Featured Speaker: Eddy Zheng: The Prisoner, The Immigrant, the Son, the Activist

This event took place on Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC.

Venue: Austin Convention Center, Room 16AB Eddy Zheng is the President & Founder of New Breath Foundation and works to mobilize resources to support Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) harmed by the unjust immigration and criminal justice systems to heal, keep families together, and build movements that shift narratives and policies. New Breath Foundation is the recipient of the 2021 Association of Fundraising Professionals Golden Gate Chapter’s Vineyards Award. A 2019-21 Rosenberg Foundation Leading Edge Fellow and 2015-17 Open Society Foundation Soros Justice Fellow, Eddy served as Co-Director of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, Project Director of the Community Youth Center of San Francisco, and co-founded ROOTS, the first-ever ethnic studies program in San Quentin State Prison.