2025 BLOOM THEME STATEMENT

During the 2025 East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECAASU) Conference, we aim to guide attendees to reflect our work in Asian and Asian American (A/A) advocacy through three main tenets.

ROOTS

When a seed is sown it must first grow its roots. As an anchor tasked with providing stability and sustenance, roots play a vital role in the longevity and health of a tree.


We encourage attendees to examine their own histories and how they may be intertwined and bound with one another. To continue to build off of the work of generations before us we must first pass along what stories and skills were shared with us.

GROWTH

The challenges faced in sustaining our petals of progress are equally as important as the successes that shaped the world and its political climate that we live in today. 



We hope to encourage attendees to embrace our unified struggle, acknowledge the conflicts that allow us to improve as individuals nestled as changemakers in our communities, and solidify our connections as a unified community.

We invite attendees to engage with growth as a dynamic, non-linear process in which their past experiences aid in circumventing collective struggles. Further, we recognize that greater magnitudes of growth may be seasonal, alongside moments in which progress feels dormant, though the impact of change stays rooted in the seeds planted before us.

FLOURISH

The challenges faced in sustaining our petals of progress are equally as important as the successes that shaped the world and its political climate that we live in today. 



We hope to encourage attendees to embrace our unified struggle, acknowledge the conflicts that allow us to improve as individuals nestled as changemakers in our communities, and solidify our connections as a unified community.

We invite attendees to engage with growth as a dynamic, non-linear process in which their past experiences aid in circumventing collective struggles. Further, we recognize that greater magnitudes of growth may be seasonal, alongside moments in which progress feels dormant, though the impact of change stays rooted in the seeds planted before us.