I thought there were more opportunities for women.

eager to introduce themselves and.Southeast Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are incarcerated at much higher rates than average.

Welcome to Little Tokyo!To learn more about API RISEs ongoing projects.And while APIs may represent a small minority of the American incarcerated population.API RISE (Asian and Pacific Islander Reentry Inclusion Through Support Empowerment).

first connected with API RISE five years ago during a concert organized in support of children and families separated at the southern border.formerly incarcerated APIs are often met with severe cultural stigma and isolation from their communities.

I hope API RISE knows that Little Tokyo is proud to have them here and grateful for their work towards inclusion and justice.

can make the re-entry process a painful and difficult task.But I was not the only Asian American who responded to his call to join the Rainbow Coalition of the locked out: poor people.

We hear them denounce ethnic studies.We are inspired by their words.

It was a call for national renewal and personal responsibility to one another.When Vice President Harris says.