The 2021 CAUSE Leadership Institute (CLI) is the first fully virtual edition of CAUSE’s community leadership and advocacy training certificate program for high-potential professionals. Over the course of this 6-month program, the 2021 CLI Fellows participated in policy overviews, civic leadership development trainings, and leadership roundtables equipping them with even more skills and connections to continue impacting change.
EVENT DETAILS
Wednesday, August 25th at 7:00 PM PT
EVENT PROGRAM
Event
Welcome Remarks
Sponsor Remarks: Carrie Gan, East West Bank
Board Chair Remarks
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jasmeet Bains, 2019 CLI Alumnus
Lookbook Featurettes
Fellows Recognition and Affirmations
Networking
TIME
7:00 PM
7:05 PM
7:15 PM
7:20 PM
7:30 PM
7:40 PM
8:00 PM
As a final project, each CLI fellow crafted and recorded a 1 Minute Story video. Reflecting on all of their experiences of the past few months, each fellow answered the following questions:
Why are you a part of the CAUSE Leadership Institute?
Why do you want to advocate for the Asian Pacific American community?
What issues are you passionate about? What are you interested in getting involved with?
How will you lead in the community and increase your political and civic engagement?
As a collection of all the 1 Minute Stories, the 2021 CLI Fellows Lookbook briefly introduces each CLI Fellow, their story, and personal vision for civic engagement. The Lookbook offers CLI Fellows opportunities to build connections, align interests and passion areas, and leverage the talents and skills of the CAUSE Network to impact the APA community.
Check them out below:
The CAUSE Leadership Institute is highly selective and each member of our cohort is selected based on their leadership abilities, public service, and community involvement. Program fellows are identified by leading elected officials, select nonprofit partner organizations, CAUSE Board Members, and CAUSE Alumni.
Aileen Flores
Government Relations Manager, Southern California Edison
Amaris Leiataua
Juris Doctorate (JD) Candidate, Brigham Young University
Andrew Saetern
Management Consultant, Accenture LLP/ U.S. Army
Angela (Angie) Chang
Chief Strategy Officer, KCAL Insurance Agency / National Chair, ACE NextGen
Angela Yip
Executive Director, AAMPLIFY
Angie Shaw
Consultant, CHTus and Aikar
Annie Yea
Director of Government Relations & Advocacy, California State University, Fullerton
Ayana Galace
Field Representative, California Assembly, District 18
Catherine Villaverde
Executive Assistant, Working Partnerships USA
Cindy Lee
Founder, Dreamers Corners / Vice President, Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP-LA)
Connie Kim Chan
Legislative Analyst, Office of California State Treasurer Fiona Ma
Douglas Yang
Associate, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Janet McIntyre
VP of Programs & Training, Executive Service Corps of Southern CA (ESC)
Jason Khoo
Founder & CEO, Zupo
Jason Song
Assurance Manager, EY
Jazmin Garcia
Prevention Specialist III, Koreatown Youth and Community Center
Jen Chiou 趙燕妮
Founder, CodeSpeak Labs
Jessica Chang
Project Management Office (PMO) Manager, SoCalGas
Kathleen Soriano
Legislative Analyst, State Government Relations, University of Southern California
Marlena Truong
President, National Women's Political Caucus of Orange County
Moises Jun Aglipay
District Field Representative, Office of Assemblymember Mike Gipson (AD 64)
Melissa Apuya
District Director, Office of Assemblymember Marc Levine
Nira Singh
Director of Behavioral Health, Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Michelle Kuang
Attorney, Covington & Burling LLP / Deputy Director, AAMPLIFY
Rajan Gill
Farmer, Gill Ranches / Professor of History, Yuba College
Sarah Lee
Prevention Specialist, Koreatown Youth & Community Center
D. Stephen Pham
Director, Organizational Learning, The Learning Accelerator
Van Thi Le
East Side Board Trustee and Business Woman
THANK YOU TO THE 2021 CAUSE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
SPEAKERS AND TRAINERS
Adam Ma
Community Relations Manager, Southern California Gas Company
Vice Chair, CAUSE Board of Directors
‘Alisi Tulua
Project Director, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab at UCLA
Alison de la Cruz
Facilitator / Cultural Organizer
Ben Wong
Public Affairs Consultant
Secretary, CAUSE Board of Directors
Bianca Nepales Garvacio
Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Lionsgate
Controller Betty Yee
State of California
Bill Wong
Senior Political Advisor, Office of California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon
Member, CAUSE Board of Directors
Charlie Woo
Owner, Megatoys
Chair, CAUSE Board of Directors
Diana Hwang
Executive Director, Asian-American Women’s Political Initiative (AAWPI)
Treasurer Fiona Ma
State of California
James Hsu
Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
Legal Counsel, CAUSE Board of DirectorsHonorable John Chiang
Former State Treasurer
Mandy Diec
Director of California, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Raphael Sonenshein
Executive Director, Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles
Attorney General Rob Bonta
State of California
Stacia Kato-Takayesu
Senior Business Analyst, Business Process Management for Enablement Capital Group
Tami Bui
Senior Government Affairs Manager, Turo
Member, CAUSE Board of DirectorsVice Mayor Tammy Kim
City of Irvine
Tammy Tran
Senior Manager - Government Relations, Southern California Edison
Member, CAUSE Board of Directors
Victor King
Legal Counsel, California State University, Los Angeles
Member, CAUSE Board of Directors
Wen Hong
Principal, Pacific Rim Advisory
Treasurer, CAUSE Board of Directors
Congresswoman Young Kim
United States Representative
Our deepest congratulations to the 2021 CAUSE Leadership Institute fellows. Along with program certificates, celebratory desserts were sent to each fellow in the form of freshly baked, delicious cookies from B Sweet, a local Los Angeles Filipino dessert shop. The CAUSE Team chose to send these desserts through the online gourmet food store, Goldbelly, in support of local businesses and to bring delicious local Los Angeles treats with the multi-state cohort.
Additionally, to mark this special occasion, each CLI fellow received a handmade ribbon lei, crafted by Hannah Wong. In acknowledgment of the practice of adorning graduates with a lei in Pacific Islander communities, CAUSE offers the lei as a symbol of luck, appreciation, and honor to the 2021 CLI cohort.
Best wishes to the fellows!
The 2021 Leadership Institute is Supported by
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