Student leadership and activism on college campuses has received more widespread attention in recent years, with attention to how student identities inform these organizing efforts. But, how students make sense of their leadership and activism practices is less understood, particularly in graduate student contexts and for different marginalized identities. Through collaborative autoethnography, the authors focus on how being Asian American women has shaped our leadership development and activist stances as doctoral students. Our findings demonstrate that in our efforts to create change as Asian American women, our engagement can only be understood through nonlinear and fluid processes for leadership and activism development, the role of institutional contexts, and the centering of racial and gender identities. This study contributes to how leadership and activist identities develop in graduate school while also highlighting complexities within Asian American women's experiences.