Holland & Knight's Diversity Council and Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Affinity Group are proud to celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and pay tribute to the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and continue to play a role in its future success. This year, we took time to reflect on how we could better support our API colleagues, sitting down with attorneys and staff to have important conversations about racial justice and allyship. Throughout the coming weeks, we will be See more +
Holland & Knight's Diversity Council and Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Affinity Group are proud to celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and pay tribute to the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and continue to play a role in its future success. This year, we took time to reflect on how we could better support our API colleagues, sitting down with attorneys and staff to have important conversations about racial justice and allyship. Throughout the coming weeks, we will be presenting a video series showcasing some of these conversations. We hope that the stories conveyed in these videos help advance dialogue around API Heritage Month as well as lead to further discussions of how we can be better allies to our API friends, family and colleagues.
In the seventh episode of this series, Courtney Toiaivao, the Director of our Research Services Department, reflects on her experience as a second generation American. Her father grew up in Samoa, a small Pacific island, and moved to Florida to work for Disney World in his 20s. Courtney explains that music and dancing are important elements of Samoan culture and recalls listening to her parents sing and watching her dad perform at events throughout her childhood. With this perspective, she says it's important to learn about other cultures and other countries, because this knowledge can shape how we view others and how we interact as a global community. See less -
