2026 Pre-Conference Programming

Promotional image for the APAHE 2026 pre-conference programming on a dark blue background with a cut out photograph of a large group of people from one of last year's pre-con events

We are excited to launch our inaugural pre-conference programming. For the first time, we invited proposal submissions in addition to our traditional invited sessions, allowing us to offer a wider range of topics. 

Check out all 21 of our Pre-Conference Sessions

Morning Sessions

  1. CSU ASAP Pre-Conference Session: Dialogues and Strategies
  2. *AANAPISI National In-Person Check-in / Community Building
  3. When to Stay, and When to Go – Keeping it Real
  4. Engaging Pasifika Identities Through Moananuiākea: Once Ocean, One People
  5. Rooted in Healing: A Forest Therapy Walk for AANHPI Mental Health
  6. Rooted & Becoming: Healing, Storytelling, and Leadership for 1st Gen
  7. Welcome to the Moment: Finding Power and purpose at APAHE
  8. *Keep Advancing…LEAP Advance Alumni Session
  9. Finding Contextual Courage as Leaders: Personal Gifts to Collective Action
  10. Career GPS: Navigating Your Next Steps

Afternoon Sessions

  1. *Employment Development Workshop (The Coalition Convening)
  2. Future Steps, Current Stories: Advancing Asian Pacific American Leadership
  3. Weaving Wellness & Eco-Therapy for Collective Mental Health in Higher Ed
  4. Learning About Gender Beyond Binary Trans in-QUERRy + (LGBT+)
  5. Building Together: Strengthening the CCC AANHPI SAP Community
  6. “Yes…And” to Playing, Failing Forward & Unscripted Collective Storytelling
  7. Rooted in Resilience: Hmong Legacies & Leadership in Higher Education
  8. Cultivating Courage & Resilience: Best Practices for AANHPI Communities
  9. Pop Culture and the Navigation of Societal Asian American Roles at Work
  10. The Courage to Pitch Change
  11. The Orange County Cultural Tour

Reminder: Registration is now open for the 2026 APAHE National Conference, to be held at the Anaheim Marriott, on April 12-14, 20206. This year’s theme, Legacies in Action: Courage and Resilience, calls on all of us to come together to carve a path forward and ensure our work endures.

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