bolder futures

  • Announcing Bolder Futures

    Announcing Bolder Futures, a companion initiative to AAPI Data that leans into aspirational design and innovative thinking for social good. Grounded in collective imagination, social innovation, and intergenerational collaboration. Bolder Futures will help partners anticipate and adapt to disruptive conditions. 
  • Meeting the Moment with Bolder Futures

    This piece outlines Bolder Futures, a companion initiative focused on helping communities move beyond reacting to disruption and toward shaping bold, inclusive futures.
  • AAPI Bolder Futures Youth Manifesto

    This youth manifesto represents the visions, solutions, strategies, and commitments from a variety of youth over two different planning sessions
  • Bolder Profiles: Erika Braun

    Preservation Through Evolution: Erika Braun’s Data-Driven Approach to JACL’s Centennial In the inaugural Bolder Futures Fellowship, Erika Braun created and disseminate the first membership survey for the Japanese American Citizens League in 16 years. Motivated by a desire to make data visualization more accessible and is part of building interdisciplinary and participatory systems, Erika’s survey […]
  • Bolder Futures: Roy Tongilava

    The Bridge Builder: How Roy Tongilava Connects Community Voices with State Policy As a Pacific Islander American public policy strategist and advocate, Roy Tongilava’s work bridges research, policy, and community voice to advance more just and inclusive systems. Through coalition-building, data-driven advocacy, and systems reform, he works to ensure public institutions are more transparent, accountable, […]
  • Bolder Profiles: Shivani Parikh

    The Impact Producer from Jackson Heights: Shivani Parikh’s Audacious Dream for South Asian Justice Shivani Parikh, a 2025 Bolder Futures Fellowship alum, is dedicated weaving storytelling with policy advocacy for the South Asian Communities. For her BFF community impact project, she partnered with the South Asian Legal Defense Fund to address invisibility and data gaps […]