Maum Facilitates LEAP's July Connect Session
Join Dr. Terry K Park, Founding Director of Maum Consulting, for a discussion of Grace Lee's 2015 PBS documentary film Off the Menu: Asian America, a road trip into the kitchens, factories, temples and farm of Asian America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving communities.
"Roots of Racism": June Workshop for Maum-Designed Anti-Asian Violence Curriculum Project for Hamkae Center
Hamkae Center (formerly known as NAKASEC Virginia) organizes Asian Americans to achieve social, economic, and racial justice in Virginia.
As their Project Design + Curriculum Development Consultant, Maum has been collaborating with Hamkae for the past seven months to co-create a mission-aligned, discussion-based, and arts-enhanced curriculum to raise awareness of the impacts of racism on Asian Americans in Virginia. This is part of a larger effort to launch a violence prevention project to mitigate racially-motivated discrimination, harassment, and violence towards Asian Americans. Hamkae’s Special Projects Coordinator Jade Lee helped design and develop the curriculum and will deliver all eight monthly workshops, virtually and in-person.
This month’s workshop will invite participants to explore how racism permeates their lives and communities via the interpersonal, internalized, and institutional, and discuss how to dismantle all three forms.
"Growing Together: Exploring Asian American Perspectives": Inaugural Workshop for Maum-Designed Anti-Asian Violence Curriculum Project for Hamkae Center
Hamkae Center (formerly known as NAKASEC Virginia) organizes Asian Americans to achieve social, economic, and racial justice in Virginia.
As their Project Design + Curriculum Development Consultant, Maum has been collaborating with Hamkae for the past seven months to co-create a mission-aligned, discussion-based, and arts-enhanced curriculum to raise awareness of the impacts of racism on Asian Americans in Virginia. This is part of a larger effort to launch a violence prevention project to mitigate racially-motivated discrimination, harassment, and violence towards Asian Americans. Hamkae’s Special Projects Coordinator Jade Lee helped design and develop the curriculum and will deliver all eight monthly workshops, virtually and in-person.
The inaugural workshop will invite participants to dive into the complexities of their Virginia-based Asian American identities and share stories from their diverse, lived experiences. It’s also part of a series of events hosted by Hamkae for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Maum’s Dr. Park will be Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Guest Speaker for Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Dr. Park will serve as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’s guest speaker for Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month.
The CBPP is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity. They combine rigorous research and analysis, strategic communications, and effective advocacy to shape debates and affect policy, both nationally and in states. Learn more here.
Dr. Park will speak about the history of U.S. empire, the formation of the Asian American community, and how this history continues to shape lived experiences of anti-Asian violence.
Mural Artist: Pancho Pescador / @panchopescador
Co-Conspiratorial Workshop: "From Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling to Expanding the Bamboo Floor: Modeling a Politics of Downwards Spaciousness”
Maum’s Dr. Park will deliver a workshop understanding, complicating, and challenging the “bamboo ceiling” for Etsy’s Asian Resource Community (ARC) as part of Etsy’s celebration of Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month.
Maum Joins Stand with Asian Americans' 30th Anniversary LA Uprising Livestream Event
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, Stand with Asian America will livestream a virtual screening of Grace Lee and Eurie Chung’s documentary film K-Town ‘92: Reporters (distributed by Good Docs). Along with other notable Asian American advocates and community organizations such as Eddy Zheng’s New Breath Foundation, Maum’s Dr. Park will deliver a short primer on the film.
30th Anniversary Screening of K-Town ‘92: Reporters & Discussion of ‘92 LA Uprising for LEAP
On the 30th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics) will host a screening of Grace Lee and Eurie Chung’s documentary film K-Town ‘92: Reporters, with a post-screening presentation and discussion of the Uprising’s historical contexts, media framings, and racial justice lessons facilitated by Maum’s Dr. Park. K-Town ‘92: Reporters is a companion film to the interactive documentary website K-Town ‘92.
Workshop on Race, Racism, and Microaggressions for Koreatown Youth + Community Center’s Koreatown Youth Summit
Maum’s Founding Director, Dr. Park, will deliver a workshop to a diverse room of high school students at the Anderson Munger Family YMCA in the heart of Los Angeles’s Koreatown as part of KYCC’s Unwind Your Mind: Koreatown Youth Summit on April 22. The interactive workshop provides an accessible introduction to race, racism, and microaggressions. The event is funded by Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC); Sierra Health Foundation - Elevate Youth California; and Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (LACDCFS).
Unwind Your Mind provides an opportunity for Koreatown youth to participate in healthy alternative activities to drug use. Stress-reducing, fun and interactive workshops at the event include hip-hop dance, pet therapy, self-defense lessons and board games. Youth participants enjoyed prizes, food and games.
KYCC’s Clinical Services, Youth Services and Prevention Education staff participated in making this yearly event possible.
Maum Kicks Off "LEAP Connect”
A newly designed program for 2022, LEAP Connect is a new Target-sponsored program by LEAP (Leadership Education For Asian Pacifics). LEAP Connect aims to bring both needed and inspirational leadership dialogues to the API community. Through a series of accessible monthly leadership conversations, trainings, networking opportunities and more, participants build the tools and resources needed to inspire change within their personal and professional communities.
To kick-off LEAP Connect, Maum’s Founding Director Dr. Park will host a special virtual screening of K-Town ‘92: Reporters, a short documentary film by Grace Lee & Eurie Chung (distributed by GOOD DOCS) that looks at the city-wide uprising that erupted in 1992 after the acquittal of Los Angeles Police Department officers who brutally beat Black motorist Rodney King.
Maum Kicks-Off Zeta Global’s New Asian and Pacific Islander Employee Resource Community, MOSAIC
Hate crimes targeting the Asian community in America have reached unprecedented levels since the start of COVID-19. From name-calling and physical attacks on the streets to fatal incidents such as last year’s spa shootings and the recent tragic death of Michelle Go, there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to anti-Asian hate crime. So, what can we do?
MOSAIC, Zeta Global’s Asian Pacific Islander (API) employee resource community, is partnering with Maum’s Founding Director Dr. Park to address the many concerns and questions stemming from the recent Asian hate crimes and discuss ways we can raise awareness and help fight racism. Dr. Park facilitated an honest, safe discussion to help Zeta Global support its API peers and colleagues, ask questions, meet their MOSAIC members, and learn how to become an ally in the fight against anti-Asian hate and racial injustice.
Maum & MCU Partners Facilitate Educators Healing Circle
Maum’s Founding Director Dr. Park partners with MCU superheroes Dr. Jackie Darby of The Unconscious Shift, Minna Kim, and Yoo-Jin Kang of Yoo-Jin Kang Consulting to design and facilitate a virtual healing circle for K-12 and higher education educators.
Workshop on anti-Asian Hate for the Fulbright
Maum’s Founding Director Dr. Park to deliver a workshop on anti-Asian hate for the Fulbright's East Asia and the Pacific programs to assist its staff to better support its Asian American fellows.
Workshop on Race and the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising for Koreatown Youth + Community Center’s All-Staff Retreat
Maum’s Founding Director Dr. Park will deliver a workshop on race as a social construction to more than 100 Koreatown Youth + Community Center (KYCC) staff at their all-staff retreat in Los Angeles.
Here are two testimonies from two KYCC staff members on Dr. Park’s workshop:
“Terry Park gave a presentation on ‘Race as a Social Construct’ at my work’s staff development day last week. I have been a community activist for 30 years and his explanation on the topic was the best I have ever heard. Not only did he make it relatable and easy to understand, but he was able to connect the dots and show the LA Uprising in 1992 in a wider context of generations of institutional racism. He also gave inspiring examples of decades of Black and Asian solidarity. Afterwards, many of my coworkers also mentioned Dr. Park’s presentation being a highlight of the day. Highly recommend!”
And:
“Dr. Park presented Race as a Social Construct during KYCC's Spring All Staff and it was excellent. He broke down difficult, painful and deeply imbedded ideologies in a way that told a story and allowed staff to think differently about race. It is evident that Dr. Park has spent years researching this topic and has developed an engaging way to develop his findings. I encourage others to book Dr. Park for small and large venues.
“Thank you Dr. Park and we are so excited about our upcoming Youth Summit during which you will present to the youth of Koreatown, Los Angeles, California.”
“Storytelling Matters”: Screening of K-Town ‘92: Reporters Film & Conversation on Race, Space, and Storytelling for Koreatown Youth + Community Center
Maum’s Founding Director Dr. Park will facilitate a virtual workshop, "Storytelling Matters," to explore the relationships between race, space, and the news media, specifically in relation to LA's Koreatown, for KYCC (Koreatown Youth and Community Center). KYCC is a multi-service nonprofit that has served the limited-income immigrant population of Los Angeles’s Koreatown since 1975.
The workshop participants will include high school youth from KYCC's Koreatown Storytelling Program; KYCC's UCLA undergrads engaged in an experiential project involving Koreatown small business owners; and staff from KYCC's Prevention Education program, which uses an “environmental” approach to substance abuse prevention.
To anchor the discussion, Dr. Park will host a virtual screening of Grace Lee and Eurie Chung’s documentary film K-Town ‘92: Reporters (distributed by Good Docs). We will be joined by one of the three former Los Angeles Times reporters featured in the film, John Lee.