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[AAPIP national staff] Welcome Laila Mehta, AAPIP Civic Engagement Fund Associate Director

Posted by Joe Lucero on Friday, June 11th, 2010

Please join the Board of Directors and Staff of AAPIP in welcoming Laila Mehta as the Associate Director of the Civic Engagement Fund for AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian) Communities.

Learn more about Laila and her thoughts on the shared experiences of AMEMSA and Asian American communities in times of crisis, the focus of our program on June 23, in the video below:

Laila joined AAPIP in May, directly from Kathmandu, Nepal, where she was working for 2 years with grantmaking institutions, donors and international agencies on issues related to governance, post-conflict peace building, and gender integration.

Join Laila and other AAPIP folks on June 23 at The Renwick Gallery in Washington DC for our special program in observance of AAPIP’s 20 years of achievement in our communities and in philanthropy on June 23rd, 2010.