Advocacy and Policy Committee
- Direct outreach to individuals in leadership roles within the administration and faculty senate bodies.
- Advise the provost and other executive vice chancellor officers on matters concerning API needs.
- Review, assess, and provide recommendations on increasing API presence/inclusion in social justice grants, initiatives, and programs.
- Advocate for diversity recruitment and retention at the central administration and in various schools.
- Write and promote API experiences and histories at USC through programming, curriculum changes, and central administration.
Communications and Outreach Committee
Vice Chair
Glenn Osaki, Senior Advisor to the President, International Communications and Marketing
- Collect and share resources and experiences across APIFSA members/committees, the USC Community and beyond.
- Create and update communication channels for storytelling and resourcesharing through our website, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Slack and more.
- Educate and enhance APIFSA membership, sustain its growth and leverage its strengths by highlighting the diversity of experiences in the API community at USC.
- Be a forum to communicate and engage with other affinity and ally groups for dialogue, programming and partnership throughout Southern California.
Education and Resources Committee
- Identify, create and compile Asian and Asian American thematic resources.
- Develop cross-collaborative relationships to further education in issues surrounding Asians and Asian Americans.
- Engage, support, and educate API students and allies interested in Asian and Asian American studies.
Keck APIFSA
Chairs
Zhilei Shen, Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology, Keck School of Medicine
Di (Davis) Wu, Director of International Program at Keck Medicine
Ling Zheng, Chief, Clinical Analytics, for Keck Medical Center of USC; Associate Professor Of Research Neurology, Keck School of Medicine
- Serve as the formally established Employee Resource Group for AAPI faculty, staff, and employees at Keck Medicine of USC.
- Expand and connect USC APIFSA to the Health Sciences Campus through shared programing, events, advocacy, community building, and professional development opportunities.
Programming and Development Committee
- Organize social and educational events geared specifically to staff and faculty that showcases API history and culture, including AAPI Heritage Month in May.
- Identify and promote professional development opportunities for API faculty and staff, including the Colleague-to-Colleague (C2C) mentorship program.
- Maintain and update a calendar of events, including ones that are organized by APIFSA and events that are submitted by the community that are of interest to the association.
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