Dechen Tsering is the Community Resources Director at Community Health for Asian Americans (CHAA), a nonprofit in Oakland, CA that promotes behavioral health and wellness of underserved communities. She has over 15 years of experience in international development, program management, grantmaking, women’s rights advocacy and community health education. She served as the full-time volunteer President of the Tibetan Association of Northern California (TANC) in the Bay Area from 2008-2010. Between 2005-2008, she served as the Program Officer for Asia and Oceania at the Global Fund for Women, one of the largest grantmaking foundations supporting women’s rights groups worldwide. Extensive media experience.

As Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion, Deepa Iyer provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on the ways to build racial equity and solidarity in light of the rapid demographic transformation in America’s neighborhoods, schools and workplaces. Iyer is an attorney who has worked on civil and immigrant rights issues in the non-profit and governmental sectors for 15 years. Most recently, Iyer served as Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) for a decade. While at SAALT, Deepa shaped the formation of the National Coalition of South Asian Organizations (NCSO), a network of local South Asian groups, and served as Chair of the National Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA). Media includes: The New York Times, The Guardian, Al-Jazeera America, The Nation.

Karin Wang is the Executive Director of UCLA School of Law's David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. In that role, she heads the nation’s leading academic program focused on training the next generation of lawyers working in nonprofit, advocacy, and government sectors. Previously, she was the Vice-President of Programs & Communications for Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, the nation’s largest legal organization for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. For more than 20 years, Wang has advocated for civil rights and immigrant rights, covering issues such as race discrimination and defamation, language rights, immigration and immigrant integration, and LGBT equality. Media includes: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Huffinton Post, Los Angeles Times, NBC.

Sayu Bhojwani is the President and Founder of The New American Leaders Project (NALP), which is working to build an inclusive democracy. For that work, she has been recognized by the Case Foundation as a Fearless Changemaker, honored by Citizens Union New York, and awarded the BMW Foundation’s Young Leaders Award in 2013. From 2002 to 2004, she was New York City’s first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and in 1997 she founded South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!), the first and only organization working exclusively with South Asian youth. Media includes: The New Yorker, Huffington Post, CNN In America, WNYC, ABC.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal represents Washington’s 7th District, which encompasses most of Seattle and surrounding areas including Vashon Island, Lake Forest Park, Edmonds and parts of Burien, Shoreline and Normandy Park. The first Indian-American woman in the House of Representatives, Jayapal has spent the last twenty years working internationally and domestically as a leading national advocate for women’s, immigrant, civil, and human rights. Media includes: Seattle Times, MSNBC, NPR.

Nellie Tran, PhD is Assistant Professor of Counseling at San Diego State University and Director of Research and Development at Center for Community Counseling and Engagement. Dr. Tran studies subtle gender biases within the educational context for students and faculty, especially women and people of color. As a professor at SDSU, she trains master's level multicultural community counseling students and serves as the faculty advisor to the Asian Pacific Student Alliance. Media includes: Teaching Tolerance Magazine.

Laboni Hoq is the Litigation Director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles. She leads the organization's civil rights impact litigation, with the goal of empowering immigrant communities to enforce and expand legal protections, and achieve systemic change in favor of greater social justice. Hoq regularly speaks about Advancing Justice–LA's work and issues impacting Asian American and other immigrant communities at conferences, law schools and other public fora in Los Angeles and around the country. Media includes: Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, The Sacramento Bee, NBC News.

Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and President of One Fair Wage, the co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been fighting to raise wages and working conditions for restaurant and other service workers for nearly 20 years. The story of Saru and her co-founder’s work since 9/11 has been chronicled in the book The Accidental American. Media includes: The New York Times, Democracy Now!, CNN, CBS, MSNBC.

Jean Kim is a psychiatrist and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University and works as a medical officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She specializes in Asian-American cross-cultural issues in pyschiatry, amongst other topic areas. Kim is also a writer and has published pieces on women's issues and mental health issues for The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, Salon, and more, and has appeared on the Gil Gross Show on Talk 910AM San Francisco, the Michael Smerconish Show on SiriusXM, and presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting.

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a Marshall Islander poet, spoken word artist, and teacher. She has used her poetry to highlight the struggles of her people including social justice issues such as the threat of climate change for her islands, the American legacy of nuclear testing in her country, and racism against Micronesians in Hawaii. She also co-founded the youth environmentalist ngo Jo-Jikum based in the Marshall Islands, and is currently the Pacific Studies faculty instructor at the College of the Marshall Islands. Media includes: The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, CNN.

Sophia Yen MD MPH is an adolescent medicine specialist and reproductive rights advocate. She is an Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. Her research interests are: Emergency Contraception knowledge, use and practice of patients and physicians, reproductive health needs of adolescents and college students, accuracy of reproductive health websites. Media includes: San Jose Mercury News, Good Housekeeping, Ms. Magazine.

Dr. Victoria Reyes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Reyes studies how culture shapes global inequality, with a particular focus on borders, empires, and meaning-making. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, she has examined globalized travel, World Heritage sites, ships, and legally plural, foreign-controlled places she calls “global borderlands.” Her first book, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, was published last year by Stanford University Press. Media includes: The Conversation, the Monkey Cage at The Washington Post, Inside High Ed.

Seema Agnani is the Executive Director of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) – a coalition of more than 100 community-based organizations in 19 states and the Pacific Islands. Collectively the coalition improves the lives of over two-million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who live in poverty by providing voice, tools, and shared knowledge to drive change. Media includes: The Nation, The New York Times, Comcast Newsmakers, WNYC.

Nancy Wang Yuen (Ph.D, UCLA 2008) is a sociology professor at Biola University. Her book, Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (2016, Rutgers University Press), examines the barriers actors of color face in Hollywood and how they creatively challenge stereotypes. With a research team, Yuen pioneered the first policy report on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in primetime television, in collaboration with Asian Americans Advancing Justice. She is currently conducting a 10-year follow up study evaluating not only the raw numbers but also the complexity of characters portrayed by Asian American and Pacific Islanders in network/cable television and digital streaming services. She also co-curated an exhibit on Hollywood's Pioneering Asian American Actresses for the Japanese American National Museum in 2019. Media includes: Associated Press, New Republic, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post.

Shivana Jorawar is a co-founder of Jahajee Sisters, a grassroots organization based in New York City creating a safer and more equitable society for Indo-Carbbean women through dialogue, arts, leadership development and grassroots organizing. She also is a lawyer and policy advocate and, currently serves as the State Legislative Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights where she manages their defensive state advocacy initiatives. She identifies and analyzes harmful restrictions, implements strategies to fight back, and delivers advocacy support to the Center’s clients and state partners. Media includes: Associated Press, RHRealityCheck, The Nation, The Hill.

Amanda Baran is an attorney who engages in policy analysis and advocacy for immigrant and women's rights. She worked at the Department of Homeland Security for almost ten years where she held a number of significant positions including Chief of Public Engagement at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and most recently, Principal Director of Immigration Policy for the Department's Office of Policy. In 2011, she served as Senior Advisor to the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders where she focused on immigration, civil rights, and women's rights and engaged with community leaders across the country. Media includes: The Hill, Los Angeles Times, VOA Noticias, Rewire.News.

Shikha Bhatnagar has over two decades of working across sectors, with diverse global stakeholders, on issues such as labor, international trade, economic development, education, health/nutrition, civil society, and women's rights. She is currently the Executive Director of the South Asian Network (SAN), one of the oldest South Asian justice organizations in the US, that provides direct services to advocacy on behalf of South Asian Americans in Southern California in the areas of health, civil rights/civic engagement, and gender-based violence. Media includes: Voice of America, India West, NBC News.

Lena Chen is a Chinese American writer and artist. One of the first women of color sex bloggers, she wrote about coming of age as a first-generation Asian American exploring her sexuality and grappling with depression. Over the past decade, she has given public talks at major conferences and universities on sex education, reproductive justice, and the impact of technology on feminist activism and women's labor. Media includes: The New York Times, The Guardian, Marie Claire, CNN, Glamour.

Thuc Doan Nguyen is a Los Angeles-based writer and producer and the founder of "The Bitch Pack", a group dedicated to promoting female-driven screenplays through Twitter and other social media sites. She is an expert in Asian American representation in film and screenwriting. Nguyen was born in Vietnam, and grew up in North Carolina and Southern Maryland.