Asian Pacific American Commissioners

(Ethnicity and county of residence in parentheses)

 

Jane Nishida, Esq., Chair (Japanese, Montgomery County)

• Senior Environmental Institutions Specialist at the World Bank
• Former Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment
• Former Maryland Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Lily Qi, Vice-Chair (Chinese, Montgomery County)

• Special Projects Manager, Office of the County Executive of Montgomery County, Maryland
• Trustee, Suburban Hospital Board of Trustees
• Director, Leadership Montgomery Board of Directors

Humberto Ho (Taiwanese, Montgomery County)

• Builder/Developer, Ho Brothers Development, LLC
• President, Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Clarence K. Lam (Chinese, Howard County)

• Physician, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Co-Executive Director, Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Diversity Leadership Council of the Maryland Democratic Party
• Elected Member, Maryland Democratic State Central Committee
• Elected Member, Howard County Democratic Central Committee

Beth Amigable-Wong (Filipino, Prince George's County)

• Vice President for Government and Community Relations, Powersolv Inc.
• Vice President, Philippine American Chamber of Commerce, District of Columbia
• Former Associate Director, Prince George's County Executive Office of Community Relations

Katherine Chin (Chinese, Baltimore City)

• President, Baltimore Asian Trade Council, LLC
• Former Faculty Member, Johns Hopkins Hopital School of Nursing
• Former Member, Maryland State Arts Council

Kwang Hee Choi (Korean, Howard County)

• President, Korean Society of Maryland
• Former Chair, Korean American Grocers & License Beverage Association of Maryland (KAGRO)

Elizabeth Chung (Chinese, Frederick County)

• Executive Director, Learning Institute for Enrichment (LIFE) & Discovery, Inc.
• Board Member, Interfaith Housing Alliance, Frederick, MD
• Former Member, Frederick County Human Relations Commission

George Dang (Vietnamese, Montgomery County)

• President, Acacia Financial Advisors, LLC
• Board Member, Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce
• Board Member, Montgomery College Foundation

Dottie Li  (Chinese, Prince George's County)

• Consultant, TransPacific Communications

Kap Yung Park (Korean, Wicomico County)

• Manager, Save-A-Lot
• Former President, Maryland Korean American Grocers Association (1995-2009)

Dr. Larry Hajime Shinagawa, Ph. D.  (Japanese, Howard County)

• Professor, Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland College Park
• Commissioner, Maryland Commission on Immigration

Edward Yip (Chinese, Montgomery County)

• President, Three5Eight Consulting
• Counsel, United BioSource Corporation
• President, Foundation of the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce
• Board Member, Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce,

Thanit Thangpijaigul (Thai, Montgomery County)

• Financial Advisor, Dream Rift, LLC
• President, Thai Alliance in America

Ngoc Minh Le (Vietnamese, Montgomery County)

• Consultant
• Founding Board Member of Voice of Vietnamese-Americans
• Co-Chair, Finance Committee for Maryland AAPI Leadership Council
• Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Maryland Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Obama

Diosa Woods (Filipino, Anne Arundel County)

• Owner, iiBis, Inc.
• Director of Outreach, Maryland Service-Disabled Veteran Association

Yun Jung Yang, Esq. (Korean, Montgomery County)

• Attorney at Law, Yang & Ullman, P.C.
• President, Korean American Women's Chamber of Commerce
• Member, Board of Director, Korean Business Enterprise
• Member, Board of Director, Korean School Association of Washington DC
• PTA President & member of the Board of Director, United Korean School of Greater Washington

Bob Zhang (Chinese, Howard County)

• Consultant, Aquilent, Inc.
• Former Vice Chair, Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committee
• Board member, Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership
• Chair, Chinese Language Translation Review Committee
• President and Founder, USABAL Solutions, LLC

Sovan Tun, Ph.D. (Cambodian, Montgomery County)

• Economist/Statistician for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• President, Cambodian Buddhist Society
• Member, Montgomery County Executive Advisory Team on Asian Pacific American Affairs
• Board Member, InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington

Kui Zhao, AICP (Chinese, Howard County)

• Planner/Demographer, Baltimore County Office of Planning
• Former Planner, Anne Arundel County Office of Planning and Zoning
• Certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners

Mencie Hairston (Filipino, Prince George's County)

• Founder and Executive Director, High Bridge Foundation, Inc.
• Founder and Program Director, Mabuhay Culture School
• Founder and Program Director, Camp Mabuhay
• Chairperson, Asian American Studies Scholarship Program