A History of CAAAV's Youth Leadership Project

The Youth Leadership Project (YLP) was a major organizing area of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities from 1995 through the early 2010s. Initiated by CAAAV's Southeast Asian Organizing Collective, the YLP operated in the Fordham area of the Bronx, home to the largest community of Southeast Asian refugees in New York. This exhibit explores the injustices that Vietnamese and Cambodian Fordham residents faced in the 1990s-2000s and the major campaigns developed by Southeast Asian youth organizers to defend the civil and human rights of their families and community.