Asia Pacific Leadership Program fellows are currently in California on a 12-day journey from Oakland to Yosemite National Park to four small group destinations - an agricultural small town, coastal university hub, redeveloped downtown, and innovation center -  and finally to San Francisco. Prepped with tools from filmmaker and photographer K. Ramnath Chandrasekhar, they are focusing their lenses on stories and images from local residents, new professional contacts, and East-West Center alumni they see along the way. The learning journey explores the living laboratory of California with its experiments across sectors, both successful and failed, with an eye toward emerging prototypes of relevance to fellows’ EWC Labs in their home countries and their own understanding of the United States, Californians and themselves.

We invite you to join and give feedback at the mini-film festival and photo journal display that fellows are hosting on their return to Honolulu, marking the halfway point of the Honolulu/U.S. residency portion of their program. We hope you will be part of their journey.

Asia Pacific Leadership Program fellows are currently in California on a 12-day journey from Oakland to Yosemite National Park to four small group destinations - an agricultural small town, coastal university hub, redeveloped downtown, and innovation center -  and finally to San Francisco. Prepped with tools from filmmaker and photographer K. Ramnath Chandrasekhar, they are focusing their lenses on stories and images from local residents, new professional contacts, and East-West Center alumni they see along the way. The learning journey explores the living laboratory of California with its experiments across sectors, both successful and failed, with an eye toward emerging prototypes of relevance to fellows’ EWC Labs in their home countries and their own understanding of the United States, Californians and themselves.

We invite you to join and give feedback at the mini-film festival and photo journal display that fellows are hosting on their return to Honolulu, marking the halfway point of the Honolulu/U.S. residency portion of their program. We hope you will be part of their journey.