Join us for the 6th Annual AAPI Heritage Month Event to explore how environmental racism impacts Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
This year’s theme focuses on how technological advancements can expose Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to pollution, chemicals, and waste. Filipina poet and activist Janice Lobo Sapigao will share her mother’s experience as an assembly line worker in Silicon Valley in connection with current concerns around generative artificial intelligence. Sapigao will also lead participants through a creative writing exercise. The event welcomes students, staff, faculty and community members for an evening of celebration, dialogue and inspiration.
Complimentary public parking is available in Lot 8 and light refreshments will be provided.
Janice Lobo Sapigao
Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a Filipina American poet, writer, and independent scholar from the San Francisco Bay Area (unceded Ohlone land). She authored the poetry collections like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2022) and microchips for millions (PAWA, Inc., 2016), along with two other chapbooks. She is a daughter of immigrants who grew up in a house with 12 people. She is a tenured Professor of English at Skyline College where she works with community college students and directs the Honors Transfer Program. She is inspired by the political lives and emotional writing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Diana Block, Assata Shakur, Sandra Cisneros, Maria Ressa, and Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, and many others. She is working on a novel and a non-fiction manuscript on Philippine American archives.