Community Organizer

Background

The Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) is excited to announce a new initiative, with our member organization, Transforming Generations (TG) in Minnesota. In this critical political moment, we are joining TG to build local capacity to meet the moment while expanding our national coordination. In response to current challenges—including limited funding, infrastructure gaps, and the urgent need to grow Southeast Asian leadership—we are launching a joint initiative: a shared position that will support both organizations’ goals.

This new model strengthens capacity, sustains critical programs, and deepens collaboration across SEAFN’s network. As a pilot effort, this shared role will also help develop best practices for future partnerships across the network.

Founded in 2016, Transforming Generations (TG) was established by Hmong advocates to provide culturally relevant support for Hmong survivors of gender-based violence. TG believes in each person’s capacity to heal, grow, and define their own path toward change. Its mission is to organize, educate, and transform cultural and power dynamics to end gender-based violence, with a vision of a world where gender equity is the norm and violence is never accepted.

The Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN), founded in 2002 to address the Cambodian deportation crisis, has since grown into a national movement of nine community organizations advancing long-term liberation for Southeast Asian communities in solidarity with Black and Brown communities. SEAFN’s membership is rooted in Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, Vietnamese, and other Southeast Asian communities impacted by war and displacement, and those affected by incarceration and deportation, youth and LGBTQ+ leaders, and queer, femme, trans, and gender non‑conforming individuals.

This is a shared position between SEAFN and TG with TG being the main employer with a physical office location in St Paul, MN.

The Community Organizer through SEAFN will provide logistical support, administrative coordination and frontline support to the Southeast Asian Relief and Responsibility (SEARR) Campaign. They will work closely with SEAFN Campaign Manager.

The Community Organizer through TG will work closely with the coordination team that includes multiple partners to implement the Southeast Asian Defense Response Project. They must operate from a strengths‑based, trauma‑informed, and understand the systemic causes and impacts of poverty, the immigration and the criminal justice system. They will be part of a multi‑discipline team providing short‑term case management, delivering crisis intervention and emotional support, collaborating with community partners, providing outreach and education, and performing administrative duties that are necessary.

5 hours per week dedicated to SEAFN minimally or as needed since there will be some overlapping responsibilities.

Hotline – SEAFN

• Responsible for the administration and logistics of the national hotline
• Track the number of calls based on established metrics including locations and communities

Data Collection – SEAFN

• Track and collect data on number of people with final orders, those detained and those who have been deported
• Track and collect data, trends and patterns in detention and deportation in the SEA communities and ICE tactics and removal

Administrative Support – SEAFN

• Support Campaign Manager in frontline work activities (i.e. organizing local and national briefings)
• Support the development and implementation of operational processes for the SEARR campaign.
• Any other tasks related to supporting the overall SEARR campaign work and activities.

35 hours per week dedicated to TG.

Administrative Support – Transforming Generations

• Coordinate the Partnership Meetings and Logistics
  • Conduct meetings of the partnership
  • Document the partnership’s progress and goals
• Support the overall coordination of the partnership between Immigrant Law Center (ILC), Transforming Generations, Man Forward and SEAFN
  • Assist with any logistics and administrative requests as needed
• Complete necessarily program related…