Leadership as Counter-Narratives

• In Event: Leadership Insights From BIPOC Principals

Abstract

This paper brings the historical embodiments of justice-oriented Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) leadership as a counternarrative to the current state of AAPI who are racialized as a model minority and perpetual foreigners simultaneously in one body. This racialization of AAPIs is the current state in a country where Filipinos first set foot in Morro Bay, California in 1587 (Cheung, 2017). There is a long standing legacy of AAPI leadership and this paper aims to lift up erased and invisibilized legacy of AAPI leaders centered on the lives of Grace Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, and Larry Itliong as those embodied justice-oriented leadership.

Author

• Paul Koh, Towson University