NAPA began as a conversation between two people who could not sleep. Jeanette Moy of Sigma Psi Zeta and Janelle Hu, former Executive Director of APIA Vote, were at Duke University in the spring of 2004 attending the Chinese American Intercollegiate Conference (CAIC) as guest speakers. Placed together as roommates, that placement turned out to be a fateful one. Janelle wanted to get APIA youth more active in voting and civic engagement. She had spent the CAIC conference walking around and registering people to vote. However, this was a lot of work for one individual to do.

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