2020 Board Members
Rachtha Danh, President, works and lives in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. He works in Property Management and Community Initiative programs of SCIDpda. He serves on the board of Downtown Seattle Association Residents’ Council and Solid Waste Advisory Committee. As a first generation of a refugee family, he understand the importance of giving voice to those often over-looked in American political systems.
Kim-Khanh Van, 1st Vice President, graduated from the University of Dayton- School of Law with extensive legal experiences working at the Criminal Law Clinic and interning at an Immigration Law Firm. She currently is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and a few other legal associations. Ms. Van enjoys volunteering her time as a pro bono attorney for the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project (NWIRP) and King County Bar Association. She was recognized for her pro bono work with DACA issues by the AILA WA chapter in 2013.
Jarmaine Santos, 2nd Vice President, is a first generation Filipino-American who was born and raised in Kent. She is currently a Senior in the highschool running start program at Highline College where she is the active student body President. As a board member of the Filipino American Political Action Group of Washington and a member of Anakbayan Seattle, she raises the issues and voices of the youth, while encouraging Asian-American youth to take action in their community. She believes that the AAPI youth need to have a voice in important conversations about their community.
Leslie Lum, Treasurer, a Professor at Bellevue College, has extensive industry experience including strategic planning at a Fortune 100 now part of Citigroup, investment banking with a global bank and general management of a retail start-up. Leslie authored the textbook Personal Investing and coauthored Business Consulting in a Multicultural America. She has a MBA from Columbia University, a MSW and BFA from the University of British Columbia, and holds the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation. She has been on the board of International Examiner for the past year and on the Advisory Board of the UW Foster Consulting and Business Development Center for over 20 years where she developed expertise with minority business enterprises. She has published poetry, short stories and her play Geomancer was read at the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theater.
Stanley Tsao has many years of community outreach experience working with The Connections Group team. Stanley has managed outreach programs for numerous government initiatives and providing better government access to minority and immigrant communities. He has worked closely with a broad range of community groups, government agencies and non-profitorganizations. He also manages Connections’ production projects from direct mails to media productions. Previously, Stanley had served as a board member with Young Professional International Network at World Affairs Council and as the board chair at Safe Futures YouthCenter in West Seattle. Tsao has an undergraduate degree in economics and political science from Simon Fraser University in Canada.