SAALT offers a variety of ways to share its issue-area expertise to help you in planning conference speakers, workshops and trainings, as well as help community, student, professional, cultural and religious groups learn more about our work.

Running a workshop or training?

SAALT staff can work with you to plan and facilitate trainings and workshops around a variety of topics from civil and immigrant rights to the value of social justice in the South Asian community. SAALT has worked with student groups, membership organizations, nonprofits and educational institutions to bring expertise in areas from immigration and civil rights, leadership development, bias and discrimination policy, social justice and more.

If you are interested in working with SAALT for a training or workshop, please email us at info@saalt.org.

Past topics SAALT has planned workshops and trainings around:

• Discussions around "Raising Our Voices: South Asian Americans Address Hate"
• "Where Are You From?": Deconstructing Ideas in Asian American Communities and Beyond"
• "Where Do You Fit In?": The South Asian Social Justice Movement
• Myths and Realities of Immigration Reform
• Continuing Impact of 9/11 on the South Asian Community
  
• Anti-racism trainings

Past SAALT trainings and workshops:

• Young Jains Association (2008)
• East Coast Asian American Students Union (2006-2008)
• National Konkani Conference (2007)
• Association of Physicians of Indian Origin convention (2006)
  

Looking for a speaker for your event, panel or forum?

Need a keynote speaker for your annual meeting? Need issue expertise at your next panel or forum? SAALT staff have participated in and given speeches for numerous annual membership meetings, issue-based panels and community or media forums.

If you are interested in inviting SAALT to speak at your event, panel or forum, please email us at info@saalt.org. 

Past SAALT speeches and panels:

• South Asian Awareness Network Conference keynote (2008)
  
• State Department briefing on the American political system (2008)
• "What's at Stake for Asian Americans in this Election Year" Panel (2008)
• South Asian Identity Week at Brown University (2007)
• National South Asian Law Students Association Conference keynote (2006)

Want to share SAALT's work with your student group, professional organization, cultural or religious association?

SAALT is always excited to share our mission of strengthening South Asian communities with community members and groups. If you are interested in discussing SAALT and its work at a future meeting of your student group, professional organization, cultural or religious association, please contact us at info@saalt.org.

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Past Events

9/25 - Night of 1000 Conversations - SAALT joined organizations in the Washington, DC area to convene a discussion about the impact of policies on immigrant communities. As the South Asian community prepares to get out the vote, we need to come together to talk about how we can build an America that guarantees civil liberties and human rights for everyone. 

10/1- South Asian Policy Briefing in Trenton, New Jersey - SAALT hosted a policy briefing in Trenton, New Jersey to highlight critical issues affecting the South Asian community in New Jersey. The event, co-hosted by Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula, consisted of a panel discussion to highlight some of the findings of SAALT's series of issue briefs on the New Jersey South Asian community, A Community of Contrasts. Representatives from Manavi, the Sikh Coalition, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (NJ-chapter) were present on the panel.  Issues raised included linguistic and cultural barriers affecting access services and benefits and the increase in bias, discrimination, and anti-immigrant sentiment targeted towards South Asians in the state. 

10/8 - Election 2008 South Asian Town Hall - Local South Asian organizations hosted a political town hall event that will feature speakers representing the Obama and McCain presidential campaigns, with a focus on each candidate's positions on issues of importance to the South Asian community.  The Obama campaign was represented by The Honorable Preeta Bansal, former Solicitor General of the State of New York and a Senior Policy Advisor to the campaign.  The McCain campaign was represented by Asheesh Agarwal, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and Special Counsel to the campaign.  The program was moderated by Amol Sharma, Staff Reporter for the Wall Street Journal

10/14 - The Voting Rights Act and the South Asian Community: How Can you Get Involved in Protecting Rights on Election Day  - The Voting Rights Act, adopted initially in 1965, is generally considered the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever adopted by the United States Congress. The Act codifies and effectuates the 15th Amendment's permanent guarantee that, throughout the nation, no person shall be denied the right to vote on account of race or color. SABA-DC's October dinner panel will feature Yvette Rivera, Acting Deputy Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, and Deepa Iyer, Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together. Both speakers discussed the Voting Rights Act and how it affects the South Asian community.

10/17 National Asian American Student Conference - Deepa Iyer served as the keynote speaker at this year's NAASCON