Finding Yourself and Your Cause

By:  Ellen Chen My personal identity as an Asian American has always been a personal struggle for me but it disappeared when I started giving back to the community. As an Asian American born in the city of Odessa, Texas (home of the Permian Panthers featured in Friday Night Lights), I was part of a newly immigrated family that had moved there from Taiwan to try their hands at [...]

2013 APEX Mentorship Program (AMP) Applications Open

The application cycle for the 2013 APEX Mentorship Program (AMP) is now open! AMP is a unique, small-group mentoring program designed to match mentor-mentee pairs with the mission of developing future leaders by helping Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) with professional and personal development.   Young professionals and university students are paired with experienced professionals based on common career interests and goals. Throughout the program, mentors and mentees will be [...]