Workshop/Panel Presenter
Friday Light pink/mauve = Plenary Open Sessions; Purple = Closed sessions  
  Day care (All Day)  
  Photo shoot (All Day)  
8:30 - 10:00 Opening Plenary Dakota, Mala Nagarajan/ Vega Subramaniam
10:00 - 10:15 Break  
Special Convenings    
10:15 - 5:00 Southeast Queer Asian Convening SeaQUEL
10:15 - 3:00 API LBTQ Convening Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian Bisexual Trans Network (APLBTN)
10:15 - 12:00 Session I - Day 1  
  API LGBTQ Communities and Health: Context, Research, Policy, and Action   Sel J. Hwahng, Ph.D. and Alison Lin
  Crossing the Bridge: How to Get Ally People-of-Color-led Organizations to Move an LGBTQ rights Agenda PART 1 Aimee Santos-Lyons
  ÒMTM, Cisgender, FTO, Pangender, É Huh?Ó: The ÒTÓ Umbrella in LGBTQ - Part 1 Rej Joo
  Protecting Your FamilyÕs Rights Cathy Sakimura and Shin-Ming Wong, National Center for Lesbian Rights
  Film Sessions Auditorium
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch On Your Own  
1:30 - 3:00 Session 2 - Day 1  
  Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander GLBTQ Youth Suicide: Prevention & Early Intervention Heather Carter
  Crossing the Bridge: How to Get Ally People-of-Color-led Organizations to Move an LGBTQ rights Agenda PART 2 Aimee Santos-Lyons
  ÒMTM, Cisgender, FTO, Pangender, É Huh?Ó: The ÒTÓ Umbrella in LGBTQ - Part 2 Rej Joo
  Organizing in Our Communities: Building Power to Create Change Becca Ahuja, Moof Mayeda, Tawal Panyacosit
  Film Sessions Auditorium
3:00 - 3:15 Break  
3:15 - 5:00 Session 3 - Day 1  
  A Peer-Based Educational Initiative for Queens-Based Muslim Youth on Reproductive & Sexual Health Needs Urooj Arshad /Advocates for Youth
  Getting Transnational on YoÕ Ass—API and People of Color Trans/Gender-Variant Communities and Health: A Game Show Sel J. Hwahng, Ph.D., Alison Lin
  Queerspawn Speaking Out: The Experiences of Children, Youth and Adults with LGBTQ Parents Asha Leong
  Passing the Flame: Roundtable on building queer API youth organizations Dennis Chin
  All at the Table, LetÕs Eat! Building Multigender / Pan-Asian LGBT API Safe Spaces Kim Wing, Jun-Fung Chueh, Mia Mingus, Pauline Park
  Film Sessions TBD
5:15 - 6:15 Caucuses  
  API Men and Trans Caucus Lawrence Magali, AQUA
  Forging a Youth Space in Queer API Communities: Youth Caucus Vincent Villano, Center for American Progress
  API LBT Women & Transgender Caucus APLBTN
  NQAPIA Steering Committee Meeting (open to all) NQAPIA
  Ismaili Caucus Fatima Jaffer
     
Evening Friday night events: QAPI Conference Reception (University of Washington - School of Social Work) - 6:30-8:30 pm; Trikone-Northwest NQAPIA Meet & Greet 9pm at The Garage, 1130 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122-4202. QAPI Conference Reception: 6:30-8:30 Organized by Kit Tan. Networking, , Opening Prayer/Dance, Danny Katz, Mandy & Olympia, Open Mic
Day & Time Workshop/Panel Presenter
Saturday    
  Day care (All Day)  
  Photo Shoot (All Day)  
8:30 - 10:00 Keynote: Mia Mingus; Opening Plenary- Partnerships at the Intersections: Social Justice Movements and Queer APIs Keynote: Mia Mingus
Plenary: Kris Hayashi, Darlene Nipper, Miriam Yeung
10:00 - 10:15 Break  
10:15 - 12:00 Session 4 - Day 2  
  The Personal, Political, Parties and Peers: Building LGBT APA Organizations Hy Alvaran, Jacob Kim, Aries Liao, Sam Van, Kevin Xiong, Fatima Jaffer
  Gender Identity & Expression in API Communities Pauline Park
  Southeast Asian/ American Panel SeaQUEL
  To the Grandmas, Grandpas, Uncles & Aunties: Achieving Queer API Visibility within Asian Communities Olympia Moy, Christine Pan
  Identifying and Unlearning Our Own Violence gita mehrotra and Norma Timbang
  Marriage Equality: Making the Case in the Broader API Community API Equality (LA and SF), Lambda Legal
  ImmigrantÕs Rights for LGBT APIs: Defining the Agenda Chris Punongbayan, Aaditi Dubale, Mina Trudeau, Ben de Guzman
     
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch on your own and Caucus Time  
  South Asian Caucus Sarav Chithambaram, Rakesh Modi, Urooj Arshad
  Koreans and Korean American Caucus Stephen Kang, Sunny Kim
  Southeast Asian Kevin Xiong
  Filipino Hector Vargas, Hy Alvaran
  Chinese Andre Ting, Eileen Cheong
  Japanese Ken Takeuchi
  Mixed Race Caucus TBD
1:30 - 3:00 Session 5 - Day 2  
  Show Us the Justice! Building Reproductive Justice from the Intersections of Social Justice work. Kalpana Krishnamurthy
  Queer Asian Compass: A Descriptive Directory of Asian American, South Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Queer Organizations Glenn Magpantay, Alice Hom, I Li Hsiao, Amy Sueyoshi, Prashant
  ÒHow do you say LGBT inÉÓ: Educating API about being LGBT in language (multilingual outreach) Stephen Kang, Tawal Panyacosit, Vikas Sood, Olympia Moy, Andre Ting
  Safety Net: Building Online Communities Dennis Chin/ Gopi Kannabiran
  Working in Identity Professions; The Good, Bad and Ugly Liz Thomson, Kevin Kumashiro
  Friends of Trikone: Building Strategic Alliances Rakesh Modi
  Islam, Sex and Gender: Queer Muslim Perspectives Al Fatiha
  Fundraising Yee Won Chong
3:00 - 3:15 Break  
3:15 - 5:00 Session 6 - Day 2  
  API LBTQ Women & Transgender Planning Session - Review of Friday APLBTN
  ÒLGBT and API Equality in the WorkplaceÓ Michael Villanueva, Jonathan Macaranas, Roen Ako, CPA, Joe Rim (Moderator)
  Media Essentials: Breaking it Down in Order to Raise Your Visibility Andy Marra
  Immigration, the IMF and the War in Iraq: Why We Will Never Be Illegal Kris Hayashi
  Politics, People and Process: Opportunities in API LGBT communities George Cheung, Iimay Ho, Hans Johnson
  Confronting Homophobia in API Christian communities: LGBT-affirming work of the Network on Religion and Justice for API-LGBTs Elizabeth Leung
  LGBTQ API Organizing Other than on the Coasts Liz Thompson and Karl Kimpo
  Sexual Liberation: Feeling the HEAT in HOT, QUEER, and ASIAN! Asha Leong & Glenn Magpantay
5:15 - 6:15 Caucuses  
  API HIV/AIDS: Its Impact On Our Communities and Our Response Larry Tantay
  Polyamorous/ Non-Monogamy Caucus Asha Leong, Glenn Magpantay
  Get Me Bodied: API Women and Our Bodies Monna Wong and LInda Nguyen
  LGBTQQ Muslim Caucus Al Fatiha
  Transgender Caucus Kit Yan, Mesma Belsare
  ItÕs Called ÒLalaÓ in Chinese: The Emerging Movement of LBTs in China and International Collaborations Ana Huang and Namita Chad
  QWOCMAP Film Screening QWOCMAP
     
Evening Trans*Fusion - Saturday Night Conference Gala, University of Washington, Husky Union Building, Ballroom. 7pm-11pm. Trans*Fusion: Organized by Gary Tang. A fashion show, Shirley Tan & Jan Mercado, Good Asian Drivers, dance and moreÉ
Day & Time Workshop/Panel Presenter
Sunday    
  Day care (All day)  
  Photo shoot (All day)  
8:30 - 9:45 Session 7 - Day 3  
  Bisexual Caucus Ray Hsia, Alison Lin
  Layers of Invisibility: Breaking Through with Organizing for Queer API LBT Olympia Moy
  Interfaith Meditation Session Patrick Cheng
  Fixing the Gaze: Research in Our Communities Che Ruddel- Tabisola, Alain Dang, Gopi Kannabiran
  A Part, Yet Apart: LGBT South Asians Rakesh Modi, Urooj Arshad, Deepali Ghokale, Rohan Sooklall
9:45 - 10:00 Break  
10:00 - 11:00 Regional Caucuses  
  DC Metro Area AQUA, APIQS
  New England   QAPA, PrYSM, SeaQUEL
  New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia    GAPIMNY, QWAVE, GPA
  The South Trikone- GA
  Midwest Invisible to Invincible
  Northern California Trikone, APIQWTC, API Wellness
  Southern California CRA, AQWA, Satrang
  Pacific Northwest Trikone-NW, APLG- Portland
11:00 - 11:15 Break  
11:15 - 12:30 NQAPIA Plenary: Membership Meeting NQAPIA
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (together in HUB Ballroom)  
1:30 - 3:00 NQAPIA Plenary: Next Steps, Closing, Evaluation NQAPIA