OUR MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

In the Fall of 2024, we launched our first mentorship program pairing early career stage Asian women & femmes to receive mentorship, guidance, and support from established and later-career-stage Asian women & femmes across a variety of industries.

APPLICATION FOR 2026 MENTORSHIP COHORT IS NOW CLOSED!

Please check Fall 2026 for information regarding our next cohort.

INDUSTRIES OF FOCUS

  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Advertising & Marketing
  • Branding & Design
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Digital Creator/Social Media
  • Social Impact
  • Tech (Non-technical roles; examples: tech marketing, operations, partnerships, product management)

TIME COMMITMENT

  • 1 hr mentee orientation with AZN AMERICANA
  • 1 hr sessions per month with your mentor (January 2026 - December 2026)

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

  • Based in the US
  • 2-10 years of professional work experience
  • Demonstrates they have overcome challenges in personal and professional life
  • Has a general sense of direction & specific challenges or goals that a mentor can support
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong mentor-mentee match (Some mentees may be strongly qualified for the program, but we may not have the right mentor for them at this time!)
  • Some mentees may be strongly qualified for the program, but we may not have the right mentor for them at this time!
  • Includes internships and volunteer experience


    Applicants from under-resourced and/or low-income backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.

WHY WE CREATED THIS PROGRAM

We wished we had mentors who could relate to us growing up. Because so many Asians and Asian Americans in the US are immigrants or 1st generation, we tend to have fewer role models who look like us or experience life the way we have and who have taken the paths we want to take. (We are some of the first!)

To empower Asian women & femmes to ask for help. Asian Americans are the least likely
to ask for help for aspects relating to mental health of the ethnic groups in US, and we wanted to create a space where they feel empowered to do that.

To advocate for each other. Asian women, and women of color more broadly, are often pit against each other — often under the guise that there’s “not enough room” for all of us. There is so much strength and power that comes from a connection between to Asian women/femmes who get each other.

For inquiries regarding the mentorship program, please email aznamericanacommunity@gmail.com.