OUR PILLARS
SASM’s focus is on educational opportunities that promote self-reflection and awareness, solidarity building, and social impact.
Let’s Break it Down
Our pillars guide us in our mission to make a positive impact on South Asian Americans and the larger Chicago community.
Confront and unlearn our subconscious and conscious biases including anti-Blackness as a South Asian community.
SELF REFLECTION
We commit to hosting quarterly interactive learning opportunities to publicly address topics that have traditionally been stigmatized and silenced.
VIA dialogue
Provide a space to build authentic and meaningful relationships within the diverse South Asian community and with those outside of our own communities.
solidarity building
We are committed to be in community with and amplify the voices and experiences of minoritized communities- within our own South Asian community and beyond, because we believe that our oppression is intertwined and our liberation is bound.
VIA RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
Mobilize economic resources within the South Asian American community to support and amplify the work of social impact nonprofits in Chicago
SOCIAL IMPACT
We donate the proceeds from ticket sales of our quarterly events to local non-profit organizations in order demonstrate our long-term investment towards historically excluded communities in Chicago.