Not Your Model Minority: An AAPI Women Equal Pay Day Event
Given the current amplification of violence and anti-Asian sentiment in the Bay Area and the rest of the country, it's challenging right now. And we know that income and opportunity inequalities are intricately tied to racism, discrimination, mental health, and violence. So we are hoping to create a space that holds us all in the current climate we find ourselves in while also addressing the systemic issues at the root of the pay gap.
Event Details:
This year, an Asian American / Pacific Islander woman is paid $0.87 for every $1.00 paid white, non-Hispanic men, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars over a 40-year career.
But, that's only part of the #AAPIEqualPay story. For certain communities, the wage gap is far greater. Vietnamese women earn $0.67, Hmong women earn $0.61, and Burmese women earn only $0.52, making them some of the lowest paid people in the nation.
This virtual talking circle is for AAPI womxn in (or aspiring to be in) tech and their allies. Learn from and with our AAPI pay equity squad as they drop knowledge, share learnings, and stories on:
the pay gap
self-advocacy
the bamboo ceiling
the harmful impacts of model minority rhetoric
the myth of a monolithic Asian identity
the importance of intersectional allyship
It's time to #LevelUpOurAAPIWomen and close the pay gap.
If you cannot attend, please RSVP anyways to receive a copy of the recording post session.
Meet our Panelists:
Panelist Bios:
Amie Ninh
Amie is a racial equity strategist, coach, L&D designer, facilitator, and former teacher with experience spanning tech, design and education industries. She is currently the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program Manager at Clever, the most widely used single sign on platform for K-12 education. Amie is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees.
Nadia De Ala
Nadia De Ala is a leadership and negotiation coach, speaker and facilitator. She is the founder of Nadia De Ala Coaching, co-founder of Let’s Get Hella Rich and co-host of the Hella Rich podcast. Nadia helps badass, creative and ambitious women and femmes of color in technology and business embrace the transformational possibilities of self-advocating, negotiating and leading as their realest selves, so they can create the empowered lives they really want. Through her group coaching program Real You Leadership, Nadia has supported her clients in making 20-55% more bank by teaching them negotiation mindset and strategy.
Nina Baliga
Nina Baliga is the Head of Inclusive Strategy and Design at interviewIA. As a child of immigrants, Nina has always been passionate about social justice and improving the lives of marginalized people. She began her career in the non-profit world working to empower underrepresented communities, then went on to get an MBA before she decided to teach herself front-end web development and user experience design. In 2017, she and her team became finalists at the Go Code Colorado hackathon, and co-founded <div>ersity, a women founded startup focused on creating an equitable and inclusive tech industry. She’s a TEDx speaker and a sought after thought leader in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion space. With nearly twenty years of experience in non-profit and for-profit organizations, she is a serial entrepreneur combining her community organizing, business, leadership and app development skills.
Meg Nakamura
Meg Nakamura is the CEO of Apto Payments. She is passionate about creating a payments ecosystem that is more fair and equitable, allowing the most aspirational companies to enter the market quickly and responsibly. She loves working with those who are equally as enthusiastic about creating user-first experiences in the financial services sector. In 2014, Meg co-founded Apto with her long-time colleague and friend, Greg Kidd, to help companies build and launch innovative and bespoke card programs specifically designed for their users. Since its Y-Combinator days, when Apto was known as Shift Payments, Apto now supports several of the fastest growing fintech companies in the U.S. and expanded its business to Europe as of 2019.