Women's History Month featuring Cam Ashling: Finding Our Voice-Harnessing AAPI Political Power

The Presidential election and multiple electoral lawsuits and debates of 2020, along with the Georgia January 2021 run-offs, have made clear the importance of how voters shape and influence our government and lives on the local and national level. During the historical events of the past year, the Asian American community’s voice likewise made strides as an instrumental segment in key elections across the nation.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the APABA-DC Women's Forum featured Cam Ashling, a longtime Democratic activist who served as a member of the Georgia Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) for Biden-Harris leadership council, and the AAPI constituency director for Senator Jon Ossoff. Her work of engaging AAPI voters in Georgia played a key role in securing the Senator seat for Jon Ossoff in the 2020–21 United States Senate election. As a political refugee who immigrated to Georgia in 1988 from Vietnam, Cam shared with us her unconventional stories including being a mom to celebrity goats, as well as her work of engaging and mobilizing AAPI voters.