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NGEC Staff Contact Information and Bios

Capacity Building Staff

Philanthropic Advocacy Staff

AAPIP National Staff

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    Margie Jo Eun Joo Andreason Program and Administrative Associate

    margie@aapip.org, 612-729-9597

    Margie is the Program Associate for AAPIP’s capacity building work under the National Gender and Equity Campaign (NGEC) & BRIDGE. She brings her experience as a Korean adoptee to AAPIP as well as her past experience doing public health outreach to communities of color and community organizing around anti-racism and alliance-building. Margie has a BA from Concordia College in Political Science and Social Work. She is a past National Conference on Race and Ethnicity student scholar and in 2006 was selected to attend the Collegiate Women of Color Leadership and Development Institute where she received a grant which enabled her to found the Tri-college Women of Color Collaborative that organizes women of color in the Fargo/ Moorhead community. Margie currently serves on the MN Advisory Council for Ashoka’s Youth Venture that fosters young change makers. Her other experiences include tutoring English in South Korea, mentoring and organizing transracial adoptees, and facilitating retreats and trainings for local Twin Cities organizations..

  • Alice Y. Hom Philanthropic Advocacy Manager

    alice@aapip.org, 323-255-8995

    Alice is a Philanthropic Advocacy Manager for AAPIP. As a community builder, educator, and writer, she brings over 17 years of experience in organizing and teaching on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality while also linking academic issues to community based activism. From 2001-2006, she served as the Founding Director of the Intercultural Community Center at Occidental College where she worked on diversity and social justice issues. Alice serves as the board chair for Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a foundation that works for racial, social, and economic justice in the U.S. and internationally. She co-edited an award-winning anthology titled Q & A: Queer in Asian America. Alice received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, a Masters Degree in Asian American Studies from University of California, Los Angeles, and is completing her dissertation on organizing and community building by lesbians of color from the 1970s to the 1990s in a Ph.D. History Program at Claremont Graduate University.

     

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    Lori Kodama Special Advisor to the Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy

    lori@aapip.org, 415-273-2760 ext. 17

    Lori is the Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. Lori has over twenty years of experience in non-profit financial and administrative management, with expertise in grants and contracts management. Prior to joining the staff of AAPIP, Lori worked at the Asian Law Caucus for fourteen years and for seven years worked at Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum.

     

  • GLADYS MALIBIRAN    Educational Technology & New Media Manager

    gladys@aapip.org, 415-273-2760 ext. 23

    Gladys manages, oversees and produces a range of AAPIP NGEC's multimedia & web-based projects including our blogs, social media and our educational technology projects (such as BOAT Online, webinars, & wikis).  Gladys is also our online community manager for the OFP learning space on Ning. Prior to AAPIP, she worked for the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA) supporting capacity building trainings & technical assistance for grassroots leadership development, civic engagement & movement-building organizing. Gladys has also served as a counsellor, advocate & ethnic media coordinator for NY/NJ immigrant families who lost loved ones in September 11th and conducted cultural-comptency education workshops for immigrants affected by backlash discrimination.  She has a degree from Boston College in Communications, Diversity Studies and Fine Art. She also brings years of consulting experience in communications strategy and multimedia design for various nonprofits & community-based cultural arts groups.  Gladys is passionate about education, art/design, open-source technology, and intersectional social justice issues.  She continues to learn and track trends in educational technology innovation & new media tools,  and is always growing her repertoire of art therapy modalities for group facilitation and individual transformation.

  • PEGGY SAIKA    President/Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy; and Strategic Advisor to NGEC

    peggy@aapip.org, 415-273-2760 ext. 12

    Peggy is the President and Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. She serves as the strategic advisor to the NGEC. Spanning a 30-year period of community involvement, Peggy was the founding executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network from 1993 to 2000, and from 1983 to 1991, the executive director of the Asian Law Caucus. Peggy is the co-founder of the Asian Women's Shelter, Asians/Pacific Islanders for Choice, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. She has served on the board of numerous organizations including Equal Rights Advocates, Progressive Assets Management and the Alston/Bannerman National Fellowship Program. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of The California Wellness Foundation.

     

  • BO THAO-URABE BRIDGE Director

    bo@aapip.org, 415-407-0959

    Bo is the BRIDGE Director responsible for development, implementation, and evaluation of capacity and infrastructure building programs and strategies for the NGEC.  Before joining AAPIP, Bo worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis as Senior Project Manager. She has also served as Executive Director of Hmong National Development, Inc. (HND), a national advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. Her other experiences include developing professional opportunities for communities of color in the housing and economic development field; establishing comprehensive and coordinated communication and accessibility plans for underserved communities for the State of Minnesota; and serving as Executive Director of the Women's Association of Hmong and Lao. Bo has been a long time community advocate, and was named a Pioneering Voice by the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and awarded the Newsmakers Award by the Minnesota Women's Press. She is a founding member of the Coalition for Community Relations and the Hmong Women's Action Team.