The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service. The agency provides federal human resources policy,oversight,and support,and tends to healthcare (FEHB),life insurance (FEGLI),and retirement benefits for federal government employees,retirees,and their dependents.
John Quoc Duong was born in 1973,in Saigon,South Vietnam. He immigrated to the United States in 1982. Duong received his bachelor's degree from U.C. Davis and his Executive MBA from U.C. Irvine. Appointed by President George W. Bush,Duong served from 2001 to 2003 as the Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and concurrently as Executive Director of The President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The White House Initiative on AAPIs &the President's Advisory Commission on AAPIs advise the President on the needs and concerns of the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders' population. Duong was an aide for then California Governor Pete Wilson,from 1996 to 1999.
Yuri Kochiyama was an American civil rights activist. Influenced by her Japanese-American family's experience in an American internment camp,her association with Malcolm X,and her Maoist and Islamic beliefs,she advocated for many causes,including black separatism,the anti-war movement,reparations for Japanese-American internees,and the rights of political prisoners.
OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates is a non-profit organization founded in 1973,whose stated mission is to advance the social,political,and economic well-being of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the United States.
The White House Office is an entity within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The White House Office is headed by the White House Chief of Staff,who is also the head of the Executive Office of the President. The staff work for and report directly to the president,including West Wing staff and the president's senior advisers. Almost all of the White House Office staff are political appointees of the president,do not require Senate confirmation and can be dismissed at the discretion of the president.
Christopher P. Lu is a Chinese American political advisor who serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. He is also an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly during his tenure as Representative for Management and Reform. In the Obama administration,Lu served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2014 to 2017,the White House Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President from 2009 to 2013,and the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and from Harvard Law School,where he was a classmate of Obama's.
Janice Rachel Lachance is an American attorney and government official working as the president of the American Society for Public Administration. She was previously the 13th chief executive of the Special Libraries Association and director of the United States Office of Personnel Management.
The Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium (AAPIPRC) focuses on critical policy issues facing the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Conceived of as part of the White House Executive Order 13515 (2009) the consortium supports,promotes,and conducts applied social science and policy research. In addition,Professor Paul M. Ong proposed two courses of action for AAPIPRC,one which formalizes working relationships among university-based AAPI research institutions and the other which would include publishing the proceedings of the briefs to inform policy.
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans,Native Hawaiians,and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is a United States governmental office that coordinates an ambitious whole-of-government approach to advance equity,justice,and opportunity for Asian Americans,Native Hawaiians,and Pacific Islanders. The Initiative collaborates with the Deputy Assistant to the President and AA and NHPI Senior Liaison,White House Office of Public Engagement and designated federal departments and agencies to advance equity,justice,and opportunity for AA and NHPIs in the areas of economic development,education,health and human services,housing,environment,arts,agriculture,labor and employment,transportation,justice,veterans affairs,and community development.
Katherine L. Archuleta is an American teacher and a political executive. She was the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management. President Barack Obama appointed her on May 23,2013. She was sworn in on November 4,2013. She had previously served as National Political Director for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. Prior to that,she had been executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation in New Mexico,had co-founded the Latina Initiative,had worked at a Denver law firm,and had worked in the Clinton Administration as chief of staff to the Secretary of Transportation,Federico Peña. She became embroiled in controversy after the disclosure of a massive national security breach in June 2015. The hack involved the theft of millions of federal employee records and included security-clearance details dating back 15 years,which prompted lawmakers from both political parties to demand that she resign. On July 10,2015,Archuleta tendered her resignation.
Nani A. Coloretti is an American policy advisor who is currently serving as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Coloretti served as United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017. Following her service as deputy secretary,she became senior vice president for financial and business strategy and treasurer at the Urban Institute.
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum is a community-based non-profit organization based in Chicago and founded in 1996. They have offices in Atlanta and Washington,DC,as well as 15 chapters across the country. It is an organization that focuses on empowering AAPI women and girls to participate in critical decisions that affect their lives,families,and communities. NAPAWF uses a reproductive justice framework to motivate and push AAPI women to be involved in driving systemic change and policy in the United States.
Gautam Raghavan is an Indian American political advisor who is the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. Raghavan previously served as the associate director of the Office of Public Liaison in the Obama administration.
Bo Thao-Urabe is a social entrepreneur who has founded numerous organizations and efforts to advance social justice. She was appointed as a Regent to the University of Minnesota by Governor Walz in 2021. A sought after leader,Thao-Urabe has served community in local,state and national settings and is the founder and former Executive Director of the Coalition of Asian American Leaders. President Obama appointed Thao-Urabe as a Commissioner to the President’s White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has also served as Senior Director at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP). She founded and served as the Chief Operating Officer of RedGreen Rivers,a social enterprise which develops and connects women artisans in Southeast Asia to global markets. Philanthropically,she founded of the BMPP Giving Circle,which brings Asian American families together to pool their resources together to fund social justice causes in the Upper Midwest. She has received numerous awards and recognitions,including the prestigious Bush Fellowship from the Bush Foundation in 2019. Both Saint Paul Mayor Coleman and Governor Mark Dayton declared November 1 as Bo Thao-Urabe Day.
Holly Luong Ham is an American business executive and former Washington,D.C.,government official. She served as a senior official in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and in the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). Ham also served as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to that,Ham served as the Assistant Secretary for Management in the U.S. Department of Education,where she was appointed by President Trump on April 20,2017.
Julie Chávez Rodriguez is an American political rights activist and campaign manager for President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.
Brenda Mallory is an American lawyer specializing in environmental law who is the current chair of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Biden administration. She previously served as director of regulatory policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center,and helped lead the Climate 21 Project.
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is an American foundation founded in 2021 by a group of prominent Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,aiming to support an array of Asian American and Pacific Islander causes and create a national infrastructure for a community that has faced an increasing number of racial attacks. Launched with $250 million,TAAF is described by organizers as the largest-ever philanthropic effort to support the AAPI community in history. The founders include Joe Tsai,Joseph Bae,Li Lu,Peng Zhao,Sheila Lirio Marcelo,Jerry Yang,Angela Chao and Jonathan Greenblatt. Its Founding Advisory Council members include Daniel Dae Kim,Lisa Ling,Condoleezza Rice,Jeremy Lin and more. The organization is chaired by Li Lu,and Norman Chen is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Chiling Tong is an Asian Pacific American activist and a public official. She has held various public offices under George W. Bush,Barack Obama,and Donald Trump. She is currently the president and chief executive officer of The National Asian Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce &Entrepreneurship and the Founding President of the International Leadership Foundation. She is one of the most prominent female Chinese American politicians since Elaine Chao.
Naomi Tacuyan Underwood is a Filipina-American journalist,and AAPI activist.
