Asia-Pacific
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Obama Leader advocates for stronger climate policies
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See how Emma uses the law and the power of community to help eradicate gender-based violence.
Learn more![This picture shows a man and a woman with medium skin tones crouching
behind a tree outside, with a pink bicycle behind them.](http://images.ctfassets.net/l7h59hfnlxjx/3TjTtmjJGkMeRGxzHRIQA1/c1e6ae0dbb5e0f2a623103cc08ca0250/image16.jpg?q=75&w=1014&fm=webp)
![A young woman with a medium-deep skin tone and long black and brown hair,
is shown in a school classroom holding multiple books.](http://images.ctfassets.net/l7h59hfnlxjx/1oA24HDOjdHp5XuOrcFfH7/61298b1d44002344b28eaa3056016a3b/image4.jpg?q=75&w=1014&fm=webp)
![A woman with medium-deep skin, long hair, eye shadow, and red lipstick lightly smiles. She has a camo military shirt on, a belt and jeans on. The setting is a classroom in ok condition.](http://images.ctfassets.net/l7h59hfnlxjx/2MlQ6DUCECG6OVPu1HN44j/3b2d1ac073c865e75be780d090e9c9bc/Laxmi-2.jpg?q=75&w=1014&fm=webp)
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Throughout May, the Obama Foundation is celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month.
Learn more![Skye and Tim smile in front of a colorful background at the Leaders: Asia-Pacific convening, 2019.](http://images.ctfassets.net/l7h59hfnlxjx/118wwVNtSZXw0gOAYqm1rF/24788b2e3c9d306375e11a581296f4e5/IMG_3057-copy-1024x586.jpg?q=75&w=1014&fm=webp)
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The story behind how leaders Skye Riggs and Tim Middlemiss founded Ripple—an organization that empowers young adults in Australia to take action in their communities.
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Get to know the 21 leaders from 16 countries and territories across the Asia Pacific who are helping us design future programming in the region.
Learn more![President Barack Obama holds a press conference at the APEC summit at the JW Marriott Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011.](http://images.ctfassets.net/l7h59hfnlxjx/6FS6sSmgGsqCpJH0LehG0m/0e6bc2da4ab911335f2caebb33700310/M1Hi_j0149.jpg?q=75&w=1014&fm=webp)
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- Global Reach
With the help of Foundation supporters and other key stakeholders from the Hawaiʻi community, 21 leaders from across the Asia-Pacific will gather in Hawaiʻi to help design future Obama Foundation programming in the region.
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