PAPA is coordinated by a volunteer staff, encircled by various committees who build our membership, development, and programs. 

At the end of 2025 our incredible leader Cat Ramirez stepped down from their role as Creative Director. After a search for new leadership supported by Daniel Park found no single or pair of leaders willing to step up, a group of members stepped in to steward the organization's next steps.

We're excited to announce that new team! Joe Ahmed and Minou Pourshariati are the core duo holding leadership, and Makoto Hirano, Liana Irvine, Arthur Robinson, Kimie Muroya, and Margin Zheng are the wider team providing crucial supportive and guiding forces. 

Since getting our start in 2014, PAPA has been an artistic home and crucial source of community for many of us. Here's to carrying PAPA forward into many more years of pan-Asian joy!