Virtual Stanford Asian Pacific Alumni Summit 2020
SPEAKERS
We are thankful for our speakers’ generosity in time and their pride in Stanford. Speakers are shown in order of appearance during our Sep. 26, 2020 program.
Srinija Srinivasan, ‘93
Srinija Srinivasan is Co-founder of Loove, a developing music venture designed to demonstrate how commerce and technology can be guided by artistic values rather than letting our culture be led by market values. An accidental tech exec, Srinija joined Yahoo! in 1995 as one of their first five employees and self-titled Ontological Yahoo. With a background in AI beginning with her BS at Stanford in Symbolic Systems, Srinija's work at Yahoo! centered on the human experience, starting with the categorization system of the Yahoo! Directory and rapidly expanding into leading editorial and policy issues globally. She served as Yahoo!'s Vice President, Editor-in-Chief until stepping down in 2010. During that time she also chaired the board of non-profit SFJAZZ, and these experiences together forged her determination to co-found Loove.
At Stanford, Srinija serves as a Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and as a member of the Humanities & Sciences Council, the Stanford Live Advisory Council, and the HAI Advisory Council. She's a board member of the On Being Project, she recently concluded participation in the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, and she's a member of the 2000 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. She lives bicoastally between Palo Alto, CA and Brooklyn, NY
Congressman Ted Lieu, ‘91
Mr. Lieu is the current U.S. Representative for California’s 33rd Congressional District. He serves on the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and serves as a Co-Chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Prior to serving in Congress, Mr. Lieu was a Torrance Environmental Quality Commissioner and a member of the Torrance Council, the California State Assembly, and the California State Senate.
He is also a former active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force and currently serves as a Colonel in the Reserves, stationed at Los Angeles Air Force Base.
Mr. Lieu attended Stanford for his undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Political Science, and then Georgetown University, where he received his law degree magna cum laude after serving as Editor-in-Chief of the law review. He also received four American Jurisprudence Awards
Kathy Ko Chin, ‘80
Kathy Ko Chin is president and chief executive officer of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), a national health justice organization which influences policy, mobilizes communities, and strengthens programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
Recognized as an authority on national health policy, Kathy is also a renowned voice for the Asian American community, served on the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the Obama Administration, on the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Academy Study Panel studying Medicaid as a Critical Lever in Building a Culture of Health; and the Leadership Committee of the Consumer and Patient Affinity Group (CPAG), which is part of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN).
In addition to her many work commitments, Kathy has served on the Board of Directors of many nonprofits, including the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, Asian Women’s Shelter, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Public Health Institute and California Pan-Ethnic Health Network. For her dedication to community service, Kathy has received numerous prestigious accolades, including induction into the Stanford Alumni Multi-Cultural Hall of Fame.
Wilma Chan, MA ‘94
Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan represents District 3 which includes the cities of Alameda, San Leandro, parts of Oakland including Chinatown, Jack London, Fruitvale and San Antonio neighborhoods, and the unincorporated communities of San Lorenzo and Hayward Acres. She is currently Chair of the Health Committee and ALL IN, a multi-stakeholder initiative to end poverty in Alameda County.
From 2000-2006, Supervisor Chan served in the California State Assembly where she became the first woman and first Asian American to be Majority Leader. Prior to that, she served four years on the Oakland Board of Education (1990-94) and then became the first Asian American elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors (1994-2000).
Supervisor Chan holds a Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and a Master’s degree in Education Policy & Administration from Stanford University. She has two grown children and two grandchildren.
Ravi Chandra, MD ‘96
Ravi Chandra, M.D. is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks is his full-length nonfiction debut, and is the winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. Dr. Chandra is a graduate of Brown University, Stanford University School of Medicine, and UCSF’s Psychiatry residency program. In March, 2016, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors honored him with a proclamation for his community work. He was staff psychiatrist and Medical Director of a community clinic (RAMS, Inc.) from 2006-2013, and still volunteers there leading a group for Cambodian patients. He also teaches Mindful Self-Compassion and Compassion Cultivation Training Workshops through his organization SF Love Dojo. He has blogged regularly for Psychology Today since 2011 (The Pacific Heart) and for the Center for Asian American Media since 2005 (Memoirs of a Superfan). Information on his other books, workshops and performances is available at www.RaviChandraMD.com.
Alice Chen, MD ‘96
Dr. Alice H. Chen is deputy secretary for policy and planning and director of clinical affairs for the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS). She has led the Agency’s new initiatives on health care affordability and access, including the Office of Health Care Affordability, generic drug manufacturing, and the Healthy California for All Commission. She is a member of the Agency’s core leadership team for COVID-19 response focused on therapeutics, data analytics, and hospital surge planning.
Previously, Chen served as chief medical officer and deputy director for the San Francisco Health Network (SFHN), where she was responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership, vision, and direction for the City’s $2 billion a year publicly funded delivery system.
Known for her work with vulnerable populations and delivery system innovations to improve access and quality of care for safety net systems, Dr. Chen was on the faculty of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine for 15 years, and has published over 50 book chapters, research and peer-reviewed articles. She currently serves as board president of The Health Initiative. In 2019, she was elected to the Harvard University Board of Overseers.
A graduate of Yale University, Stanford University Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Chen's training includes a primary care internal medicine residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Proficient in Mandarin and Spanish, she maintains an active primary care practice at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and holds an appointment as clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.
Holly Wong, ‘80
Holly Wong is a global health policy, strategy, and management executive with over 25 years of experience in both public and private sectors. She is currently Vice President of the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, leading a program to promote healthy nutrition policies in low- and middle-income countries.
Holly was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama Administration. In that leadership role, she developed policy and strategy for the agency on global health issues. She led a presidential initiative on global health security, collaborating with over 50 countries and multilateral organizations, and established the Departmental vision and priorities on international trade and public health, including intellectual property, access to medicines, and tobacco control.
Previously, Holly was vice president for policy at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a public-private partnership encompassing scientific activities and policy advocacy in the areas of innovation, research and development policy, access to medicines, and health financing. Holly brought to that role significant experience from public and private sectors: she spent six years in the pharmaceutical industry focused on a broad range of policy issues; three years with the Inter- American Development Bank as a health economist, leading teams to design and implement health policy reform programs, and six years with a private consulting firm, conducting technical assistance and research assignments in health financing and health policy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Holly began her international career teaching economics in Shanghai, China. She has worked in more than 50 countries, and holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Stanford.
Nelson Dong, ‘71
Nelson G. Dong is a senior partner with the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in Seattle, Washington. He leads his firm’s international trade and national security law practice and serves as co-head of its Asia Practice. He has advised American companies, professional associations, universities and independent research institutes to operate in Greater China and elsewhere around the world for over 30 years. He writes and teaches regularly in the intersection of technology and international law and has been an adjunct international law professor at Seattle University Law School. He was a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General Griffin B. Bell and took part in the Justice Department’s defense of President Jimmy Carter’s establishment of full diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China in 1979. He has been an advisor on export control policy to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Nelson also served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division, in Boston. He is a director and Executive Committee member of both the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York City and the Washington State China Relations Council in Seattle. He has received the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and has been a trustee of Stanford University. He is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee of 100. Nelson received his AB from Stanford University and his JD from the Yale Law School.
Ivan Fong, JD ‘87
Ivan K. Fong is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for 3M Co. in St. Paul, Minnesota. He previously served as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Cardinal Health, Inc.; Chief Privacy Leader & Senior Counsel at General Electric Co.; and Senior Vice President & General Counsel for GE Vendor Financial Services (a subsidiary of General Electric Co.). Prior to his corporate career, Ivan was a partner at the Covington & Burling law firm in Washington DC. and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law School. His public service includes serving as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. He has served as the Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Chair of the Section of Science & Technology Law of the American Bar Association. He is on the board of Minnesota Public Radio, American Public Media Group, and Equal Justice Works. He has received the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and been a trustee of Stanford University. He received his SB in chemical engineering and SM in chemical engineering practice from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his JD from Stanford Law School, and he was a Fulbright scholar at Oxford University. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Ivan clerked for Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Carol Lam, JD ’85
Carol C. Lam is the former Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego, California. She is a current trustee of Stanford University, and a legal analyst on MSNBC. From 2002 to 2007, she was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California. Prior to her Senate confirmation in that role, she was a judge of the Superior Court in San Diego County from 2000 to 2002, where she presided over a criminal trial calendar. Before becoming a judge, she had also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California, where she was Chief of the Major Frauds Section. She received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and the Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. During her long legal career, Carol was honored as one of California’s Top 100 Attorneys and as one of California’s Top 75 Women Litigators by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and was chosen as the Outstanding Attorney of the Year by the San Diego County Bar Association. She has also received the Orange County Asian American Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award, and Legal Momentum’s Women of Achievement Award. Carol received her BA from Yale University and her JD from the Stanford Law School. After graduating from Stanford Law School, she clerked for Judge Irving Kaufman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Cindy Ng
Since joining the A³C staff in 1991, Cindy has worked with faculty, staff and alumni to build community and to create programming and opportunities that support students in their academic and co-curricular endeavors. She works with students on programming, leadership development, and advising, and she collaborates with campus partners to ensure that the needs of students are met. Cindy also serves on various University committees and the Gates Scholarship Advisory Council. She is a longtime Alameda resident who graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Math. Prior to coming to Stanford, Cindy spent time in New York working as a speechwriter for David N. Dinkins who became the first African American Mayor of New York City.
