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Ascend | Ascend Foundation

  • HQ

    New York, NY

  • Founded

    2005

Ascend is the largest global network advancing Pan-Asian professionals in the workplace and corporate boardrooms. Ascend strives to support and empower Pan-Asian talent through impactful career lifecycle and cross-industry leadership training programs, networking and mentoring opportunities. In partnership with leading business organizations, the Ascend Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that drives research, cultivates DEI best practices, and advocates for greater awareness of the challenges facing the API community at work & beyond.

Our mission is to build community, ignite change, and develop the API leaders of tomorrow through research, advocacy, leadership development, and community engagement.

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