minority race across the nine counties. abc7 s chris nguyen is here now with local apa leaders to talk about important issues affecting our bay area communities. cheryl, it s great to be here. i m excited to introduce you to our panel of guests today. gina su is an actor based here in the bay area. she s the winner of the 2016-2017 miss asian global pageant. next, lan diep is an attorney. he currently serves as a san jose city council member representing district four. and finally, vincent pan, executive director of chinese for affirmative action. he s also a board member for the center for asian american media. thanks to all of you for joining us today. we have a lot to talk about. our first topic is civic engagement and how to get more asian americans involved in the process. vincent, we ll start with you. would you say that we are seeing an up-surge in political activism? i would. i mean, i think that there s always been a lot of unseen activism that s occurred in the
about important issues affecting our bay area communities. cheryl, it s great to be here. i m excited to introduce you to our panel of guests today. gina su is an actor based here in the bay area. she s the winner of the 2016-2017 miss asian global pageant. next, lan diep is an attorney. he currently serves as a san jose city council member representing district four. and finally, vincent pan, executive director of chinese for affirmative action. he s also a board member for the center for asian american media. thanks to all of you for joining us today. we have a lot to talk about. our first topic is civic engagement and how to get more asian americans involved in the process. vincent, we ll start with you. would you say that we are seeing an up-surge in political activism? i would. i mean, i think that there s always been a lot of unseen activism that s occurred in the asian american community that maybe hasn t been recognized by dominant culture. but if we look at thing
abc7 s chris nguyen is here now with local apa leaders to talk about important issues affecting our bay area communities. cheryl, it s great to be here. i m excited to introduce you to our panel of guests today. gina su is an actor based here in the bay area. she s the winner of the 2016-2017 miss asian global pageant. next, lan diep is an attorney. he currently serves as a san jose city council member representing district four. and finally, vincent pan, executive director of chinese for affirmative action. he s also a board member for the center for asian american media. thanks to all of you for joining us today. we have a lot to talk about. our first topic is civic engagement and how to get more asian americans involved in the process. vincent, we ll start with you. would you say that we are seeing an up-surge in political activism? i would. i mean, i think that there s always been a lot of unseen activism that s occurred in the asian american community that maybe hasn
abc7 s chris nguyen is here now with local apa leaders to talk about important issues affecting our bay area communities. cheryl, it s great to be here. i m excited to introduce you to our panel of guests today. gina su is an actor based here in the bay area. she s the winner of the 2016-2017 miss asian global pageant. next, lan diep is an attorney. he currently serves as a san jose city council member representing district four. and finally, vincent pan, executive director of chinese for affirmative action. he s also a board member for the center for asian american media. thanks to all of you for joining us today. we have a lot to talk about. our first topic is civic engagement and how to get more asian americans involved in the process. vincent, we ll start with you. would you say that we are seeing an up-surge in political activism? i would. i mean, i think that there s always been a lot of unseen activism that s occurred in the asian american community that maybe hasn
to learn firsthand how it is changing lives at the most basic level. i learned about the tremendous support vida usa has from the bay area to peru because of its mission and its beloved co-founder. [ speaking spanish ] it was a spectacular 25th-anniversary gala, with 900 donors and the cónsul general of peru in san francisco, candy chávez. haydee rodriguez-pastor is the co-founder of vida usa and vida peru. this mother of six lives in the bay area and was born in peru. she inspires people because of the work being done by the nonprofit she started in the east bay with her late husband, carlos. he started a bank in peru, which has been an enthusiastic supporter of vida for years. a deadly illness prompted the birth of the charity. the infrastructure was already there after the epidemic ended, so haydee and her team built it into a life-saving powerhouse that ships containers full of surplus medical equipment and supplies to peru and helps millions of other people in at l