Cornell University's Asian Pacific Americans for Action (APAA) would like to invite you to attend our upcoming Asian Pacific American Women's Collegiate Conference, which will run from November 12-13, 2004. This conference will be the first of its kind, inviting Asian American females from colleges across the United States to create awareness about the issues they face under this unique identity.

The theme of this conference is "Asian American Women: Road to Self Discovery and Empowerment." We seek to explore some of the issues that APA college women currently face. Up until now, we do not feel that we have had the chance to discuss these issues in depth. Such issues include APA feminism, APA female student activism, voting, dual identity, body image, depression, interracial relationships, family expectations, and APA females in the workplace.

With the onset conference, we plan to bring together Asian American female leaders in their respective fields, to share their personal experiences with both Cornell students and other outside college students. The speakers will focus their discussions on issues they deal with under this unique, dual identity of a minority woman. We hope that this conference will motivate and encourage all minority females, especially Asian American females, to pursue fields where little to no representation exists.