Kuldip K. Ambastha (BA in Economics, '04, first term) is a finance and investments professional at Ambastha Financial LLC. He is serving in his first term as a SAPAAC board member and is a past president of the Stanford Peninsula Alumni Club.  He is based in the Bay Area.

Julie Hsieh (BA in Human Biology, ’98, first term) is a family physician turned artist and founder of Yuan Ru Gallery in Taipei and Bellevue. She is the past president of Stanford Club of Taiwan (2020-2023) and excited to continue her involvement with Stanford and advocacy for Asian Americans through SAPAAC. She also serves on the board of Stanford Club of Washington and is an OVAL interviewer. She is currently based in the Seattle area.

Nelson Hsu (BS ‘91, MS '93 in Industrial Engineering, first term) has been very involved in the Stanford Asian and alumni community serving as President of UCAA and head of tea house at Stanford, the President of the Stanford Alumni Club of Dallas Fort Worth and serving on the Stanford alumni board. For the past 12 years, he has hosted a Lunar New Year dinner event with Harvard, Kellogg, and Yale, which regularly has more than 200 attendees. Professionally, Nelson specializes in launching new products and services in over 10 industries, including consumer electronics, software as a service, wireless, toys, high end spirits and for the last 10 years in education technology. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, eating good food, and most recently pickleball. 

Josephine Lau (BA in International Relations and Modern Thought & Literature, MA in East Asian Studies, ’06, first term) leads a NYC-based philanthropic organization that advances US-China relations, AAPI leadership, and collaboration at the intersection of business and social impact. In her role, she has led AAPI partnerships including with The Asian American Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Committee of 100, and PBS. Born in London and raised in Asia, Josephine previously served on the Stanford Alumni Club of Beijing Board.

Takeo Rivera (BA in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity ‘08, MA in Modern Thought & Literature ‘09, second term, he/him) is a professor in English at Boston University with affiliations in Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, African American & Black Diaspora Studies, and American Studies. He is the author of Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity (2022) and is a playwright whose work has been staged bicoastally. At Stanford, he was an Okada RA, A3C Community Building Coordinator, president of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective, and member of the Stanford Asian American Activism Committee and Asian American Theater Project.

Katie Gee Salisbury (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, ’07, MA in Sociology, ’08, first term) is a writer and photographer whose work explores Asian American identity and history. She is the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, forthcoming from Dutton in March 2024. She is a member of SAPAAC’s Advocacy & Education committee, working on ways to hold the university accountable for acknowledging the historical contributions of Chinese laborers on campus. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Risa Shimoda (BS in Product Design Engineering, ’77, first term) has been a very active alumni volunteer, serving as president for five regional alumni clubs and as a member of the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors and Stanford Associates. She helped as one of the leaders for the inaugural Voices Rising 2017 Summit and hopes to continue to strengthen connectivity in our alumni and student community and become a recognized voice for AAPI issues to and among peer organizations around the world.  

Tutti Taygerly (BS in Symbolic Systems / Human Computer Interaction, '97, first term) is a designer turned executive coach. She guides “others” who never felt like they belonged in a professional setting—women, people of color, immigrants—to confidently share their voices with the world. Tutti's first book Make Space to Lead shows high achievers how to reframe our relationship to work. She’s currently bewitched with her second book, Hardworking Rebels: How to Lead and Succeed as Asian American Women. Tutti is Thai-Chinese, grew up in seven countries on three continents, and is settled in San Francisco as her home base

Tony Tong (BS in Mechanical Engineering & Product Design, '94, first term) is a designer and writer. He’s originally from Hong Kong and Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent many of his formative years either riding a school bus (during desegregation) or bussing tables (at his family's Chinese restaurant). Tony is passionate about kids and senior caregiving. He's a Stanford Parent, a '94 class notes correspondent for Stanford Magazine, and currently serves as co-president of the Sacramento Stanford Association. 

Connie Chan Wang (MA in Education, ’05, first term) is a marketing executive currently at mental health company Headspace. She is serving her first term as a SAPAAC board member, having led the membership committee and currently acting as liaison to A3C. Connie also served as a Stanford Alumni Association board member from 2017-2022. She is based in the Bay Area. 

Sheila Wang (MS ‘87 MS&E, first term) has a strong affinity towards Stanford and for Asian American advocacy. A retired Tech director (HP and Agilent), Sheila has been serving on Non-Profit Boards for over the past 20 years. She is the Board Chairwoman for Stanford Medicine Center for Asian Health (CARE) and a Stanford OVAL Chapter Chair. She completed her terms as a Board Director for the Stanford Alumni Association, Shared Services for Charities, and the Singapore American School, respectively, and served as the President of the Stanford Alumni Club in Singapore. She was a host committee member for the first SAPAAC Stanford Asian Pacific Alumni Summit, Voices Rising. Sheila is committed to furthering SAPAAC and its members’ vision, mission and success.