hi my name is Tracy and I use she her
pronouns, and I'm currently a student in
my first year at the UCLA masters in
Asian American Studies program, and so
what I'm really excited about is my work
with API EQUALITY LA, and this year we're
really focusing on our trans justice
campaign work I've been involved for
about three years now, and I really seen
how the organization has grown and
transformed, and so this year, what we
really want to do is to launch a
transgender public education, education
campaign to educate our communities
about what trans justice looks like. As
well as, how we can all be allies to
trans people and to trans communities,
and so in addition to that, I work with a
group called Summer Activists Training,
which is a network of coalition of
different API organizations in Los
Angeles that puts on a summer training
for young API activists to learn more
about community organizing, and direct
action organizing, as well as, to learn
about the work of the different
community organizations in LA, and
finally I work with the collective
called The Free Radicals, and so we're
trying to bridge the conversation
between science and social justice, so if
you're interested in learning more about
that, visit us at freerads.org, and so
for my research at UCLA, I'm really
interested in looking at the history of
API LGBTQ organizing over the past 10
years in LA particularly. The history of
API Equality LA, and so I was really
grateful and honored to be offered a
scholarship, so thank you so much to APIQWTC
and please donate to the APIQWTC
scholarship fund that makes work like
the what makes my work possible and
makes my education possible thank you