Staff

Mia Forsline (She/Her) Program Assistant

EunSook Lee (She/Her) Executive Director

Camila Rossenblum (She/Her) Operations Associate

Susan Suh (She/Her) Grants Manager

Bo Thao-Urabe (She/Her) Senior Director of Programs and Strategy 

Chelsea Trinh (She/Her) Development Associate

If you have questions or would like to start a conversation about making a contribution to the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund, please contact us at development@aapifund.org. 

Senior Fellow

Taeku Lee (He/Him) 

Opportunities to Join the Team

If you are interested in learning more about opportunities to join the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund team, please visit our Opportunities page.

Advisory Board

Andrew M. Brower Program Officer, Racial Equity, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Don Chen President, Surdna Foundation

Ethan Frey Program Officer, Just Cities and Regions, Ford Foundation

Connie Cagampang Heller Co-Founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice, and Chair

Raúl Macías Program Director, Democracy, Haas, Jr. Fund

Geri Mannion Program Director, Carnegie Corporation of NY’s Strengthening U.S. Democracy and Special Opportunities Fund

Sue Van President and CEO, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation

Sophy Yem Program Officer, Surdna Foundation

Our Donors

  • 32BJ SEIU
  • Ashurst LLP
  • Calvin Klein / Phillips-Van Heusen Foundation
  • Centerfield Media
  • Chan Zuckerberg Institute
  • Chegg.org Impact Fund
  • Chipotle
  • Conrad Hilton Foundation
  • Crafted Communications
  • Daitaku Inc.
  • Del Monte (Asian American Workers Network)
  • Digitas Public Health
  • EquityZen
  • Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
  • Exact Sciences
  • Fendi
  • Ford Foundation
  • Goodway Group
  • Henry Luce Foundation
  • Hoyu America
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • JPB Foundation
  • KlientBoost
  • Liberty Hill Foundation – Allison Thomas Racial Justice Fund
  • Linde
  • Linked Fate Fund for Justice
  • MacArthur Foundation
  • Mastercard
  • My Brother, My Brother, and Me
  • Naomi & Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
  • National Life Group
  • North Forty Group
  • Northwest Area Foundation
  • Notion
  • Open Society Foundations
  • Prudential
  • Raikes Foundation
  • redpepper
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • S&P Global Foundation
  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  • SimpleHealth
  • Skoll Foundation
  • Solidarity Giving
  • Start Small, LLC
  • Surdna Foundation
  • Susan Sandler Fund
  • The Blackbaud Giving Fund
  • Tribeca Venture Partners
  • Unbound Philanthropy
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
  • We are HAH
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Workday