Meet the CMAC Team

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Stephen Gong Chair & President

Stephen Gong is the Executive Director of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Stephen has been associated with CAAM since its founding in 1980, and has served as Executive Director since 2006. His previous positions in arts administration include: Deputy Director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley, Program Officer in the Media Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts, and Associate Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute. He has been a lecturer in the Asian American Studies program at UC Berkeley, where he developed and taught a course on the history of Asian American media. In addition to writing about film history, Stephen has provided critical commentary on several DVD projects including Treasures From American Archives, Vol 1 & 5 (National Film Preservation Foundation), Chan is Missing (Dir. Wayne Wang), and is the featured historian in the documentary Hollywood Chinese (Dir. Arthur Dong). He is the Board Chair of the Center for Rural Strategies and serves on the Advisory Board of the San Francisco Silent Film Society.

Vincent Pan Vice President

Vincent Pan is the Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a community-based civil rights organization headquartered in San Francisco Chinatown and a national leader on issues of racial and social justice. Vincent also serves on the leadership team of the Stop AAPI Hate coalition, which was co-founded by CAA to address anti-Asian racism, and is a leader of Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality, a network of eleven Asian American social justice groups committed to progressive movement building. Prior to joining CAA in 2006, Vincent worked with the Clinton Foundation in Beijing on HIV/AIDS issues, and before that in Washington, D.C. as the co-founder of an AmeriCorps youth development group. Vincent also serves as Board Co-Chair of the Center for Asian American Media and on the boards of the Campaign for College Opportunity and the Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative.

Tatwina Chinn Lee Treasurer

Tatwina Lee’s leadership in building Bay Area communities spans over four decades. The first Asian American Chair of the San Francisco Foundation’s Board of Trustees, she has also been involved with Berkeley public schools, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, East Bay Music Foundation, Library Foundation of San Francisco, and others. She has been active with the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco since 1989, and currently serves on their Board of Directors.

Justin Hoover Secretary

Since 2004, Justin Hoover has worked as a curator and gallery director, focusing on exhibition production, participatory engagement design and public programming. This ranges from conventional white wall art shows in museums, galleries and art fairs, to black box screenings, pop up happenings, performances, public art, and art in alternative contexts. Justin works as the Executive Director of the Chinese Historical Society of America, and before that founded Collective Action Studio, an art production, curation, and engagement design company working internationally. Justin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Peace Studies and French Literature from Colgate University, a Master’s Degree in New Genres Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Master’s Degree of Public Administration of International Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

Mabel S. Teng

As an advocate and policymaker, Mabel Teng has spent over three decades working on behalf of community through public service and nonprofit enterprise. With a wealth of community organizing experience, policy expertise, and social sector leadership, Mabel’s innovative efforts connecting communities of color to shift power, build policy, and strengthen neighborhoods remain her landmark accomplishments. During her time in public service from 1990-2005, she became the first Asian American woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; facilitated the City’s historic same sex marriage program; established the Immigrant Rights Commission; and authored the landmark Universal Childcare Policy. After retiring from public office, she served as the Executive Director of the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco for ten years, bolstering social engagement through art interventions, and increasing revenues fourfold. Today, Mabel remains at the frontline of change, spearheading initiatives serving the underrepresented at CMAC.

Buck Gee

“I hope that CMAC can help define a vibrant and more relevant Chinatown for the 21st century,” says Buck Gee, an Executive Advisor to Ascend, a nonprofit Pan-Asian organization of business professionals. In 2010, he co-founded the Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives, an executive education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Buck retired in 2008 from Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit. He joined Cisco with its 2004 acquisition of Andiamo Systems where he was President and CEO. Buck has held management positions at Hewlett Packard, National Semiconductor, 3Com, Crescendo Communications, and Com21. He has also taught computer and engineering courses at Stanford University and Howard University. Buck is a member of the Committe-of-100 and serves on its public policy committee. He is the Board Chair of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and also serves on the board of the Asia Society of Northern California. Buck holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

David Ho
David Ho founded Long Ying International and Proverb Strategy Advisors, public relations and campaign consulting firms based in San Francisco. He also worked as the Community Outreach Director for the Chinatown Community Development Center from 1999-2013. Additionally, David has worked on over 150 campaigns in electoral politics since 1997 in California and Hawaii. He regularly collaborates with organizers with ties throughout different parts of California including Southern California, the Central Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area. A major political fundraiser in the state, David has raised millions of dollars for his clients. His extensive network of donors includes AAPI philanthropists, corporate executives, members from minority contractor communities, and various identity-group chambers of commerce, including the African American Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

Jay Xu

Dr. Jay Xu has served as Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco since 2008, and is the first Chinese American director at a major American art museum. Jay is committed to deepening understanding of Asian art and culture in the global context, and to advocating the art museum as an essential platform for cross-cultural understanding. Under his leadership, the museum launched the Transformation Project, which involved the launch of contemporary art, expansion of exhibition and public spaces, renovation of collection galleries and education classrooms, and investment in digital tools for deeper and richer audience engagement, all underwritten by a $100 million campaign that Jay personally led. Jay serves in a variety of professional and civic responsibilities including the J. Paul Getty Trust, Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Arts & Cultures Advisory Council at the America250 Foundation. He earned his MA and PhD in early Chinese art and archaeology at Princeton University.

Malcolm Yeung

Malcolm Yeung sees that “Chinatown has long needed a place for visitors to get their ‘start’ in understanding the incredible contribution of this community to the American West. CMAC can be that physical, artistic, and cultural center of gravity.” Malcolm is the Executive Director of the Chinatown Community Development Center and previously served as the organization’s Deputy Director of Programs and Policy Manager. He graduated from Duke University in 1994 (B.S.), University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997 (M.A. History), and Berkeley Law (J.D.) in 2001. Malcolm first practiced in venture finance and patent litigation at Perkins Coie LLP and then O'Melveny and Meyers LLP before joining the Asian Law Caucus in 2003. In 2011, Malcolm took a brief vacation from Chinatown CDC where he served in the Administration of San Francisco's First Asian American Mayor, the Honorable Edwin M. Lee, for one year to launch Mayor Lee's housing programs. Malcolm was former Co-Chair of the California Coalition on Civil Rights and President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. He currently serves on the Boards of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and API Council. Malcolm likes to tell bad jokes, ride his bike(s) slowly, and torture his two children by making them tell him what a great dad he is. Malcolm is co-editor of a collection of short historical essays, Chinese Americans on the American Frontier, which can only be found in the most exclusive bookstores.

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