ROSEMEAD & The Realities of AAPI Mental Health

Watch a clip from the new film ROSEMEAD and join ROSEMEAD producer Mynette Louie, lived-experience storyteller Lisa Oberholzer-Gee, and therapist Jeanie Y. Chang for an honest conversation about AAPI mental health, caregiving, and the power of breaking silence. Followed by Q&A.

This one-hour Serica Storytellers program brings together film, personal narrative, and clinical insight to explore how mental illness, grief, and caregiving unfold inside Asian American families — and why these stories remain so difficult, and so necessary, to tell.

WHY THIS EVENT MATTERS Mental health remains deeply stigmatized across many AAPI communities, shaped by cultural expectations around silence, strength, and family responsibility. ROSEMEAD and the Realities of AAPI Mental Health creates space for a nuanced, accessible conversation that centers lived experience while offering expert context and resources.

Rather than prescribing solutions or policy, this event focuses on storytelling as a catalyst for empathy, understanding, and change — illuminating the realities many families live with quietly and the collective work still left to be done.

Followed by Q&A!