By Lisa Glover, LISC CEO

As AAPI Heritage Month comes to a close, LISC CEO Lisa Glover reflects on the ways history and culture, honored authentically, can serve as a bulwark against distorted narratives and racist violence.

As Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month comes to a close, we are spotlighting the extraordinary community partners whose work every day promotes racial equity and social justice and nurtures the culturally rich communities that are a bedrock for so many in the AAPI diaspora and beyond.

By Jamie Schumacher

We continue our commemoration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a personal essay that considers how the shared struggles of AAPI and Black Americans are inspiring a new kind of solidarity movement, and what we can all do to be better bystanders and allies on the journey.

As we commemorate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at LISC, we are turning the spotlight on San Diego’s Little Saigon, a Vietnamese American cultural and business district that is forging resiliency, visibility and an inclusive future within the city’s ethnically diverse City Heights neighborhood. (Images courtesy AjA Project and Little Saigon Stories)

By Ted Shen

As LISC marks the beginning of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, assistant general counsel Ted Shen reflects on the imperative of allyship, and the extraordinary life and example of Grace Lee Boggs—philosopher, activist and exemplary ally in the struggle for racial and economic equity.

In the face of an appalling surge of anti-Asian violence since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, LISC memorializes its active condemnation of this and all racial and gender-based aggression, and stands in solidarity with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we are highlighting our 26-year partnership with Little Tokyo Service Center in Los Angeles. Since its founding in 1979, LTSC has been a stalwart anchor for residents of every background, providing social services, creating and safeguarding affordable housing, fueling small businesses and serving as a beacon of Japanese-American cultural heritage well beyond the city’s Little Tokyo neighborhood. All color photos courtesy Little Tokyo Service Center.