THE 2024 NATIONAL APIAHiP FORUM
WAS IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON ON SEPTEMBER 12-15.
This year's Forum spanned four days filled with enriching sessions and immersive tours, designed to deepen our understanding and commitment to Asian & Pacific Islander American heritage through the lens of historic preservation. Participants had the chance to engage with a diverse group of place-based experts, community leaders, and fellow enthusiasts from around the country and territories, gaining insights into the latest innovations, challenges, and opportunities in the field.
Program activities were centralized in, but not limited to, Seattle’s Chinatown International District, the only area in the continental United States where Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, African Americans, and Vietnamese have settled together and built one neighborhood. The neighborhood’s recent listing, alongside Philadelphia's Chinatown and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, as one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 11 Most Endangered Places, underscored our mission's urgency and relevance. Program activities also reached Puget Sound to Bainbridge Island and outside the metro area as we dug deep to make meaningful connections within the Asian & Pacific Islander American diaspora throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Scroll down to see the full photo gallery—courtesy of Chris Kumaradjaja and others.
