05/13/2022
The APIDA Student Center bids farewell and well wishes to Tev Lee and Daniel Sanji:
From the moment I accepted this position and stepped foot in the APIDA Student Center start-up space, I knew there was something special. Over the past 3 years I have seen how the APIDA campus community celebrate their unique identities and cultivate space for themselves – space that is often difficult to come by. The amount of resilience and tenacity from the APIDA community is unbound. I could not have been able to achieve and move the APIDA Student Center in ways unimaginable without the students, staff, faculty, alumni, and APIDA Student Orgs who all have had a hand in shaping the ways we have persevered and continue shaping history. Although it is bittersweet, I leave knowing there are many who will continue to be agents of change and cultivate what is needed for this community. Thank you for all the wonderful memories, experiences, and friendships. I am forever grateful and appreciative of all whom I have had the pleasure crossing paths with. In community,
- Tev Lee, APIDA Program Coordinator
Three years ago, Tev and I started our work together at the APIDA Student Center, and now we will both be moving on together. Tev’s transition will leave a void in the APIDA community because anyone who knows him knows how much he does for us. I am proud of our work. In the past three years, under our leadership, we have doubled the physical APIDA start-up space, saw the center through the pandemic and a rise in anti-Asian hate, led the first in-person APIDA Heritage Month in three years, and finally, advocated expanding the APIDA student staff to two interns. There is still so much work to be done, so much more to resist and demand from the institution, but I leave knowing that we have fostered community. I am sad to leave my APIDA family, but I fully trust the APIDA students who will remain a part of the APIDA Student Center!
– Daniel Sanji, APIDA Cultural Programming Intern (‘19-‘22) & Class of ‘22
