Dear Friend,

Happy New Year!

I am writing to invite you to our annual CAA membership meeting on Thursday, February 4th at the YWCA in San Francisco Chinatown.  I want to get this on your calendar since we have a very special reason to come together.

After co-founding CAA and providing 40 years of consecutive service, Prof. Ling-chi Wang will be retiring from our Board of Trustees this February.  For the past four decades, Ling-chi has been a true scholar activist, helping to lead countless historic efforts to understand, communicate, and campaign for racial and social justice.

To help celebrate this occasion, I'll be joining Ling-chi and hip-hop and social change author and journalist Jeff Chang in a conversation about the past and future of our community and civil rights. Everyone is welcomed.

The meeting is also a time for everyone to get caught up on our current work, for members to elect the 2010 slate of trustees, and for the general public to comment.  Please come with a guest or two - more details below.

Hope to see you there,

Vincent Pan
Executive Director

CAA | Chinese for Affirmative Action
17 Walter U. Lum Place
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: 415-274-6750
www.caasf.org

CAA 2010 Membership Meeting

Thursday, February 4, 2010
5:30 pm - 8:30 p.m.
YWCA Apartments
940 Powell Street (at Clay Street)

Join us for a conversation with:

Ling-chi Wang
CAA co-founder and UC Berkeley Professor of Ethnic Studies
(read SF Chronicle's interview of Prof. Wang in 2002)

Jeff Chang
Author and CAA Trustee
(Jeff Chang's website)

Vincent Pan
CAA Executive Director

Food, drinks, childcare and Cantonese interpretation provided. To RSVP or request childcare and interpretation, please contact Eric Li at exli@caasf.org or 415-274-6760 x313.