Advisory Board

Our Conference Advisory Board is composed of many distinguished pillars of the Asian Pacific American community. Please scroll down for detailed biographies of our Advisory Board Members.

Advisory Board:


Congressman Mike Honda
Chair
Visionary Advisory Board

Ambassadors


Eric Byler
Film Director


Philip Kan Gotanda
Playwright


Kelly Hu
Actor


Yul Kwon
Winner
Survivor Cook Islands


Helen Zia
Journalist

Entrepreneurs


David Chiu
Founder
Grassroots Enterprise


Dale Minami
Partner
Minami Tamaki LLP


Grace Niwa
CEO & Founder
Niwa PR


Randy Okamura
Director
AT&T


Leslie Tang Schilling
Founder & Director
Union Square Investments


Tina Shah
Principal
Talent Advisory Board


Mousumi Shaw
Founder & CEO
Sikara Jewelry
   


Maeley Tom
CEO
Tom & Associates

Innovators
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John Chen
CEO,
Sybase


Tessie Guillermo
CEO, Community Tech Foundation of California


Dr. Norman Hui
Commission on APIA Affairs


Raymond L. Ocampo, Jr.
CEO, Samurai Surfer LLC

 


Dr. Albert Wang
Board
Vision New America

Educators

Wei Ming Dariotis
Professor
San Francisco State University


J.D. Hokoyama
CEO & President
LEAP


Russell Jeung
Professor
San Francisco State University


Elaine Kim
Professor
UC Berkeley


Don Nakanishi
Director
UCLA Asian Am Studies Center

Activists


Jeff Adachi
San Francisco Public Defender


Christine Chen
Executive Director
APIAVote


Lovely Dhillon
Executive Director
Law School Consortium Project

 

 

Kamala D. Harris
San Francisco District Attorney


Michele Lew
Executive Director
Asian Americans for Community Involvement


Mee Moua
State Senator
Minnesota


Mona Lisa Yuchengco
President, Philippines Int'l Aid