National Officers
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Ligaya Domingo is currently the Racial Justice and Education Director for SEIU Healthcare 1199NW where she has worked for over 17 years. She started as a union organizer in the AFL-CIO’s Union Summer Program in 1997, worked for SEIU International for a number of years, and after many years working as a field organizer she now leads the local’s Racial Justice program and helps to lead the union’s education, training, and development programs for members and staff. She is also Trustee for the SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training Fund.
She has served three terms as the Seattle chapter appointee to the National Executive Board member of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. She has also been appointed to serve on a number of a of committees and boards where she represents Seattle APALA including: MLK Labor, Washington State Labor Council, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Advisory Committee, and Washington State Labor Education Research Center. She is also a member of the SEIU Racial Justice Committee, Washington State Labor Council’s Racial Justice Committee, MLK Labor’s Racial Justice Taskforce where she serves as the co-chair, Seattle King County Workforce Development Council Board Member and Chair of the Equity Committee. She has a Ph.D. and a M.A, from the Social and Cultural Studies Program in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, Building a Movement: Filipino American Union and Community Organizing in Seattle in the 1970s, focused upon the limits and possibilities of using two parts of civil society: a union and a community organization in Seattle, Washington in the 1970s as vehicles for social change. She holds a Master’s in Teaching from Seattle University and previously worked as an elementary school teacher. She also has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington. |
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Steven Moy was born in 1975 to Ann and Lonway (Lenny) Moy. Steven is a second-generation “A” construction electrician. He began his career as a Local 3 apprentice in 1994. He graduated the apprenticeship in 1999, as well as receiving an associate degree from the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College.
During his time in the apprenticeship, Steven was active in the Apprentice Advisory Committee and volunteered for various events and activities. In 1994 Steven joined the Chinese American Cultural Society, which was renamed the Asian American Cultural Society. In 2004 he was elected the Corresponding Secretary. Steven was appointed the Vice President of the Asian American Cultural Society to fill the unexpired term of James T Chin in 2008 and elected President of the Asian American Cultural Society in 2009. Steven was elected to Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) National Executive Board in 2011 and re-elected in 2013 and 2015. In 2012 Steven was appointed President of the NYC Chapter of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus (EWMC). In 2013 Steven was appointed to serve on the Local 3 Grievance Committee. In January 2015 Steven was elected the President of the NYC Chapter of APALA. The 2016 “A” Contract Negotiating Committee elected him as Chairperson. He also attended the 39th IBEW International Convention as an Alternate Delegate in St. Louis. Steven currently resides in Valley Stream, NY with his wife of 15 years, Arlene, and their three children, Alana, Kaylee and Kai. Their first daughter Alana is a SAG-AFTRA union member and a Lifetime Warrior Member of APALA. |
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Emily Reyes is currently a veteran elementary teacher in Los Angeles. Not only serving as United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) Vice Chairperson at her school site, she is also an active member on the UTLA West Area Steering Committee, and has served on the Political Action Council for Educators (PACE). Emily has organized and led her UTLA colleagues and steering cluster in March 2023’s joint three-day strike with SEIU Local 99, as well as UTLA’s successful six-day strike in 2019. Emily began serving a two-year term on California Teachers Association (CTA) State Council in October 2023.
In addition, Emily represents the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) 1021 on Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO National Executive Board as Los Angeles chapter’s appointee. She presently serves as the APALA LA chapter's Executive Vice President. Emily is a native Angelena, born to Filipino immigrants, Frank and Susenia, and raised in Los Angeles’ Mid-City. She earned her B.A. in Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles and M.A. in Education at University of Southern California. She guides her headstrong daughter, Zoe, and bows to the will of her cat, Gigi. Emily is an avid hockey fan, enjoying cooking, running, yoga, and, of course, karaoke. |
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Mikayla Vu (she/her) is a second-generation biracial Korean American who grew up in Michigan. Mikayla is currently a Field Representative for AFT Massachusetts and assists locals in organizing, grievance handling, contract negotiations and more to strengthen local unions and improve worker rights in the workplace. She serves as the MA Chapter appointee to the APALA National Executive Board.
She began her time in the labor movement as a graduate student worker at Boston College, where she worked with her colleagues to organize and form the Boston College Graduate Employees Union-UAW. She helped organize and win a successful NLRB election at Boston College. Mikayla holds a Master’s degree in History with fields in U.S. Immigration and Asian American history. She chose not to pursue a Ph.D., and instead joined UAW Region 9A as an organizer with the hopes of empowering workers and strengthening the labor movement. Mikayla served as a Servicing Representative for UAW Region 9A located in Massachusetts and a member of NOLSW-UAW Local 2320 until 2024. |
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Seung Lee is an Executive Board Member of the United Federation of Teachers (AFT, Local 2), an AFT and NEA delegate, and a Board member of APALA-NY. He is also the Chair of the UFT Asian American Heritage Committee and has served as part of the UFT Political Action Committee. He previously served as the Chair of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition at the University of Pennsylvania.
Seung was born in Seoul, Korea, was raised in New York City and has served as a special education and science teacher for 20 years. When he is not teaching, he is part of the Personnel department at the UFT. He is the proud father of two boys attending NYC public schools. |
Board Members
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Jason Chan has represented the IAM on the APALA National Executive Board since 2018. He has been a member of IAM Local 751A in Seattle, Washington since 2008 where he has served his membership in various capacities including as Local 751A President and District 751 Business Representative. He is currently the Chief of Staff to District President Jon Holden. Jason is a fierce advocate for organized labor and union members, having helped lead successful organizing campaigns and worked successfully in coalition with other unions and community groups. He volunteers his time to build wheelchair ramps for area residents and help with other community service projects including raising funds for Guide Dogs of America. In 2023, he was presented with APALA's Art Takei Leadership Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the Asian-Pacific American labor movement.
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Parvesh Cheena, SAG-AFTRA
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Cindy Hwang Datangel was born in Rangoon Burma and emigrated to the US in 1980 at the age of 7. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently live in Vallejo, CA with her husband and 11 years old daughter. She became an employee with the United States Postal Service on July 4, 1998 and became an active member of APWU. She has been on committees and served as an officer in the local through the years. She has held the position of shop steward, Recording Secretary, Craft Director, Vice President and is currently serving as General President for the American Postal Workers Union, San Francisco Local 2. She is the first female president in the history of the San Francisco local and is the National APWU appointee to the National Executive Board for APALA for 2021-2023 term.
Her primary goal is to ensure APWU stays strong and to keep the local viable for the next generation of postal workers in San Francisco. Long-term goals include to search and make available training for union stewards, officers, and members so that all are aware of the benefits and rights provided by the collective bargaining agreement. Ultimately be a part of the struggle to build back a stronger union to benefit all. |
Kim Dinh, SEIU
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Kim Dinh (they/them) is a Young Leaders Council member and APALA Philadelphia Chapter President (2023 - present), and has spent the last 10 years in social justice movements. Kim works at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as a communications campaigner, strategizing and supporting long-term campaigns that build and leverage people power to fight corporate greed and win bigger demands. Kim previously worked as an immigrant rights organizer and as a public servant. Kim received a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Social Policy from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA). Kim was born in Vietnam, currently lives in Philadelphia with their spouse and pets.
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Sandra (she/her/hers) serves as the Interim Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) and Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership & Advancement (IAPALA). Sandra has deep roots within the labor movement. While working as a criminal appeals lawyer at The Legal Aid Society of New York, she was active in her local (UAW Local 2325) and elected Vice President. After taking a leave of absence, she began organizing with multiple unions across the U.S., including UAW, IAM, USW and AFGE. She eventually came home to the UAW when she was put on staff in the Organizing Department and became Assistant Director. In addition, she has served as UAW Assistant Director in the National CAP Department as well as Education Department. While serving in the National CAP (Community Action Program) Department based in Washington, DC, she helped craft a membership engagement program in the 2012 election which led to the highest turnout of UAW members in recent history who voted overwhelmingly for President Obama. She also designed a successful pilot program that doubled membership contributions to V-CAP (UAW’s PAC) at two locals. Most recently she was Director of UAW's Communications and Strategic Campaigns Departments. She views her activism through the lens of an organizer and believes that the power of the labor movement is in teaching others how to advocate for themselves. She is a proud member of the Michigan APALA chapter, a Lifetime Warrior and former Recording Secretary of national APALA. In 2022, she started a dialogue within the UAW about its role in the murder of Vincent Chin. She lives in Wyandotte, Michigan, with her husband Joe and dogs Scooter and Ike and a cat who answers to Lucy.
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Eunice How (she/her) is a lead community and political organizer in Seattle, Washington (Duwamish land) at UNITE HERE Local 8, the hospitality workers’ labor union. She previously worked in the boycott and organizing teams and has been on staff since 2013. She is the President of the APALA Seattle chapter and represents UNITE HERE Local 8 on MLK Labor’s Executive Board. She is a member of University Lutheran Church - Seattle (ELCA). She earned a Bachelor's degree in Public Health with a minor in Geography from the University of Washington. She is the proud daughter of Chinese Malaysians and was raised in Illinois and Singapore.
Eunice’s past community involvement includes serving on the leadership boards of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) in Seattle and the University of Washington Lutheran Campus Ministry (ELCA). In college, she organized with United Students Against Sweatshops and Jobs with Justice. Previously, she has worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA at a food bank in Seattle, a student assistant in cancer research at the University of Washington, a restaurant host in Texas, and a retail worker and babysitter in Illinois. |
Aina Iglesias, OPEIU Local 50
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Aina Iglesias (she/her) was born in Pangasinan, Philippines, and immigrated to Hawai’i in 2005. She discovered her passion for labor activism in high school when her history teacher brought the entire class to a UNITE HERE Local 5 rally. As a high school and a college student, she ran the Organizing Beyond Barriers youth internship and worked as a community/youth organizer at UNITE HERE Local 5. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, she went on to work in the hotel industry for four years, and led her coworkers in a fight to unionize and win their first ever union contract.
Aina now works for the Hawai’i Nurses’ Association OPEIU Local 50 as a Labor Relations Specialist/Organizer, representing nurses and nursing assistants in hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes. As staff, she leads contract negotiations, handles grievances, and identifies, recruits, and trains member leaders to build a stronger union. She serves as the OPEIU appointee in APALA’s National Executive Board. She is also a current member of AnakBayan Hawai’i. |
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Tracy Lai is Seattle chapter’s vice-president and a chapter representative on NEB. She was re-elected as vice president for human rights for AFT Washington state federation (2021-23) and appointed to national AFT’s newly formed Asian American and Pacific Islander Taskforce. She is a continuing member of AFT’s standing committee on Civil and Human Rights. Tracy served as national secretary of APALA from 2011-2021. She is a full-time history, Ethnic and Women Studies instructor at Seattle Central College.
During the pandemic, she collaborated with a team led by Kent Wong, UCLA Labor Center director, to write Asian American Workers Rising: APALA’s Struggle to Transform the Labor Movement (2021). She co-authored The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision and Power with Michael Liu (University of Massachusetts – Boston) and Kim Geron (California State University - East Bay and Alameda Chapter, APALA). |
Sabrina Yowchyi Liu, USW
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Sabrina Yowchyi Liu has been working at the United Steelworkers (USW) Strategic Campaigns Department since December 2014. She works with USW members to build power against corporate greed during contract negotiations and labor disputes. She is the President and co-founder of APALA Pittsburgh Chapter.
Sabrina is a native of Taipei, Taiwan. She holds a Master of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and a B.A. in Diplomacy from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. |
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Jillian Matundan is Director of Conference and Travel Services for The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Jillian has also worked in the Political Action, Organizing and Field Services, and Data and Analytics departments since joining the union in 2004. She was the APALA DC Co-Chapter President from 2017-2021 and served as APALA National Secretary from 2019-2021.
Jillian is a proud first-generation Filipina American and was born and raised in Syracuse, NY. She was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in New York and is a graduate of Washington College and an alumni of the Executive Education program at the Kennedy School. Jillian is an award-winning singer/songwriter and plays in the Reston Community Orchestra and the McLean Symphony. She released her debut EP in 2020 and is working on her first full-length album with Plaid Dog Recording Studios in Boston. |
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My name is Annawa Naing and I am a second grade teacher at PS/IS 78 Q in NYC. In September, it will be my 19th year teaching and I love being a teacher. I am also a chapter leader at my school, and I am very involved with my union (United Federation of Teachers). One of my accomplishments as a UFT delegate happened two years ago when I wrote a resolution requesting that all NYC public schools should include AAPI history as part of their curriculum. This resolution was passed and with the help of NYS senator John Liu, we will be receiving AAPI curriculum starting September 2023 in all our schools. I cannot wait to teach these lessons to my students in the fall. It is important for all ages of students to understand that we are a part of the fabric of America, but our history has been missing in school curriculums for far too long.
Fun facts about me are that my family and I are from Burma, and I grew up in Flushing, New York. My major was in history with my focus on African American History. I wrote my Masters’ thesis on the later years of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. |
Lindsay Peifer, NEA
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Lindsay Peifer is a Senior Program/Policy Analyst/Specialist focusing on AAPI Outreach & Engagement in the Community Advocacy & Partnership Engagement (CAPE) department with the National Education Association (NEA). Previously, she was an educator in Saint Paul, Minnesota, for 24 years and was an active member of Education Minnesota, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and NEA. With NEA, she was the secretary of NEA’s Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus (APIC), represented APIC on NEA’s Board of Directors, was a member of NEA’s Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee, was a mentor in NEA’s Leaders of Color Pathway Project, and a participant in NEA’s Future Forward Think Tank. She is one of the founding members of the Minnesota chapter of APALA.
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Kasi Perreira (she/they) is an organizer, artist, loving partner and mama of two. Kasi recently joined APALA’s National Executive Board after being elected by 2023 Convention Delegates in her hometown of Seattle, WA. Granddaughter of both indigenous and immigrant workers, she is a Tlingit tribal member and Chinese American. After moving to the East Coast, Kasi now works as the Director of Leadership and Organizational Change Programs at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She is currently spearheading new initiatives for Build the Bench and WILL Empower programs. Kasi brings nearly 2 decades of organizing experience, welcoming thousands of new members into her union and movement overall, most recently as the Director of Racial and Gender Justice at the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the first position of its kind at a state labor federation. Kasi came from the rank-and-file of UFCW3000 where her last role was Organizing Director and Special Assistant to the President and had the privilege of working with United for Respect in its early formation with Walmart Associates as a National Coordinator.
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Trang Pham, UDW-AFSCME
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Trang Pham was born in Saigon, Vietnam. As a child, she was an avid reader which spurred her passion for education and helped her attain many academic honors in her early scholastic career.
After receiving her bachelor’s in economics in Vietnam, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1996 and enrolled in the San Diego Community College District where she obtained an associate degree as a medical assistant and as a computer technology analyst. She attained success in the private sector where she was quickly promoted to supervisor in customer service, but she felt the calling to serve her community in a different capacity. That led Trang to becoming an organizer for United Domestic Workers Union (UDW). In this new role, she has been organizing members, coordinating political campaigns, and helping bridge our communities together for the past sixteen years. Throughout her career with UDW, she has helped hundreds of providers and recipients of the IHSS program and childcare program, and her dedication to service goes far beyond her work hours because she cares for her members. She believes that what she does is not simply a job, but a gateway to helping folks improve their living conditions. Trang has been an active member of the APALA (San Diego chapter) since 2007 and is the current secretary. Much of her personal life is spent advocating for equality, fair treatment, and obtaining greater resources within the Asian American community of San Diego. Aside from spending time with her son, her hobbies include traveling abroad and experiencing the cuisines of the world. Trang is not only an advocate for the rights of workers and Asian Americans within the United States, but a true humanitarian in every sense of the word, and she wouldn’t change that for anything! |
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Jessica Tang is the President of AFT Massachusetts, representing over 24,000 educators, librarians, health and public service workers. She was also the President of the Boston Teachers Union from 2017 to 2024, representing over 10,000 active and retired educators. She was the first person of color and first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve in both roles. She is a co-founder of the Teacher Activist Group-Boston, Boston Education Justice Alliance and MA Education Justice Alliance, and serves as a board member for several civic and labor groups including Citizens for Public Schools, Private Industry Council, Boston Partners in Education, Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. She also the first and only Asian American member to serve on the American Federation of Teachers Executive Council and is the founding chair of AFT’s AAPI Task Force.
Jessica serves as a Vice President of both the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers-Massachusetts, and is a former co-chair of the Massachusetts Asian-American Educators Association. She is also currently serving on the United States Commission on Civil Rights Massachusetts State Advisory Council and served a three-year term on the New England Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve. As a teacher-activist, she has been involved in many different community organizations that are working to advance racial, social and economic justice. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and holds an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. |
Mai-Thy Tyler, NCAPA
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Mai-Thy Tyler (She/Hers) is an experienced union organizer and community advocate. Based in Washington, DC, she is the Director of Community Engagement at the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, where she leads civic engagement work and supports coalition building and the Asian American Disinformation Table.
Mai-Thy has a background in Democratic political campaigns and union organizing, working on races across the country to elect progressives from the state to federal level. She also played an active role in the formation of two staff unions, launching organizing campaigns and negotiating union contracts for just and more equitable work places. Originally from Wisconsin, Mai-Thy’s interest in the labor movement began at an early age, participating in solidarity school walkouts during the Act 10 fight, where then-Gov. Scott Walker launched an attack on public sector unions in the state. |
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Monica Thammarath is a union organizer, coalition builder, and strategic campaigner committed to racial and social justice, bargaining for the common good, and fighting for the schools our students deserve.
Monica currently serves as Secretary of the APALA San Francisco Chapter and as previous past national president on the APALA National Executive Board. She was first appointed to the APALA National Executive Board in 2012 and has served as the NEA appointee, 2nd Vice President, 1st Vice President, and National President from 2017-2021. Monica continues to be the youngest, first Laotian American, and first National President from NEA to serve as National President of APALA. The daughter of refugees from Laos, Monica grew up attending public K-12 schools on the same street in southeast San Diego before moving across the state to attend California’s flagship public university. She currently leads and manages the Human Rights Department at the California Teachers Association (CTA), a union that represents 310,000 public school educators in the great state of California. CTA is the largest state affiliate of the National Education Association – the largest union in the country. When Monica is not organizing for racially just and democratically run Community Schools, you will find Monica at her neighborhood park in San Francisco with her spouse Jeff and their child Yuriko. |
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Tevita Uhatafe (He/Him) first joined APALA in 2019 as a rank & file member with the Texas Chapter. Tevita is currently the 1st Vice President of the Tarrant County Central Labor Council AFL-CIO and District 8 Vice President of the Texas AFL-CIO.
Tevita is a shop steward and political coordinator for the Transport Workers Union AFL-CIO Local 513. Tevita has been a force in the Texas labor movement, organizing and supporting labor actions throughout the state and the Southern region of the United States. |
Rena Youngblood, AFGE
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Rena Zacarias Youngblood was born and raised on the Island of Guam. Both parents are of Filipino descent and are from the Philippines. While growing up on Guam, Rena embraced the Chamorro culture as it had strongly influenced her life. She did not grow up with a union background but she raises her kids with a strong union background. Rena Youngblood is a proud single mother of 3; Cheyenne, Audrena & Jakub Youngblood. All 3 of her kids actively participate and assist in union organizing events, door knocking and all other union activities and events.
Ms. Youngblood served 4.5 years in the United States Airforce as a medic. She is a graduate of the University of Texas in Nursing and Healthcare Administration. Rena became a Nationally Certified Mediator this year. She is a service connected disabled USAF Veteran and currently a member of AFGE Veterans. She currently works at the South Texas VA Medical Healthcare system with Inpatient Behavioral Health-Nursing Services. In 2015, Rena started as a Steward At Large because she advocated on behalf of the Nursing staff at her VA. She quickly transitioned into her elected position as the Executive Vice President after a few short months and has served in this position since 2016. She, along with, Local 3511, have been representing over 7,000 employees at 2 VA Healthcare systems (South Texas VA Healthcare System and the Texas Valley Coastal Bend VA Healthcare system) and at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery. She has advocated for VA employees and has helped win multiple class action lawsuits against the Agency. Rena Youngblood is her Local’s Organizer and has been awarded multiple Organizer awards through the National VA Council and AFGE. She is a proud recipient of the Augusta Thomas Civil Rights award for organizing and advocacy. Rena is Local 3511’s YOUNG mentor. She is a active Lifetime Warrior APALA member. Rena has worked with many groups and organizations like the Battered Women’s shelter, National Food Banks, Heifer International, Amnesty International and various veteran organizations. She continues to advocate for veterans and donates much needed necessities to veterans who seek Mental Health services through the VA. |
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Shwe Tun Aung is Texas chapter president and currently working for the Seafarers International Union as an ITF inspector for the international flags vessel in Texas. Also serving as the Vice president position AND Executive Board member for the Texas AFL-CIO.
Shwe was born in Yangon, Burma and got political asylum in 2003. I was a seafarers and involved with the tread union movements and democracy movements in Burma, I was black listed by the Burma government due to my activities for the tread union and political involvements. On August 2,2000 , the M/V Global Mariner collided with another ship, the M/V Atlantic Crusader in Venezuela, Orinoco river. The Global Mariner sunk and all the crew members on the ship lost their identity documents and their personal belongings. I called the Burmese embassy in Brasilia ,Brazil to request that they issue me a new passport and third secretary at the Burmese embassy informed me that the Burmese government has place my name on the Blacklist and that I was only going toe issued a travel documents to return to Burma. At that point ,I learned of the great trouble I was in with Burmese Gov. I can’t go back to Burma and I was country less and Venezuela Gov do not want me there either. After ITF and unions support me and tried to find the country for me to stay. There are time I wonder how my life would be like if I did notion the union and support from the unions around the world. I would not be here . |
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Osa Tui, Jr. (he/him) is president of the 13,500 member Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Osa went on to become a public high school mathematics teacher after being inspired by his own teachers. He later became involved with HSTA contract negotiations for the country's only statewide K-12 teachers contract where Hawaiʻi has a unique single statewide school district. He eventually was elected HSTA's president in 2021. While AANHPIs are a majority of the population in Hawaiʻi, he continues to guide his association in advancing racial and social justice issues where problems such as immigrant and indigenous exploitation and the school-to-prison pipeline continue to persist. |
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Angie Nguyen (She/Her) lives in Orange County, California.
Angie grew up in Vietnam, moving to California in 1993 when her family started a new life with help from the Humanitarian Operation Program. Angie has been a United Domestic Workers (UDWA – AFSCME Local 3930) member since 2008, and a delegate of Orange County Labor Federation Union (OCLF – CA). Through the Union’s activities, Angie believes that strong belief, strong voice, united together from that we can build a stronger Union and keep strong community developing to fight & bargain for homecare providers to have the same rights as other wor |
Kimberly Colbert, NEA
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Kimberly Colbert (she/her) is an AfroAsian educator of African American and Japanese American descent. She currently teaches Critical Ethnic Studies, English Language Arts, and University of Minnesota College in the Schools, Black Studies at St. Paul Central High School in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kimberly is a member of the St. Paul Federation of Educators (SPFE Local 28), Education Minnesota (state affiliate), the National Education Association (NEA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT). She has held a number of union leadership positions. She currently serves as chair of the Education Minnesota Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee (EMAC), a member of the NEA EMAC and secretary of the NEA Asian Pacific Islander Caucus (APIC). |
Katherine General, IFPTE Local 21
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Kat General (she/her) is currently the Field Director at the International Federation of Professional Technical Engineers (IFPTE) Local 21 representing professional and technical employee in areas throughout the Bay Area in the public sector. She has served as the APALA San Francisco Chapter President since 2021.
Kat has represented working people on the streets, at the bargaining table, and trained new union leaders for over 20 years in the labor movement. After graduating from San Francisco State University with a degree in Asian American Studies and Journalism, Kat was recruited to the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute where she was mentored by seasoned organizers from APALA. It was not only the technical skills that she learned from her APALA mentors that are attributed to Kat’s accomplishments, but more importantly the encouragement and support she received to stick with labor, especially when the path became difficult to walk. Kat’s contributions to the movement were recognized by APALA as the 2019 recipient of the Art Takei Leadership Award. |
Gabby Ibanez-Dacruz, Seattle Chapter
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Gabby (she/her/they) is a second generation Filipino Portuguese American. In 2016, she became a first generation graduate from the University of Washington Bothell with a BA in Community Psychology.
She has been an active member of the Seattle Chapter of APALA for the past 8 years, six of which she has served as the elected Secretary/Treasurer. In 2019, she participated in an organizing drive at her workplace and successfully helped establish a Union for her fellow Food Service workers at Google with Unite HERE local 8. Gabby has a deep commitment to worker justice, fighting institutionalized racism and sexism, and participating in international solidarity. Currently she works as a Social Service Case Manager for a Medicaid Partnered Home Care Agency, supporting clients to get their in-home care needs with Home Care Aides who are proud members of SEIU 775. |
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Sandy Wong is currently a first-grade teacher for the Department of Education in New York City. She has been teaching for 24 years in the South Bronx. She is the United Federation of Teachers Chapter Leader for her school and her role is to uphold the contract so all members can receive equitable treatment. As the Chapter Leader she shares and represents the AAPI community to bring awareness and representation.
Sandy Wong is first generation Chinese American, born and raised in New York City, the Lower East Side. She is an active member and serves as the VP on the UFT Asian American Heritage Committee, also a delegate for UFT, AFT Local 2 for AFL-CIO New York City Central Labor Council. As a collective, we are the faces of our ancestors. We are the voices to many and will fight to have our stories told. |
David Carpio, AFL-CIO- APALA Lifetime Warrior Donate to David's fundraising page here!
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