Staff

EunSook Lee (She/Her) Executive Director

Jenny Lee (She/Her) Program and Digital Content Manager

Susan Suh (She/Her) Grants Manager

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

Chelsea Trinh (She/Her) Organizational Advancement Manager

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 see the listing below.

Grants and Operations Director

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 Funders

Our deepest thanks to our funders for their support:

  • Arnow Family Fund 
  • Bella Creates Art
  • Carnegie Corporation of New York 
  • Chan Zuckerberg Institute
  • Ennead Architects 
  • ENO Brands, Inc.
  • Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
  • Ford Foundation 
  • Henry Luce Foundation
  • Illinois State University – Asian Pacific American Coalition
  • The JPB Foundation 
  • La Luz Philanthropy 
  • MacArthur Foundation 
  • McKnight Foundation 
  • Morningstar Foundation 
  • Naomi & Nehemiah Cohen Foundation 
  • Northwest Area Foundation 
  • North Forty Group 
  • Open Society Foundation 
  • S&P Global Foundation
  • State Infrastructure Fund 
  • Skoll Foundation
  • SoCal Wedding Consultant
  • Surdna Foundation 
  • Susan Sandler Fund 
  • The Toolbox Bar 
  • Unbound Philanthropy
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

And our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of individual donors who contributed to us through online donations. Want to join us in building AAPI community power? Click here to donate.