Founded in 1993, the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance (APAWLA) is an organization that promotes inclusion, empowerment and advancement of Asian Pacific American women in the legal profession. We’re devoted to advocating, educating, mentoring, networking, and developing leadership within the profession and larger community. Our members include lawyers, judges, and law students throughout California. We work in solo practices, law firms, state and federal courts; we are prosecutors, defenders and civil practitioners; we work for non-profits and government agencies; and, inspired by the great movement for Civil Rights, we share a common goal of gender and racial equality.