SEAAs’ refugee history, their invisibility in education data and policy, and systemic racism create barriers to our students’ educational success. Our government must address the disparities that SEAA students experience and invest in their futures.
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SEARAC Responds to President’s FY2025 Budget Proposal
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the Biden administration released the Fiscal Year 2025 President’s Budget. The annual budget proposal details the President’s priorities for the upcoming fiscal year and, though non-binding, provides…
Learn more“My commitment to educational advocacy is shaped by my personal experience as a low-income, immigrant Southeast Asian student in the U.S public school system and my professional experiences as a teacher and youth facilitator. As a high school student, I experienced firsthand a lack of a culturally inclusive education and witnessed an unequal distribution of resources between my high school and the wealthier, predominantly white high school just across the bridge. Yet, I did not have the language to name what I was experiencing.”
SEARAC LAT 2019 participant
We need to be actively thinking about creative spaces and after-school programs that encourage participation from refugee parents in preparing their children for college. More importantly, we need to address language access. Without the ability to read documents or understand robocalls, parents are further barred from being informed on their child’s educational attainment and success.”
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell
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This week, SEARAC is joining partners across the country to demand the Senate vote NO on the reconciliation bill. Congress is racing to pass a big bad bill that will fund tax cuts for billionaires and supercharge deportations, instead of funding social safety net programs that ensure families, elders, and children can access lifesaving care.
Tell your US senators to vote NO at bit.ly/SEAApower or at the link in our bio.
We join immigrant and refugee communities calling for dignity, not displacement. #OurRootsOurPower
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Today, on #WorldRefugeeDay and everyday, we honor Southeast Asian American resilience, healing, and community. 2025 marks 50 years of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement in the United States – the largest refugee diaspora that the world had ever seen with refugees fleeing for safety from Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos. We honor the transformations that refugee communities have made in America to redefine who and what the country is today.
This #WorldRefugeeDay, SEARAC is proud to feature illustrations from incredible Southeast Asian American artists in our online storefronts, including this gorgeous illustration from SEARAC`s previous artist-in-residence, Natalie Bui . All proceeds support SEARAC’s policy advocacy, leadership development, and community power building.
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On June 19, 1865, over 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas were informed that the Civil War had ended and they were free—news they had been unaware of. Juneteenth, also known as "Freedom Day," commemorates this moment of Black liberation and is celebrated through joy, gathering, and a commitment to solidarity, justice, and freedom.
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Posted @withregram • @sahanjournal First-generation Hmong immigrants say the early years in America weren’t easy, even as they celebrate how far the community has come.
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