Keck Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association (APIFSA)

The mission of Keck Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association Keck Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association (APIFSA) is to create a safe space and a strong voice to advocate for API faculty, staff, and trainees across the Keck School of Medicine community. 

1. Advocacy and Social Change

To understand the historic and systemic challenges experienced by the API community and strive to create the language and tools needed to turn action into impact, advocacy, and social change.

2. Allyship and Coalition Building

To build solidarity within the API community and form coalitions with other affinity groups and allies to address systemic racism and educate the wider community.

3. Representation and Caucus

To express our collective voice and significant presence on campus to ensure the API community is visible, represented, and valued in all levels of leadership at USC.

4. Support and Community Engagement

To provide a safe space to share, express and support one another without judgment while listening and acknowledging all voices in the mission to heal, inform, and create change.

5. API Awareness and Outreach

To engage the wider community and build awareness of diverse API lived experiences to shed light on API’s history, contributions and struggles with structural racism.

6. Professional Development, Networking and Mentorship

To foster professional relationships and mentorship between API faculty, staff, trainees, and allies, and to build a network that promotes and equips API faculty, staff, and trainees with professional development skills and opportunities.