KAYA DC Chapter

Can't stop thinking about our upcoming KLP session on Monday! Today, we're pleased to turn the Speaker Spotlight on our friend Monica Thammarath.

Come join us! https://www.facebook.com/events/478714019143230/?ti=icl

Monica Thammarath is currently senior liaison in the Community Advocacy & Partnership Engagement (CAPE) Department at the National Education Association (NEA). At NEA, Ms. Thammarath works to connect NEA’s 3 million members to student, parent, and community organizing opportunities focused on racial and social justice, particularly as it impacts the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. Ms. Thammarath also serves as NEA’s appointee to the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) and serves as APALA’s National 1st Vice President and co-chairs the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) Education Committee. Prior to joining the NEA, Ms. Thammarath was the Education Policy Advocate at the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), where she oversaw SEARAC’s Education Program and assisted community-based organizations across the country in connecting their direct service work to policy and advocacy. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, Ms. Thammarath organized campaigns around affordable, high quality public education and provided direct services to low-income, immigrant, and refugee communities.

You might remember this hot take from the Women's March in January. Check out what Angela Peoples has been up to since then for the first installment of our signature Kaya Leadership Program tomorrow night at OCA- 1322 18th Street.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2004654479767969/?ti=icl

Angela Peoples is an organizer, activist, advocate working toward the liberation of all black people. A graduate of Western Michigan University, where she studied Political Science and Africana Studies, Angela got her start as a progressive advocate. In 2006, Angela fought to stop an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative and continued on building student power and fighting for college access and affordability with the United States Students Association. Angela also spent the last three years working to improve consumer protection laws for student loan borrowers and young consumers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Angela currently serves as Director of GetEQUAL, a national grassroots network of LGBTQ people and allies fighting for LGBTQ liberation.