Keynote Speaker: Sandy Chau-Civic Leadership Forum – Your Voice is Your Vote
Civic Leadership Forum – Your Voice is Your Vote
Speakers:
Fiona Ma, California State Treasurer;
Mike Honda, former Congressman;
Greg Tanaka, Palo Alto City Councilmember;
Sandy Chau, Joel Wong, Anthony Ng, Keith Koo, Being Wei, Diana Ding and other AAPI leaders
Ding Ding TV, CLUSA started Civic Leadership Forum Silicon Valley from 2016, India Currents become a co-organizer since 2017, We organized this four time a year. Over 2000 students, community leaders, parents, elected officials have participated. The contents from the forums have reached to 200,000 people in Silicon Valley Bay area and the United States. The forum provided a platform to empower the next generation in civic engagement and civic leadership in the Asian American communities while to create a national network of civic-minded organizations and leaders and work in unity. We started Zoom Forum from 2020. Today is the 3rd Civic Leadership Forum of this year.
This event is on both Zoom and Clubhouse. At the same time Livestream on Ding Ding TV YouTube channel which has 8000 subscribers.
The organizers:
Ding Ding TV, 8 by 8, and CLUSA
Partners are:
United National Asian Americans
Asians are visible.
Silicon Valley Insider
Thanks to AAUC, APAPA, SK Lo, Andy Lee, and many other community leaders for supporting this event.
There are two panels:
How to Let Your Voice be Heard
Making Every AAPI Vote Count
Discussed:
What are the barriers to AAPI unity?
Ways to make AAPI votes more effective.
U.S. Congressman
Mike Honda
Mike served in the US House of Representatives from 2001 to 2017. He began his career as a science teacher, then became a principal and finally a school board member.
In 1990 Mike was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and in 1996 to the California State Assembly.
Fiona Ma
State Treasurer, Fiona Ma (born March 4, 1966) is an American politician and Certified Public Accountant who has been serving as the California State Treasurer since January 7, 2019. She previously served as a member of the California Board of Equalization from 2015 to 2019, the California State Assembly (2006–2012), and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2002–2006).
A member of the Democratic Party, Ma was the first Asian American woman to serve as California Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore, the second-highest-ranking office in the California Assembly. Ma is also only the second Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to be elected to the Board of Equalization. She was selected as Chairperson of the California Board of Equalization in 2016, ordered three external audits of the agency, and helped lead the biggest reforms for accountability and efficiency in that agency’s history. Ma received more than 7.8 million votes in her election to become California’s 34th Treasurer. She oversees more than $2 trillion of revenue running through the Treasurer’s office every year. She stated her overarching goal is “to recognize the future and make sure it is distributed evenly.”
Greg Lin Tanaka
(林田中)
I am a 2nd generation Chinese American from my mom’s side and a 4th generation Japanese American from my dad’s side (in California since 1880!). I’ve lived in the Bay Area since ’93 and Palo Alto since ’04 when my wife and I bought our house in College Terrace. My son attends Paly and my daughter is attending Greene, where I coach the robotics team!
Public Service (2017 – Present)
I worked to eliminate excess spending, frequently being the lone vote against staff raises. I worked to minimize city tax & fee increases while funding critical priorities, such as safety and youth.