All right, welcome to the June meeting of the Asian Affairs Commission.

Thank you all for being here.

Happy summer.

Um, I will be calling us to order today in Chairwoman Gilpin's absence.

Let's start by reviewing last month's meeting minutes or approval.

And when you're ready, if someone could make the motion.

And also, I know not all of us were here, so if you have questions about last month, feel free to bring that up too.

Is there a second?

Thank you.

All in favor?

Any opposed?

And if you need us to help you out with who's giving what, let us know.

Okay, please.

Yes, but I've got that motion is by TV and segment by Anna.

Amazing.

Um, okay, let's get into the Vice Share report.

We have quite a few updates.

I mean, on a personal note this weekend, I was able to get on a WhatsApp call with my family in Iran.

They got internet back for the first time in three months.

And it was so happy.

The first thing my aunt did was ask where my cat was.

It reminded me that something special about this commission is we all have ties to communities and families and um maybe places that our connections to can vary and ebb and flow, and so that's something I'm bringing into this meeting is like my community and the appreciation for chances to be together.

So excited to be with you today.

First, on my vice chair report is the human rights commission liaison.

So at our last meeting, uh, I became the slated person for the chair of the Asian Affairs Commission, and currently as vice chair, I'm serving as the Asian Affairs Commission liaison to the Human Rights Commission.

That is a separate commission appointment.

So I had to go in front of city council and be approved to the human rights commission, but it's just in a seat that is for our commission specifically.

Um given that I'm stepping into this chair role.

It is best practice that someone should not be the chair of the commission and the liaison.

So I wanted to just share a little bit about what that liaison does so that in August we can have someone slated from our commission to be voted into that role.

I know that uh at our last meeting we had some hesitance to take new things on.

So I wanted to give us a chance to really learn about what that rule means because they do think it's very meaningful and aligned to what a lot of people on this commission care about.

There's some folks who aren't here today, and I'll be sure to share about it with them too.

But the Human Rights Commission is the one Title V Commission that has membership from all the other Title V commissions.

So it's a really special group that includes some at-large members and then one representative from each Title V Commission.

And the main thing they're responsible for is that the city of Tulsa has a human rights um, like a promise for human rights to its citizens when it comes to those who it contracts with, public spaces, and access.

And the human rights commission helps support any complaints that go to the city and help uh the office who is over those complaints.

Make sure that they're being dealt with in a manner that we want for our city.

So, some examples of the things the human rights commission is working on as a commission.

One of them is making that human rights complaint process more accessible.

In the past, you had to like physically come to City Hall to turn that in, which we know is not always accessible to people who are working or have transportation issues.

So they're working to take that online, and the HRC has worked really closely with them on that.

The second project they're working on is actually tied to one of the equality indicators about diverse representation on all the ABCs, and that is something that I've been working really closely on and care about that you wouldn't have to take on is the Asian Affairs Commission, but just some examples of the stuff they do that touches all types of commission work.

So if that is interesting for you, there's a few opportunities you have to learn more.

In June, the Human Rights Commission meeting takes place on the third Monday, I believe, so it'll be in two weeks on a Monday, and I'll send out information about where that is.

Even if you're like, I do not want this position, it's an interesting meeting to come attend and just kind of see what the conversations across commission look like.

You'll also get a chance to meet some of the human rights commissioners at our Title V retreat in July and hear more about their work in the presentations.

Again, it is a second commission appointment, so the main commitment would be like one additional commission meeting a month, and in terms of what you do on behalf of the Asian Affairs Commission, a lot of it is just sharing updates from our commission, bringing updates back and being a liaison there.

So I'll share more information about that in our follow-up email.

The second thing I want to share, is that I mentioned in July there's the Title V retreat.

We do not have an Asian Affairs Commission meeting in July, it's an off week or an off-month for Title V commissions.

But on July 24th from 8:30 to 2:30, you should have gotten a calendar invite from Lexi for the Title V retreat.

Can you raise your hand if you went to that last year?

Any endorsements of how cool and fun it was that you want to share at the table, um, I liked it because you got to see the other commit uh title five commissions.

Their issues were always kind of resolved by talking to other commissions, like, oh, you had a funding issue, I know how to deal with that, oh you did this, I know how to deal with that.

So it's like we all were um kind of like a mind of the meeting we kind of figured out by working together that we all had each other's answers.

Yeah, so thank you in that.

Anyone else an encouragement to go?

There were different offices within the city that um did a presentation and shared resources, which I thought was very helpful.

Yeah, super helpful to know what the rest of the city does and what is available to connect our citizens to.

Um, so highly encourage you to make that.

It is during a whole workday, and I know that's a barrier for some people, but if it is possible for you to come, I think it was very much worth the time and helped um build a sense of belonging, not just to like our commission but to the broader city.

Um, if you can't make it, you just let Lexi know.

Okay.

I just I just wanted to say that I had it in my calendar.

I had planned to do it.

I was very excited, and then I got uh my college rearranged our schedule, our summer schedule.

And so I'm teaching until five o'clock on the 24th.

Oh my goodness.

So I won't be here.

I would rather be here.

I hope you'll be having fun teaching.

I hope I won't be totally awesome.

We can learn your sick note.

What?

We can write you a sick note.

Oh, I hadn't thought of that.

Massoud has a lot of doctors.

But thank you.

Yeah, if you I think that's really we'll be sure to bring back what we learned from that in those to the commission.

It's frustrating.

Um, my third announcement is that pending our vote in just a moment on the chair of leadership officers.

Your next leadership team, me, Cecilia, and Massood are really interested in just better understanding where everyone is at.

We've had two years under our belt, um, interested in knowing like what are you most interested in?

What do you need to engage with the commission?

What are your hopes and dreams for what our work looks like in this next chapter?

So we'll be setting up some, I say one-on-one meetings, it might be two on one, it might be three-on-one.

It just kind of depends on what your summer availability looks like.

So that before we go into August, we can use these summer months to just better understand how people are doing.

So that will be attached in the email.

And then finally, I wanted to share some appreciation for some people who are not here today.

So, Sophia Noche and Yi Zhang are transitioning off our commission, and I wanted to appreciate their service.

They both have been on our leadership team at times over committees, and uh didn't want to let the meeting go by without acknowledging their work and how grateful we were to have them a part of the commission's impact.

And we'll work with Lexi and the mayor's office because they both occupied at-large seats that we will need to fill, in addition to that Indian seat we have for our three largest Asian populations in Pulso, so some recruitment work ahead of us if you have any community members you'd like to encourage to fill out their application.

And I also want to acknowledge Sarah Gilpin, our outgoing chair who wasn't able to be here today.

She said she was having bad dreams about not being able to make it to the meeting, and unfortunately, she has an exciting new role, and it's taken her out of town, so she wasn't able to be here today.

We have discussed in August, making sure she gets a proper send-off and a chance to reflect on her tenure as our inaugural chair.

She'll still be on the commission, and really wanted to be here today, and wasn't able to, so just wanted to bring their names into the room as we're very grateful for their work with us.

That concludes my vice chair report.

Any questions before we move into our action item?

Okay, for our next action, we have a vote on the 2026 officer slate.

I will share the slate with you, and then I might need your help on this one.

I think we motioned to vote on the whole slate together.

Is that correct?

Or is it position by position?

That's a great question.

I think in the past we've done the whole slate.

Does that sound right to people?

That sounds familiar to me.

If I say I know for Robert's role, you have to motion to go on the slate as a block.

So we have to put everyone together first and then vote on it separately to approve for it.

Okay, so we did.

We just have to say that that's what we're doing.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think thank you for remembering that.

Okay.

The easiest thing to do might be to look at the back of your meeting minutes where we have the slate as we landed on the end of the meeting.

I will read it out loud.

For chair, we have me, Patty Satilavac, for vice chair, Cecilia Wynne, for workforce and education committee chair, Masoud Classem, for data and research committee chair, Patty Satilavag for Cultural Hubs and Community Advocacy, Cecilia Wynne, and an open position for cultural event.

So we would be voting on these as a group, including keeping that position open.

Can I get a motion to vote on the slate all together?

Motion to vote as a second.

Second.

All in favor.

Aye.

All opposed.

Motion passes unanimously.

Yay.

Our last meeting.

My reflection is, you know, some of you were coming up like, oh, I'm sorry.

I don't want it to feel like something that we're sorry about.

I think we're in a unique moment in our commission where we've done a lot, we're tired, our community is small, and we're mighty.

But I think it's reasonable that people are kind of taking a moment to figure out where we're headed.

So I'm excited for these summer conversations just to learn more about like why did you come here?

Is that still why you want to be here?

What other things would help you reinvest in the work?

Um, as someone who works in education, I know that hard I'm familiar with hard work, and I'm really familiar that people will lean into hard work when it feels purposeful.

I want to make sure that you feel like what we're doing is purposeful enough to make capacity for it in the future, or just like right-size what this looks like in your life.

So, Cecilia Massoud, thank you so much for stepping up.

Everyone else, we will find the place for you to support and lean in, and I'm really excited for this next era of the commission.

Any thoughts from you all?

Just want to add on when you're talking about auditing in the already uh great support.

So it would invite team, but uh Tao would be anybody out there already needing it.

So thank you very much.

Um I would just like to say that I'm really excited for this next chapter, um, and seeing what we as a commission, as we're holding in on a strategic plan, could uh accomplish together uh with more intentionality behind our decisions.

So I'm excited.

Thank you.

And just as um, well, actually, I'll save this for the committee report, but I'll kind of share more of what you can expect in terms of seeing that strategic plan and what's coming next.

Um, for committee reports, we'll start with you, Cecilia.

You've had exciting progress in your work.

Yeah, I think.

Yes, happy, happy June, y'all.

Um, really excited to provide some updates from the cultural committee.

Um, I just wanted to provide an overview, actually.

As I was looking over the last year, I've been in this role as the cultural hubs and community advocacy chair.

Um, I wanted to highlight some, you know, wins from the committee that I uh had looked back on in terms of data, and so um noted that from May 2025 to May 2026, we've tabled at 10 events this year, and noting that some of those events like were multiple events in one month, or and also we have some break months in between as well, and so 10 or you know, events in 12 months, like that's pretty huge for us.

And so we had been present at the Eve celebration at both of the Asian American night market events from you know 2025 and 2026, uh the Global Gatherings play uh event with uh featuring Japanese culture, uh, and also like new partnerships, so with the Union Cultural Showcase with the Cultural Alliance group, and so having Anna go there to table was absolutely exciting to meet with high school students and immigrant parents to let them know more about our work, and so over the many events that we hope you know that we attended, um, and also in hosting the inaugural Tulsa Asia Fest, we've had a hundred and fifteen people join the listserv.

Um and so we have a total of 263 people on our listserv right now, and so that is pretty huge and a great you know source of connection to our community, and so I just want to give a shout out to that and shout out to all of our community members and our commissioners who've been able to table at events and support our events so we can better establish our relationship with the community.

So that I just wanted to note that uh 2025 to 2026 overview for the committee, and lastly, I just wanted to know um about the leadership roundtable initiative.

We had hosted two sessions already, which is exciting.

We had our one orientation call, and we also just hosted our first in-person session, and so we focused our first session on leadership and cultural identity.

So essentially, you know, understanding how our different social identities hold, you know, and how it shows up in our leadership uh in our leadership and how it may impact our leadership and how sometimes our identities may give us access or barriers to our leadership.

Um, and so noting that as an you know a learning point for our round table part uh round table uh participants and also talk about the model minority myth.

So, how does that show up and how is that that how could that affect our leadership capability uh abilities, but also what can we do to in response to that?

So we had hosted that at Leadership Tulsa, and we had eight uh eight out of the 12 participants show up.

Some couldn't make it due to the weather.

It was pouring rain that day, unfortunately.

Um, but was able to feed people with some food from Tondori guys, very delicious, and I think it was just a beautiful coming together of you know seeing different part you know, yeah, different community members I've worked with in different capacities just come together and seeing this beautiful cross-cultural like working together and understanding each other's experiences.

So that was just very beautiful.

And our next session is gonna be focusing on data and research, actually.

So, you know, we wanted to emphasize the importance of making data informed decision making uh when we're whenever we're supporting our community, and so that session is giving you in July, so July 30th, um, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Um at leadership Tulsa as well.

And so we're gonna be looking at what available data exists in Tulsa.

We're gonna run an API community, but also you know, what well, where are we missing?

And I would probably be leaning on you, Teresa, for some of your support and help in that, since I know you've been spearheading a lot of the data research committee work, and so we'll be working with you around that over the next two months until then.

Um but yeah, those are all my updates.

Thank you.

No, the real excitement, so workforce and education, um as T we know, we have uh several meetings and discussions with the with my team, and each time we sit down and have discussion, and it will always come up with a great idea.

You know, we are we trying our best way to engage with the community, community leaders, uh, educators.

Uh, that has been our focus and it's gonna remain our focus.

What we have decided as a group is that as uh as a committee, as a commissioners, you know, we are building something, but we want to kind of focus on making sure that this is something that is sustainable and this aligned with the city policies, and it is something that communities we can get communities engaged.

What I'm really excited is that after talking in our last committee meeting, then I think we will now take our time to focus on on a community because we have created, we have got all our uh forms and applications and everything else for the workforce education for limited award for scholarship.

But I think now it's time for us to kind of to have the community uh leadership engage and the educator engage with our uh commitment with our focus, whatever we're trying to present to them.

Uh, what I'm really excited is to bring the uh community leaders.

I think what we're gonna try to use this platform to bring the community leader within the community, the leadership that they really we need them to get involved with our mission.

So the next chapter, what we're gonna do is that we're gonna take a couple of months' time.

Uh, start bringing the people, uh, asking them to come over here and share their visions, share their stories.

Um, I think by doing that one, we're gonna learn from them the stories, and that itself is gonna pass on to the to the young ones.

You know, so the our whole goal is to bring the knowledge and then on one who's seeking a knowledge.

Um, and we can only do that one who have already experienced and gone through those, and we have several uh community leaders that uh that have made a lot of difference in a city uh from a different and different group anyway uh also.

So that is the next chapter that I'm kind of looking forward to it.

Uh that uh getting the community involved, so uh we will have them come over here presenting, maybe give them five or ten minutes during our meeting session, meeting them with them one on one, you know.

So we'll we'll continue with our work with an education um goals that what we started with it.

But I think uh as a commissioner and then since as a chairperson, whatever we start, we want to make sure that we leave it to the point where somebody is in the best hand, and then so that is the next step.

So and I've got a great uh uh, you know, we I've got a great team.

And then also anybody who is, I know this is live, and there's some audience also, please join first the workforce commission.

That's where the work where the great funds are, and then after that you want to go to the data and research or anywhere.

But for any part, you want to join my team.

Um I have already have a form that you can sign up.

Uh, we've got the QR code too, so they can scan it.

No, no, no, we're not doing that.

They're they're in what they're welcome to come and see the the work at the best.

But uh, but yeah, so that would be the I'm excited.

Let me know.

We have our stories of Asian Tulsa format platform.

We could do like business owners' stories, educator stories, that's over the community.

Um, so if you want to brainstorm how to merge those two things together, excellent.

Thank you.

Um for data and research.

So, oh go ahead.

I just would like to add another group you might want to think about.

There are a lot of Asian American artists and performers, and this is a very rich.

I'm finding out more and more very rich communities.

So I think that would be an interesting group too.

Um, Anna, do you want to add anything?

What I missed, may I have missed something?

No, sure.

Yeah.

Okay, data and research.

One project that is kind of a small thing, but I think a meaningful thing, is that our current data that's on our one pager?

It came to my attention because of how racial data is captured in the census, it does not currently include multiracial Asians or multiracial Pacific Islanders.

As someone in that category myself, that felt like a big oversight that we were missing.

And I also think of my nieces, my nephews, the students I taught, and how many Tolson people in our community would be under more than one race.

So I'm working to update our numbers with multiracial numbers as well.

Thank you, Anna, for reminding me that that was something we hadn't added yet.

Lexi had kind of brought me the numbers, but there's some work we need to do to clean up the data.

So that is one thing I'll be working on this summer with hopes that we can bring that in August as we start a new year to have a more accurate portrayal of our numbers.

The second thing I'm working on pooling are some pieces of data that can help inform our strategy moving forward.

I think about some geographic data Anna and I had the chance to look at that shows where different ethnicities are located in Tulsa.

It is only based off of the single race data, so it doesn't include multiracial Asians yet.

So that's a database we'll have the chance to update.

Because two things I'm keeping my eye on is that when the equality indicators started in 2017, there were two metrics that Asian Tolsens were included on.

One was the number uh or the percent of each group who were business owners in that metric, Asians were the top performing group, and the second metric was percent of students who are chronically absent, and Asian students were the least chronically absent in 2017.

If you're not familiar with the equality indicators, it's kind of a strained metric, and that it only compares the top performing and the bottom performing for the purpose of seeing like how much distance there is between different groups.

The headline is between 2017 and 2024, Asian Tolsans have now fallen below that bottom group in both categories.

Now the question is not why are we not at the top?

The question is why is why were the other groups going up and actually increasing, you know, less students chronically absent, more business ownership in our community experienced a decline in the same time.

So I'm looking to get a little more information on those numbers because I think it's worth paying attention when we're not experiencing an increase at the same time as other communities when business ownership and attending school are pretty big metrics for the future of our people.

So those are some things I'm gonna spend the summer gathering so that when we come back in August, we can have a more complete picture to maybe, you know, no answers yet, but at least know what questions we can start asking.

Um the data and research work is tricky.

Some of you who've been on the committee know that there's not always like it's hard to do a group spreadsheet.

So we we ask a lot of questions together, and my goal is to more actively embed research in other committees like offering stories of Asian tools or like working with you on that session.

So my current uh orientation has not been to schedule committee meetings just because I found that it was hard to find the group work without just including everybody in that conversation anyway.

Any questions?

I guess the only thing that occurs to me is and I know you can do this, is whether or not the the indicators are a result of sort of like um an artifact of how they're calculating it and how they're looking at it rather than actual things that are happening.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, I I don't know yet.

So that's kind of my step this summer is to better understand what that what the actual data is that's being pulled.

Right.

Because then when we have the number, we're still not gonna have the answer, right?

But that's an opportunity to talk to some business owners or to figure out which schools that attendance looks different at and see what we're dealing with.

But I mean, I like if they've changed how they measure it, or they've changed the groups or they've changed the composition.

I mean, there's so many things could affect that statistic for sure at both ends, and I guess it's but but I'm so glad that you can look at that.

Yeah, and you can figure that out.

Yeah, it's it I'm in a curious place of like why are we seeing that?

Yeah.

And I know we have some business owners in the room who could probably speak to the challenges that uh come, and I my question is why is our community experiencing that in a way that looks disproportionate at the moment?

Yeah.

Any other questions?

Okay, for cultural events as a reminder, we do not have a chairperson for that category, and we also in the last meeting voted to take a strategic pause for the cultural event for this next year.

Part of my I wouldn't say summer, I'm gonna say like summer in the biological sense of now until September.

Summer plan is to learn more about what it would take to um like kind of what are our options that we want to explore and what information do we need for the cultural event.

So I would anticipate that our leadership team is gonna be working on that.

We'll be talking to you all in those you know one to three on one meetings to find out what your level of interest is.

How do you feel about the different options and figure out where our commission stands all together?

Okay, with that, that wraps up our committee reports.

I don't believe we have any old business because I just covered it.

Any new business?

Any announcements or public comment?

Okay.

Well, I will go first.

So hello everyone, for those that haven't had the chance to meet.

My name is Ethan, I'm the body president of Tulsa Asian Collective.

We are a newly founded Oklahoma nonprofit, and we are aiming to become a 501c3 over summer.

And I want to share a little bit of our mission, vision recent uh programming that we had is that our mission is to strengthen Tulset of diverse agent communities through culture connection, creative collaboration and community development.

And one day we envisioned that there is a culturally uh connected and thriving Tulsa where Asian communities feel strong sense of belonging and contribute probably to the city's future.

And we want to become a hub where Asian culture and community thrive within Tulsa and the Tulsa area.

So I want I'm so excited, I have to share that that over the past weekend, we just had our very first TAC community picnic.

And it was our very first public programming, and we invited the whole community to join us over Delicious Foods donated by our three local Asian restaurants, Hajj C, Han, and Sovai, and just connected and chatted with one another.

Now we actually expected only 50 to 100 people, but actually nearly 200 people showed up.

And including Hugh, we thought he had a little bit of a um we also received a lot of data on how each person heard about us, received uh reached them and got the data that we asked members, and but nearly a hundred people joined our email list over that first event.

That's wonderful.

It was really successful.

It would uh you know, blew everything out of the water, and a lot of people ask us what is our next public programming.

Question.

So I recommend following us on social media, Tulsa Asia Collective.

We're on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.

Uh we also have our website, Tulsa Asia Collective.org, and you can also sign up for our email list there too.

And one thing I also want to share is congratulations to Professor Cecilia and the suit for serving in the leadership role, and I decided to work with the next generation of leaders uh and work with the commission sustainably and collaborating working together for our Asian communities at Tulsa.

So, other than that, that's all I want to share.

So, thank you.

Thank you.

And for anyone who doesn't know, Ethan was the founding commission member.

And when I think about our focus of leadership development, and when I think about the Asian Affairs Commission's context compared to other commissions, one of the barriers we've faced is that there are not a lot of Asian specific serving entities.

We don't have tribal nations, we don't have chambers of commerce.

So thank you, and congratulations on kind of creating um a broad range.

You know, we do have a lot of cultural organizations, so that's not to dismiss the work that's happening in communities, but to my knowledge, besides Panasia, you might be one of the first to kind of take ownership of the first continent.

So applauding you for uh taking something from this time you had on the commission and taking it into the community.

So thank you.

Any other public comments or announcements, introductions you want to make?

You know, as I almost tried to bring the business leaders.

So we have uh now we're ex, we have the still here, we're here, and then I would water all so 40 people, but I know it takes a time for people to be from the time to come over your parking in the city.

So we like I said before that we want to bring the business leaders and who are already part of the fabric of this community anyway.

Uh one of the things that I want to add on the new uh business uh uh is that you know, a lot of in the past um um business people have reached out to get some uh help from the city from the city commissioner from uh formation from the commissioner.

Uh if they're opening a restaurant, I know Ethan did a grand opening and a commission for there too for the ribbon cutting.

Um, you know, and then there's uh Jerusalem market that did I think they're 25 or 50 years of anniversary, and they have reached out.

Uh we want to find a ways to kind of be able to be able to recognize those uh individual or or the businesses.

So whether it is through the mayor's uh certificate or something, you know, that I would really want to work on that, that we are able to recognize those people because anything that we do here, it goes to the city website, you know, and they get some exposure.

So especially when they were there doing their adversary, especially 25 years, 50 years or something like that.

So we want to kind of uh include them, so I would like to have another meeting.

So what are the things that's in our position that we can help them?

Yeah.

I put um a note to myself to figure out with Baxi if there's maybe the economic development office in the city.

I also think something we're really great at on the National Affairs Commission is having an idea that other commissions say we want to do that too.

We can make it something that the commission can kind of celebrate businesses.

And also to add on that, there's also for the first time on Afghan Hall of Food open in uh 51st in Memorial.

So that's also something new and tells us.

Yeah, and they do reach out to us, and you know, we don't have any definite, you know, how we can uh help them promote their ideas or their bishops or the restaurants currently they have.

Um so we definitely want more uh people to participate.

Next step is going to be the chamber of commerce.

Yeah, I mean, if you have ideas on small business support incubating a chamber of commerce, I think that's really tied to that equality indicator goal they was speaking to.

Um, and you know, the city cannot be a chamber of commerce, but similar to TAC kind of being born out of the commission's work, it can be something we help start and generate enthusiasm for here.

Work in progress.

Any other announcements?

So I have some announcement.

Um good afternoon, everybody.

I think it's still uh is the afternoon waterline, morning, whatever.

Um so my name is Hugh.

So you all uh community members, uh, as you all know, I I'm with Empower Aid, I'm the founder of the organization.

Um we have a summer program that is happening next week.

So if you all know of anyone or have any students or kids who are interested in attending our summer academy, please send them my way.

It is free.

It's from June the 8th to July the 17th.

Um we will feed them, we'll teach them literacy, math, uh, also have business owners and people from the community to come and speak to our young people, and also every Friday we're gonna take them on a trip to introduce them to different businesses, different organizations, different institutions, because at the end of the day, exposure is really really important for young people.

And um, going back to some of the points, I think that is over.

I want to go back to the point of um, you know, the equality indicator of how and what happens, what are the root calls of one is our the declining rate of our business owners, and two is that um the declining rate of our students who are you know to the performance and the declining rate of the departments of our students.

I think there's a how would I say this?

There's an opportunity to collaborate and to learn more about what is going on, and I think too is um, excuse my fragmented fragmented thoughts, but I think going back to the main concern of my main concern is does the community really know who we are?

Are they fully aware that we are?

Are they fully aware that we exist and are they fully aware that we're here to support them?

Right, we are well, I can speak from my experiences that my mom, right?

She's not here.

She's from California.

She's in California still.

But the thing with it is if I am a Vietnamese American, and you know, I have my family who can barely speak English, and on top of that, you know, there's a commission, is there or are there any flyers or programs that are in that specific language that can market and that can showcase who we are and how we can better support them.

So we're talking about just how do we as a commission?

I think this can align with the strategic plan for next year or what related this year is that how can we strategically and intentionally market ourselves so that the community really knows who we are, and that can go towards, you know, materials, programming that can have different languages, you know, program prochure, flyers.

I know that um when we do tabling, there are the red cards in multiple languages, that's amazing.

But are there I think I think there are some programs in for sure, correct me from wrong since that are in different languages, but what about the other languages that that that needed to present, right?

Um, and then go and I think this there's so much alignment and connection between the workforce and data research and education, and I think it's just my brain is running right now on a hundred miles, 20 miles per hour, but I'll probably have conversation behind the scene with you on how we all can work co work succinctly with each other and in between different committees to better align our goals once that strategic plan has been planned and has been created.

So, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

And I think the big piece of the strategic plan is if people know who we are, can we tell them what we can do for them because right now I would say we're not even aligned on what we can do for them.

And so that's what I've really excited to clarify.

Is many people know us for a big event, but we've chosen to process here.

So what what comes after that?

How do we communicate?

Um, even for example, the human rights commission.

I don't know how many people know that you have a place to make a complaint if you feel that you have been discriminated against on the basis of your race, which I imagine we could all have a fun campfire going around and talking about times we felt that happened, and there's just not a lot of awareness of what the city can't do.

So I think access to the information and then clarity on our end of what the you know actual offering is, um I'm excited to get clear on that.

And I'm excited for how we push the envelope on it.

I would rather be in the place where we've done too much than in the place where we're searching for any meaning in the work at all.

So I'm excited to figure that out.

Okay, so just tagging on to what you were just talking about, and I'm not sure where in the conversation this is relevant, but I also attend the meeting of the community health improvement plan that ship, and it has it's it's focused around um the Tulsa Department of Health, and one of their facts one of their pieces is about stress and mental health, which I'm really interested in.

So when I went to the meeting, and I it meets quarterly, I think, I went and I announced, you know, the commission, blah blah blah, and immediately people said how do we get translators?

How can we find out information?

You know, like how can how could the commission support the mental health, which ties into the school absence, of course, um of the Asian community?

So I think in a way that feels like it's part of what you were just saying.

And you know, leadership-wise, too, can we go inside the schools and start empowering the young people, especially you know, the Asian magnified young people to to speak up and advocate?

We have the youth cabinets, the children youth cabinets, can we have some of our um Asian American students or Asian American identified students join that as well, right?

So there are so many opportunities to empower and train and train and and and motivate our young people and our to go ahead.

Speaking of, I think I know in like Jigsy and ORU they have a Myanmar student alliance if we can connect with our client leaders, how can we plug in with them, right?

And that's where our stats, numbers, and data can arrive from that, and we can like stats, numbers, and data.

Yeah, everywhere we show up, how we show up, it's all about intentionality and how we show up as a commission.

Yeah, and Commissioner Paredes is not here, but she did mention in our workforce and education committee meeting that she says we should use the resources that we have here so she knows that leadership told us that starts really young.

And so maybe we can partner up.

Is there a way where we can say, hey, you know, you maybe you should work with them and like is there like a uh can they do like a discounted class or something for these kids because it starts young, yeah.

Um change makers is free for students.

I think the change makers.

If I've learned anything that is informing how I will be your chair, it is that it is not possible for all of those things you name to run on the people at this table.

The commission can't be the one in every school, the commission cannot be the one supporting mental health.

I think what we can do is point out where there is a gap and motivate and recruit and align people to meet it.

And so as we prepare for these summer meetings, be thinking about the thing you're most passionate about, the thing that maybe you're not most passionate about.

You're like, if everybody else is doing that, I can get on board.

Because I would like to find the Venn diagram of the things we care about so we can all get one thing done together and prove the power of this community, and then you know we're not gonna fix it in a day.

But if we can kind of tackle, maybe we tackle the chamber of commerce first, and then we're tackling my goodness.

We need to work with the Pacific Islander community, is there a group that is uh we don't have language access for, we don't have representation at this table, and so there's a lot to do, and I my promise to you even when it feels obnoxious and like a wet blanket is to not put us in a position again where this group is too burnt out to do the things that need to happen, um, and to make sure that our impact is leading to an effort.

So, two things.

One thing with an audience of my apology, forgot to recognize uh Dr.

Panchu.

Uh she has been instrumental as well.

Uh you know, with the commuter leader.

Second thing is that uh Muslim just uh celebrated their Eid.

So on behalf of the Asian First Commissioners, we have many that were here to to the Tulsa Muslim Idnabarak and everywhere uh the Muslim who are celebrating Gidma Barak.

Thank you.

Commissioner Hassan, thank you for ending us on a real announcement because we went a little on the other.

Okay, it was a good conversation.

Um do I have a motion to adjourn or any other comments or questions?

Motion to adjourn.

Second.

What a dream team today.

All in favor?

All right, meeting adjourned.

Thank you all.

All right.