Welcome
These tri-city networking receptions celebrate the diversity within the LGBT and Asian American/South Asian communities and also provide support to LGBT API professionals in corporate, finance, law, commerce, government, and public interest.
Program
Greeting Brief Welcoming Remarks by: Christopher Kang in Washington, DC Justice Doris Ling-Cohan in New York City Judge Roger Chan in San Francisco
The reception is free of charge but donated proceeds will support the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance’s legal referral program for LGBT AAPI undocumented immigrants, young people, and organizations.
About NQAPIA NQAPIA 233 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4A New York, NY 10016 www.nqapia.org info@nqapia.org
Special Video Presentation “LGBT API Family Acceptance”
Closing
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance(NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI)organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations and challenge homophobia and racism.
New York , NY Tuesday, Oct 18, 2016 Baker & McKenzie LLP Justice Doris Ling-Cohan Justice Doris Ling-Cohan was recently recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the nation’s Outstanding Women Lawyers. She has been a trailblazer. In 2014, she became the first woman of Asian descent to preside in a NYS appellate court, having been appointed to the Appellate Term, First Department and the first of Asian descent to sit on that court. In an historic election in 1995, she became the first public official of Asian descent to be elected from Manhattan’s Chinatown (other than school board), when she was elected to the Civil Court (2nd Municipal Court District). In 2002, she became the first woman of Asian descent to be elected to the Supreme Court in New York State. In 2005 (10 years before the SCOTUS decision in Obergefell v. Hodges), Justice Ling-Cohan was the first trial judge in New York State and third trial judge in the country to decide in favor of Marriage Equality in Hernandez v. Robles. She is a founding member of New York Asian Women’s Center and Asian American Bar Association of New York. Justice Ling-Cohan is serving her fifth term as the President of the national organization of federal and state judges of Asian descent (NAPABA Judicial Council).
Washington DC Tuesday, Oct 25, 2016 McDermott Will & Emery LLP Christopher Kang Christopher Kang is National Director of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), a coalition of 35 national Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander organizations that serves to represent the interests of the AANHPI community--providing a national voice, influencing policy, and shaping public narratives. From 2009 to 2015, Chris served in the White House, as Deputy Counsel and Deputy Assistant to President Barack Obama, Senior Counsel to the President, and Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. For more than four years, he was in charge of the selection, vetting, and confirmation of President Obama’s judicial nominees, and in this role, he worked to fulfill the President’s unprecedented commitment to expanding the diversity of the federal bench — including appointing more people of color, women, and openly gay and lesbian people as judges than any President in history— while maintaining the highest standards of integrity, intellect, and fair-mindedness. He also advised the President on commutations and issues of executive clemency. In the Office of Legislative Affairs, Chris advocated for the Obama Administration’s initiatives in Congress. He led the legislative outreach and strategy for the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, the Senate’s successful effort to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and the reduction of the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses. He also played a supporting role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
San Francisco, CA Tuesday, Oct 27, 2016 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Judge Roger Chan Judge Roger Chan was appointed to the San Francisco Superior Court by Governor Jerry Brown on June 28, 2016. Judge Chan represented children and youth for 18 years and is a juvenile law expert and experienced trial attorney. Prior to his appointment, Judge Chan was the Executive Director of East Bay Children’s Law Offices (EBCLO) in Oakland, CA, which he co-founded in 2009. As EBCLO’s Executive Director, Judge Chan led a team of attorneys and social workers in the representation of more than 2,000 children and youth every year in Alameda County Juvenile Dependency, Delinquency and Probate Guardianship courts. Judge Chan was also previously a public defender in San Francisco and Alameda counties representing youth in juvenile dependency and delinquency court. Judge Chan has extensive experience working collaboratively with other stakeholders and community partners to improve systems and better serve children and families. In San Francisco, he was responsible for the Public Defender’s program for special education, school discipline, and post-dispositional representation. Judge Chan was a member of the Interagency Children’s Policy Council (ICPC) ofAlameda County and the San Francisco Task Force on Residential Treatment for Youth in Foster Care. Judge Chan is a proud alumnus of UC Berkeley and UC Hastings College of the Law. Judge Chan is honored to be the first openly LGBT Asian-American appointed to the San Francisco Superior Court.
Thanks to our Sponsors
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Baker & McKenzie LLP
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Asian American Bar Association of New York
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
Allen & Overy
McDermott Will & Emery LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garret & Dunner Kirkland & Ellis
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Latham & Watkins
Manatt
Sullivan & Cromwell
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
S IL V E R
BRONZE
SUPPO RTER
Clifford Chance Debevoise & Plimpton
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
ACLU Foundation of Northern California
Fish & Richardson
Arnold & Porter
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
Fried Frank Harris Shriver &
Cooley
Jacobson
Davis Wright Tremaine
Hogan Lovells US
Dechert
Keker & Van Nest
Farella Braun + Martel
Steptoe & Johnson
Kelley, Drye & Warren
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Littler Mendelson
Korean American Lawyer Association of Greater New York
Wilmer Hale
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (LeGaL)
Shearman & Sterling
South Asian Bar Association - DC
South Asian Bar Association of New York
Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington DC
South Asian Bar Association of Northern California Many Thanks To: Lisa W. Rosaya, Megan Sullivan, and Shelly Gonzalezat Baker & McKenzie LLP James Kim and Ilona D. Williams-Fitzgerald at McDermott Will & Emery LLP Kristin Greene at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Chris Chou at AABA Yang Chen, Margaret Langston, and John Vang at AABANY Scott Lee at APABA-DC Glenn Magpantay Graphic Designer: Kun Yang