THE COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FILM FESTIVAL
  • Home
  • Sponsors / Donors
  • 2022 Raffle
  • 2022 Program
    • 2022 Community Conversations >
      • 3/5 - CAPU
      • 3/6 - AGI
    • 2022 Short Films Showcase >
      • #AsianAmResilience Microdocs
      • good enough
      • In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
      • Projections
      • Charlie
      • Desert Lotus
      • Ara, Untamed
      • My Name is not Amy
    • 2022 Emerging Artists Showcase >
      • Sino Ako
      • All Mine
      • Winter Glass Glare
      • Core
      • Maa
      • Heart Sutra
  • About / Contact
  • Previous Programs
    • 2021 Program >
      • 2021 Short Film Showcase >
        • #AsianAMCovidStories
        • Duo Pandemia
        • Mastery I & II
        • Ib Tsug 13 Hnub
        • Ntuj Tsim Txom
        • Mechamorphosis
        • The 3 Day Nun
        • The Loyal Betrayal
        • Voices
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Check Box: Other
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter >
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S2
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S1
        • Safe
        • In the Spotlight
    • 2020 Program >
      • Digital Program Book
      • 2020 Creative Conversations >
        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
        • 2/22 - Health & Mental Health
        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
      • 2020 Colorado Showcase >
        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
        • Three Worlds One Stage
        • Virtual Mandala
      • 2019 Festival Talkbacks >
        • Creative Leadership Talkback
        • CU Filmmaker Q&A
        • Film Industry Talkback
    • 2018 Program
    • 2017 Program >
      • Taipei Story
      • The Last Princess
      • Mid-Length Films Block
      • Ten Years
      • What's in the Darkness
      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl

2022 Community Conversations- FREE to the public! 

AGI- Asian Girls Ignite!

​Sunday, March 6th
10:30 AM

Tattered Cover
2526 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206​

Picture

About Asian Girls Ignite!


"Asian Girls Ignite (AGI) is a non-profit organization building a strong community of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) girls and women to celebrate their individual and collective power through shared stories. AGI’s programs are based on social-emotional learning and centered around storytelling. It’s through shared stories that they elevate their voices, explore their identities, and care for their wellbeing. Programs include events, outdoors, summers, and mentorship (coming soon). AGI welcomes all AAPI middle and high school students (grades 6-12) who identify as a girl, queer, or gender-expansive."

​

    ​Join us for the AGI Community Conversation!
    Please register in advance for the AGI Community Conversation so we know how many people to expect. This is a FREE event to the public, but we would like to get an estimated headcount.
    *County information will be used to help secure grants that fund our organization*

Submit

Co-Founder of AGI

Picture
Joanne Liu (she/her) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Asian Girls Ignite (AGI). She is a life-long educator — it’s something she wanted to be as a kid growing up in Boston, MA. This dream motivated her as a first-generation college student studying education. She began her career as a middle school Special Education (SPED) teacher through Teach For America. Since then, she has spent years as a high school SPED teacher, a middle school Assistant Principal, a Director of Operations for Turing School of Software & Design, and a Program Coordinator at CU Boulder’s McNair Scholars Program. She is an alumna of the Moonshot edVentures Fellowship where she developed and launched AGI and is also currently pursuing a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Outside of education, she serves as a Commissioner for the Denver Asian American Pacific Islander Commission and the Chair of the Board of Directors for Colorado Asian Pacific United. She enjoys Asian food, BTS, Korean dramas, and spending time with her husband and two kids. Joanne's favorite way of celebrating her Chinese heritage is by lion dancing. To her, it represents culture and empowerment.


​
​

AGI Storytellers & Participants

Picture
​

​Janelle A. is a freshman in Saint Marys Academy. She lives in Denver with her family and sister. Her family is originally from India and Janelle enjoys traveling back home to India to visit her extended family and exploring her culture. Janelle is part of the field hockey team and orchestra program at Saint Mary’s High School. In her spare time she loves to sing, listen to music, dance and cook Indian food and dessert. 

Picture

​Katherine is a current eighth grade student at Graland Country Day School. She joined Asian Girls Ignite at the very beginning to connect with her heritage and to get to know AAPI girls and women. Her hobbies include volleyball, competitive synchronized swimming, and piano. She loves learning and teaching, whether it is in her favorite English and French classes or while public speaking. In her free time, you can find her spending time with her family and friends, hiking, swimming, paddleboarding, shopping, or babysitting!

Picture

​Elise is a 12-year old Chinese Taiwanese American who was born in Durham, North Carolina and moved to Colorado at the age of 2 1/2 years. She currently attends the International School of Denver where she has studied since the age of 5. 
Outside of school, she spends much of her week on a basketball or tennis court as well as dancing for Ni Shang Dance Academy. She loves traveling and centering her plans around where to go eat noodles, dumplings, and desserts. Some of her favorite travel destinations include North Carolina, Oakland, CA, and Hawaii. What she enjoys most about AGI is how everyone is one big family. She has felt more comfortable speaking up and felt better about her culture. AGI has helped her explore more about herself and how to deal with tough situations. She loves everyone there and always loves the events that AGI hosts.  She enjoys the organization tremendously and is always excited to participate more with AGI!

Contact Us

  • Home
  • Sponsors / Donors
  • 2022 Raffle
  • 2022 Program
    • 2022 Community Conversations >
      • 3/5 - CAPU
      • 3/6 - AGI
    • 2022 Short Films Showcase >
      • #AsianAmResilience Microdocs
      • good enough
      • In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
      • Projections
      • Charlie
      • Desert Lotus
      • Ara, Untamed
      • My Name is not Amy
    • 2022 Emerging Artists Showcase >
      • Sino Ako
      • All Mine
      • Winter Glass Glare
      • Core
      • Maa
      • Heart Sutra
  • About / Contact
  • Previous Programs
    • 2021 Program >
      • 2021 Short Film Showcase >
        • #AsianAMCovidStories
        • Duo Pandemia
        • Mastery I & II
        • Ib Tsug 13 Hnub
        • Ntuj Tsim Txom
        • Mechamorphosis
        • The 3 Day Nun
        • The Loyal Betrayal
        • Voices
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Check Box: Other
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter >
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S2
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S1
        • Safe
        • In the Spotlight
    • 2020 Program >
      • Digital Program Book
      • 2020 Creative Conversations >
        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
        • 2/22 - Health & Mental Health
        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
      • 2020 Colorado Showcase >
        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
        • Three Worlds One Stage
        • Virtual Mandala
      • 2019 Festival Talkbacks >
        • Creative Leadership Talkback
        • CU Filmmaker Q&A
        • Film Industry Talkback
    • 2018 Program
    • 2017 Program >
      • Taipei Story
      • The Last Princess
      • Mid-Length Films Block
      • Ten Years
      • What's in the Darkness
      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl