{"id":2718,"date":"2018-10-22T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2018-10-23T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:36:12","slug":"rising-seas-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/news\/rising-seas-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Rising SEAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disaggregation of demographic data has been an important goal for activists and students of Southeast Asian heritage because grouping all ethnicities into the broad category \u201cAsian American and Pacific Islander\u201d (AAPI) obscures disparities in educational outcomes and economic conditions.\u00a0 Community advocacy<\/strong> prompted Washington State legislators to fund an achievement gap study in 2008 which recommended disaggregated data collection and offered suggestions to close opportunity gaps for all AAPI students in Washington\u2019s K-12 public school system. \u00a0Beginning in 2010, students had the opportunity to self-identify with ethnicities that, at that time, mostly corresponded with national origin (e.g., Vietnamese or Cambodian, but not Cham).[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

With improved data collection, educational disparities came into focus and thus can be addressed in a targeted and more effective way.\u00a0 As one example at the college level, although when viewed as a single group, AAPI Washingtonians have the highest bachelor\u2019s degree attainment among any race and ethnic group, disaggregation showed that not to be true especially for those of Southeast Asian heritage.\u00a0 On average, 32.1% of Washingtonians have a BA degree or higher, but that number is 11.3% for those identifying as Cambodian, 16.9% for Vietnamese, and only 9.8% for Laotian.<\/p>\n

It was student and community activism<\/a> that pushed for the state government to disaggregate data. The increased visibility in data collection showed significant disparities among AAPI communities. To help close those gaps by raising awareness among Southeast Asian middle and high school students about college opportunities and to foster leadership, the University of Washington\u2019s Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D) sponsored the first Rising SEAs conference in 2013. At the second annual event in 2014<\/a>\u00a0thirty area high school students attended and heard from keynote speaker Robert Yuong<\/a>, a Cambodian American teacher at Tacoma\u2019s Henry Foss High School and Golden Apple Award recipient.<\/p>\n

Rising SEAs is a conference formerly hosted by the UW but over the past few years, funding and programming that support SEA students have been discontinued.\u00a0This year, Southeast Asian students activists are doing it for themselves: organizing the 2018 Rising SEAs<\/a> conference\u00a0with the backing and support of the Southeast Asian American Education (SEAeD) Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“We have come together to mobilize and organize with a number of SEA RSOs, community coalitions and organizations, our own 2018 Rising SEA<\/em>s. As student activists and organizers who recognize the immediate needs within our communities, we choose to maintain the name of this conference as an investment in the future partnership between the UW and our SEA communities, as well as to sustain the impact of the conference for future students. One of our goals is to show UW the needs of our communities face-to face in hopes of re-institutionalizing this conference annually. The participants of this year’s conference will remember and hold onto their time at 2018 Rising SEAs, which will transfer over to future Rising SEAs conferences (if the UW so chooses to make that investment) and the next cohort of SEA youth when they recognize the name.\u201d – A student activist and organizer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The event will be held on campus Saturday, November 17th <\/sup>2018. Organizers are hoping to host more than one hundred Southeast Asian youth from refugee backgrounds across Washington state with the purpose to \u201ccivically engage, culturally empower, and educationally invest in their long-term development as leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local organizations, civil rights groups,\u00a0lawmakers, and educational institutions have been invited to attend and registration<\/a> is open to middle school and high school students. Joe Nguyen, who is running for State Senate in the 34th<\/sup> Legislative District (which includes White Center and Burien) is expected to attend and lead a workshop on \u201cRunning for Office\u201d. Despite the fact that Washington State has one of the largest Southeast Asian American populations in the nation, if elected Nguyen would be the state\u2019s first Vietnamese legislator.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe would like\u00a0to\u00a0invite\u00a0UW Staff, Faculty, and Administration\u00a0to\u00a0attend\u00a02018 Rising SEAs<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday, Nov. 17th 2018. We hope that\u00a0you\u00a0will\u00a0be present\u00a0and connect our youth with resources within your own departments and networks. If you are a staff, faculty, or administrator who would like to be present, please email essa@uw.edu.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For more information about the event or activism work behind it, please contact the SEAeD Coalition at seadcoalitionwa@gmail.com<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> In 2017, a task force recommended further refinement to include underrepresented ethnic groups, including Cham and Mien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disaggregation of demographic data has been an important goal for activists and students of Southeast Asian heritage because grouping all ethnicities into the broad category \u201cAsian American and Pacific Islander\u201d (AAPI) obscures disparities in educational outcomes and economic conditions.\u00a0 Community advocacy prompted Washington State legislators to fund an achievement gap study in 2008 which recommended<\/p>\n

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