Power Station

How do we maintain our well-being and motivation when our government is targeting entire populations for deportation and also the nonprofits that protect their civil and human rights? For Naznin Saifi, my guest this week on Power Station, the answer is clear. Her self-care is getting up every day and going to work. As executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, Naznin leads a small cohort of attorneys in representing a diverse population speaking over 100 languages with critical housing, immigration, family law and domestic violence concerns. Staff are all first generation Americans who understand the language, cultural and increasingly, the political barriers that Asian Pacific Islanders, especially recent arrivals in America, face when seeking help with systems that are unfamiliar to them.  The Center represents the community in multiple municipalities, each with distinct administrative and court processes. A current challenge is that clients are afraid to leave their homes to go