Stewart Kwoh and the organization that he founded and now leads, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), received the Champion for Change award from the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF) on September 30. The award honored Kwoh and APALC for advancing CPAF’s mission to end family violence and violence against women in Asian Pacific communities. Both APALC and CPAF serve Los Angeles area Asian Pacific American families and immigrants and work together to help victims of domestic violence: “APALC provides free legal services to many of our survivors and advocates for the rights of immigrants and Asian Pacific Islanders locally and nationally.”
Stewart Kwoh holding his Champion for Change award with C-100 members John Chiang and Teddy Zee.
Kwoh founded APALC in 1983 to provide legal services as well as civil rights advocacy and leadership development to Asian Pacific Americans. APALC helps more than 15,000 clients every year and has become the largest legal/civil rights organization in the nation serving the Asian Pacific community.
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