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ANNUAL REPORT 2015–2016 OUR MISSION IS TO ADVANCE CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ASIAN AMERICANS AND TO BUILD AND PROMOTE A FAIR AND EQUITABLE SOCIETY FOR ALL A MESSAGE FROM OUR LEADERS

For the last 25 years, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC has been at the forefront of the Asian American and Pacific Islander civil rights movement. We have worked on issues related to immigration, anti-Asian violence prevention, race relations, census, voting rights, affirmative action, media diversity, language access and citizenship. Some of our issues–including access to broadband services– did not even exist when we opened our doors. Over the years, our expertise has been recognized in the media, by lawmakers at the very highest tiers of government and by the public. Our legal and policy advocacy has resulted in real positive changes for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

The last two years have been no different. Advancing Justice | AAJC played a key role that resulted in the unification of Filipino World War II veterans with their adult children in the United States. These efforts have allowed these veterans’ family members to wait for their visas in the United States.

Advancing Justice | AAJC has been a known and reputable voice in amicus briefs before the United States Supreme Court and other appellate courts. These briefs have touched on a wide variety of topics, including affirmative action, voting rights, access to the Internet, English proficiency, and immigration. Demonstrating the trust given to us, over 245 different organizations have joined our briefs in the last two years.

We continue to have a vibrant and dynamic community partners network. This network provides training and technical assistance to grass roots Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations in 32 states and the District of Columbia. It allows local voices to be lifted nationally. It also provides Advancing Justice | AAJC with first-hand information about the issues facing our diverse community.

As an affiliation, Asian Americans Advancing Justice–with our partners in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco–is getting stronger and more unified. Across all of our platforms, we are coordinating our work more than ever. Under one common name, our collective impact has and will increase significantly.

Notwithstanding the successes of Advancing Justice | AAJC, we know that the community’s needs are increasing–not diminishing. The 2016 election and the new Administration clearly present challenges to our community. Our organization needs to continue to grow, and be strategic about how we can use our experience and expertise to effect positive change. We must demonstrate leadership, focus and commitment at this critical time.

Our work could not be done without the generosity of friends and donors. We extend our deepest gratitude to all of you who have supported our work and look forward to your continuing support as we seek to advance the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.

Thank you.

John C. Yang Parkin Lee President and Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors

FOUNDING YEAR VOTING RIGHTS ACT FIRST PROGRAM AREAS

Advancing Justice | AAJC is founded Advancing Justice | AAJC First program areas include anti-Asian as the National Asian Pacific American successfully advocates for expansion violence, voting rights and immigrant rights. Legal Consortium. and reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. 2015–2016 // 1 STRENGTHENING ROOTS IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

PROMOTING FAIR AND JUST IMMIGRATION POLICIES NEW AMERICANS CAMPAIGN (NAC) Advancing Justice | AAJC is one of the nation’s leading authorities In 2015, Advancing Justice | AAJC became the on immigration policy as it affects the Asian American community. We leverage our position as a leader in the Asian American and site leader for the New Americans Campaign in broader social justice community in order to promote fair and the Washington metropolitan area. In this role, just immigration policies that protect family unity, provide access we have been working to bring together local to immigration status and a pathway to citizenship, and prevent immigration service providers to pave a better discrimination in enforcement. road for citizenship. Advancing Justice | AAJC OUR ADVOCACY and the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC) have partnered with AAPI- Throughout the 114th Congress, we educated Congress and the public about the impacts of proposed anti-immigrant and serving community based organizations to hold anti-refugee policies on AAPI communities and promoted numerous naturalization workshops to provide forward-looking legislation such as the Reuniting Families legal assistance to individuals applying to become Act which was introduced in 2016 by Representative Michael U.S. citizens throughout the year. Honda. With gridlock in Congress, we turned to administrative advocacy during the prior administration to fix our broken immigration system.

REUNIFICATION FOR FILIPINO WORLD WAR II VETERANS The Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program is illustrative of the meaningful victories we can achieve to reunite families - in this case, uniting Filipino World War II veterans with their adult children who can now wait for their visas in the U.S. instead of waiting for many years overseas. Advancing Justice | AAJC played a key role in the advocacy for the creation of the program throughout 2015 and worked closely with USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) and the White House in its implementation and outreach in 2016. USCIS began accepting applications for the program in early June 2016.

DEFERRED ACTION FOR LEFT: Citizenship Day 2016. On September 17, Advancing CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS (DACA) Justice | AAJC with the American Immigration Lawyers Association and our DC area NAC partners, organized nine Advancing Justice | AAJC continued its nationwide outreach workshops in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, through which we and education to assist Asian Americans in accessing legal helped over 200 individuals apply for naturalization. RIGHT: Washington Post reporter David Nakamura tells the assistance and applying for relief under DACA. Our continued story of World War II veteran Art Caleda, a Philippines native partnership with the AAPI DACA Collaborative allowed us who served our country, received citizenship under a 1990 to learn more about best practices and lessons learned from immigration law, and continues to wait—now more than 20 DACA-related outreach, which we were able to convey to years—to reunite with his children. policymakers in Washington, D.C.

FIRST AMICUS BRIEF AUDIT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS

Advancing Justice | AAJC files its first amicus brief with the Advancing Justice | AAJC publishes the first Audit of Violence Supreme Court in the case Wisconsin v. Mitchell. In upholding that Against Asian Pacific Americans and helps to successfully pass state’s hate-crime statute, the Supreme Court cites AAJC’s brief. the Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act.

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ENSURING AN ACCURATE REFLECTION stakeholders attended—including community leaders, social OF ASIAN AMERICANS IN THE CENSUS service providers, business leaders, academics, funders, as well as legislators and administrative officials from local, state and Advancing Justice | AAJC works to address barriers that have federal government. historically resulted in the undercounting and underreporting of AAPIs in federal data collection and analysis efforts. An accurate count of the AAPI community in the census is a must for government services to be provided to our people and for We have received enthusiastic and positive decision makers to understand the community’s importance. feedback on the report from many leaders who Our work has led to increasing census research on improving outreach to Asian Americans, particularly those who are have expressed their gratitude for a tool that they limited English proficient—the people who stand to lose the have used to advance their advocacy agendas most if they are not accurately represented. and to leverage greater resources for community Advancing Justice | AAJC serves in leadership roles as needs. Further, we are increasing visibility and policy expert through our appointment to the Census Bureau’s greater understanding of Asian American, Native National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities Populations (NAC), as chair of the Census Bureau’s Language Working Group, as well as in our role as co-chair of the through ethnic and national press coverage. Leadership Conference Census Task Force. We continue to provide education and technical assistance on census issues to the general public and our communities by highlighting the importance of the census. We are developing our Census 2020 Outreach and Education Campaign for the AAPI community, applying our experience from the Census 2010 Campaign to best reach our hard-to-count AAPI communities. In November 2016, as chair of the Language Working Group for the NAC, Advancing Justice | AAJC led the development of a report focused on the Census Bureau language program for the 2020 Census. This led to a series of recommendations that included suggested criteria for which languages to cover, best practices for translations, and the types of materials to be translated. INCREASING THE VISIBILITY OF ASIAN AMERICANS AS PART OF THE FABRIC OF AMERICA In fall 2015, we published our demographic report on the West, the last report in our “Community of Contrasts” series based on 2010 Census data. We held launch events in each of the areas highlighted in the report: in Seattle with Asian Counseling and Reporting Services, in Portland with the Over 5,000 Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, in Phoenix with copies distributed Asian Pacific Community in Action, in Las Vegas at an event organized by community leaders, and in Honolulu with Papa Ola Lokahi. At each launch event, between 80-120 community

NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR defends family immigration

Karen K. Narasaki is hired as Advancing Justice | AAJC successfully leads efforts to defend family executive director. immigration against amendments that would have eliminated certain categories of family sponsorship.

2015–2016 // 3 PROMOTING EQUAL PROTECTION LEGAL ADVOCACY

ENSURING LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR ASIAN AMERICANS Through our legal advocacy program, Advancing Justice | AAJC participates in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal and administrative courts on key civil rights issues that have significant impact on AAPI and immigrant communities. We have engaged in cases at various stages of litigation, filing amicus curiae briefs and working with the broader racial and social justice movement, advancing equal protection for all Americans on a wide range of issues including voting rights, language access, education, immigrant rights, criminal justice, housing, healthcare access, and racial justice.

FISHER V. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS V. NEWBY

In November 2015, Advancing Justice | AAJC, together with In July 2016, we submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of our affiliates Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles, Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on behalf of 17 civil rights groups Asian Law Caucus, and Chicago, submitted an amicus brief to in a high-profile and extremely expedited appeal challenging the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Texas imposition of proof-of-citizenship requirements for federal voter at Austin’s affirmative action policy. June 23, 2016, the Supreme registration. Our position saw victory on September 9, thereby Court agreed with Advancing Justice | AAJC and upheld the blocking states from adding proof-of-citizenship requirements for University’s affirmative action program. federal voter registration.

BANK OF AMERICA CORP V. CITY OF MIAMI LEE V. UNITED STATES

In October 2016, we led a multiethnic coalition of 32 civil In Fall 2016, Advancing Justice | AAJC filed a cert-stage amicus rights organizations to file an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme brief, leading a coalition of 15 Asian American, civil rights, and Court supporting the ability of cities to sue banks under the immigrant rights organizations in support of a petition for Supreme Fair Housing Act (FHA) to challenge discriminatory lending Court review by an immigrant facing deportation. In December practices that harm minority homeowners and loan applicants. 2016, the Supreme Court granted review. We led a merits stage Our position saw victory on May 1, 2017. brief in 2017, and our position saw victory on June 23, 2017.

MULTICULTURAL MEDIA V. FCC LEE V. TAM

In October 2016, Advancing Justice | AAJC led a multiethnic In November 2016, Advancing Justice | AAJC led a coalition coalition of 26 civil rights, immigrant rights, and language access of 12 AAPI organizations to file an amicus brief to warn the advocacy organizations in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court about the dangers of opening the federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Our brief in support of trademark program to racial slurs and other disparaging multi-language emergency alert broadcasts highlighted the life trademarks. One of Advancing Justice | AAJC’s primary goals and death impact on the ground for non-English speakers caught in filing the amicus brief was to lead public education and up in natural disasters and other emergencies. media messaging, particularly to Asian American youth.

KING V. BURWELL

On March 14, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Advancing Justice | AAJC rallied in support of the ACA outside the high court alongside our partners. Advancing Justice | AAJC joined our partners and filed an amicus brief in the case.

census 2000 EDUCATION CAMPAIGN LAUNCH

Advancing Justice | AAJC advocates on issues related to Advancing Justice | AAJC launches the largest Census 2000 by successfully fighting to keep Asian national nationwide community-based education campaign origin categories on the short form. targeting AAPIs to promote the 2000 census.

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INCREASING VOTING POWER AND PROTECTING EQUAL ACCESS TO THE BALLOT BOX FOR ASIAN AMERICANS As a nationally recognized expert on voting rights, Advancing Justice | AAJC works to increase participation of Asian Americans in the political process by eliminating barriers to participation and promoting policies that increase access. We promote compliance with voting rights laws and increased access to the ballot, fight voter intimidation and suppression, produce reports on voting rights issues, and conduct voter positions on several key issues. The Voter Guide was published surveys to increase understanding about the voting behavior and for first-time voters who may not be as familiar with the voting attitudes of our community. We also file amicus briefs on voting process and included information on how to register to vote and rights to ensure Asian American and other disenfranchised cast a ballot, as well as voting information for all 50 states. communities’ needs are known and on the record. We provide training to our Community Partners and local community based VOTER HOTLINE organizations on a wide range of issues, including enforcement Advancing Justice | AAJC and Asian Pacific Islander American of the language assistance provisions of the Voting Rights Act Vote (APIA Vote) run the 888-API-VOTE Asian Language and election administration issues. Election Hotline, a year-round, national, Asian-language voter protection/information hotline with bilingual assistance available ELECTION PROTECTION AND LANGUAGE ACCESS to voters in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Ensuring language access during elections remains a top Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, and Urdu. We help voters who have priority for Advancing Justice | AAJC. questions about voting, need help understanding the voting process and those who experience problems voting. We host the FACT SHEETS hotline live at a call center all-day on Election Day. For the 2016 For the 2016 elections, Advancing Justice | AAJC published election cycle, calls were also answered live remotely by volunteers in-language factsheets on Sections 203 and 208 of the Voting starting early October leading into November 8. Rights Act, identifying jurisdictions providing language assistance and explaining a voter’s right to assistance of choice, respectively. These languages included: Bengali/Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese.

PALM CARDS Advancing Justice | AAJC designed a business-sized palm card that included state specific information, general voting information and rights, and advertisement of the hotline number and the languages supported. Over 6,500 palm cards were distributed to 24 partner organizations in 12 states (AZ, FL, GA, MN, NM, OH, PA, TX, VA, DC, MD and NC), which were utilized by our partners at their Get Out The Vote (GOTV) events We had over 550 callers before Election Day. On and outreach leading up to the election. Election Day we had nearly 250 calls addressed VOTER GUIDE by volunteers. This call volume more than doubles In 2016, Advancing Justice | AAJC published the Presidential the call volume in 2014, including five times more Voter Guide: A Resource for the Asian American Electorate for in-language calls. the general election, detailing the leading presidential candidates’

LAUNCHES MEDIA COALITION COMPLETES DEMOGRAPHIC HANDBOOK

Advancing Justice | AAJC launches the Asian Pacific American Advancing Justice | AAJC completes a handbook entitled, Media Coalition, which promotes inclusion of AAPIs in “Census 2000 Asian Population Demographic Data programming and operations of network television. Handbook.” It includes Census 2000 population data on the AANHPIs. 2015–2016 // 5 BUILDING POLITICAL POWER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

ENGAGING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO ADVANCE AND PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ASIAN AMERICANS COMMUNITY PARTNERS NETWORK Established in 1995, this program has accumulated more than 20 years of experience in coalition-building as well as providing training and technical assistance to local groups on campaign efforts. With 156 community-based organizations and local allies in 32 states and the District of Columbia, we work closely with members of the network to develop regional and local capacity to elevate community voices across the nation. In turn, the network provides us first-hand information about the issues facing our diverse community.

EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE In 2014, Advancing Justice | AAJC launched the Empowering Communities Initiative, formerly known as the Emerging “The Youth Summit really taught me the skills I need Constituencies Initiative (ECI), which strives to provide to be an effective community advocate and leader. support and build capacity of local organizations and leaders I’m grateful to Advancing Justice | AAJC for the to advocate on behalf of their communities so that Asian opportunity to learn from today’s leaders in the Americans may more effectively participate in democratic civil rights movement, especially Mee Moua, and her processes at the local, state, and national levels. In 2015, we convened 12 local AAPI organizations in staff. Every day, you are moving us further ahead in Houston, TX for the ECI, creating the first AAPI-focused the fight for equal rights for all. Keep up the great advocacy collaborative in the city and state. We provided work and thank you for inspiring a new generation of technical assistance, including development training, which advocates to carry the torch.” resulted in a successful $200,000 multi-year grant for the Houston ECI collaborative to support AAPI outreach and civic – DEVIN TRAN, Youth Leadership Summit 2015 engagement. The ECI Leadership Committee established a "We talked more about comprehensive immigration structure and plan of action to utilize the grant both to increase AAPI engagement in Election 2016, as well as to establish a reform, as well as the successes and challenges foundation for their policy efforts in 2017 and beyond. [Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders] face at the federal level. We learned that it was more than YOUTH LEADERSHIP SUMMIT policy. Rather, it was an entire movement fueled by Advancing Justice | AAJC’s Youth Leadership Summit is a community advocacy. These women were at the three-day leadership development program for college students. forefront fighting for our rights. Fortunately, we The Summit provides a unique opportunity for young advocates were able to network with them after the session. from across the country to gain hands-on experience from interactive workshops and activities with policy advocates The summit not only taught us about policy, and and legislative staff of Members of Congress on Capitol Hill. how to advocate for it, but also gave us the space to Advancing Justice | AAJC provided scholarships for 17 students practice our new skills." ­­ in 2015 and 21 students in 2016. – LOUIE VITAL, Youth Leadership Summit 2016

RENAMED AAJC A COMMUNITY OF CONTRASTS

NAPALC is renamed the Asian American Justice Center Advancing Justice | AAJC and APALC release “A (AAJC) to more accurately reflect the group’s mission. Community of Contrasts,” a national demographic report that highlights AAPI communities and their social and economic diversity. 6 \\ ANNUAL REPORT OUR IMPACT

AMICUS BRIEFS:

different organizations and civil rights groups’ diverse and powerful website visits a month voices were heard through the 7 Supreme Court amicus briefs Advancing Justice | AAJC authored or co-authored.

NATURALIZATION WORK In partnership with the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center

WE PROVIDED of volunteer assistance at our Citizenship followers on social media Workshops where we collectively offered (facebook and twitter) assistance in 8 different languages (Arabic, $ Cantonese, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese). MEDIA HITS radio, television, print, and online We held 12 Citizenship Application Workshops where we provided $ of free-of-charge legal assistance to NEARLY help 195 individuals to complete their naturalization applications.

Throughout the Citizenship Workshops forums, conferences, we have assisted individuals from trainings, and special events with AAJC represented. DIFFERENT COUNTRIES China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. OVER

HOTLINE CALLS: WE HELPED OVER PALM CARDS WERE DISTRIBUTED The palm cards provided basic voting rights information and the voter hotline callers leading up callers the number with the languages supported.

to Election Day & NEARLY day of!

STRENGTHENS ALLIANCE NEW PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Advancing Justice | AAJC strengthens its alliance with its Mee Moua is hired as third president and affiliates–APALC, ALC and AAI–under the newly launched executive director of Advancing Justice | AAJC. Asian American Center for Advancing Justice.

2015–2016 // 7 ADVANCING JUSTICE CONFERENCE LOS ANGELES 2016

EMPOWERING ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES 2016 AND BEYOND The Advancing Justice Conference (AJC) is the largest national conference in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community focusing on civil rights and social justice. Every year, AAPIs from across the U.S. come together to address issues facing our fastest growing population. Last year’s Advancing Justice Conference theme, “Empowering Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities 2016 and Beyond,” focused on civic engagement and building our electoral and social power in support of economic and racial justice. Conference attendees participated in two days of panel discussions, caucus sessions, skills and capacity building, trainings, and networking receptions. Nearly 950 AAPI community leaders from across the country traveled to Los Angeles, California for the conference.

TOP: Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27), United States House of Representatives, Chair, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Opening Remarks: What’s at Stake in the 2016 Elections? LEFT: Speaker Sue Van, President & CEO, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Plenary: Why Do AAPI Voters Matter? RIGHT: Zahra Billo, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations – San Francisco Bay Area and Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-33) United States House of Representatives The Perpetual Sinister Foreigner: How Race, Religion and National Security Collide

DACA ADVOCACY apa federal judicial nominees

Advancing Justice | AAJC successfully advocates for Deferred Advancing Justice | AAJC strongly supports AAPI Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. federal judicial nominees, leading to two federal appellate court confirmations that year.

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The American Courage Awards is an annual event hosted by Advancing Justice | AAJC, honoring individuals, groups, and corporations in recognition of their extraordinary courage or commitment to the cause of AAPI civil rights. Generous support of the American Courage Awards serves to ensure the quality, continuance, and reach of our highly valuable programs to promote justice. The American Courage Awards offers a meaningful opportunity for corporations, foundations, law firms, and community organizations to come together and show their support for strengthening the civil and human rights of the AAPI community.

2015 American Courage Award Left to Right: Bridge Builder Award Honoree Google Accepted by: Katherine Oyama, Sr. Policy Counsel, Google, American Courage Award Presenter U.S. Senator Al Franken, U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono, Mee Moua President and Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, American Courage Award Honoree The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr. Former Attorney General of the United States, Distinguished Service Award Honoree Dr. Prabhjot Singh, Physician Professor and Community Leader

25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION LEFT: 2016 American Courage Awards Honorees, Left to Right: American Courage Award Honoree Vanita Gupta, Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, President’s Award Honoree Khizr Khan, Gold Star parent, Changemaker Award Honoree Jimmy Ferguson, Owner/Operator, J-C’s McDonald’s Ltd. BOTTOM: Parkin Lee Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC Board Chair

FILIPINO VETERANS ADVOCACY RESCIND NSEERS

Successfully advocated for program to allow Filipino American Advancing Justice | AAJC successfully co-led WWII Veterans to reunite with their families in the U.S. effort for rescision of anti-muslim Federal registry system (NSEERS).

2015–2016 // 9 2015 DONORS Advancing Justice | AAJC gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following supporters. If there is an error or omission, please call (202) 296-2300 ext. 0121. PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals who are members of the President’s Circle. The President’s Circle is a premier support group of Advancing Justice | AAJC. Defender ($10,000–$24,999) Parkin Lee and Doris Ng Benefactor ($1,000–$2,499) Yoon Young Lee Jeffrey Hsi George Willy Jennifer Ahmed Derek Miller and Sumee Jo The David and Katherine Michael Isaku Begert Taron Kato Murakami Protector ($2,500–$4,999) Moore Family Ted Childs LLC Ron and Fujie Ohata Mark Fordham Foundation Pamela Cordova Gita N. Pancholy Deanna Lee Gina Shishima Johnnie Giles Skip W. Rhodes Raymond Lin Jacinta Titialii-Abbott Ben Huh Pamela Smith Sona Pancholy Marlene M. Johnson Linda Mar Weidman and Advocate ($5,000–$9,999) Rogene Pendleton Irene and Kenzo Kawanabe Scott Weidman Anne Chow Michael Kim Paul Lee FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS Leaders ($500–$999) Elayne Chow Daniel Mayeda Louis Woo Jim Larson Debo Adegbile Kelvin Chu Thomas Migaki Frank Wu Lorraine Lee Francis Chin Kevin Chu Mark Morodomi Grant Wu Parkin Lee Richard Dolan & Marilyn Bhumika Dave Raymond S. Murakami Sue Yan Andrew L. Leong Dolan Deborah Dunlop & Donald Vasu Muthyala Jenny Yang Michael Lieberman Go Kevin Fong Hayashi Dayna S Fellows Peggy Nagae Margaret Chow Yung Quinnie Lin Michael Fung Edwin Fichter Lillian Nakagawa Dick Locastro Friends ($1–$99) Kenie Ho Ivan Fong Jadine Nielsen Tina Matsuoka Binoy Agarwal Bill Hou Ankur Goel Hirotoshi and Sumie Joe Moore Lynn Boiko Karen Korematsu Graphek Nishikawa Brian Munshi Irene Bueno Nancy Lee Mark Grisby Frank Ocean Nanay CEDC Yee Chang Sunil Mansukhani Daniel B. Hess Kristina Park Phi Nguyen Viveka Chen Warren Maruyama Jayanne Hino Ali Pasha Robert Nishinaka Kelly Cheng Doris Matsui Cheryl Hirata-Dulas Leslie Proll Imtiaz Noorani JK Choi Robert Moffitt James Ho Amy Sandra Franklin Odo Kuge Chosei and Frances Maulik Pancholy and Ryan Paul and Louann Igasaki Rukku Singla Elena Ong Suman Dhanireddy Corvaia Lois Ingram James Slaughter David K. Park Michelle Esperanza Nimesh Patel Deeana Jang Una Song Christopher Punongbayan Elaine J. Fong Robert Raben Derrick Johnson Antonio Taguba Ameesha Sampat Rodney Fong Roselyne C. Swig Rodney Kawakami Michele Tam Monteiro Silva Jenigh Garrett Ellen Kim Mustafa Tameez Kristen Stehling Partners ($100–$499) Benjamin De Guzman Kimi Kondo Richard T. Ting A.J. Sutton Irwin Bacuita Heat C. Leao Irving Kuo Willard Tom & Natalie Jaseem Tameez Priya Bathija Sharmaine Heng Jason Lagria Lichtenstein Andrew Thompson Harry Budisidharta Holly Holst Carol Lee Elaine Tung Kenji and Mary Tomita Rogene Calvert Jaime Kawanabe Katherine Lee Paul Uyehara Karen Tseng Jeff Chan Kanji Kawanabe Judith Lichtman Stanley Young and Hyun- Kelly Williams Warren Chan Thomas Kometani Marcia Lim Sook Park Lena Wong Lisa Chang Asako Kubota Andrew Lin Austin Wang Simone Wu Tejpal Chawla F.L. Kuge Julie Lu Martha Watanabe Ivy Yan Ming Chen Richard Kumiyuki Ella Mae Matsumura Jimmie and Margaret Wing Debrework Zewdie Michael Choi Abe Lai FOUNDATIONS­ Annie E. Casey Foundation | The Boston Foundation | Children Count Foundation | Fannie Mae Foundation | The Ford Foundation l Four Freedoms Fund | Open Society Foundation | Rockefeller Brothers Foundation | Sierra Health Foundation | The Tides Center | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Wallace H. Coulter Foundation CORPORATE ALLIANCE AT&T | Comcast NBC Universal | Facebook | Google | interTrend Communications, Inc. | McDonald’s Corporation | National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) | Nielsen | Northrop Grumman | State Farm Insurance Companies | The Rockefeller Group | Time Warner Cable | Verizon | Walmart OTHER CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT 3M | AARP | Abercrombie & Associates, LLC | Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP | All State l Amazon Smiles | Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund | Bank of America Charitable Foundation | CBS Corporation | Center for Public Interest Research | Covington & Burling LLP | Crowell & Moring LLP | Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP | First Capitol Consulting | Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman | The George Washington University School of Law | GRAPHEK, Inc. | Gray, Plant & Mooty | Hogan Lovells US LLP | Imprenta Communications Group | IW Group | King and Spalding | Lim, Ruger & Kim, LLP | Locke Lord LLP | Marriott International |Minami Tamaki LLP | NAACP Legal Defense Fund | NAFSA: Association of International Educators | NANAY, Inc.| National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum | National Association of Broadcasters | National Education Association | NVG, LLC | National Asian Pacific Center on Aging | National Immigration Forum | National Partnership for Women & Families | OCA | People for the American Way | The Pew Charitable Trusts | PhRMA | Planned Parenthood | Project Vote | Qualcomm | The Raben Group, LLC | Ropes & Gray LLP | Service Employees International Union (SEIU) | Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Shen Consulting Inc. | Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett LLP | Starbucks Coffee Company | Ted Childs, LLC | United Food and Commercial Workers Int’l Union AFL-CIO, CLC | US. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation | The Walt Disney Company | Wilmer Hale, LLP | Woodbury Plastic Surgery

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PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals who are members of the President’s Circle. The President’s Circle is a premier support group of Advancing Justice | AAJC. Defender ($10,000–$24,999) Anne H. Chow and Robert W. Moore Benefactor ($1,000–$2,499) Karen Korematsu Jeffrey Hsi George Willy Warren Chan Andy Liu Parkin Lee Jennifer Chen Doris Matsui Protector ($2,500–$4,999) Gina Shishima and Ernest David Wai-Ling Eng Derek Miller Debo Adegbile Sosa Jeffrey Fergus Tuan Nguyen Joan Haratani Jacinta Titialli-Abbott Michael and Debbie Fung Sandra Paik Don Liu Brenda Hibbeln Gordon and Sylvia Quan Advocate ($5,000–$9,999) Taron Kato Murakami Paul and Louann Igasaki Skip W. Rhodes Bill Imada Nimesh Patel Kenzo Kawanabe Angelo Oh and Ming Tu Jimmy and Cindy Ferguson Linda Mar Weidman and Scott Fair Kim Yoon Young Lee Weidman FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS Leaders ($500–$999) Daniel and Cheryl Hirata Lisa Lee Val Wan Andrea Kwon Maulik Pancholy and Ryan Dulas Cynthia Lee Martha Watanabe Christy Kwon Corvaia Praveen Fernandes Lucy Lee Seth Waxman and Jason Langria Susan Jin Davis Edwin Fichter Karen Leung Katherine Whitley Renee Lai Michael Isaku Mark Fleming Jeffrey Lewis Jonathan Williams James Lardner Nancy Lee Kevin Fong Michael Lieberman Jimmie and Margaret Wing Duabhav Lee Christopher Kang and Elaine Fong David Longtin Ted Gong and Mohkeed Rebecca Lee Elizabeth Liu Rodney Fong Daniel Mayeda Wong Dorothy Lew Sunil Mansukhani Clifford Gaw William McLucas Eunice Yang David McCord Warren Maruyama Albert Giang Leslie Moe-Kaiser John C. Yang Alok Moharir J. Zach Rosenblatt Jayanne Hino Floyd Mori Kim Young Dhrupad Nag John Paul Schnapper- James Ho Lillian Nakagawa Justine Ly Nguyen Friends ($1–$99) Casteras Neil Horikoshi Jadine Nielsen Elena Ong Anisa Ali Ye Shang Kyla Hsia Angela North Prashant Ramesh Cynthia Bale Sachiko Takayasu Katharine Hsiao Patrice O’Day Greg Seto Matthew Beehr Kim Tran Zachary Huey Cindy Ok Udeitha Srimushnam Patrick Bolognese Austin Wang Lois Ingram Erin Oshiro Andrew Stanecki Gale Bonker Jeanne Isler Joshua Packman Gray Tang Partners ($100–$499) Scott Businsky Randall Lee and Stella Bede Ramcharan Elizabeth Taylor Kevin Bradley Earl Campos Jeong Archana Sahgal Mary Thexton Tonia Bui Celina Chan Les Jin Naznin Saifi Michael Tien Sanket Bulsara Fanilla Cheng Jasjit Kalra James Slaughter Kenji and Mary Tomita Jeff Chan Moon Choi Angie Karna David Smyth John M. Tran Elaine Chang-Baxter Arthur Gee Michael Kerkman K. Dane Snowden Brian Tsai Tejpal Chawla Becky George Andrew Kim Brenda Abdelall and Tamer Gay Wilkins Ming Chen Brian Gray Sara Kline Solim Lena Wong Kathy Ko Chin Kevin Hogan Anahaita Kotval Antonio Taguba Frank Wu Francis Chin Caron Ikeda Kamren Kubesh Michele Tam Angela Wu Yunup Chong Charles Ingram Irving Kuo Gary Tanigawa Weidong Xia Rose Chu Dennis Jing Abe Lai Natalie Lichenstein & Gerald Yamada Arlo Cutright David Kaiser Eugene Lao Willard K. Tom Ying Ivy Yan Nelson Dong June Kao Carol Lee Ming Tu Laura Yoo Jon Katz Ko Lee Vallay Varro Alison Zhao Rika Kido FOUNDATIONS­ Annie E. Casey Foundation | Boston Foundation | Four Freedoms Fund | Hiram Leung and Ellyn Lo Fong Foundation | NEO l Open Society Foundation | The David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation | The Ford Foundation | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Wallace H. Coulter Foundation CORPORATE ALLIANCE AT&T | CBS Corporation | Charter Communications | Comcast NBC Universal | Facebook | Google | McDonald’s Corporation | National Association of Broadcasters | National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) | Nielsen | Northrop Grumman | Nueva Vista Group, LLC | PhRMA | The Rockefeller Group | SalesForce | Starbucks Coffee Company | State Farm | The Walt Disney Company | Time Warner Cable | Verizon | Walmart OTHER CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT 3M | 50CAN Great Schools Change Everything | AARP | Abercrombie & Associates, LLC | ACCESS | Amazon Smile | AMOA | Asian American Bar Association | Asian American Bar Association of Houston | Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies | Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Foundation | BB&T | Chin & Curtis, LLP | Crowell & Moring LLP | Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP | First Capitol Consulting | Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman | Hogan Lovells US LLP | IW Group | K&L Gates LLP | Law Offices of William C. Hou | Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | Leadership Conference | Lim, Ruger & Kim LLP | Marriott International, Inc. | Mei & Mark, LLP | NAFSA: Association of International Educators | NQAPIA | OCA | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | Outten & Golden LLP | Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. | Service Employees International Union | The George Washington University Law School | The Javade Chaudhri and Gail Kee Fund | The Raben Group, LLC | Unite Here | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, CIO | Wilmer Hale, LLP | Your Cause, LLC

2015–2016 // 11 STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS NATIONAL ADVISORY Sunil Mansukhani Mee Moua Parkin Lee, Chair COUNCIL The Raben Group President and The Rockefeller Group Linda Mar Weidman, Warren H. Maruyama Executive Director Anne H. Chow, Vice Chair Chair Hogan Lovells US LLP Marriott International, Inc. Lucy M. Lee AT&T Mari Matsuda Vice President, Finance Taron Murakami, Kevin Bradley University of Hawaii and Operations Secretary The Boeing Company School of Law Jiny Kim Mark Fordham, Treasurer Irene Bueno Sylvester Mendoza, Jr. Vice President, Policy Starbucks Coffee Company Nueva Vista Group LLC Northrop Grumman and Programs Corporation Jeffrey D. Hsi Jonathan M. Cohen Michelle Boykins Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. Gilbert Randolph LLP Dale Minami Director, Strategic Johnnie Giles Minami Tamaki LLP Communications Kenzo S. Kawanabe Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP Comcast Corporation Leslie Moe-Kaiser, Ph.D. Lisa Campbell-Thornton OCA National Karen Korematsu Ankur Goel Director, Human Resources McDermott Will & Emery LLP and Administration Fred T. Korematsu Institute Harsha Murthy Consummate Capital LLC Stewart Kwoh Joan M. Haratani Cecelia Chang Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Director, Litigation Asian Americans Advancing Angela E. Oh Justice | LA Bill Ong Hing CA Dept. of Fair Employment Eugene Chay University of San Francisco and Housing Senior Staff Attorney, Deanna Lee Carnegie Corporation School of Law Skip Rhodes Megan Horn Essaheb of New York Neil Horikoshi Skip Rhodes and Assistant Director, Associates, LLC Yoon-Young Lee Asian & Pacific Islander Immigration and Immigrants’ American Scholarship Fund Rights Litigation Wilmer Hale Robert S. Sheen First Capitol Consulting, Inc. Andy Liu Douglas Jackson Marita Etcubañez Magnus, LLC Director, Strategic Initiatives Social Security Administration Robert K. Woo, Jr. King & Spalding LLP Sona Pancholy Mark Keam Jessica Hamlett Independent Consultant Office Manager Venable LLP Frank H. Wu University of California Nimesh Patel Joseph K. Kim K.B. Jenny Kim O’Melveny & Myers LLP Hastings College of the Law Development Associate Wilmer Hale Jeff Yang Gina N. Shishima Yul Kwon Terry Ao Minnis Facebook Factor, Inc. Director, Census and Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Voting Programs Jacinta Titialii - Abbott Bill Lann Lee Attorney and Business Civil Rights Education and Steven Montoya Enforcement Center Director, National Campaign Consultant Kim Tran Paul Lee Sameen Piracha Goodwin Procter Director, Corporate and Microsoft Corporation Foundation Relations George R. Willy Ginger Lew Three Oaks Investments LLC Ameesha Sampat Willy, Nanayakkara, Manager, Digital and Online Rivera & Goins Raymond Lin Communications Latham & Watkins LLP

PRO BONO Caldwell Leslie & Proctor, PC | Covington & Burling | Gilbert LLP | Goodwin Proctor LLP | Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP | Crowell & Moring | Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP | Hogan Lovells LLP | Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP | Wilmer Hale LLP

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2016 2015 ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents 1,950,844 2,701,724 Investments 827,599 1,039,993 Grants and pledges receivable 3,112,728 2,216,029 Prepaid expenses and deposits 56,560 171,580 Property and equipment, net 25,744 30,626 TOTAL ASSETS 5,973,475 6,159,952

LIABILITIES Accounts payable and accrued expenses 401,449 207,333 Deferred rent 314,367 90,897 TOTAL LIABILITIES 715,816 298,230

NET ASSETS Unrestricted 870,985 1,019,792 Temporarily restricted 3,854,359 4,309,615 Permanently restricted 532,315 532,315 TOTAL NET ASSETS 5,257,659 5,861,722

TOTAL LIABILITIES 5,973,475 6,159,952 AND NET ASSETS

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EXPENSES 2016 REVENUE 2016

11% 2% FUNDRAISING OTHER INCOME 6% 15% MANAGEMENT SPECIAL & GENERAL EVENTS

83% 83% PROGRAM GRANTS & CONTRIBUTIONS

2015–2016 // 13 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

2016 2015

TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY 2016 2015 UNRESTRICTED REVENUE RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL Grants and contributions $ 94,901 $ 2,651,329 $ – $ 2,746,230 $ 2,008,468 In-kind gifts 40,000 – – 40,000 –

Investment income (loss) 15,655 40,412 – 56,067 (8,920)

Special event 515,126 – – 515,126 393,522

Rental income – – – – 27,027

Other income 7,829 – – 7,829 17,836 Net assets released from donor 3,146,997 (3,146,997) – – – restrictions TOTAL REVENUE 3,820,508 (455,256) – 3,365,252 2,437,933

EXPENSES PROGRAM SERVICES Broadband – – – – 842 Census 144,359 – – 144,359 179,037

Community Partners 2,003,084 – – 2,003,084 1,181,983

Immigration and Immigrant Rights 276,621 – – 276,621 529,449

Litigation 567,300 – – 567,300 458,522

Lobbying 4,756 – – 4,756 3,574

Strategic Planning 5,045 – – 5,045 22,609

Voting Rights 299,060 – – 299,060 296,886

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 3,300,225 – – 3,300,225 2,672,902 SUPPORTING SERVICES

Management and General 216,229 – – 216,229 247,091

Fundraising 452,861 – – 452,861 410,399

TOTAL SUPPORTING SERVICES 669,090 669,090 657,490 TOTAL EXPENSES 3,969,315 3,969,315 3,330,392 CHANGES IN NET ASSETS BEFORE (148,807) (455,256) (604,063) (892,459) OTHER ITEMS

OTHER ITEMS De-obligations – – – – (68,500) Changes in net assets after (148,807) (455,256) – (604,063) (960,959) other items Net assets at beginning of year 1,019,792 4,309,615 532,315 5,861,722 6,822,681 NET ASSETS AT $ 870,985 $ 3,854,359 $ 532,315 $ 5,257,659 $ 5,861,722 END OF YEAR

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