrations for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, VAYLA’s next AAPI Rising Conversation will center the Taste of Resilience and Community! Join us on May 17th for an afternoon of storytelling with our special guests: VAYLA’s Executive Director, Jacqueline Thanh, MSW will be moderating a deep dive conversation between two innovative AAPI … Continued
Join us in community and conversation around addressing anti-Blackness with our own family, community, elders, and navigating internalized white supremacy. VAYLA’s Executive Director, Jacqueline Thanh, MSW will be moderating a conversation between Kimberly Ha, New Orleans-based artist and photographer (@off.gp), and May Wen, founder of Asians For Justice. Our speakers are both New Orleans-raised … Continued
Join VAYLA as we dive deep into the history, current activism, and future possibilities for Lincoln Beach. In this installment of our Sinews in the Cypress guest speaker series, Sage Michael will discuss all things Lincoln Beach. As a Lincoln Beach activist and founder of Sageville, Sage has been working for years cleaning the historical site and … Continued
Join our team in this AAPI Rising installment to learn more about who we are and what drives us. Engage with us & support our petition for inclusion. VAYLA’s Executive Director, Jacqueline Thanh, MSW will be moderating a conversation between VAYLA's team to discuss what it means to engage in community building, learning and unlearning … Continued
Join VAYLA as we explore how climate change is impacting our community and making life more uncertain in our city. In this installment of Sinews in the Cypress guest speaker series, we bring in Julia Kumari Drapkin to discuss extreme weather in New Orleans. Julia is the CEO and founder of ISeeChange, an award winning climate change … Continued
Community Medicine & Mindfulness Meditation As part of our AAPI Rising series, we’d like to invite you to join VAYLA’s end-of-year community check-in. Our Executive Director, Jacqueline Thanh, MSW, will lead a meditation for us to turn our attention within. After another long year of complex grief across our diasporic community, we are holding space … Continued
In this installment of Sinews in the Cypress, we explore the environmental rollercoaster of a year that was 2021 in New Orleans. We will be joined by Logan Burke, the Executive Director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, and Aron Chang, an urban designer, co-lead at the Water Leaders Institute, and member of the Civic Studio … Continued
As part of our AAPI Rising series, we’d like to invite you to join VAYLA’s second Soul Care event! Our Deputy Director, Anthony Johnson, Esq. will lead a meditation focused on guiding our attention within. As we enter the Year of the Tiger, we aim to hold space for our personal and collective wellness through … Continued
Join us Thursday 3/31 for an #AAPIRising Community Vigil and Healing Meditation for Asian Women and Femmes. This community vigil and meditation is in honor of the eight lives lost in Atlanta last year, the lives lost due to anti-Asian violence, and the generations of grief we carry and hold for our loved ones. We … Continued
🦇 Celebrate Halloween and #GetOutTheVote! 🦇 On October 28, 2022 Alexander Lodge #233’s Community Engagement Affiliate in conjunction with Vayla New Orleans and the Morehouse Alumni New Orleans Chapter, will be hosting a costumed Halloween & GOTV voter education event. The aspiration is to educate voters for the upcoming elections and most importantly, provide an … Continued
We are so excited to host our first event of the year! Join us for Poetry in the Park on Saturday, March 11! Our Reproductive Justice Intern, Emma, will be facilitating this poetry writing workshop as part of our #AAPIRising: Soul Care series. Come out to meet our team and create with us! This … Continued
Join us for an afternoon of storytelling on Friday, March 31st at 3PM CT! VAYLA’s Executive Director, Jacqueline Thanh, MSW and @Grandmafun will be discussing what it means to be leaders, culture bearers, and storytellers as AAPI Womxn in the south. Don’t miss this powerful conversation—register today! More About AAPI Rising: AAPI Rising is a … Continued
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