North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Southern California Chapter (北美洲台灣婦女會南加分會)
Identity Snapshot
- English: North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Southern California Chapter
- Chinese: 北美洲台灣婦女會南加分會
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Southern California Chapter is a local chapter of the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association (NATWA), serving the Southern California area.
Role in the Community
- The TAH directory corpus carries a dedicated chapter record: NATWA 北美洲台灣婦女會南加分會 (catalogued 2015-12-18, bibliographic record only).
- Parent body NATWA was founded March 1988 in Los Angeles, so the Southern California chapter sits in NATWA’s founding region; nationally NATWA is recorded as the Taiwanese American group with the most activity projects and the most members (239. NATWA 活動項目最多的全國性台美團體, 240. NATWA 會員最多的全國性台美團體). Chapter networking ran through the 聯誼通訊 newsletter (06, 01, 08, 08).
- A separately catalogued listing page records this chapter as a group member of the Taiwan Center of Greater Los Angeles: NATWA-SC (Taiwan Center group member).
- Chapter-hosted event (band A attribution in the record title): 牽手50年音樂會, held by the chapter itself in El Monte, CA on 06/10/2017 — 99. 牽手50年音樂會 by 北美洲臺灣婦女會南加分會.
- Named chapter voice in national advocacy: Teresa Huang spoke for the chapter in the community response to Pew Research reports downplaying Taiwanese identity — Response to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity.
- Greater-LA coalition membership: the chapter is listed as a co-organizer/co-initiator of the Taiwan Center’s 228 memorial series (228紀念會轉型正義研討會協辦單位, and 2021 線上追思紀念會友情宣傳名單) and of the 2021 South California 僑界 WHA joint statement (2021 WHA 聯合聲明共同發起單位名單)
- Joint community-service event at the Taiwan Center (Rosemead): on 2013-01-12 the chapter co-hosted “Taiwanese American Women Standing Up: A Community Service Event” with NATWA II at the Taiwan Center, 3001 Walnut Grove Ave., Rosemead, CA — with a keynote from the Asian Pacific Women’s Center (APWC) on domestic violence in the API community and Deana Chuang of NATWA II on prosecuting domestic-violence crimes; documented in the community record (Community Service Event with NATWA II in SoCal, 2013-01, taiwaneseamerican.org band A).
- HOLD: the 2017 Hurricane Harvey relief donation of $21,090 (12) is credited to national NATWA, not this chapter.