Organizing Asian America
18 Million Rising is thrilled to announce Irma Shauf-Bajar (he/she/siya) as our Interim Executive Director. Irma is a Filipino queer grassroots community organizer, movement educator and trainer dedicated to building people power and resiliency in communities and movements toward liberation. With 15 years of grassroots community organizing work, Irma has…
After nine years at 18 Million Rising, Executive Director Cayden Mak is leaving our organization. Cayden, thank you for your leadership and for all your contributions in building our Asian American political power over the internet. We are grateful for the vision and drive you have brought to our work…
18 Million Rising hasn’t always been an abolitionist organization. Last week, we were reminded of that in a brilliant essay by Tamara K. Nopper, who referenced a campaign from 2014 where 18MR demanded actor Mark Wahlberg not be pardoned for attacking two Vietnamese men in 1988. Nopper explains that equating…
