Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities

EMAC was founded in 2017 with the intention of serving the Southeast Asian community in and around Stockton, California. We formed in response to the increase in immigration raids, separation of mixed-status families, and ICE detentions and deportations in our community under both Obama and Trump administrations.

The mission of EMAC is to help build safe and thriving Southeast Asian communities within the larger Asian American and Pacific Islander diaspora.

We seek to fulfill this mission through community advocacy and civic engagement, providing culturally relevant resources, and cultivating the development of social empowerment through the expression of our values: transformative justice, culturally rooted healing, communal resilience, and collective liberation.