The Collective

We believe that the primary purpose of a Asian Interest organization is to transcend the limitations faced by traditional Asian interest organizations on campus. To encourage philanthropy on a local and nationwide scale. Our organization strives to augment and automate excelled proliferation and credence to one’s collective journey and development through the goal of unification, pursuing extended partnerships with each owning a set core agenda, adopting equity propositions, and bridging disparities that have fragmented the Asian American community. Furthermore, by operating the organization on a different dimension of leadership, we are dedicated to mobilizing prototypical leadership through the fusion of Eastern and Western leadership and gender role expectations and positions. *Not Asian exclusive, welcome to likeminded Asian adjacent individuals

Some individuals might identify as Asian American and feel pressured to meet cultural expectations-- the model minority stereotype discounting the diverse spectrum of individuals and experiences. The purpose of this organization is to counteract the perpetuation of stereotypes and caricatures of "Asians." The obscure disparities and challenges continue to cleave the extraordinarily diverse AAPI community, which has become notably a significant inequality of any racial group in the UC. Most insidiously, the consequential contrast of culpability and perpetuation within the fiction that structural racism does not exist... Our organization, the Collective, can attest to the anticipation for a more politically active community standing proudly in solidarity with other marginalized groups against violence and oppression in all its forms; while also building a close-knit community absent from similar greek life. Our first mission is to dissect the intersections of cultural values prizing stoicism and self-sacrifice and the stigma attached to mental health struggles. Additionally, developing a more transparent narrative emphasizing the implicit biases, [the] once divisive and alienating initiatives auditing the persistence of a deprived perspective, and the perceived blueprint discriminating against uncontrollable factors [such as composition] impairing the quality of the AAPI communities success and what is owed to our community. Our sole initiative is to provide an empathetic perspective and transparency through the celebration and promotion of our non-monolithic ethnic minority group, Asia.