Nectar
Shengxiao "Sole" Yu is a dedicated social justice educator and founder at Nectar, specializing in political education, organizational development, and healing justice since April 2021. With a strong history in advocacy and community organizing, Yu served as the Progressive Partnerships Project Director at The Management Center from October 2022 to March 2025, where responsibilities included leading capacity-building efforts for grassroots nonprofits and managing strategic partnerships. Additionally, as an Activist-in-Residence at UCLA Asian American Studies Center in 2024, Yu contributed to social transformation efforts by connecting community leaders and university resources. Co-founding AARISE for AAPIs and holding previous positions in social justice education, partnerships management, and immigration advocacy, Yu has consistently engaged in leadership development, emotional processing, and systemic change across diverse initiatives. Yu holds a BA in Comparative Human Development with a focus on Human Rights from the University of Chicago.
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Nectar
Nectar ignites our desire and grows our capacity to live in liberated ways. Nectar was born during a political moment and a political movement. Nectar was born in the middle of an ongoing, devastating pandemic that has put a spotlight on both the underlying systemic oppression of our current world and the liberatory possibilities of a new one. Nectar was born both before and after a rise in anti-Asian violence, showing us the pain of Asian erasure, the insidiousness of white supremacy culture, as well as the liberatory possibilities of deep solidarity and rejection of carceral solutions. Nectar was born into a climate crisis, witnessing decades of greed and human destruction of our relationship to our home, and witnessing the power of indigenous wisdom, leadership, and self-determination. Through heartbreak and pain and hope and love, I firmly believe that a liberatory world is not only possible, it is inevitable.
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