Trainings

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NQAPIA (the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance) offers trainings that equip LGBTQ+ Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders with the tools to organize, lead, and build power and understanding in their communities.

From virtual workshops to in-person institutes, our trainings:

  • Build Personal and Professional Skills

  • Strengthen Organizing Practices

  • Raise Cultural Awareness

These sessions are designed to equip both new and seasoned organizers with practical tools to sustain their work.

Register for the FREE 2026 Trainings

We heard the feedback and in 2026, we are offering 10 free virtual workshops across topic areas that resonate most with local communities. These topics serve to either 1) Build Skills, 2) Strategically Organize, or 3) Raise Cultural Awareness.

Pick your own training adventure among the following training workshops:

Soft Power: Bridging Art, Culture, and Lasting Social Change

Join NQAPIA as Executive Director Kat Evasco introduces LGBTQ+ and AANHPI artists and organizers to cultural strategy as a tool for building collective power.

This 90 minute training will introduce attendees to cultural strategy frameworks and explore the role of art, storytelling, and cultural organizing in movement building. Participants examine case studies from LGBTQ+ liberation and AANHPI justice movements and map their own superpowers as leaders working toward a world that is just, equitable, safe, and joyful.

All experience levels are welcome.

*Registration required to attend.

REGISTER BY May 26

In 2025, we piloted a 3-part training series dedicated to resource development. We held space for three phenomenal facilitators to discuss 1) Fundraising, 2) Grant-writing, and 3) Reporting and Evaluation.

We are offered free virtual workshops to build capacity for organizers, community leaders, and movement builders to identify existing and new resources, strategize on their specific lanes for resource development, and ideate about how they can tell the story of their work in culturally-significant ways.

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  • Let's Get Together! How to Convene Your People Training Workshop w/Reggie Gravely & Mai Li O'Keefe
    • 3/4/26

    Let's Get Together! How to Convene Your People Training Workshop w/Reggie Gravely & Mai Li O'Keefe

    Trying to bring folks together to organize or build community — but struggling with turnout or recruitment? This recorded training is for you. This is the first recorded training of NQAPIA's 2026 National Training Series that will be a FREE 10-part virtual training series for LGBTQ+ AANHPI community members, organizers, and leaders across the country — and we’re kicking it off by going back to the basics: getting people in the room. Learn from our best — NQAPIA’s Director of Advocacy & Organizing Reggie Gravely and Programs Manager Mai Li O’Keefe — as we share tools and practices for convening your community with intention and purpose. This workshop will consist of 60 minutes for presentation. Bring your questions, issues, and suggestions. Built for community members, organizers, and leaders at any stage of their development.