Student Projects

Community Building: Pass the Mic [Group 1]

AAYL students Lauryn, Victoria, Brianna, and Alvin created Pass the Mic to spread awareness about Asian American stories, challenge stereotypes, and empower community members of all ages.

This project was one of three projects completed during AAYL's Fall Program 2025 - Community Projects: From A-Z.

View the workshop here.

Zine Collection: The Cost of Belonging

This website holds the incredible zines that the 2024 AAYL spring cohort created for the class entitled “The Cost of Belonging: Exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Formations and Activism through Zine Making.” Each student picked a topic that they wanted to explore further and research while utilizing the tools and key terms discussed throughout the course.

This produced an array of topics where students analyzed and challenged dominant narratives about the AAPI community with the counternarratives that their zines constructed. 

View the workshop here.

Research Project: Understanding Asian American Narratives

Students who participated in our Fall Research Workshop 2023 had the opportunity to learn how to do research to better understand and draw insights from quantitative and qualitative data on an issue in the Asian American community. Students learned how to conduct a systematic literature review and presented your findings in the form of poster presentations. The students also created a digital repository detailing their findings.

View the workshop here.

PhotoVoice Project: What is Love in the Time of Hate?

Students who participated in our Spring PhotoVoice workshop had the opportunity to present their project at the Teaching for Justice Ethnic Studies Conference at UC Irvine. They talked to educators and community advocates across the United States about the importance of Asian American representation in the academic curriculum. Students also had their photographs on display at Senator Dave Min’s event at the South Coast Chinese Cultural Center and Irvine City Hall during AAPI Heritage Month.

View the Workshop here.

StoryMaps

Students who participated in our Summer Programs have created StoryMaps of friends and family members, detailing their immigration stories from their birth country to the United States. They discuss the struggles, triumphs, and reflections of Asian American immigrants.

This is a collection of StoryMaps that have been created from all of our previous Summer Program participants (2022-2024).