May is AAPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month!

Not only is the AAPI community rendered invisible through external forces like racism and xenophobia, but we also face internal forces like guilt, shame, and self-criticism. Even our cultures can be erased as well, through assimilation or intimidation. This creates an all-encompassing, ‘toxic’ invisibility that permeates our entire lives, following us wherever we go, making us invisible even to ourselves. Come learn to identify signs of toxic invisibility and how to employ strategies to overcome these obstacles prevalent in the AAPI community.

Guest Speaker: Ryan Takemiya is a writer, community leader, and storyteller who works as an executive DEIB consultant, providing human-centered DEIB solutions for organizations of all sizes. Specializing in AAPI identity and culture, his mission is to empower AAPIs and their allies with the agency to transform themselves, their workplaces/schools, and society at large in order to overcome what he calls "Toxic Invisibility."