The complete curriculum for the Asian American Leadership Program (AALP) is below. The curriculum spans 9 weeks of 1.5-hour sessions, designed for both in-person and online facilitation. The program will generally include two cohorts: 1) youth group, and 2) adult/caregiver group. AALP has separate curricula for the youth and adult groups, with age-specific lessons and activities. Click on the buttons below to navigate to the corresponding folder including weekly agendas, slides, and handouts.  

Please note that the adult/caregiver cohort may be facilitated in a different language, depending on the participants' language preferences. During the AALP pilot, the adult cohort was facilitated in Mandarin Chinese. As a result, the curriculum below includes both English and Chinese versions of the adult curriculum. However, the Chinese-language materials offered below are incomplete and unofficial translations of the English-language program, created by one of our facilitators. It is recommended to check all translations before implementing AALP in Chinese or any additional languages.

Section 1: Historical Roots & Connections

Section 2: Intergenerational Trauma & Resilience

Section 3: Activism, Solidarity & Moving Forward

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Nhi Nguyen
curriculum developer

Sulynn Miao
curriculum developer

Megan Elevado
program manager

Kathy Lu
co-founder

Julia Wang
co-founder

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Dr. Alison Lee
Instagram

Chenying Wang
ALPS Education Inc.

Ruchi Shah
Barnard College

Jennifer Heikkila Díaz
New Haven Promise & Activist in Residence,
​University of Connecticut

Jianping Xu
Rutgers Graduate School of Education &
​Parents and Children Education (PCE)

ACADEMIC COUNCIL ADVISORS

Dr. Erika Lee
Harvard University
Bae Family Professor of History & Radcliffe Alumni Professor
Author of America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

Dr. Beth Lew-Williams
Princeton University
Associate Professor of History & Director, Program in Asian American Studies
Author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

Dr. Andy Urban
Rutgers University
Associate Professor of American Studies & History
Author of Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century

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