Abstract
Communities of color have distinct and at times overlapping histories and relationships to power and place. Their stories are held together by common threads of systemic oppression, inequalities, and locally grounded forms of resistance. Long at the forefront of movements to revision our society, these communities show us that achieving economic and racial justice requires a deep shift in power, priorities, and practices. In this spirit, we share Empowerment Economics, a framework that emerged from financial capability and advocacy work by a native Hawaiian community organization, Hawaiian Community Assets (HCA), and other Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community leaders.