SASE Professional Charleston is excited to announce our live panel/webinar event - The Asian American Assimilation Story. Join us on Friday, June 25th at 8:00 PM EST to learn about the journey of our panelists, Khanh Tran, Gerry Zheng, and Molly Altstadt, and how culture has empowered them.

Free registration here!

Join SASE Pro Charleston for a beginner-friendly virtual paint and sip experience. Enjoy a relaxed and friendly environment, whilst indulging in your favorite cocktail. The event takes place on June 24th from 5-7 PM PST and will be streamed live on Discord.

Painting supplies will be provided to interested parties as long as they’re signed up by June 16th. Hope to see you there!

Free registration here!

You can access the event preparation details here.

Ready to break through that double-paned glass ceiling? Join SASE Pro on Friday, June 11 for a virtual conference about API women in STEM careers! Our topics were specifically developed with API women in mind.

Choose from 9 workshops across 3 different tracks to find the sessions that speak to your goals... plus virtual breakout rooms to encourage meaningful conversations and build community through your professional network. Don't miss your opportunity to be involved with this groundbreaking event! Learn more and register now at saseconnect.org/pro/women2021.

Role of Science and Technology as a Catalyst for Social Change

Gitanjali Rao was recognized as America’s Top Young Scientist and received an EPA Presidential award for inventing her device “Tethys”—an early lead detection tool. Gitanjali is also the inventor of “Epione”—a device for early diagnosis of prescription opioid addiction using genetic engineering, and “Kindly”—an anti-cyberbullying service using AI and Natural Language processing.

She was honored as Forbes “30 Under 30 in Science” in 2019 and TIME’s “Top Young Innovator”  and “TIME Kid of the Year” for her innovations and STEM workshops she conducts globally, which has inspired over 40,000 students in the last two years across four continents. In her sessions, she shares her own process of innovation that can be used by students all over the world. She is an experienced TED speaker and often presents in global and corporate forums on innovation and the importance of STEM.

Gitanjali is the author of the book “Young Innovator’s Guide to STEM”, which guides students, educators, or teachers with a prescribed 5 step innovation process.

Co-sponsored by NAAAP, Center for Asian Pacific American Women, OCANational, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, and APIA Scholars.

Register at www.bit.ly/SASEProMay27.

We all have unique stories - the sum of our upbringing and our lived experiences.

Join Beena Kavalam, Nozomi Morgan, and Hung Nguyen to hear their remarkable journeys next Thursday, May 20 at 4:00 p.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. PT for the next SASE Webinar Series, generously sponsored by the Department of the Air Force. These presenters will be leading sessions at SASE Pro’s upcoming Women’s Leadership Conference (June 11).

View weekly webinars offered during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), and visit past webinar recordings. Also, make sure to add the SASE Webinar Calendar to your Google Calendars to stay informed of future webinars.

Thank you for your support and we hope to see you at the next webinar!

The webinar is sponsorship generously provided by the Department of the Air Force.

NAAAP's Self Care and Wellness will host a Bystander Intervention 2.0 (Conflict De-escalation) training by Hollaback.

This will be followed by NAAAP's Self Care and Wellness team and Hollaback facilitating a discussion of personal reflections on the growing wave of anti-Asian racist incidents and the tools and concepts of the Hollaback training.

The event is free to all members of NAAAP and our corporate sponsors, including SASE Pro member organizations.

Whether or not you can attend the event, we encourage you to consider making a donation (minimum $5) to benefit StopAAPIHate.org, which is documenting reports of Asian hate incidents.

Register today at http://bit.ly/SASEProMay13.

Thursday, May 6th, 2021

1 PM EST / 10 AM PST

Register for FREE at https://saseconnect.org/webinar.

Generational Experiences of Bias, Stereotypes and Discrimination:
Real-World Workplace Stories from Different Generations

We invite you to listen to real-life stories from Asian professionals --
through the lens of first-generation, 1.5, second-generation and beyond --
as they discuss bias, stereotypes and discrimination in the workplace. Hear
about the lessons learned, how the storytellers managed to get through
these events and how it has shaped their career journeys.

Panelists include:
Ethan Jen - Rolls Royce, Junior Engineer
Noreen Hong - Thermo Fisher, Senior Director
Balaji Venkataraman - Corteva, Vice President
Jennifer Quinn - Pratt & Whitney, Director
Yan Sun, Ph.D. - Cargill, Senior Research Scientist

Moderated by:
Roy Donelson - Raytheon, Executive Director

Hosted by BAPA Southern California

Chapters: El Segundo, Seal Beach and Long Beach

• Thursday, April 29th, 2021, from 12PM to 1PM PST

• WebEx Link (Copy link to browser): https://tinyurl.com/BAPA-webex

  • Meeting Number: 144 362 7368

  • Password: Boeing2021

Synopsis: We will be hosting a panel discussion with our Boeing Leadership about various aspects of leadership. We will go over what leadership positions they have held both within the company and outside. Learn about their unique leadership style and how that has a heavy influence on their team’s productivity and overall mindset. Join this webinar to get insight from our Boeing Leadership and ask questions to help further develop your leadership style!

Hosted by Boeing Familia Southern California

Chapters: El Segundo, Long Beach, Seal Beach and Huntington Beach

• Thursday, April 22nd 2021 from 12PM to 1PM PST

• WebEx Link (Copy link into browser): https://tinyurl.com/boeing-familia-webex

  • Meeting Number: 144 046 7423

  • Password: Boeing2021

Synopsis: Many businesses and people have been through so much due to COVID-19 as well as the aviation industry. This can really affect employees’ emotional and mental states and can hinder their work and health. We will be hosting a round table discussion with various Boeing employees on how the pandemic affected their mental health and work and how they are coping and overcoming their hardships.

Featuring Uday Sheth, SASE Senior Executive Advisor and retired Director of R&D at Procter & Gamble.

Uday will share a prototype Leadership Competency framework that will guide the future work of SASE Professional. This framework provides insight into key skill areas essential to develop fully as a business and technical leader. It provides a common language to help you ‘decode’ the broad area of leadership such that you can develop a personal growth action plan to strengthen the impact you make to your business and organization.

Register now at https://bit.ly/2P3fJ1i

Fatima Aviquivil is the Chief-of-Staff for Boeing IT&DA Digital Common Services. In this role, she develops and executes integrated organizational plans and procedures and guides the development of business and technical strategies, goals and objectives. She has a BS in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines, MS in Information Management from the University of Washington (Seattle) and certificates on Product Management, Digital Marketing and Technology Leadership from Cornell University. When not sitting in front of the computer, she loves to explore the world on her feet, bike or with a scuba tank.

Register for the virtual event at: bit.ly/SASEaug12

(We are postponing this event due to COVID-19. The new date is TBD).

Wind down from your busy work day and meet other Charleston professionals at a fun local venue! 

Bring your colleagues and friends too!

Every month, SASE Professional Charleston will have these networking events on the calendar to give you the opportunity to network and meet other professionals in the area! We hope you will join us and leverage this great opportunity to connect with others!

Presented by Wes Hom

For our professional colleagues, the global virus has tested our ability to handle an unprecedented series of crises at all levels, challenging our ability to make difficult and timely decisions with minimum or no data, asking us to stay calm, and providing a steady hand to all.

We don't know what we don't know. Given the lack of a history of how to handle the current health and economic environment, we will need to be ready; we will need to lead and make progress in the new “norm”. What we have learned and experienced in the past may not be able to help us move forward or address the needs of the future.

There is much-untold anxiety, it's OK.

Our session will discuss what are the key behaviors needed to traverse these uncertain times. We will also discuss one's “new checklist” to survive the new “norm”. We will share behaviors that are needed to master the near-term challenges but also for the new tomorrow. Behaviors that we will have to become even more comfortable with as we begin to restart our lives and become a new and even more dynamic leader for our future working environments.

Registration link:
https://zoom.us/…/regi…/tZIlc-yrqT4sGtzLvrT5pxM4SuqhH2lKPXZI

Join us for a Q&A session as we discuss leadership, empowerment and life balance with Felicia Liang-Yeh.

Register for the session at: https://bit.ly/SASEpro05272020

Felicia Liang-Yeh is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Washington and currently the Controller of The Pokémon Company International headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. In addition to ensuring compliant and timely financial reporting, she is introducing new technology (such as Robotic Process Automation) and tools to transform accounting at Pokémon. Felicia is passionate about connecting with people and cross-functional collaboration. Her favorite pass time at work is playing the Trading Card Game and Pokémon GO with fellow coworkers. #GottaCatchThemAll

Prior to joining Pokémon, Felicia held various leadership roles at The Boeing Company in Washington State, where she was instrumental in centralizing the Puget Sound accounting groups. She also served on the accounting talent management team, advocating for initiatives focused on the recruitment, development and retention of talent. 

Felicia began her accounting career at KPMG’s audit practice in Seattle, leading employee benefit plan audit engagements for many Fortune 500 companies around the area during the 8 years she was there. 

Felicia holds an Executive MBA from the University of Washington, a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a CPA in the state of Washington. She lives with her husband and three children in Bellevue Washington.

Please send any questions you have for Felicia at SASEcharleston@gmail.org

Register for the session at: https://bit.ly/SASEpro0527202020

Register for the webinar at: https://bit.ly/SASEpro052020

About Our Guest:
Linda Akutagawa is President and CEO of LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics). A passionate social entrepreneur for over 25 years and beneficiary of LEAP’s leadership programming, she is a believer in the value, and urgent need, for diverse, equitable, and inclusive leadership. Through LEAP, Linda has dedicated herself to continuing the cycle of leadership development and inspiring Asian and Pacific Islanders to step up to leadership roles across sectors, industries, and communities. She is the Chair of the Alliance for Board Diversity and an appointed member of the California Department of Insurance Diversity Task Force. She is also a member of the Asian/Asian American Institute Advisory Board at California State University at Los Angeles as well as a Board member of Japanese American
Community Services and a Board member of the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council.

She’s a nationally recognized speaker and facilitator on leadership, diversity, nonprofits, Economics from California State University at Los Angeles. She has a Certificate in Nonprofit Board Consulting through Boardsource. She is married and a fur-mom to her cockapoo and aunty to eleven nephews and nieces.

Please send any questions you may have for Linda to SASEcharleston@gmail.com

Register for the webinar at: https://bit.ly/SASEpro052020

Details TBD

The event will be held at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL from February 8th - 10th in the Marshall Student Center.

The Southeast Regional Conference of the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers aims to educate on a variety of STEM careers and provides networking opportunities with employers in STEM fields.

This year's theme will be "Bridging Traditions, Embracing Diversity." which will allow students to understand the importance of diversity in the workplace and in thinking.

Registration is $30 until February 5th, 2020.

Register now below before spots fill up!
https://www.usfserc20.com/

SASE Pro Charleston is partnering with BHUUMI to celebrate the gathering event. Please join us for a night of networking and alliances as we explore ways to bring executives, professionals and collegiates together for mentoring and development.

Come network with other professionals at The Workshop! It’ll be a casual meet-up over a wide variety of food and drinks. This is open to members and non-members.