Press Releases

On Saturday, June 27 at 3 PM ET, former Vice President Joe Biden and Eddie Baza Calvo, Trump campaign surrogate and Former Governor of Guam, will join Congresswoman Judy Chu, Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) organizers and community leaders for a presidential town hall about the policy issues important to the AANHPI community. The Trump and Biden campaigns will address key topics related to health care, discrimination and racism in America, immigration, and safeguarding the economy during the pandemic in two separate, moderated discussions. Amna Nawaz, PBS NewsHour senior national correspondent, and Vicky Nguyen, NBC News Investigative & Consumer Correspondent will moderate.  

MEDIA ADVISORY
JUNE 19th, 2020

The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) join together with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) leaders to discuss the release of their 2020 Policy Platform and kick-off APIAVote’s 10-day National AAPI Leadership Summit. 

In response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Executive Director Christine Chen of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) issues the following statement

Voto Latino Foundation, Mission Asset Fund (MAF), and APIAVote have launched the $4 million Immigrant Neighbor Fund – with a $1 million investment by East West Bank – to assist families that were excluded from receiving COVID-19 relief funds from the CARES Act. These are the same people who are disproportionately on the frontlines, holding our economy together; they are service industry workers, healthcare professionals, food service and agricultural workers.

On March 26th, 2020, prominent AAPI leaders gathered for a virtual press briefing to discuss the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. 

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Leaders Uplift the Community Through Resources on Health Education and Support for Small Businesses

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 26th, 2020

In light of the Supreme Court’s decision today, we are thrilled to see that democracy has won and that the citizenship question will not be included in the 2020 Census at this time.

Election Protection, led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, provided live assistance to 31,044 voters through its suite of hotlines.