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2014 APIASF Higher Education Summit Recap

By Samson Lim, APIASF/GMS Scholar

In each of the past few years, I have received an email inviting me to attend the APIASF Higher Education Summit, and I have always been extremely excited about the possibility of attending but then disappointed that I have never been able to attend, for one reason or another. This year, though, through serendipitous happenstance, I was able to attend the fifth annual Summit — and I am so glad I did!

When I first developed an interest in issues of educational equity as an undergraduate student, I was a volunteer mentor with the University of Washington Dream Project. In the years since, I have delved deeper into issues related to postsecondary education access and affordability, even getting a master’s in education policy to try and figure out how to close the opportunity gap for those most underserved in our society.

Sessions with researchers like Jason Chan, Dolly Nguyen, and Ed Curammeng helped present practical strategies and approaches that we can implement in order to understand how best to meet the unique needs in any local context. Besides reuniting with so many great supporters of APIASF, I was most excited to meet with Scholars who attended this year’s Summit. There’s nothing more encouraging than knowing I have friends and colleagues who are equally passionate about serving our communities.

As Congresswoman Chu said, we know that we need to disaggregate data to better serve AAPI students, and we must collaborate together across sectors in order to achieve this goal. The Summit was a refreshing and important reminder that the work we do is never an effort accomplished by individuals but rather by people working together as a team.

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To cap #APIASFSummit, selfie w/@GatesScholars/@APIASF friends, old & new, who've helped shape me more than they know! pic.twitter.com/WXKob4I1Jw

— Sam Lim (@samsonxlim)

June 18, 2014

Pictured from Left to Right: Nicole Alonzo, Program Coordinator for APIASF/GMS, Donna Pascua, Senior Relationship Manager, GMS, Sam Lim, APIASF/GMS Scholar, April D. Rongero, Digital and Creative Communications Assistant at George Washington University, Jason Chan, UCLA Doctoral Student, and Edward Curammeng, UCLA Doctoral Student

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