Staff Update

• Thank You for Joining Us!

  By Sharon Choi, AALEAD Staff Photos Courtesy of Silvy Song, Photographer & AALEAD Staff Asian American LEAD (AALEAD) hosted our 16th Annual Dinner on Wednesday evening at the Silver Spring Civic Center in downtown Silver Spring. Thank you to everyone who came to join us in our celebration of AALEAD's mission, impact, community, and most importantly, our youth!

• Youth Media Project: Upstanding Upload

  By Sharon Choi, Development & Communications Manager Aaannd, AALEADers are back with their second youth media project! We partnered again with the Gandhi Brigade to mobilize youth to create film projects around cyber civility. Last year, our youth created two videos around stereotypes and 

  Join Us: Meet UMD’s Guard Varun Ram!

  

  Asian American LEAD (AALEAD) is excited to announce that, in celebration of

• Aspire to LEAD 2015 – Free Lunch Fundraiser!

  **Please check back for more updates and details to come!** Hello, Friends! Asian American LEAD (AALEAD) is excited to announce that our free fundraiser lunch, Aspire to LEAD, will be on Thursday, March 5, 2015, from 12 to 1 pm, at Woo Lae Oak restaurant in Tysons Corner, VA this year.

• The AALEAD Family Grows: Welcome, Chelsea!

  By Chelsea Iorlano, Development & Communications Associate

  Photos courtesy of Victoria Gonçalves (GWU); Kayla Williams, Johnny Aruajo, GW MSSC Media Team

  

  MD High School Programs Off to a Running Start!

  By Ari Pak, MD High School Program Coordinator Photos Courtesy of AALEAD Staff AALEAD's MD High School Program kicked off last week and the generative momentum for the coming year is already impressive. On our first day of programs at both Einstein and Blair High School, youth participated in a contest focusing on teamwork and leadership skills. They were tasked to work together to build a tall structure with a limited number of building materials.

  AALEAD’s DC Office Moves!

  Our AALEAD DC Office has officially moved! We are now located just outside of Chinatown at 1029 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 810. AALEAD's new DC office is now at a more permanent and traditional office space as all of our programs are offsite and in the schools and community. Through this major transition, we are committed as ever in our ongoing support of low-income and underserved Asian American youth in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. None of our programming

• Staff Spotlight: He’ll Tell You Something Good!

  By Sharon Choi, Development & Communications Manager Photos courtesy of AALEAD Staff

  Only having been with us since April 2014, AALEAD's Parent Outreach Coordinator, Charles Kuo, has already made such an impact, not only on our parents, but on our youth, too. If you ever come by our offices or programs, you won't ever miss Charles! He always has a smile on his face and brings amazing energy to AALEAD. Read on, to get to know him a bit better!

• MD Summer Kinect Finale!

  By Antwoine Johnson, AALEAD Staff Photos Courtesy of AALEAD Staff & Interns Two weeks ago, we had our final week of AALEAD's MD Summer Kinect program. What a program we had this summer! This year was made extra special by the fact that AALEAD was able to serve 85 students! We were able to give our youth many opportunities to experience new things they otherwise may not have had a chance to.  Youth went to the Comedy Spot to learn improvisation skills, learned and discussed mental health is

• AALEAD’s 3rd Annual Eid Celebration

  By Melor Suhaimi, AALEAD Staff Photos courtesy of AALEAD Staff & Youth To me, Eid is a special time where I get to spend time with my family, eat a lot of food, and enjoy the holiday! And for the third time in AALEAD history, I was able to spend the Eid holiday with the AALEAD family last Friday night. Our Muslim youth collaborated every lunch period during AALEAD's MD Summer Kinect program to brainstorm and plan ideas for our 3rd Annual Eid Celebration. AALEADers wanted to share the tra