Based on presentations given at the New York Southeast Asia Network conference held at Pace University November 2023. The conference, Democracy, Youth Activism and Resistance in Southeast and East Asia, had virtual sessions and an in-person conference. The conference brought together academics and activists from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. This volume contains some of the work from the conference. Pace faculty Dr. Amy Freedman and Dr. Joseph Tse Hei-Lee are the editors of this peer-reviewed journal.