Keynote Speakers

William F. Lee, Co-Managing Partner, WilmerHale

Senator Colleen Hanabusa, President, Hawaii State Senate

Controller John Chiang, California State Controller

Panel Session A - Raids, Detentions, and Deportations: America's Increasing Nativism after 9/11

Jean C. Han (moderator), Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching & Advocacy Fellow, Immigration & Refugee Clinical at Harvard Law School

Tuyet Duong, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigration & Immigrant Rights Program at the Asian America Justice Center

Helly Lee, Director of Policy, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center

Eric Sigmon, Assistant Director for Legislative Affairs, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee's Service

Many Uch, Co-Founder, Khmer In Action

 

Panel Session A - American Dreams Shattered? Asian Pacific Americans and the Financial Crisis

Nadine Cohen (moderator), Senior Attorney,

Consumer Rights Project at Greater Boston Legal

Services

 

Gen Fujioka, California Advocacy Coordinator,

National Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans for

Community Development

 

Titi Liu, Executive Director, Asian Law Caucus

 

Cynthia Mark, Managing Attorney, Asian

Outreach Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services

 

John Moon, Senior Community Affairs Analyst,

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

 

Panel Session B - Making Partner: Succeeding in the Private Sector as an Asian American 

Phil Lee (moderator), Assistant Director of

Admissions, Harvard Law School

 

Hemmie Chang, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

 

Sylvia Chin, Partner, White & Case LLP

 

Morgan Chu, Partner, Irell & Manella LLP

 

Suhana Han, Partner, Sullivan and Cromwell LLP

 

Tony Ling, Partner, Jenner & Block LLP

 

Lona Nallengara, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP

 

 

Panel Session B - Why in our Backyard? Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice in APA Communities

Shaun Goho (moderator), Staff Attorney,

Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law

School

 

Pam Tau Lee, Founding Member, Asian Pacific

Environmental Network

 

Andrew Leong, Associate Professor of Law at the

College of Public and Community Service,

University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

Edwardo L. Rhodes, Professor, School of Public &

Environmental Affairs at Indiana University

 

Tina Wu, Associate, Wilmer Cutler Picking Hale &

Dorr LLP

 

Panel Session C - International Trade Relations: Asia's Role at the Table

Craig VanGrasstek (moderator), Adjunct Lecturer in

Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of

Government, Harvard University

 

Joel Blank, Senior Attorney, Office of the Chief

Counsel for International Commerce, United States

Department of Commerce

 

Sanjiv K. Kapur, Partner, Jones Day

 

Thea Lee, Policy Director & Chief International

Economist, American Federation of Labor and

Congress of Industrial Organizations

 

Jiewuh Song, Clinical Supervisor, Harvard Law

School International Human Rights Clinic

 

Panel Session C - Claiming the Torch: Institutional and Intra

Community Challenges to APA Political Leadership

Paul Watanabe (moderator), Associate Professor &

Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies,

University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

Stanley Chang, Associate, Cades Schutte LLP

 

Kesha Ram, Representative, Vermont House of

Representatives  

 

Amy Mah Sangiolo, the vice-chair alderman of

Newton

 

Clarence Tong, political aide