Kathy Hsieh (she/her) is the Racial Equity in Grantmaking Strategist for the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. A change agent in transforming the City’s arts funding program through an anti-racist lens, she helped the agency earn the Seattle Management Association’s first Race & Social Justice Management Award and has been a featured presenter on racial equity throughout the U.S., Canada and even Shakespeare’s Globe in London. She is also an award-winning theatre artist and a Co-Executive Producer and founder of SIS Productions, an Asian American female-led company. She has been honored by the National Association of Asian American Professionals in Seattle as their Artist of the Year, by The Seattle Theater Writers Gypsy Awards with A Special Award of Recognition for Excellence in Playwriting, by Verizon’s Asian Pacific American Bash’s Innovator Award, an International Examiner Community Voice Award in the Arts, a Gregory Award for Sustained Achievement in Theatre, and a Seattle Chinese American Citizens Alliance’s Fred Yee Citizens Award.

Regina Sassoon Friedland became Director of AJC Seattle in 2017. She regularly engages with elected officials and foreign diplomats on areas of interest to the Jewish and general communities, and with multifaith and intergroup representatives toward advancing matters of shared concern. Regina is a contributor to an array of media outlets and a guest speaker in the Jewish and general communities. She is a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Washington Advisory Committee, Sephardic Study Advisory Committee of JIMENA – Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, the University of Washington’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Advisory Board. She earned a degree in Journalism from the University of Washington’s Department of Communication and a degree from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies with an emphasis on Jewish Studies.

Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a multiracial author, multimedia producer, and nonprofit leader. He serves as Co-Executive Director of The Serica Initiative, a nonprofit organization that galvanizes a global community of changemakers to advance positive social impact in U.S.-China relations, and Co-Producer of the WNET documentary series Between Black and White: Asian Americans Speak Out. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Daniel has spent over five years living and working in Greater China and is an outspoken advocate for Asian American issues and increased global understanding through education, cultural exchange, storytelling, and effective philanthropy.

Bunthay Cheam is a 1.5 generation Khmer refugee from Cambodia. He grew up in Seattle and is a graduate of the University of Washington. He is a co-founder of the KhAAG, an organization that advocates for community members vulnerable to the school/prison/deportation pipeline. Bunthay enjoys storytelling which he practices through poetry, theatre, film, and journalism. He is a freelance writer with bylines in Crosscut, the South Seattle Emerald, KUOW, the International Examiner and more.

JM Wong (they/them) is a queer child of the Chinese diaspora living on Duwamish lands (Seattle) via Malaysia/Singapore and many cities in between. They are a nurse, writer and organizer. They believe in the power, brilliance, and resilience of the global working class. They do outreach and organizing with the Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) based in Chinatown-International District. They are a part of the APICAG/FIGHT (Asian and Pacific Islander Cultural Awareness Group/Formerly Incarcerated Group Healing Together) family.

Thanh Tan is an award-winning multimedia storyteller, director of the “Refuge After War” docuseries on KCTS and Crosscut Origins and creator/host of Second Wave, a groundbreaking podcast from PRX and KUOW tracing the experiences of Vietnamese refugees after the war ended in 1975. Her reporting and writing has been featured across all platforms, including This American Life, The Seattle Times and The New York Times. For the first 12 years of her career, she served as a journalist and on-air reporter for the CBS affiliate in Boise, Idaho, the ABC affiliate in Portland, Oregon, The Texas Tribune, and The Seattle Times editorial board. She has received two national Sigma Delta Chi awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and produced two regional Emmy-winning documentaries for Idaho Public Television (PBS). As a storyteller for Microsoft Public Affairs from 2016 through 2020, she traveled to six continents – producing, reporting and explaining the broad impact of technology on global societies through more than 50 original video stories. In 2020, she co-founded Viet Fact Check, a bilingual website that provides fact-checked articles in Vietnamese and English. Immediately following the fall of Kabul in August 2021, she helped to co-found Viets for Afghans, a Vietnamese-led volunteer coalition that’s mobilizing communities to help Afghan refugees. She is now balancing dual careers as a senior writer/storyteller for Starbucks Stories and independent filmmaker.