Asian Americans for Equality
Caleb Chi possesses a diverse professional background with significant experience in community outreach and health services. Currently serving as a Smoking Cessation Counselor and Outreach Navigator at Asian Americans for Equality since April 2019, Caleb previously engaged as a Community Organizer for the Coalition Against Anti-Asian Violence from November 2016 to October 2018 and completed an Organizing Apprenticeship with the Urban Justice Center in early 2016. Earlier experience includes a role as a Laboratory Technician Assistant at Newpath Diagnostics, where responsibilities encompassed performing laboratory tests and handling specimen logistics. Additionally, Caleb managed human resources and operations for Korilla BBQ, overseeing daily operations and catering arrangements. The career commenced with work as a U.S. Census Bureau Enumerator, conducting demographic canvassing in Queens.
Asian Americans for Equality
Through community development, Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) advances racial, social and economic justice for Asian Americans and other systematically disadvantaged communities, guided by our experiences as Asian Americans and our commitment to civil rights. AAFE accomplishes its mission by creating affordable housing and economic opportunity, providing an array of multilingual community services and fostering grassroots leadership and civic engagement in the communities we serve throughout New York. We strive for an equitable city where all people live in vibrant and inclusive neighborhoods and have the opportunity to pursue their dreams and aspirations free from poverty, discrimination and racial violence. We believe that people in New York’s diverse Asian American communities and other underserved communities can only thrive when they have access to safe and stable affordable housing, essential social services and equitable resources to achieve economic mobility for their families. For more than three decades, AAFE has been a community builder, developing multifamily affordable housing and opportunities for first-time homebuyers. Through our affiliate, Renaissance Economic Development Corporation, AAFE provides low-interest loans, training and multilingual counseling services for small business owners. And we meet the changing needs of the community through linguistically and culturally appropriate tenant counseling, navigation services for government entitlement programs and affordable healthcare, immigration assistance, college access and youth leadership and grassroots community engagement and advocacy.