VietLead

vietlead.org

VietLead.

Community-Based Leadership

VietLead is a grassroots community organization in Philadelphia and South Jersey that is creating a vision and strategy for community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience. We are staffed and led by community members with collectively over 25 years serving our community and are committed to working from love and solidarity. Our community programs include intergenerational farming, youth organizing, health navigation & healing, civic engagement and community defense. We do this through a Heal.Resist.Grow. framework that focuses a pathway to healing trauma in our communities, contesting for power to make systemic change, policy advocacy/campaign, and growing community-based solutions.

VietLead, founded in September 2015, serves the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian communities in Philadelphia and South Jersey. As descendents of a people impacted by war and trauma, we understand that our community is at different places ideologically, emotionally, and materially, so we must meet our community where they are at and commit to direct services, education, advocacy, and organizing in order to build unity towards social justice.

Note:  The above descriptive information came from the organization's Who We Are page.

In The News

• Southeast Asian community pushes back on South Philly gentrification, KYW, February 3, 2020.
• The Magic Garden, Philadelphia Citizen, May 8, 2018.

Info

• Facebook: vietlead
• Internships: VietLead Volunteer, Intern, and College Organizer Interest and Intake Form (at Google Forms)
• Online Store: Merch Store (at Teespring)
• Volunteer: VietLead Volunteer, Intern, and College Organizer Interest and Intake Form (at Google Forms)
• X/Twitter: @vietlead

See Also

• Digital Literacy Alliance