The Together We Rise report
Together We Rise is the first of its kind in that it centers community-based leadership across South Asian communities in the US to expand and deepen knowledge about the gender-based violence movement.
In the summer of 2021, South Asian SOAR (SOAR), convened listening sessions with its network of 30+ frontline organizations across 13 states. These conversations elucidated the complex, nuanced, and often overlooked, challenges and needs of South Asian survivors and communities in the US. This report shares the key findings from those listening sessions, and through it, we strive to ultimately generate increased funding, improve research & data collection, and drive policy changes that accurately meet South Asian survivors’ needs.
About South Asian SOAR
South Asian SOAR is a national collective of survivors, 30+ organizations, and allies advancing the movement to end gender-based violence in South Asian diaspora in the US.
We were founded in 2020 to grow survivor leadership, shift narratives through research and storytelling, and strengthen the field of gender-based violence work.