upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Lanica Angpak is a second generation Khmer American living in Philadelphia. She is a Cambodian Classical and Folk Dance artist and activist. Lanica dedicates her time to ensuring that young people have access to the opportunities, resources, and information to become impactful change-makers. She is devoted to using her art form as a tool of activism for her community and neighboring communities. Lanica is invested in co-building and co-creating sustainable and accessible relationships across generations and communities of color. She believes in the importance of knowing, understanding, and using history as a means of shaping the future. Lanica received the Leeway Foundation Transformation Award (2015) and Arts & Change Grant (2019). She founded and directs Cambodian American Girls Empowering, a local nonprofit dance organization that uses art as a form of activism. Currently, she works for the City of Philadelphia and serves as a commissioner for Governor Tom Wolf’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs.