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ALT A photo of the 2026 Leaders in Training cohort with their certificates.
ALT A photo of the 2026 Leaders in Training cohort at their second session.
ALT A photo of text on a whiteboard wall that reads “be in community”, “embrace learning”, and “honor confidence” and surrounding post-its
ALT A photo of the 2026 Leaders in Training cohort at their first session.
ALT Welcome to AAF's Board of Directors! Jumee Song Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Siegel Family Endowment
ALT Happy Pride Month! From the AAF Team
ALT A photograph of Asian American Federation staff and United in Speech NY co-op members.
ALT A family stops by the Asian American Federation table at Malikah's Eid festival.
ALT Asian American Federation staff speaking with a community member at Malikah's Eid festival.
ALT Asian American Federation staff speaking with a community member at Malikah's Eid festival.
ALT Asian American Federation staff tabling at Malikah's Eid festival.
ALT This woman was the first ever Chinese American woman to exercise the right to vote. Who was she? AAF Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
ALT Tye Leung Schulze At 9 years old, Tye Leung Schulze escaped being sold as a servant. At 12, she refused an arranged marriage to a man three times her age. Years later, she became the first Chinese American woman employed by the federal government, and worked as a translator for immigrants detained on Angel Island Immigration Station.
ALT Chinese immigrants were the first group banned by U.S. federal immigration law based on race and nationality. On the West Coast, Angel Island became the main site where those exclusion laws were enforced through detention and interrogation. Thousands of Chinese immigrants were detained on the island in inhumane conditions for weeks or months, often without due process.
ALT Tye helped Chinese women navigate an immigration system designed to keep them out. She translated during interrogations, explained confusing paperwork, and helped scared women make themselves understood. In a place built around suspicion and rejection, Tye quietly persisted in giving them dignity. Then she did something else that helped seal her place in history.
ALT Tye became the first Chinese woman to vote in the United States. “I think it right we should all try to learn, not vote blindly, since we have been given this right to say which man we think is the greatest,” she said in 1912.
ALT This AAPIHM, we honor Asian Americans like Tye Leung Schulze who fought racist immigration policies with courage, language, and care. At a time when Asian immigrants were being detained, interrogated, and targeted for deportation, she made sure people were heard and understood. We continue to face discrimination in this country and we will carry on fighting for every voice to be heard, so the system does not silence us.
ALT A group photograph of Rapid Immigration Support & Empowerment Network members
ALT A photograph of Rapid Immigration Support & Empowerment Network members with New York City Public Advocate Jumanee Williams
ALT A photograph of Rapid Immigration Support & Empowerment Network members.
ALT A photograph of Rapid Immigration Support & Empowerment Network members.
