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.

• ARU Youth Fellowship – a safe and creative space for immigrant and refugee Asian American/Pacific Islander, LGBTQIA+*-identifying youth and youth of color to engage in leadership and mentorship for personal growth, advocacy towards social change, and substance-use prevention.

• 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.