ARU’s principal place of business is in the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area in California, where core programs and services include:

• QTViệt Cafe Collective – a creative cultural hub where participants nourish, and uplift Queer and Trans Việt (QTViệt) narratives through ancestral practices, arts practice, and intergenerational connections.

• Connect, Reflect, Enact (CRE) – multi-arts workshops for young refugee adults leading to public performance opportunities to share stories in community.

• OUSD Queer Asian & Pasifika Art and Storytellers – a safe and creative space provided in partnership with Oakland Unified School District for Asian American/Pacific Islander, LGBTQIA+*-identifying students to better understand themselves through storytelling and art-making led by LGBTQIA+-identifying Asian American mentors.

• Justice + Belonging – a multi-year collaboration with Asian Prisoner Support Committee to engage currently and formerly incarcerated and detained community members in movement, storytelling and other arts practices, to help them heal from trauma, re-connect to their Oakland communities, and envision non-carceral approaches to increase safety and justice for all people.

ARU also has a satellite program in Harrisburg, PA (where a large contingent of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees from Oakland relocated during the pandemic). CAC funds will be used to support California operations and programming.