Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

For the past 20 years, Eun Kyung Kim has focused on advocacy, management, and fundraising in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and she is the first AAPI Executive Director of YWCA Queens. We are proud to celebrate her many achievements within the YWCA movement and beyond it in the myriad ways she supports her community. Learn more about her and her amazing work: bit.ly/3ViY3jB

After she and her family were sent to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, Joy Hashimoto became active in the YWCA movement after her mother helped establish YWCAs in the camps. Learn more: bit.ly/3VozDoM 

Lillian Kimura was 13 during WWII when she and her family were incarcerated at the Manzanar WRA Center in California. Influenced by her experience with YWCA—which served to educate Japanese American women and girls interned at the camp—she later joined the YWCA movement at the local and national levels. During #AAPIHeritageMonth2023, read more about her inspiring legacy: legcy.co/3LpuOXC

Former Interim CEO of YWCA USA and current Interim Chief Strategy Officer for the YWCA National Board, Gloria Lau’s involvement with YWCA is deep and profound, and her experience as a #YWCALeader has been extensive and varied at both the local and national levels. Today, we are proud to celebrate her and her far-reaching impact on the YWCA movement

A #YWCALeader at the local, national, and international levels, Gloria Chun Hoo served on the boards of @YWBoston, @YourYwca, and YWCA USA, and she is currently on the executive committee for the YWCA World Service Council. During #AAPIHeritageMonth2023, we celebrate her long-standing involvement in the YWCA movement: bit.ly/44fEVqL