AAAYA Annual General Assembly - May Heritage Month
Tue, May 02
|Online event
Let’s kick off May Heritage Month and celebrate together!
Time & Location
May 02, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online event
About the Event
On May 2, 2023, AAAYA's National Board will host the annual AAAYA General Assembly. This event also kicks-off a series of programming in May for our Yale community to celebrate Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month together!
Congress created Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week in 1978, setting aside early May to coincide with two milestones in Asian/Pacific American history: the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) in the United States, and Chinese workers’ role in building the transcontinental railroad, completed May 10, 1869. In 1992, Congress expanded the observance to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.
This year's General Assembly will be held in a virtual town hall style on Zoom.
All AAAYA members* are invited to join this meeting. There, alumni will have the opportunity to hear directly from AAAYA's executive leaders on our mission, our accomplishments, and our plans for…