Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern Califor

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice - LA) is the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (NHPI).

Founded in 1983 as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Advancing Justice - LA serves more than 15,000 individuals and organizations every year.  Through direct services, impact litigation, policy advocacy, leadership development, and capacity building, Advancing Justice - LA focuses on the most vulnerable members of Asian American and NHPI communities while also building a strong voice for civil rights and social justice. 

In response to the alarming surge in hate incidents targeting the Asian American community, Advancing Justice – LA, a leading legal and civil rights organization, launched its first-ever bystander intervention initiative. The effort included the debut of a PSA narrated by actor Ken Jeong designed to promote awareness and usage of bystander intervention methods. To date, we have provided over 90 trainings and trained over 6,000 community members. We also launched in-language bystander intervention trainings. Sign up for bystander intervention trainings here. In addition to our bystander intervention initiative, we advocated for the passage of the API Equity Budget and educated over 25,000 individuals about the COVID vaccine.