{"id":12039,"date":"2012-01-21T04:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-21T04:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:01:54","slug":"White-House-briefs-students-on-Asian-American-youth-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12039","title":{"rendered":"White House briefs students on Asian-American youth issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asian-American students spent a day in Washington to discuss issues facing people from the Asia-Pacific region at the Obama administration\u2019s agenda for Asian-American and Pacific Islander youth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a daylong summit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next door to the White House, on Jan. 12 for a Youth Leadership Briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Together approximately 200 student leaders from universities and high schools across the nation came to hear President Obama\u2019s initiatives on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, discuss possible future programs, and share information about activism on their campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great chance for us to learn more from each other and bring back our experience to Penn,\u201d says Michelle Leong, a junior in Penn\u2019s School of Engineering and Applied Science and chair of Penn\u2019s Asian Pacific Student Coalition, the umbrella organization for 19 groups representing the interests of the Asian Pacific American community. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Before this meeting, some students weren\u2019t aware of the President\u2019s agenda for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The students hope the dialogue started at this meeting will continue. Obama administration organizers discussed holding regional meetings in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asian student are America&#8217;s future!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedp.com\/index.php\/article\/2012\/01\/asianamerican_students_attend_leadership_conference_in_washington\">The Daily Pennsylvanian<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian-American students spent a day in Washington to discuss issues facing people from the Asia-Pacific region at the Obama administration\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Asian-American students spent a day in Washington to discuss issues facing people from the Asia-Pacific region at the Obama administration\u2019s","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":133,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}