MinKwon Center for Community Action
Caption: Courtesy of MinKwon Center for Community Action.
Image Description: A group of people wearing warm clothes holding clipboards and making gestures with hands that read as playful. They are all wearing face covers. They stand on a sidewalk as a bus passes by and the leaves on the trees are a range of yellow and orange.
Image Description: A group of people wearing warm clothes holding clipboards and making gestures with hands that read as playful. They are all wearing face covers. They stand on a sidewalk as a bus passes by and the leaves on the trees are a range of yellow and orange.
The MinKwon Center for Community Action is a grassroots, community-action non-profit organization based in Flushing, New York, serving the local working class immigrant community. MinKwon, which means “civil rights” in Korean, engages in advocacy and community organizing, provides social services, encourages civic participation, fosters youth empowerment to achieve economic and social justice for all. MinKwon accomplishes this mission by raising awareness of immigrant rights, ensuring access to resources and legal services, raising political consciousness and mobilizing a collective voice to effect systemic change.