Sharon Maeda is the epitome of a community activist — passionate, outspoken, politically savvy, and tenacious. Her life has been a series of change of address cards — born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; growing up in Portland; high school and college in Seattle; with employment stops in Berkeley, Washington D.C., and New York, but always returning [...]
Vu Le is either the funniest or humblest community activist ever. When told that a story about him was being written, the Executive Director of the Vietnamese Friendship Association (VFA) quipped, “If this is going to be about my accomplishments, then it’s going to be a short article.” On May 19, Le will receive the [...]
Cassie Chinn reminds me of the girl I wanted to be in high school — the one who was always working on some philanthropy project and still had time to spend with friends, work, and be the kindest person around. The 39-year-old graduate of Franklin High School studied Art History at UC Berkeley and completed [...]
Carmella Ennis, King County Council. Dale Watanabe, Office of International Affairs at Seattle University. Anna Kim Novakowski, The Max Foundation. They may be working in different fields around Seattle, but they have at least one thing in common: they are all alumni of the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation (ACLF), an 11-year-old non-profit that [...]
