API Leadership Conference

The 2007 Puget Sound Asian Pacific Islander Leadership Conference brought together over 240 people to the Microsoft Campus on Saturday, January 27. This year's conference marked a significant milestone for the organizers, with the sixth year gathering the largest number of APIs to date.

Throughout the day, conference participants were spotted:
-Making new contacts as part of the opening icebreaker activity;
-Interviewing each other with digital audio equipment in the People Powered Media workshop;
-Brainstorming values and taboos of different generations (youth, middle-aged adults, and elders) in the Intergenerational Community Building workshop;
-Practicing asking potential donors for money in the Donors Are Your Friends workshop;
-Discussing the day’s workshops over bubble tea.

Conference participants represented at least twenty different ethnicities. Participants exuded energy and excitement, as students and professionals from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors exchanged ideas and contact information. We celebrated Kinuko Noborikawa’s fifth year attending the conference. First-time participant Butch de Castro reported that “The range and diversity of workshop topics was impressive. It was a great chance to explore ideas around leadership that I had not been able to before.”