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National Executive Board

National Officers

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Mikayla Vu, AFT Massachusetts
APALA President

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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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Katherine General, IFPTE Local 21   
​APALA 1st Vice President

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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.

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Steven Moy, IBEW
APALA 2nd Vice President



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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. In 2016 was elected to serve on Local 3 executive board and currently serves in that position. He works in the field as a High voltage tester and is a shop steward in the company.

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Seung Lee, UFT-AFT Local 2
APALA Treasurer

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Seung Lee is an Executive Board Member of the United Federation of Teachers (AFT, Local 2), an AFT delegate, and a Board member of APALA-NY. He is the Chair of the UFT Asian American Heritage Committee and the AFT Asian Caucus.  Seung has served as part of the UFT Political Action Committee and has 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. He is currently a Member Representative at the UFT Manhattan Borough Office. Seung is the proud father of three children, two of whom are attending NYC public schools and one child who is not yet old enough to attend.​

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​Mary Lindie Entoma, UNITE HERE   
APALA Secretary 
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Mary Entoma graduated from UCLA in 2023 with degrees in Labor Studies and Political Science. She is from Cebu, Philippines and grew up in San Mateo, CA where her mother worked as a union teacher.

​She is a community organizer with Unite Here Local 11, the hospitality workers’ union in Southern California and Arizona since 2019. Over the years, she’s engaged in numerous campaigns and organizing efforts of migrants and immigrant workers. From community to boycott to worker organizing, Mary is committed to fighting for working families and their communities. She was elected as the Los Angeles President of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in 2022 as well as a member of APALA’s National Executive Board in 2023. She also represents APALA LA as a delegate to the LA Federation of Labor.

​When she’s not organizing, she loves spending time with her dogs, Cannon and Mahalia. 


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Board Members

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Shwe Tun Aung, SIU/ITF

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Shwe Tun Aung is the Texas Chapter President and currently works for the Seafarers International Union as an ITF Inspector for international-flag vessels in Texas. He also serves as Vice President and Executive Board Member of the Texas AFL-CIO.

Originally from Yangon, Burma, Shwe became active in trade union and democracy movements, which led to his blacklisting by the Burmese government. On August 2, 2000, while serving aboard the M/V Global Mariner, the vessel collided with the M/V Atlantic Crusader on Venezuela’s Orinoco River and sank. Shwe and his fellow crew members lost all personal belongings and identification documents. When he sought a new passport at the Burmese Embassy in Brasília, Brazil, he was informed that his name was on the government’s blacklist and he would only be issued travel documents to return to Burma—a journey that would have placed him in grave danger.

Unable to return home and unwanted by Venezuelan authorities, Shwe faced an uncertain and stateless future. Thanks to the solidarity and intervention of the ITF and labor unions worldwide, he was eventually granted political asylum in the United States in 2003. Today, Shwe continues to dedicate his life to protecting seafarers’ rights and advancing the labor movement in Texas and beyond.

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David Carpio, AFL-CIO

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Jason Chan, IAMAW

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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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Parvesh Cheena represents SAG-AFTRA on the national executive board of APALA and also serves on the board of The Blank Theatre. 

His theater credits include Neha and Neel (Artists at Play / Latino Theater Company), Found: The Musical (IAMA Theatre Company), and Pigeonhole (Kirk Douglas Theatre). His TV, film, and voice-over work includes Barbershop, Outsourced, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Frasier, The Mandalorian, Centaurworld,  and Melon's House Party. 

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Kimberly Colbert, NEA   

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Kimberly Colbert (she/her) is a retired educator of African American and Japanese American descent, identifying as AfroAsian. She taught Critical Ethnic Studies, English Language Arts, College in the Schools (CIS) Black Studies, and theater at Central High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kimberly is a member of Education Minnesota’s Retired Educator local and serves on the Retired Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee (EMAC).

​Prior to retirement, Kimberly held a number of local, state and national union leadership positions, most recently serving as chair of Ed Mn EMAC, and secretary of the National Education Association Asian Pacific Islander Caucus (NEA APIC). In addition to APALA, Kimberly serves on the board of directors for Taiko Arts Midwest.

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Cindy Datangel, APWU

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Cindy Hwang Datangel was born in Myanmar (aka Burma) and emigrated to the United States in 1980 at the age of seven. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and now resides in Vallejo, California, with her husband and daughter.
Cindy began her career with the United States Postal Service on July 4, 1998, and has been an active member of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) ever since. Over the years, she has served on numerous committees and held various leadership positions within the local union, including Shop Steward, Recording Secretary, Craft Director, and Vice President. She currently serves as the General President of the APWU San Francisco Local 2 as the first woman to hold this position in the local’s history. 
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Her primary goal is to maintain a strong and united APWU and to ensure the long-term sustainability of the San Francisco Local for future generations of postal workers. Her long-term vision includes expanding training opportunities for stewards, officers, and members to increase awareness of the rights and benefits outlined in the collective bargaining agreement. Ultimately, she is committed to strengthening unions and work towards better workers' rights.

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Teresa Ellis, IFPTE   

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Sandra Engle
​Executive Director

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Sandra (she/her/hers) serves as the 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. When she retired from the UAW in 2023, she was a Top Administrative Assistant to UAW President Ray Curry where she led the union's Public Relations 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.  In 2022, she started a dialogue within the 
UAW about its role in the murder of Vincent Chin. 

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Jenny Jin Fultz, AFGE 

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​Jenny Fultz currently serves as American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) representative to APALA and Executive Vice President and Treasurer of AFGE local 375 in Chicago.

Jenny also earned her Certified Public Accountant Certificate since 1995 and she has been working as an Accountant for over 30 years.

Jenny came from mainland China since 1993 and has been living in Chicago area for almost 30 years.

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Eunice How, UNITE HERE Local 8

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Eunice How (she/her) is a lead organizer in Seattle, Washington (Duwamish land) at UNITE HERE Local 8, the hospitality workers’ labor union, where she builds community, political, and internal power. She previously worked on the boycott team 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.


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Stan Kiino, AFA-CWA Local 29011

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Stan Kiino originally began his career as a flight attendant at Pan Am over fifty years ago. He joined United Airlines and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) in 1986. Kiino fought for domestic partner benefits in San Francisco while at United in the '90s. He is a volunteer for Association of Flight Attendants-CWA LOCAL 29011, a Second Vice President for the San Mateo  County Central Labor Council and occupies a Diversity Seat at Pride At Work.  Stan works with other organizers in the struggle for Domestic Partner Benefits in the Aviation Sector at SFO.

​In 2025, he received the prestigious AFL-CIO Drum Major for Justice Lifetime Achievement Award.  He also received APALA's Tam Tran Freedom Fighter Award at our 18th Biennial Constitutional Convention in Los Angeles, CA (June, 2025).

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Tracy Lai, AFT Washington

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Tracy Lai is Seattle chapter's vice-president and chapter representative on NEB. She is a member of national AFT's standing committee on Civil and Human Rights and co-chairs the national AFT's AA&PI Task Force.  Tracy is Emeritus Faculty of history and American Ethnic Studies at Seattle Central College. 
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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). Most recently, she co-authored with Kim Geron (CSU East Bay and Alameda Chapter, APALA) a chapter on A&PI workers and organizing for UCLA's digital textbook, Foundations and Futures (full release in early 2026).

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Lisa Lei, Asian American Racial Justice Coordinator at the UCLA Labor Center

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Lisa Lei (she/her) is the Asian American Racial Justice Coordinator at the UCLA Labor Center. In this role, she works closely with the Asian Pacific Islander (API) labor movement through partners such as the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Los Angeles (APALA Los Angeles), building towards collective liberation and cross solidarity. She believes that violence against people of color stems from structures of white supremacy, and the way to stop the hate is to educate, grow the movement, and organize workers and communities for respect and dignity. 

She has trained hundreds of union and community leaders with her Know Your Rights Trainings that emphasised on the trainers model. She has designed programs and projects to highlight API workers on strike from student workers with UAW 4811 to hotel workers with Unite Here Local 11. 

Lisa brings over a decade of labor organizing experience. While at Unite Here Local 11, she led comprehensive and strategic fights that took on the bosses from contract campaigns, unionizing drives, political campaigns, and boycotts. One of her first union fights was with the DoubleTree in Downtown Los Angeles, formally known as the New Otani, where she organized workers to win a union after a historic 20-year campaign. She also served as the President of APALA LA and continued to build a pathway for AANHPI youth and workers into the labor movement by creating AANHPI labor programs, as well as organizing training, workshops, and spaces. 

In her free time, she loves to open-water swim, cook and garden with her partner. ​


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Sabrina Yowchyi Liu, USW

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Sabrina Yow-chyi Liu has been a campaigner and researcher 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 a co-founder of APALA Pittsburgh Chapter. She is a proud immigrant from Taiwan.​

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Jillian Matundan, AFSCME

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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. She has been on the APALA National Executive Board since 2017, serving as the DC Chapter appointee until 2021 and has been elected as an At-Large Member for three terms since. 

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 released her debut EP in 2020. Her first full-length album, Singing to the Moon, debuted at number 6 on the Folk Alliance International Folk Charts when it was released in March 2024. You can find out more about her music at jillianmatundan.com.

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Charmaine Morales, UNAC/UHCP

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​Charmaine Morales, RN, President of UNAC/UHCP, represents more than 40,000 registered nurses and health care professionals across California and Hawaii.
 
Her journey is one of resilience, reinvention, and justice. A former small business owner turned medical-surgical nurse, Charmaine rose through the ranks of union leadership—elected Secretary in 2013, Executive Vice President in 2016, and President in 2022.
 
She has built community service and union growth into her full-time leadership of UNAC/UHCP, launching the Membership Matters Academy to strengthen engagement and develop new leaders. In 2018, she led UNAC/UHCP’s expansion into Hawaii, empowering Maui Health System workers to gain a voice in patient care.
 
During the 2021 Kaiser negotiations, Charmaine secured recognition of mental health as equal to physical health. Following the racial justice uprisings of 2021, she established the Racial and Social Justice Committee and the Alexis G. Philius Scholarship, supporting Black students pursuing health care careers.
 
The first woman of color—and the first Mexican American and Filipina—to lead UNAC/UHCP as president, Charmaine’s leadership embodies solidarity, equity, and transformation.

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Annawa Naing, UFT-NEA

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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.  
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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.

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Angie Nguyen, UDWA/AFSCME 3930

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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

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Lindsay Peifer, NEA

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Lindsay Peifer is a Senior Policy Analyst/Program Specialist specializing in AANHPI Outreach & Engagement in the Community Advocacy & Partnership Engagement (CAPE) department at the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States, with a membership of approximately 3 million educators and staff across all levels of education, from pre-school to university. 

Born in Daebudo, South Korea, Lindsay grew up in Minnesota. She has been an active union member since 1997, when she began working in St. Paul Public Schools – first as a high school English teacher and then as a Technology Integration Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA). 

During her time as a member leader, she was an active member of Education Minnesota, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the 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 was a participant in NEA’s Future Forward Think Tank. She was also the chair of Education Minnesota’s Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee. 

She is one of the founding members of the Minnesota chapter of APALA and has served on APALA’s National Executive Board since 2021.​

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Kasi Perreira, AFT

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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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Pattie Tamura, SEIU Local 1021

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​Pattie(she/her pronouns) is a third generation Japanese American, Sansei, by way of Hawaii.

She currently retired after 30 years with SEIU as an Organizer, Representative and Director.  She first got involved in Unions in the early 80’s when California State Employees won the right to Collective Bargaining.
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 Pattie serve’s as the San Francisco Chapter Treasurer and on the National Board representing the SF Chapter.

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Jessica Tang, BTU Local 66, AFT-MA, AFT, AFL-CIO

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Jessica Tang is the President of AFT Massachusetts, representing over 25,000 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, , Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. She also the first Asian American member to serve on the American Federation of Teachers Executive Council and is the founding chair of AFT’s AANHPI 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.

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Monica Thammarath, CTA

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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.

The daughter of refugees from Laos, Monica is a proud product of California’s K-16 public education system and is honored to be able to lead the Human Rights Department at the California Teachers Association (CTA).

​When Monica isn’t organizing for racially just and democratically run Community Schools, you will find Monica with her spouse Jeff chasing their child Yuriko at one of their neighborhood public parks in San Francisco.

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Heather Hang Le To, OPEIU

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Heather Hang Le To is a Vietnamese Chinese immigrant. She currently works at San Francisco Labor Council AFL-CIO as Finance Director. Heather Hang is a member of OPEIU Local 29. She serves as Executive Board Director of OPEIU Local 29.

She has held a few community leader positions in San Francisco. She currently serves as Executive Director at Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center (ACVCC) and a Co-Chair of Southeast Arts & Culture Coalitions (SEAACC).

​She has graduated with a master’s in labor studies –Union Leadership Administration at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was also the former President of the OPEIU Local 3, a former Chair of the Governor Board Advisory Committee Member of Department Consumer Affairs – Professional Fiduciary Bureau. She has more than 25 years of experience in non-profit finance management, community and union activism. 

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Osa Tui Jr., HSTA-NEA

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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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