Cynthia Choi (she/her) is the Co-Executive Director at Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a civil rights organization committed to protecting immigrant livelihoods, and fulfilling the promise of a multi-racial democracy. She has 20+ years of nonprofit leadership experience, leading campaigns on immigrant rights, violence prevention, and more. In 2020, Choi and her team at CAA joined the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and San Francisco State University in co-founding Stop AAPI Hate: a coalition that addresses anti-Asian racism and xenophobia amid the pandemic. She is the daughter of Korean immigrants and the mother of three daughters of her own.

Dr. Russell Jeung (he/him) is a Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books on race and religion including Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans and Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies. In 2020, Dr. Jeung joined Chinese for Affirmative Action and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council in co-founding Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition that addresses anti-Asian racism and xenophobia amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeung identifies as a fifth-generation Chinese American and was born and raised in San Francisco.

Manjusha P. Kulkarni (“Manju”, she/her) is the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON), a coalition of 40+ community-based organizations that serves and represents all 1.5 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles County. A 2014 recipient of the White House Champions for Change award, she is also a lecturer in the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA. In 2020, Manju and her team at A3PCON joined Chinese for Affirmative Action and San Francisco State University in co-founding Stop AAPI Hate. Born in India and raised in Montgomery, Alabama to Indian immigrants, she resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.