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Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Women’s March Partner

Founded: 1983

Founder: Stewart Kwoh

Website: www.advancingjustice-la.org

Location:

Los Angeles

1145 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90017 USA

San Francisco

55 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94111

Atlanta

6040 Unity Drive, Suite E Norcross, GA 30071 USA

Chicago

4753 N Broadway Suite 502, Chicago, IL 60640 USA

Agenda:

• One of the largest Asian progressive organization
• The proponent of housing, immigrant, voting and workers’ rights, criminal justice reform, national security, and civil rights

Funding:

State Bar of California – Legal Services Trust Fund Program State Bar Trust Fund of California – Equal Access Fund and IOLTA Fund City and County of San Francisco, Human Services Agency, Department of Aging and Adult Services City and County of San Francisco, Human Services Agency subgrant from Tenderloin Housing Clinic City and County of San Francisco, Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development City and County of San Francisco, Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development subgrant from Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach City and County of San Francisco, Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development subgrant from Dolores Street Community Services for the San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network City and County of San Francisco, Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs subgrant from Self- Help for the Elderly for the San Francisco Pathways to Citizenship Initiative City and County of San Francisco, Office of Labor Standards Enforcement subgrant from Chinese Progressive Association City and County of San Francisco, Rent Board The San Francisco Arts Commission

AABA Law Foundation The California Endowment Firedoll Foundation Ford Foundation The James Irvine Foundation Left Tilt Fund Levi Strauss Foundation The Libra Foundation Minami Tamaki Yamauchi Kwok & Lee Foundation National Day Laborer Organizing Network NEO Philanthropy/Four Freedoms Fund NEO Philanthropy/Sunrise Initiative for Human Rights in the U.S. Open Society Foundations Proteus Fund Rosenberg Foundation The San Francisco Foundation Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California Law Foundation van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation The Zellerbach Family Foundation

2008 – 2016 federal grants: $1,599,980

Key people:

• Stewart Kwoh, Esq. / President & Executive Director
• Patricia Neville, CPA / Vice President of Finance & Administration/ Director of Human Resources
• Karin Wang, Esq. / Vice President of Programs & Communications

Orange County Regional Office

• Sylvia Kim, Esq. / Orange County Regional Director

• Daniel Cheung, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Andrew Ji, Esq. / Supervising Attorney

• Katelyn Ogawa, MPH / Policy Coordinator

• Nhien Tran, J.D. / Citizenship Coordinator

Administration

• Lona Cheung / Senior Accountant

• Kate Chung / Accountant

• Maxine Hu / Coordinator

• Angelique Jackson / Office Administrator

• Michi Lew / Executive Assistant

• Ken Montenegro / Director of Information Technology

• Janet Park / Receptionist II

• James Weng / Information Technology Support Manager

Organizational Outreach

• Randy M. Bunnao / Communications Director

• Christina Yang, Esq. / Pro Bono Director

• Jeff DeGuia / Communications Coordinator

• Jessica Jinn / Communications Manager

• Andrew Medina / California Policy Manager

Development

• Kathleen Chuman / Co-Director of Development

• Janet Guan / Development Manager

• Janelle Hu, Esq. / Co-Director of Development

• Jennifer Kang Erwood / Director of Individual Giving

• Kerilyn Sato / Development Assistant

Direct Services

• Anthony Roh, Esq. / Direct Services Director

• Jessica Castellanos, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Sze (Alice) Chan / Community Legal Advocate – Chinese

• Christine Chen, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Chu-En (John) Chi / Community Legal Advocate – Chinese

• Vincent Chou / Administrative Assistant

• Sandra Chung, Esq. / Staff Attorney II

• Timony Dharmpetarksakul / Community Legal Advocate Thai

• Peter Dowdalls / ESL Civics Instructor

• Sophaleena Gershoff / Community Legal Advocate – Khmer

• Thuwadara Goldman / Community Legal Assistant – Thai

• Gloria Ho / Citizenship Network Manager (DOJ Accredited)

• Melissa Juan / Administrative Assistant

• Theresa Jung / Coordinator

• Nasim Khansari / Project Director – Citizenship

• Carolyn Kim, Esq. / Project Director – ALLIP

• Jenny Kim, Esq. / Citizenship Project Staff Attorney

• Sabrina Kwun, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Janista Lek / Community Legal Advocate -Thai

• Kevin Liu / Legal Advocate – Immigration Project

• Izumi Miyake, Esq. / Staff Attorney II

• Jang Woo Nam / Community Legal Advocate – Korean

• Seda Norodom, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Tiffany Panlilio / Legal Advocate, Department of Justice (D.O.J.) Accredited Representative

• Parija Patel, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Quynh Pham / Community Legal Advocate – Vietnamese

• Martha Ruch, Esq. / Equal Justice Works Emerson Fellow

• Faith Santoso, Esq. / Staff Attorney II

• Jeanette H. Sayno / Community Legal Advocate – Tagalog

• Dickran Sevlian, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Caleb Song / Community Legal Advocate Korean

• Betty Song, Esq. / Project Director – SAFE

• Minako Suzuki / Senior Paralegal DOJ Accredited Representative

• Aman Thind, Esq. / Project Director – Immigration

• Huy Tran / Citizenship Grants Manager (DOJ Accredited)

• Karina Trieu / Citizenship Coordinator (DOJ Accredited)

• Ayano Wolff, Esq. / Staff Attorney

• Mark Yoshida, Esq. / Senior Staff Attorney

• Jing Zhang / Paralegal II

Impact Litigation

• Laboni Hoq, Esq. / Litigation Director

• Kat Choi, Esq. / UCLA Public Interest Fellow

• Lana El-Farra / Community Legal Advocate

• Christopher Lapinig, Esq. / Skadden Fellow

• Alice Li / Legal Assistant

• Nicole Gon Ochi, Esq. / Supervising Attorney

• Yanin Senachai, Esq. / Skadden Fellow

• John Trang, Esq. / Staff Attorney II

Leadership Development

• Marvin H. Andrade / Leadership Development Director

• Povi-Tamu Bryant / LDIR Program Manager

• Edward Flores / Youth Coordinator

• Li’i Furumoto / Project Director – Youth and Parent Leadership Development

• Agustin Herrera / Youth and Parent Advocate

• Julio Orellana / School and Family Coordinator

• Araceli Simeon-Luna / PON Project Director

Policy

• Betty Hung, Esq. / Policy Director

• Laura Cervantes, Ph.D. / Education Equity Director

• Shelly Chen / Voter Data and Engagement Coordinator

• Heng Foong / Senior Policy Manager – Health Access Project

• Jeffer Giang, MSW / Research Analyst

• Eddie G. Hu / Health Program Coordinator

• Daniel Kikuo Ichinose, M.A. / Project Director – Demographic Research Project

• Deanna Kitamura, Esq. / Project Director – Voting Rights

• Joanna Lee / Senior Research Analyst II

• Michelle Lim / Policy Advocate – Voting Rights

• Anthony Ng / Policy Advocate – Immigrant Rights

• Kelly Osajima / Voter Engagement Manager

• Trina Pasumbal / UPLIFT Organizer

• Leslie Toy / Program Manager – Health Access Project

• Doreena Wong, Esq. / Project Director – Health Access Project

• Marianna Yamamoto / Program Coordinator – Health Access Project

• Weiyu Zhang / Health Educator

Board of Directors

Executive Committee

• Nita Song / Board Chair, IW Group, Inc.

• Marie Tan / First Vice-Chair, Marie Tan, CPA, A Prof. Corporation

• William Lew Tan, Esq. / Vice-Chair, Tan & Sakiyama, A Prof. Corporation

• Hon. Casimiro U. Tolentino / Vice Chair, Administrative Law Judge State of California (Retired)

• Shirley S. Cho, Esq. / Secretary, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP

• Vincent M. Gonzales, Esq. / Treasurer, Southern California Gas Company

• Martin V. Lee, Esq. / Co-Chair, Executive Advisory Council, Famco Investments

• John S. C. Lim, Esq. / Co-Chair, Executive Advisory Council,, LimNexus LLP

• Sandy Sakamoto, Esq. / Co-Chair, Executive Advisory Council, LimNexus LLP

• Stewart Kwoh, Esq. / President & Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles

Members at Large

• Michael J. Brennan
• Paul S. Chan, Esq. / Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Brooks, Lindenberg & Show
• Andrea D. Cherng / Panda Restaurant Group, Inc.
• Johnnie Giles / Comcast/ NBC Universal
• Peter Y. Huh / Pacific American Fish Company
• Carol Jackson
• Beong-Soo Kim, Esq. / Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
• Kathleen C. Kim, Esq. / Loyola Law School
• Joseph K. Kim, Esq. / O’Melveny & Myers LLP
• Katherine H. Ku, Esq. / Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Jade Leung, Esq. / Manatt, Phelps & Philipps, LLP
• Vivian Long / Long Family Foundation
• Joseph M. Lumarda / Capital Guardian Trust Company
• Betty Rengifo Uribe, Ed.D. / California Bank & Trust
• Kevin M. Tamaki / AT&T
• Jack S. Yeh, Esq. / Sidley Austin LLP
• Manisha Merchant, Esq. / Banc of California
• Olivia Samad, Esq. / Member, Southern California Edison
• Gilbert Tong / Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
• Jeffrey S. Yang, Esq. / MUFG Union Bank, N.A.