Apex Express

Tomorrow night, tune in KPFA Radio for episode 2 of My Family, a 3-part audio series produced in collaboration with the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC).
The series centers stories and voices of Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese, and other Asian families navigating the carceral system, detention, and deportation—detailing harrowing lived experience alongside cultural and historical expertise.
Hosted by writer and activist Michelle MiJung Kim (), episode two continues the series with three formerly incarcerated Asian Americans who detail distinct but overlapping journeys: immigrating as children, growing up excluded, getting locked up young, and ultimately facing detention and deportation.
Also featured: Elijah Chhum (), founder of New Light Wellness, a wellness and mutual aid organization supporting Southeast Asian communities impacted by deportation. He shares how the organization began and its work with community members rebuilding their lives in Cambodia.
🎧 Tune in on KPFA 94.1 FM () — Thurs, Sep 17, 7PM PT
🔗 Also available online at kpfa.org/program/apex-express

Listen in to members of ASATA - Alliance of South Asians Taking Action Reflect on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 on KPFA Radio

Join Host Miko Lee on KPFA Radio as she highlight's The People's Professor Dr. Robyn Rodriguez.

This month on Apex Express, tune in for the premiere of My Family, a new 3-part audio series produced in collaboration with the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC).

The series aims to center stories and voices of Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese, and other Asian families navigating the carceral system, detention, and deportation—detailing harrowing lived experience alongside cultural and historical expertise.

Hosted by Korean American writer and activist Michelle MiJung Kim, episode one features three formerly incarcerated Asian Americans who detail distinct but overlapping journeys: immigrating as children, growing up excluded, getting locked up young, and ultimately facing detention and deportation.

Also featured: Roger Viet Chung, an ethnic studies instructor at Laney College in Oakland and the founder of Restoring Our Communities, Laney’s program for formerly incarcerated students and justice involved youth. He unpacks the shared experience of 1.5 generation immigrants and the school-to-prison-to-deportation pipeline.

🎧 Tune in TONIGHT on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM — Thursday, Aug 20, 7PM PT
🔗 Also available online at kpfa.org/program/apex-express

Special thanks to everyone who has helped to contribute to this series, including: Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants - CERI, New Breath Foundation, and New Light Wellness.

My Family is a collaboration between Apex Express, APSC, and the Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality—a network of grassroots Asian American social justice organizations led by and for their communities.

A couple weeks ago on APEX Express, we shared an episode from Convergence Magazine's Block and Build Podcast.

We're unpacking the youth-led uprisings that toppled governments in Bangladesh (2024) and Nepal (2025). We also cover the elections that followed — and what got lost in Western media coverage along the way.

Host Cayden is joined by two US-based organizers. Sharmin Hossain is a Bangladeshi Muslim organizer from Queens, NY and Organizing Director for 18 Million Rising. Samir Shrestha belongs to the Indigenous Newari tribe of Nepal and has spent 18 years in movement work in the US.

🔗 Available online at https://kpfa.org/episode/apex-express-july-2-2026/

This week on KPFA Radio, host Miko Lee is joined by Dr. Connie Wun, Executive Director and co-founder of AAPI Women Lead, to talk about her new podcast, Think Twice.

Connie is a scholar, organizer, and former clinician whose work spans academic publishing, community-driven research on racial and gender violence, and co-editing the anthology Abolition for the People with Colin Kaepernick and Christopher Petrella.

Think Twice is AAPI Women Lead's push toward long-form storytelling in a scroll-fast, sound-bite world. This episode includes an excerpt from the podcast's first episode with poet and organizer Teresa Siagatonu.

🎧 Tune in on KPFA 94.1 FM — TONIGHT, July 9, 7PM PT
🔗 Also available online at https://kpfa.org/program/apex-express/

Join Host Miko Lee as she chats with Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez on APEX Express, KPFA Radio 6/24, 7PM PT