This exploratory narrative inquiry examines the experiences of Asian/American female school and district leaders as they mediate racism and sexism. Grounded in Asia Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit) and feminism, this study theorizes how Asian/American women are ascribed as hard-working and subservient "lapdogs," while simultaneously resisting and reproducing this institutional positioning. This resistance informs their individual racialized and gendered identities which shapes their leadership praxis. Asian female leaders lack collegial racial affinity groups, leading to relative isolation that is addressed through hard work, institutional loyalty and working with Asian/American networks outside of school leadership. Implications point to the need to expand our understanding of leadership frameworks that include the experiences of Asian/American women of color.