Co-Chairs

Doreena Wong has been organizing in the Asian, feminist, and LGBT communities for over 30 years and formed numerous API LBT groups across the country. Her day job is working as a senior attorney at the National Health Law Program ("NHeLP"), a national public interest law firm working to increase and to improve access to quality health care on behalf of low-income individuals, including immigrants and limited-English speaking populations, by providing legal analysis and representation, information, education, and policy advocacy. Before coming to NHeLP, she worked in the area of civil rights for a number of public interest organizations including the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, CA, the ACLU of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., and a Los Angeles civil rights firm specializing in enforcement of consent decrees in race discrimination cases. She graduated from New York University School of Law.

Marshall Wong is a native of Los Angeles and has worked for the L.A. County Human Relations Commission since 1999. He authors an annual report on hate crime and frequently provides training on this topic. Previously, he held positions with the Smithsonian Institution and in the Office of the Mayor of Washington, D.C. From 1991-1994, Marshall was a Fellow in the Kellogg National Leadership Program and has received awards from the National Multicultural Institute, the Organization of Chinese Americans, and the D.C. Mayor’s Office. He has studied Spanish in Mexico and Guatemala; authored articles for Social Justice, the Washington Times and Asian Week; and wrote a biography about his father Delbert Wong, the first Chinese American judge.