Meetings & Past Events

Highlights from the 2024-25 School Year

May 24, 2025: 3rd Annual Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival

Once again we celebrated the diverse heritages within the Asian American community during the 4th annual Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival. This year's smaller, one-day festival featured an improv workshop with Courtney Pong of CSZ Boston, civics projects by students of the CRLS Asian American Experiences class, fresh produce from local coop farm, Hannan Healthy Food, and family-friendly activities led by the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Pan Asian Club, Dear Asian Youth at Somerville High School, and the Asian American Coalition at Arlington High School. Visit www.cambervilleasianfest.com for more information. Sponsored by Cambridge Families of Asian Descent (CFAD), Pan Asian Club of CRLS, and CPS.

Fall 2024: Solidarity Squad

Members of CFAD worked as part of the Solidarity Squad, a diverse coalition of CPSD caregivers, educators, and community members representing the full spectrum of school communities in Cambridge, to advocate for a community-driven District budget that embodies a vision for education equity; with fully funded, high quality public education that meets the diverse needs of all students and their families.

Highlights from the 2023-24 School Year

May 2024: 3rd Annnual Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival

The 3rd annual Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival celebrated AANHPI Heritage Month through a culinary journey exploring Asian food. Events included meeting & cooking with local chefs; food tastings from Hawaiian to Malaysia to Ughur cuisine; and a screening of documentary Off the Menu: Asia America. The Festival was organized by CFAD, Somerville Asian Families Network (SAFN); Somer Viva; Dear Asian Youth (DAY) Club of Somerville High School; and Pan Asian Club (PAC) of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Feb. 2024: School Budget Forum

CFAD (Cambridge Families of Asian Descent) and Cambridge SEPAC (Special Education Parent Advisory Council) collaborated with the Cambridge Public School District to create a more effective school budget feedback process. The revised format aimed to increase parent/caregiver participation and input through comprehensive budget presentations and active small group discussions.

Oct. 15, 2023: Community Family Affinity Groups School Committee Candidate Forum

Cosponsored with the Cambridge Families of Color Coalition (CFCC); Cambridge SEPAC; and the Chinese American Association of Cambridge. Candidates were invited to answer questions addressing specific concerns of each affinity group.

Watch the video here.
We asked the candidate these questions at the forum.
Read the candidate responses to question #5 here.

Oct. 8, 2023: "Mooncakes in the Park" Community event

Sep. 27, 2023: Vote for School Committee: Learn and Discuss Zoom

Highlights from the 2022-23 School Year

May 19-20, 2023: 2nd Annual Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival

Highlights from the 2021-22 School Year

May 2022: 1st Annual Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival

Feb. 8, 2022: Community meeting with Director of Family Engagement, Ray Porch

Jan. 20 2022: Letter writing Zoom

To advocate for Coalition for Anti-Racism, Equity and Justice in Education (CARE) sponsored Massachusetts state bills supporting ethnic, culturally appropriate, and anti-racism curriculum in K-12 education.

Sep. 9, 2021: Community meeting with new Superintendent, Dr. Greer

Dec. 16, 2021: Community Meeting

Our community meeting centered around the question Has your child or family experienced microaggressions or incidents of racism in school? The Jamboard brought up many shared experiences.

Apr. 15, 2021: Community Meeting

Thanks to all who could come out to meet on April 15 where we had a chance to get to know each other more deeply and start brainstorming ideas for each work group. (Link to the slides from our meeting.)

Check out the ideas on the JamBoards!

Mar. 9, 2021: First Community Meeting

Several themes came out of our first meeting, including:

Wanting to connect to other Asian American families both social and culturally as we think of our children
Interest in advocacy around issues important to Asian Americans particularly in the context of increased anti-Asian sentiment (see the Cambridge Educators of Color Coalition’s statement against anti-Asian violence issued in February 2021)
Increasing visibility of Asian Americans in the schools and curriculum (Asian heroes, Asian-American history in the U.S.)
Involving or creating space for Asian-American youth asking “What does it mean to be Asian?”
Working on curriculum or programs that might be shared with schools (e.g., What does a meaningful celebration of Lunar New Year at school look like? Learning about Asian-American heroes.)

CFAD 03-09-2021

Check out the Welcome slideshow from our first community meeting on March 9, 2021

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