National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
Culture and Media, Education, Law and Justice
Email: nakasec@nakasec.org
Phone: 323.937.3703
Geography: United States
Founded: 1994
Address:900 S. Crenshaw Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90019
The National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) was founded in 1994 during a political turning point for Korean Americans. The LA Civil Unrest of April 29, 1992 and the subsequent anti-immigrant wave in Congress, precipitated by Prop 187, posed tremendous challenges to Korean Americans as people of color, working families and immigrants. The state of America at that time led a group of local grassroots community based organizations to come together to form NAKASEC with the purpose of projecting a national progressive voice on major civil rights and immigrant rights issues and promoting the full participation of Korean Americans with the greater goal of building a national movement for social change.
Today, NAKASEC is based in Los Angeles and a D.C. office opened in September 2008. NAKASEC also has affiliates in Los Angeles (Korean Resource Center) and in Chicago (Korean American Resource & Cultural Center).
Programs
NAKASEC targets the following program areas:
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Education & Research
- Summer Youth Empowerment Program
- Publications
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Immigrant Rights
- Student Legalization and Access to Education
- Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Anti-immigrant measures
- Civil Rights Advocacy
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Civic Engagement and Voter Empowerment
- Census
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Health Reform
- The Choice Before Us: Letters to President Obama
- Social Services
- CreditSmart Asian
- Culture