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Mary Anne Foo, MPH, Executive Director
Mary Anne is a Founder and Executive Director of OCAPICA. Mary Anne has over 30 years of experience working in community health with diverse populations. She is involved in numerous health care institution boards and advisory committees. |
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Sora Park Tanjasiri, Dr.PH, MPH
Sora is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of California, Irvine, and Associate Director for Cancer Health Disparities and Community Engagement at the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a nationally recognized researcher in cancer disparities among racial and ethnic populations, with a focus on cancer prevention and early detection in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. |
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George Keoki Shigematsu, MS, Treasurer
George is a retired Administrator and lead of the Special Education Program at Garden Grove Unified School District. George was a teacher and administrator at various school districts as well as an active member and leader in several Hawaiian and Pacific Islander clubs and associations. |
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Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Ph.D., MPH, Secretary
Tu-Uyen is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the California State University, Fullerton. Tu-Uyen leads several research studies regarding ethnicity and health as well as a National Youth Empowerment Program. Tu-Uyen is involved in several Vietnamese American organizations including Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association and Vietnamese American International Film Festival. |
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Rob Liu, MS
Rob is the Managing Director of the BKY Group LLC. Rob serves as an advisor and consultant to several financial institutions as well as a business leader in the community. Prior Rob served as a Senior Manager of Risk Enterprise Services with Deloitte as well as an Associate Professor of Mathematics at several community colleges. |
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James Lee, MA
James is the Managing Director of Retail Strategy at Bank of Hope. James has more than 30 years in the banking and financial industry. For 11 years, as a Regional Manager and Senior Vice-President at East West Bank, James was responsible for overseeing 11 branches in Orange County and San Diego and managing commercial business development team to acquire, expand, and retain commercial banking clients. He worked on various special projects to bring process improvement and infrastructure transformation at East West Bank. James H. Lee is originally from South Korea and lived in Southern California for the past 38 years. James serves also as a pastor at a local church in Chino CA. |
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Lisa Kim, MPA
Lisa is the Assistant City Manager/Community and Economic Development Director for the City of Garden Grove and has more than 20 years of experience in the field of redevelopment and economic development for the public sector. Lisa works very closely with city policymakers, city department staff, residents, businesses, and local chambers of commerce. Lisa is also very involved in educational leadership including past President of PTA. |
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W. Cherry Li-Bugg, Ph.D.
Currently serving as Vice Chancellor of Educational Services and Technology for the North Orange County Community College District, Dr. W. Cherry Li-Bugg aka Dr. Cherry is a long-time community college administrator with a dynamically creative vision of life and work. Her approach to people, family, friends or colleagues alike, is engaging, warm and positive. She believes that life is to be lived, not endured. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Asian American leadership in the community colleges and is vested in helping Asian Americans succeed in higher education and beyond. She is a fervent reader, a lover of films and good food, and always engaged in bettering her practices in healthy living. Dr. Cherry is adept at change management, enamored with innovative solutions to helping institutions serving their students more and better and is an educational leader with integrity, vision and a high sense of purpose. |
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Alexander Kim
Alexander Kim is Founder & Principal of Three Kings Public Affairs, a government, business & community affairs consulting company helping with clients with accessing the government and providing outreach to community leaders in the Southern California region. As an entrepreneur, he is involved with two start-up companies as Public Affairs Director of Rezistor Films making digital content for clients and Co-Founder of Titan Institute to plan to train talented high school students find quality careers in the growing high tech industry. Alexander graduated with a MBA with honors from Pepperdine University, a Network of Korean Americans Fellow at USC School of Social Work, and attended U.C. Irvine where he co-founded & served as its first President of the UCI Korean American Alumni Chapter. |
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Linda Nguyen
Linda Nguyen is part of the Wells Fargo Corporate Philanthropy and Community Relations team focusing on community development and CRA. Previously, Linda served as an AmeriCorps member providing direct services in homelessness and education in Denver, CO. She has held various positions in education at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, school districts and County, CA, and U.S. Department of Education and with U.S. Housing and Urban Development where she managed projects through full life cycles. In these roles, she designed multi-faceted programs with a holistic approach that impacted thousands of immigrant, formerly incarcerated, and homeless students and families as well as emancipated youth. |
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Minh Luong
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