LEAP feels that leaders know the issues. Establishing a critical presence in the public policy arena, LEAP created the Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute (PPI) in 1992. LEAP's Public Policy Institute, a crucial source of up-to-date demographic information and policy analysis, has been committed to raising public awareness of the status of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). Producing 10 major policy reports on topics including economic status, immigration, and affirmative action in partnership with the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, the Institute provides essential data on Asian Pacific communities and establishes a critical voice for AAPIs in today's policy debates.

To involve more AAPIs in public policy decision-making, the Institute also initiates community outreach efforts that accompany the release of its reports. LEAP has held roundtables in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Honolulu, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C., gathering community leaders to discuss the policy issues impacting the national AAPI community.

Publications

• Transforming Race Relations
• Reframing the Immigration Debate
• Economic Diversity, Issues & Policies
• Policy Issues to the Year 2020

Other publications:

• Dollars & Sense: Policies for Growing Asian Pacific Islander Small Business
• Lessons of Parcel C: Reflections on Community Lawyering
• Beyond Asian American Poverty
• In Support of Civil Rights: Taking on the Initiative
• Common Ground: Perspectives on Affirmative Action and its Impact on Asian Pacific Americans
• Reapportionment and Redistricting in Los Angeles: Implications for Asian Pacific Americans