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“Am I a gentrifier?” I get asked this a lot. It’s a question laced with fear, guilt, anxiety, and maybe a bit of defensiveness.  It was also at the heart of a conversation I had recently [...]

For the past 2 years Mrs. Pham and her family have been fighting eviction from their home in Chinatown.  Mrs. Pham is 71 years old, and has lived with her daughter and 2 grandchildren in a [...]

Lower-income communities notoriously lack greenspace due to a history of disinvestment. But the addition of greenspace can pave way for increased rent and displacement. Here’s a few [...]

Just like many of you, we at SEACA spent our weekend watching in horror as police throughout the country attacked Black Lives Matter protestors as well as journalists covering the marches. SEACA [...]

SEACA was originally founded 18 years ago to train low-income southeast Asian youth to become leaders and organizers for racial and economic justice and over the years we’ve grown and shifted to [...]

Halloween can be a fun opportunity to play dress up and be something other than what you are everyday. However, it wouldn’t be a SEACA Halloween if we didn’t connect it back to the work that we [...]

SEACA’s work on the Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan (CASP) was recently called “A model for LA” in an LA Times Op-ed on the affordable housing crisis in Los Angeles. This is the second time [...]

SEACA, in conjunction with our partners at The Asian American Resource Center of Pomona College, recently took students from across all of our programs on a weekend retreat to the Claremont [...]

We are really big fans of hands on learning at SEACA. Especially when large amounts of sugar are involved. Yes you can eat them…we wouldn’t suggest it though. The students involved in the Youth [...]

At SEACA we often play games as an educational tool. Recently we held a contest, breaking the students up into teams to see who could build the “tallest tower!” Each team was given materials [...]