mission

 

To create a diverse and inclusive community of Asian & Pacific Islanders in the outdoors.

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what we do

 

1.  Engage communities with locally-based trips, outings and workshops to inspire individuals and families in the outdoors.

 

2.  Create a platform to lift up stories and histories of our communities to reflect on our ever-changing relationship to ecology and nature.

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3.  Connect individuals to a wide-ranging network to create API leaders in the outdoor recreation and environmental sectors.

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values

 

Equity - to increase API access to outdoor recreation

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Advocacy - to build API solidarity with Indigenous, Black, Latinx, LGBTQ/queer/trans communities

 

Representation - to augment and shift the narrative of the outdoors and conservation

 

Stewardship - to nurturing conservation and respect for our ecological systems.

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Education - to promote multitude ways of knowing and experiencing our environment through evidence-based scientific methods, spiritual and cultural knowledge

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Community - creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive community that provides space for our intersecting identities, of culture, language, citizenship status, (dis)ability, neurodiversity, gender, sexuality, class, race and age.