a lasting impact 2008 ANNUAL REPORT

25 YEARS OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY From its start in 1983, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) has set the pace for social justice for Asian Pacific Americans. Twenty-five years later, APALC continues to strive for justice on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans and for all underrepresented and marginalized individuals and communities.

As you read on, you will witness for yourself APALC’s impact. We encounter individuals at moments of crisis and provide in-language help with legal issues that profoundly influence their lives. We litigate on behalf of individuals to effect broad, sweeping change in laws, institutions, and practices. We develop multicultural-savvy leaders in the health sector and among today’s youth and parents. We do original research on Asian Pacific American demographics and advocate for policies that better serve our communities on local, state, and national levels. We work to protect and enhance the well-being of immigrants in our communities. We help over 15,000 individuals each year. We meet the relevant, ongoing needs of our community in direct and systemic ways for a personal and lasting impact in families and communities.

This year, we have recognized the immense challenges facing our community, and decisively and from the swiftly acted to be a force for positive change. For example, we launched an elder law project, executive focusing on the needs of the rapidly growing older population of Asian Pacific Americans. We also initiated a foreclosure and housing project to help Asian Pacific Americans facing foreclosures during director this economic crisis.

Looking ahead, as community needs rise, so do the demands for our services. In keeping with our original, pioneering course, we will continue to forge new roads of equality and justice.

Very truly yours,

Stewart Kwoh, Esq. President & Executive Director CONTENTS

From the Executive Director 1

Direct Services 3

Impact Litigation 5

Leadership Development 7

Policy Analysis & Advocacy 9

Donors 13

Financial Statement 17

Staff 19

Board of Directors 20 Direct Services

AsianProviding Language Asian Language Helping ImmigrantsImmigrants Gain Gain Assisting DomesticDomestic Legal IntakeHotlines Project Citizenship andand LegalLegal Status Status Violence SurvivorsSurvivors

We receive nearly 10,000 calls from limited or non- APALC provides free individual immigration For more than 25 years, APALC’s multilingual staff, English speaking individuals a year through hotlines and citizenship assistance, educates the public pro bono attorneys and law clerks have helped in four Asian languages: Khmer (Cambodian), on immigration issues, and advocates for fair hundreds of immigrant women and children escape Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Korean and immigration laws and policies. In the past year, abusive relationships, find jobs and housing, and Vietnamese. Because language and culture are APALC has provided free naturalization assistance secure their legal status in the United States. In significant barriers for immigrants seeking legal through dozens of clinics in Los Angeles County, recent years, this work also included immigrants information or assistance, these language-specific helping hundreds of immigrants achieve their who are trafficked here for domestic work or sexual hotlines play an important role by assisting callers on dream of citizenship. servitude. a wide range of legal issues, including immigration, family law, housing, public benefits and consumer rights.

3 From the beginning of its history, one of the hallmarks of APALC is our direct services; we provide legal services and education to individuals, especially those who speak little or no English, through counseling on the telephone or in person.

Assisting DomesticDomestic Breaking New Ground in Key Social Areas Violence SurvivorsSurvivors In 2008, APALC spearheaded two new legal projects in direct services: an elder law project and a housing/foreclosures project. Both initiatives concentrate on crucial needs in the Asian Pacific American community. As the elderly Client Profile population grows, monolingual elders are at greater risk for fraud schemes and in greater need for government benefits. Our Elder Law Project, funded by Ms. Chen* is a recent immigrant from China. She came to the United States in May 2008, for the first time. She was reluctant to come to the U.S. with her abusive husband, who had already the Aratani Foundation, launched in 2008, with its first phase focused on the fractured her nose once when they were in China, but she came with the hope that she could give growing elderly Japanese population. Legal education and awareness are the her 5 year old daughter, Mei Mei*, a better life here in the U.S. She also hoped that her husband might treat her better here in the U.S. than he did in China. However, these hopes were crushed focal points for the initial stages of this project. during the first few months of their life in the U.S. Ms. Chen’s husband threatened her physical safety on several occasions, her in-laws were controlling, manipulative, and emotionally abusive, and most devastatingly, at the end of August 2008, her husband abducted Mei Mei from her and The housing and foreclosures initiative comes at an extremely timely moment in denied her any access to her child. Luckily, Ms. Chen obtained an APALC attorney’s help at an our nation’s history. With 190,000 homes in foreclosure in California in the first APALC clinic in Chinatown around the same time that her child was abducted. three quarters of 2008 alone, the need for homeowner assistance, foreclosure Since Ms. Chen met APALC at the clinic, APALC has helped reunite her with Mei Mei, obtain a counseling, and education is crucial for the Asian Pacific American community. restraining order against her abusive husband, gain admission to a domestic violence shelter with We have hired one attorney to begin taking cases and expand our services on Mandarin-speaking capacity and holistically assist her with the numerous barriers that she faces as a monolingual Mandarin-speaking recent immigrant without a single friend or family member this issue. in the U.S. other than her daughter.

Since working with Ms. Chen, our staff attorney has realized the scarcity of social services and legal resources available to low-income, limited English proficient Chinese immigrants, and thereby has gone the extra mile to provide holistic services beyond the range of a typical legal services provider, because, as Ms. Chen often tells her, “You are the only one that is helping me.”

* Clients’ names changed to preserve confidentiality.

4 In its 25 year history, APALC has advocated for civil rights through lawsuits that seek to expand existing protections, set legal precedent or change institutional practices. APALC has led or participated in key civil rights cases to fight English-only workplace policies and Impact Litigation city ordinances, education inequity at public high schools and universities, sweatshop abuse and racially discriminatory employment practices. In 2008, APALC successfully fought on behalf of tenants, workers and students of color.

Fighting on Behalf of Workers Fighting for Tenants’ Rights Fighting for Students and & the Right to Speak Out Communities of Color

In October 2008, APALC successfully defended the Los Angeles APALC, in coalition with the ACLU of Southern California Taxi Workers Alliance (LATWA), the South Asian Network, and and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLC, along with the South Asian Network’s Executive Director against a lawsuit other civil rights organizations and law firms, helped defend brought by seven cab companies in Los Angeles. The cab the Los Angeles Unified School District’s desegregation companies alleged that the “Justice for Taxi Workers” campaign, policies. The Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit specifically town hall meetings, and multiple appearances before the City challenging the LAUSD’s magnet programs and Permits with Taxicab Commission violated restrictions on non-profits. With Transportation program as violating Proposition 209’s bar help from the Law Offices of Carol Sobel and Gaglione & Dolan, against race consciousness. Both programs had race as a factor who served as co-counsel, and expertise from Public Counsel, APALC exposed the lawsuit as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public for participation, but race was one component of many, as Participation (SLAPP), intended to punish these organizations mandated by a long-standing Crawford decree. APALC joined and activists for exercising their fundamental free speech APALC, along with co-counsel Los Angeles Center for Law the team of interveners working with LAUSD to protect those rights. The dismissal of the cab companies’ lawsuit is a huge and Justice and Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, represented a group programs, arguing that the programs fall under the exemption victory for low-wage workers and their advocates. As APALC of Koreatown tenants in Kim v. Shin. The suit, which was filed for existing consent decrees entered into prior to the passage argued in the case, the ability to speak out against injustice, to in 2007, charged that the landlords created uninhabitable of Prop 209 in 1996. The Superior Court agreed, dismissing petition the government for redress, and to demand change conditions in the tenants’ apartments when they started the case in January. The Pacific Legal Foundation’s appeal was from oppressive corporate practices are essential to the work major construction work as part of a plan to convert the units denied. of non-profits. to condominiums. The landlords tore down walls, exposed electrical wiring and removed kitchen and bathroom facilities. APALC has sought justice for low-wage workers through The lawsuit also alleged that the landlords failed to pay the several other ongoing cases. For example, along with co- tenants relocation assistance as required under city ordinance. counsel Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, APALC represents a After a six-day jury trial in June 2008, the tenants won their case, group of immigrants who responded to an ad in a Chinese and were awarded a total judgment of over $572,000 including language newspaper advertising “sushi school” classes and damages, restitution of relocation assistance money, and job opportunities. Instead of providing the training and job as attorneys’ fees against their landlords. The case also received advertised, the owner forced the students to work without pay. wide media coverage, providing vital community education on tenants’ rights.

5 APALC is uniquely able to litigate on behalf of workers to create systemic change as well as meet their direct legal needs. In 1995, APALC represented the Thai garment workers forced to work in abysmal and inhumane conditions in El Monte. Thirteen years later, in 2008, APALC had the rare privilege and honor of helping these same Thai immigrants receive their American citizenship. From Sweatshop Workers to Proud American Citizens: The Story of Freedom

In August 1995, the discovery of 72 Thai garment vehicle to empower and educate the workers as imagined possible in August 1995. After securing workers, forced to sew behind barbed wire and well as to reimagine the role of lawyers in social their legal status, many of the Thai workers became under armed guard in El Monte, California, justice litigation. APALC met with the workers eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship in 2007, 12 stunned the nation and the world. More workers innumerable times to discuss every aspect of the years after being freed from El Monte. By August – all Latino – also toiled in a front shop in case, organized trips to the retail stores where the 2008, more than 40 Thai workers had filed their downtown Los Angeles for the same contractor clothes were sold, and facilitated public speaking applications or completed their interviews with and manufacturers. As details of their ordeal opportunities for the workers. the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services became known – 18-hour workdays for less (USCIS), the successor to the very agency that than a dollar an hour, constant threats, extreme The lawsuit, Bureerong v. Uvawas, resulted sought to deport them a dozen years earlier. psychological abuse – the world was shocked and in two published legal decisions that opened Many have now been sworn in, and many more horrified. The workers’ ordeal received a wave the door to low-wage workers suing the large will soon follow, as U.S. citizens. In a special of media coverage that highlighted the poverty, corporations for whom they work, even when ceremony in August 2008 to commemorate this desperation, and extent of human rights abuses there is an intermediate contractor. The case latest chapter in their remarkable journey, APALC endured by low-wage immigrant workers in the was a landmark decision in federal law, marking honored the workers for being true American United States. the first time a Federal District Court opened the heroes, standing up for justice and embracing door for large retailers and manufacturers, who the American dream of freedom and opportunity. APALC, along with its co-counsel, launched a almost universally contract out their garment The Los Angeles Times covered the special historic lawsuit against not only the workers’ production, to be held responsible for garment ceremony and celebration in a front page article captors, but also against the manufacturers and workers’ wages. entitled, “Home of the Freed.” retailers for whom they had sewn. APALC was committed not only to fighting for the workers, In 2008, the Thai workers found themselves in a but fighting with them, using the lawsuit asa place few of them would have dreamed of or even

6 APALC creates a more just and harmonious society by developing leaders for a multiracial, Leadership global society and by strengthening interracial group relations. More than 1,000 parents, Development students, and community members were trained through APALC programs in 2008.

Developing Justice-minded Creating New Youth and Parent Leaders Community Leaders Through work with both youth and parents, APALC develops the For more than 17 years, the Leadership Development in leadership skills of immigrant families so that they can effectively Interethnic Relations (LDIR) program has challenged its advocate on issues affecting their communities. APALC’s participants to understand and negotiate the differences Preparing Asian Pacific American Youth Advocates (PAPAYA) is that separate them from each other, including issues of race, an afterschool social justice leadership development program ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and class. Currently for youth in San Gabriel Valley, home to some of Los Angeles County’s fastest-growing Asian populations. With an artistic focusing on the health sector through “LDIRs in Health,” the component, PAPAYA provides creative space for students to program has trained over 50 participants to support movement respond to the social justice issues presented in the program. building in the health sector and to develop and sustain The program is currently offered at Alhambra and Mark Keppel community-based initiatives to address health disparities. High Schools in the Alhambra Unified School District. LDIR’s influence extends beyond Los Angeles as well, with technical assistance to groups such as Solano Coalition for The LDIR school-based program is an in-school, semester-long Better Health and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Trainings course focused on building multi-ethnic student leadership in include topics like “Creating Multicultural Organizations” and which students can critically analyze and engage in well informed “Facilitating Intergroup Dialogue,” which encourage increased discussions on issues of race, class, gender, sexual identity and understanding and transparent communication. media literacy. The program has developed a comprehensive curriculum which it shares through teacher training and support effectively with teachers and school officials, how to support for service learning initiatives at partnering high schools. This a child’s academic success, and understanding pathways to year the class is being offered at Mark Keppel High School as college. The parent academies are conducted in Spanish, well as Wilson and West Adams Preparatory High Schools in the Mandarin, Cantonese and Vietnamese. In the past year, the Los Angeles Unified School District. program was conducted at Alhambra, Mark Keppel and San Gabriel High Schools, and reached more than 200 parents. APALC has also launched successful multilingual parent academies to help parents advocate for their children, as well as learn skills to become active community leaders. The parent academy curriculum focuses on leadership development and skills-building, and includes topics such as how to communicate

7 Parents Equal Power: Leaders Emerge from APALC’s Parent Leadership Training Advocating for your child within a complex grandchildren. “The education of adolescents our alumni will lead group discussions and assist school system is challenging for anyone, but in a society involves parents, school, and the with translation in our upcoming Academy. for immigrant parents with limited English community...Parents need to voice their concerns Our parent leaders will also be making a video proficiency and cultural differences, it is an even to the school and other parents.” Mrs. Zheng documenting their experiences as immigrants in greater challenge. APALC’s Parent Academy continuously encourages newcomer parents to the education system and their needs within it. One equips immigrant parents with tools to effectively participate in the Academy. parent summed it up: “Change can come about navigate the school system. Each year, our when we work as a whole: Parents=Power!” program graduates 150 parents from the high In the Leadership Training, parents led initiatives schools of Alhambra Unified School District highlighting the top issue in the high schools (AUSD). Last fall, APALC held a Leadership of AUSD: an inadequate number of school Training for returning alumni, to empower them counselors. According to the American School A critical component of APALC’s work with to become effective leaders for all children. For Counselor Association, the average 9-12 parent leaders is the Parent Organization six weeks, 28 parents developed organizing and grade student to counselor ratio for 2006 was: Network (PON), a group of 20 independent advocacy skills. Workshops were simultaneously Nationwide 248; LA County 382; AUSD 551. parent groups representing schools and translated into Mandarin and Vietnamese. Parents presented their findings and offered districts throughout Los Angeles County. In suggestions to school administration and board May 2008, over 400 parents participated in “I wanted to learn how the school system works members. The Vice-Superintendent validated the third PON Parent Summit to help shape here so I can teach my kids how to study at home...I the parents’ concerns and parents will continue PON’s first collective policy campaign learned something new at every workshop,” to meet to discuss next steps. around the creation of parent engagement says He Dai Zheng who has participated since standards for schools to follow in order to 2006. Mrs. Zheng along with her husband Zhan Before the Leadership Training, parents like Mrs. ensure meaningful and active involvement Hu Liang, immigrated from China in 1994, and Zheng might not have felt comfortable asking of parents in their children’s education. serve as the primary caregivers for their three questions or speaking in crowds, yet this March,

8 APALC defends civil rights through advocacy with the legislature and Policy Advocacy government agencies, in order to change existing laws or institutional policies at the city, county, state and national levels. & Analysis

Mobilizing Voters and Defending Voting Rights Surveying APA Voters

During the historic 2008 elections, APALC worked 17%, a tremendous effect that surpasses previous with APA community-based organizations to phone calling efforts. conduct non-partisan voter mobilization efforts, helping APA voters overcome common voting In 2008, APALC also conducted poll monitoring barriers. Voter mobilization is critical to activating during the February primary and November APA voters. Because political campaigns tend elections. With the assistance of a hundred to ignore voters with infrequent voting patterns, volunteers, APALC monitored over 160 poll sites including many limited English speaking APA in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Through the voters, community-based organizations are left to poll monitoring efforts, APALC and its volunteers shoulder the burden of providing the personalized enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects contact necessary to increase participation among limited English proficient voters at the polls and these infrequent voters. The mobilization efforts allows many of them to access translated voting included bilingual phone banks, voter hotlines, materials or to use interpreters. and materials translated into Asian languages. The get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort for both the June primary and November Presidential elections proved to be highly successful, reaching 12,000 voters in June and 15,000 voters in November. The phone calls increased APA voter turnout by

9 Exit Poll Results Asian Pacific American Presidential Vote in Los Angeles County (preliminary findings from 2008 Southern California Candidate % supporting Voter Survey) John McCain (R) 30% The exit poll surveyed over 4,000 voters in Los Angeles and Orange Counties in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Barack Obama (D) 68% Vietnamese, Tagalog, Korean, and Hindi. Other 2%

Asian Pacific American Presidential Vote in Los Angeles County by Ethnicity

Candidate Asian Indian Chinese Filipino Korean Vietnamese

McCain (R) 9% 22 % 36 % 40 % 46 % Obama (D) 90% 75 % 63 % 60% 53 % Other 1% 3% 1% 0% 1%

Key Issues for Asian Pacific Americans in Deciding Which Candidate to Support

Issue % of Asian Pacific American Voters

Economy / Jobs 65% Healthcare 29% Education 22%

War in Iraq 22% Civil Rights / Immigrant Rights 21%

10 Policy Advocacy & Analysis

Advocating for Immigrants

APALC has worked with other immigrant rights Locally, APALC works closely with Los Angeles County identity and residence from an evacuated area in order organizations to demand fair and humane immigration to ensure that APAs and other immigrants are able to to enter an emergency shelter, access emergency food legislation. To ensure an APA voice in the immigration access public hospitals, health clinics and government and water, and speak to a relief worker. As a result, debate, APALC has collected individual stories to programs. At the state level, APALC, as part of the families who had escaped the fires with only the clothes demonstrate to the media and the larger public the California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC), advocates on their backs were turned away, even though they were significant impact that proposed policies would have to protect state programs that provide crucial health, not legally required to prove their identity or residence. on APA communities. In 2008, APALC produced a nutrition and cash assistance services to California’s The elderly, people with disabilities, the homeless, report about the family immigration backlog entitled immigrant families. immigrants and those who are low-income are the least A Devastating Wait: Family Unity and the Immigration likely to possess and carry personal documents, and Backlogs highlighting family backlogs—which for some In January 2008, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are thus the most likely to be affected by unnecessary family categories are as long as 23 years—and the declared California to be in a state of fiscal emergency document checks during a disaster. AB 2327, which was impact on Asian Pacific American communities and as a result of its multi-billion dollar state budget deficit. signed into law in September 2008, will help to ensure families. In response, APALC united 38 APA community based that emergency response is effective and focuses on organizations to urge leaders in Sacramento to protect the safety and well-being of all Californians. critical health, nutrition and education services and reform our flawed budget system.

APALC also works to pass laws that protect immigrants; in 2008, APALC worked with CIPC to pass AB 2327, a bill requiring public employees who provide disaster- related assistance to do so without asking evacuees for information or documents not strictly necessary to determine eligibility for the services. During the 2008 San Diego wildfires, evacuees were asked to prove

11 Providing Demographic Data on Diverse APA Communities Advocating for Asian American Civil Rights Although demographic data drives many policy and in Urban Immigrant Communities: Lessons Learned from funding decisions, there is a significant lack of data on Recent Catastrophic Events and Their Relevance to APALC works on legislative solutions to issues such APAs. To fill this gap, APALC invests significant resources Latino and Asian Communities in Southern California, as hate crimes, language rights and discrimination in collecting, analyzing and disseminating ethnic and which found that immigrant and limited English proficient through Asian Americans for Civil Rights & Equality, a language-specific data on APAs. communities are not fully incorporated in disaster joint project with two San Francisco-based civil rights preparedness educational efforts and emergency organizations. In 2008, we championed a number of In 2008, APALC released a number of reports. Asian response plans, and provides recommendations to bills that promoted access for limited English speakers Americans at the Ballot Box: The 2006 General Election personnel and government officials in better prepare in a variety of contexts: in the courts, at the polls, in the in Orange County offered a comprehensive look at Asian immigrant communities in major disasters. juvenile justice system, during a disaster or emergency. American participation in 2006’s gubernatorial election, Many of these bills were vetoed at the Governor’s including Asian American voter registration and turnout, All reports are available at demographics.apalc.org. desk during the budget stalemat of 2008, but APALC support for candidates and ballot measures, views on continues to seek statewide solutions to issues affecting immigration reform and use of bilingual voter assistance. our community. LA Speaks: Language Diversity and English Proficiency by Los Angeles County Service Planning Area highlighted the demographics of the limited English proficient Disaster Preparedness in Urban Immigrant Communities: Lessons Learned communities in Los Angeles County by Service Planning from Recent Catastrophic E Relevance to vents and Their Communities inLatino So and Asian Area (SPA). The report found that five of the eight SPAs uthern California countywide are majority non-English speaking, and that Latino and Asian American communities faced the greatest challenges, with 48% and 43%, respectively, experiencing some difficulty communicating in English. In partnership with the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, APALC released a joint publication, Disaster Preparedness

12 Asian Pacific American Legal Center 2008 donors, supporters and program funders, including donations in support of the 25th Anniversary Dinner and 25th Anniversary Campaign

$1,000,000 + The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (’06-‘08) M + D Properties BP America Inc. (‘05-‘09) Walter & Shirley Wang Microsoft The California Endowment (‘06-‘09) Washington Mutual Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. Cyrus Chung Ying Tang Foundation Prudential Financial $50,000 - $99,999 Southern California Gas Company $500,000 - $999,999 Aratani Foundation Marguerite Casey Foundation (’08-‘11) Blue Shield of California Foundation (’08-‘09) $10,000 - $24,999 The State Bar of California, Legal Services California Bank & Trust AEG Trust Fund Program (’07-‘09) Carnegie Corporation of New York Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy Farmers Insurance Burger King Corporation $250,000 - $499,999 United States Department of Justice, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking The James Irvine Foundation Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Verizon (’07-‘09) (’06-‘08) Daniel S. Floyd, Esq. United States Department of Justice, Kaiser Permanente $100,000 - $249,999 Office of Special Counsel for Immigration- Alvin D. Kang Bank of America Related Unfair Employment Practices LA-18 / KSCI-TV California Community Foundation (’08-‘10) United Way of Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles Times California Fulfilling the Dream Fund (’06-‘08) W.K. Kellogg Foundation Stuart J. Mackey, Esq. & Shirley J. Su, Esq. The California Wellness Foundation (’07-‘10) Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP County of Los Angeles, Community and $25,000 - $49,999 Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Senior Services (’07-‘09) AT&T Nara Bank The David and Lucile Packard Foundation East West Bank Neighborhood Legal Services Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Nielsen Media Research J.T. Tai & Co. Foundation Edwin Kwoh Wah-Pui & Ellen H. Sam Levi Strauss Foundation Stewart Kwoh, Esq. & Pat Lee Kwoh Marie & Chor Chai Tan Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP John S.C. Lim, Esq. Union Bank of California Southern California Edison (’07-‘10) Wells Fargo

13 $5,000 - $9,999 $2,500 - $4,999 $1,200 - $2,499 The Angell Foundation ABC7 Pauline M. Aranas, Esq. Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles Drooks & Lincenberg Arnold & Porter LLP County (Hon. Fred J. Fujioka, Dolly M. Gee, Esq., California Bar Foundation Comerica Bank Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP, Kathryn California Teachers Association Dulay & Hom Gale Hirano, Esq., Lawrence Beach Allen & Choi, The Capital Group Companies Enterprise Rent-A-Car PC, Richard Y. Lee, Esq., Mona C. Soo Hoo, Esq., Cathay Bank Fannie Mae Edmond Sung, Esq., Lorraine Y. Wu, Esq., and CBS2 / KCAL9 Fox Rothschild LLP Flora S. Yin, Esq.) Shirley S. Cho, Esq. Goodwin Procter LLP Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center DIRECTV, Inc. Jones Day Asian Pacific Community Fund DLA Piper US LLP, Matthew S. Covington, Esq., Joseph & Jacqueline Kirshbaum Memorial Fund of Michael J. Brennan Michael H. Elam, Esq., Jeffrey M. Hamerling, Esq., the Liberty Hill Foundation California State University, Fullerton Harold B. Pomerantz, Esq., and Don Jue Warren W. Chang Dennis E. Wieczorek, Esq. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Eng & Nishimura Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George LLP Kebok Foundation Dolly M. Gee, Esq. Far East National Bank KTTV FOX 11 / KCOP MY 13 Mónica Gil Leslie Furukawa, Esq. L.F.A. Insurance Services, Inc. - In memory of Gomez & Furukawa Hitachi, Ltd. Beulah Kwoh Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los IBM Corporation Stephen C. Lee, Esq. Angeles (Alex H. Fukui, Esq., Katherine Hikida, IW Group, Inc. Macy’s West Esq., K. Anne Inoue, Esq., Luce, Forward, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Mayer Brown LLP Hamilton & Scripps LLP, Milberg LLP, Diana H. Koreatown Plaza McDermott Will & Emery LLP Nishiura, Esq., Kenneth T. Tanaka, Esq., E.C. (Pony) & Kay M. Lee McGuireWoods LLP, Sabina A. Helton, Esq., Sidney James M. Toma, Esq., and Steven K. Yoda, Esq.) Lim, Ruger & Kim, LLP and John S.C. Lim, Esq. Kanazawa, Esq., Steven M. Nakasone, Esq., Japanese American Optimist Club Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and Mark K. Suzumoto, Esq. Jung & Yuen, LLP Northrop Grumman Corporation Merrill Lynch Korean American Bar Association of Southern Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP NBC 4 California (Wonkoo Chang, Esq., Steven K. Pacific American Fish Company, Inc. O’Melveny & Myers LLP Hwang, Esq., Hyongsoon Kim, Esq., Lisa H. Kwon, Paramount Pictures Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Esq., Law Offices of Jane Oak & Associates, Joann Sidley Austin LLP Quan, Cohen & Hirano LLP H. Lee, Esq., Paul S. Park, Esq., and Ellen J. Anne Shen Smith Reed Smith LLP Shin, Esq.) Nita Song Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP KTLA-TV, Inc. Superior Grocers Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Yul Kwon University of California, Los Angeles William Lew Tan, Esq. C. David Lee, Esq. & Lisa Nguyen The Walt Disney Company Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. Jack & Betty Lee Dolores Wong and Family Dennis G. Uyemura Martin V. Lee, Esq. Jack S. Yeh, Esq. Little Tokyo Service Center

14 Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Susan D. Liebson, Esq. Hale Ichinose Community Alliance Chun Liu Hon. Lance A. Ito & Margaret A. York Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment Marcella Low Ian R. Jipp Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs, CSULA Hon. Elwood & Crystal Lui Kathleen C. Kim, Esq. Frank J. & Inez Quevedo Matt Construction Corporation Munson A. Kwok The Sakamoto & Maehara Family (Jo Ann Hirose, Daniel M. Mayeda, Esq. Marianne Lo Emy Sakamoto, and Sandy Sakamoto, Esq. Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Joseph M. & Denise Lumarda & Nolan Maehara) Grace Mitsuhata, Esq. & Ken Mitsuhata Cassandra Malry Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP Hon. George S. Nakano Ligia Mejia Bill H. Seki, Esq. Robert B. Oehler William K. Mills, Esq. Rebecca Shea & Hoyt Y. Sze, Esq. Pacific Alliance Bank Kathleen Mooney SkyRose Chapel Foundation at Rose Hills Pacific Commerce Bank Jones M. Moy Memorial Park Jee Hi Park, Esq. Glenn Ng, Esq. Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association Stone Tapert Employee Benefits Padilla Trial & Litigation Support Southern California Public Radio Martin Tachiki, Esq. Minah Park, Esq. & Victor Chang Southwestern Law School Kevin M. Tamaki Carol Wong Quan UCLA Center for Community Partnerships Hon. Casimiro U. Tolentino Rev. Sandie M. Richards Wilbur & Beth Woo Eric A. Webber, Esq. & Gerard C. Kraaijeveld Paul N. Shishima Grace T. Whitcomb Julie A. Su, Esq. & Hernan D. Vera, Esq. $500 - $1,199 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP Hamilton N. Tran, Esq. Asian American Justice Center Edward V. Yang Karin Wang, Esq. & Jeff Matsuda Asian Americans for Equality - In memory of Rochelle M. Yee Harold M. Williams, Esq. Hon. Delbert E. Wong Clayton K. Yeung & Sam E. Lucas, Esq. Doreena Wong, Esq. Asian Law Caucus Mark Yoshida, Esq. & Bich Ngoc Do Satoshi Yanai, Esq. & JoAn Cho Hon. Rick Auerbach Yang Management The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation $250 - $499 Dennis Yokoyama, Esq. & Janis Yokoyama Chan Law Group LLP API Equality-LA Kai-Hua Yu, Esq. - In memory of Wu-Chang Chang Vincent M. Gonzales, Esq. Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Rita Gunasekaran, Esq. LeRoy Berry Up to $249 Dean Hansell, Esq. Gary Blasi, Esq. & Kit Kollenberg Joanne Abing Hon. Ernest M. Hiroshige Inez M. Broussard Anonymous Hon. Rose Hom Change to Win Monica Avila Lilian S. Ileto – In memory of Joseph Santos Ileto Robert J. Cohen, Esq. Rosa Benitez Kenneth S. Kasamatsu Elvia De La Torre Burbank Human Relations Council Judy M. Lam, Esq. Lenore Navarro Dowling P.T. Catarongan Law Offices of Jennifer Lin Lieu Alex H. Fukui, Esq. Jesus R. Chavez, Esq. Lee Kum Kee Lori Gage Emily Chen, Esq. Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles Starlight Garcia William Y.T. Chow

15 Alan Constantino Philip H. Lam, Esq. Anthony Roh, Esq. Salvador Contreras Law Offices of Kiang & Kiang Jeffrey L. & Sylvia Rouss – In memory of Rebecca B. Couch, Esq. Anita H. Le, Esq. Joseph Santos Ileto Gloria Davis Catherine D. Lee, Esq. Raymond Sakai, Esq. LaVerne G. Davis Eugene P. Lee, Esq. Millicent N. Sanchez, Esq. Fernando de Necochea Eva J. Lee, Esq. Rose P. Shiner, Esq. Christopher Dea George C. Lee Eileen A. Shibata, Esq. Austin Delgadillo Melvin J. Lee Juliet L. Stone, Esq. Fung Der Edward Lew, Esq. Henry L. Stoy Pamela E. Dunn, Esq. Derek W. Li, Esq. Felicia Sze, Esq. Sylvia Dyson Susan Li George H. Takei Daniel B. Erlikhman, Esq. Leigh-Ellen Louie Hon. Diane M. L. Tan Fong & Chun, LLP Gail C. Louis, Esq. Noel B. Vales, Esq. Elaine J. Fong, Esq. Jennifer T. Lum, Esq. MonaLisa Whitaker Friends of Gary Yamauchi Xochitl Marquez Marshall J. Wong Hiroshi & Misako Fujisaki Riku Matsuda Karen Workcuff Catherine & Hon Wah Fung Christopher N. May Dennis M. Wu, Esq. Li’i Furumoto Michael S. McDonough, Esq. Jeremy Wu - In honor of Ashley Wu Emma Gee – In honor of Dick & Janice Osumi Jeffrey S. Mio Jeff Xiong William H. Grady Ken Montenegro David F. Yamada Steven R. Green The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Andrew & Magdalena Yamamoto Kenneth S. & Jo Ann Hamamura Brian E. Moskal, Esq. Nancy Yoshida Dee A. Hayashi, Esq. U. Murphy Donna J. Young Tom Hayashi Robert Y. Nakagawa Zenga, Inc. Vi Hua, Esq. Loc Nam Nguyen Hon. John Ing Angela E. Oh, Esq. In-kind Chiaki Inutake & Rance T. Kudo Stan M. Oishi, Esq. Lela Lee Leslie J. Kahan, Esq. Pacific Asian Counseling Services Deanna Kitamura, Esq. Julie S. Paik, Esq. Akemi Kayleng & Steven K. Knight Benton Pang Hon. Marlene Kristovich Ann I. Park, Esq. Preeti P. Kulkarni Manuelito G. Pasco Bois Kwan Siti Pasinah Carolyn Y. La, Esq. Renee Tajima Pena Sharon Lagapa Victor Q. Pham, Esq. Suki Lagman John Reese Luis & Lee Lainer Charles G. Robertson, Jr. - In memory of Beulah Kwoh

16 APALC Statement of Financial Position

ASSETS AMOUNT ($) LIABILITIES AMOUNT ($)

Cash and Cash Equivalents 3,577,714 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses 77,726 Long-term Investments 2,815,316 Accrued Employee Benefits 140,044 Grants and Pledges Receivable 1,540,197 Deferred Revenue 281,660 Property and Equipment, Net 2,556,598 Custodial Funds 14,720 Deposits 19,808 Total Liabilities 514,150 Total Assets 10,509,633

NET ASSETS AMOUNT ($)

Unrestricted 6,594,063 Temporarily Restricted 2,401,420 Permanently Restricted 1,000,000

Total Net Assets 9,995,483 Total Liabilities and Net Assets 10,509,633

17 SUPPORT & REVENUE EXPENSES

Program & Attorney Unrealized loss Rental & Recovery Fee on securities 2.22% Fundraising Interest Income 2.77% 0.56% 4.37%

Administrative Costs 12.32% Fundraising & Contributions 18.78%

Grants & Pledges 74.63% Program Services 84.35%

18 APALC Staff

Staff Wingshan Lo Theresa Tran, Esq. Lulu Amador, Esq. Aileen Almeria Louie Jessica Viramontes Dipti Baranwal Joanne Ma Karin Wang, Esq. Anna Basallaje Justin Ma, Esq. Amy Woo, Esq. Miwa Baumann Hala Masri Bernice Yau Goldie Buchanan Ken Montenegro Shirley Yauw, Esq. Patricia Buske Carmen Morgan Clayton Yeung Shukry Cattan Yun Sook Navarre Mark Yoshida, Esq. Stewart Chang, Esq. Nam-Pho Nguyen, Esq. Lona Cheung Carmina Ocampo, Esq. Esther Choe Jessica Ou Asian Americans for Estelle Chun, Esq. Janet Park Civil Rights & Equality Li’i Furumoto Yungsuhn Park, Esq. Leilani Aguinaldo Yee Sophaleena Gershoff Tammy Peng, Esq. Yuisa Gimeno Quynh Pham Cally Ho Tracey Quach, Esq. California Immigrant Policy Center Daniel Huang Roxanne Ramos Isabel Alegria Daniel Ichinose Anthony Roh, Esq. Felicia Martinez Jennifer Jiries Paloma Rosenbaum Isaac Menashe Diana Jou Sara Sadhwani Francis Nelson Kimiko Kelly Mary Sam Layla Razavi Ryan Khamkongsay Rebecca Shea Caroline Sanders Gerald Kim, Esq. Betty Song, Esq. Reshma Shamasunder Stewart Kwoh, Esq. Jane Su Garrick Wong Hye-Young Kwon Julie Su, Esq. Anita Le, Esq. Samantha Sunshine Eugene Lee, Esq. Minako Suzuki Bonnie Tang, Esq.

19 APALC Board of Directors

Executive Committee Members at Large

CHAIR SECRETARY Michael J. Brennan C. David Lee, Esq. Martin V. Lee, Esq. Rita Gunasekaran, Esq. University of California, Los Angeles Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Famco Investments Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP Shirley S. Cho, Esq. Stephen C. Lee, Esq. FIRST VICE CHAIR TREASURER Kirkland & Ellis LLP BP America Inc. John S.C. Lim, Esq. Vincent M. Gonzales, Esq. Lim, Ruger & Kim, LLP Sempra Energy Fung Der Joseph M. Lumarda Bank of America Capital Guardian Trust Company VICE CHAIR CO-CHAIR, Nita Song EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COUNCIL Leslie Furukawa, Esq. Loc Nam Nguyen IW Group, Inc. Marcella Low Gomez & Furukawa Catholic Charities of Los Angeles The Gas Company VICE CHAIR Dolly M. Gee, Esq. Mary Jane Perez Marie Tan, CPA CO-CHAIR, Schwartz, Steinsapir, Microsoft Marie Tan, CPA, A Prof. Corporation EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COUNCIL Dohrmann & Sommers, LLP Sandy Sakamoto, Esq. Frank J. Quevedo VICE CHAIR Lim, Ruger & Kim, LLP Mónica Gil Southern California Edison William Lew Tan, Esq. Nielsen Media Research Tan & Sakiyama, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Kevin M. Tamaki A Prof. Corporation Stewart Kwoh, Esq. Don Jue AT&T Asian Pacific American IBM Corporation VICE CHAIR Legal Center Hon. Casimiro U. Tolentino Alvin D. Kang State of California Nara Bank

20 Our mission is to advocate civil rights, provide legal services and education and build coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Pacific Americans and to create a more equitable and harmonious society.

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