Asian American Organizing Project (AAOP) was established from a community grassroots organizing movement. Beginning 2016, AAOP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded to empower young Asian Minnesotans prioritizing LGBTQ+ and women/femme identified to create systems change for an equitable, conscious, and just society. Through a gender justice and critical cultural lens, AAOP addresses issues impacting our young Asian Minnesotan communities through youth participatory action research, grassroots organizing and canvassing, and narrative shift to co-create community change.

AAOP has been and is engaged with local and national partners on issues that affect our community, such as immigration reform, voting rights, language access, racial justice, and civic engagement.