YAPA Advisors, Mentors & Speakers

Advisors & Mentors:

Henry Yin President, APAPA Bay Area Region
Eleanor Yick former Superintendent of Mountain View Whisman School District, President of the LWV of Southwest Santa Clara Valley
Anthony Ng Executive Director, Civic Leadership USA (CL-USA)

Dr. Becki Cohn-Vargas Ed.D. Consultant and Author of Identity Safe Classrooms, Places to Belong and Learn, and Former Director of Not In Our School National Bullying Prevention Program, Former Superintendent, Luther Burbank School District
Dr. Clifton M. Der Bing, PsyD Licensed Psychologist, Campus Psychologist at Foothill College
Rhoda Fry Bay Area for Clean Environment member, Cupertino Environmental Review Committee, appointed member emeritus. B. S. Applied Mathematics
Tak Allen President of the International Faith-Based Coalition, President of the National Congress of Racial Equality.

Trudy Gross Associate Superintendent, FUHSD
Michael Goldman Sunnyvale City Council
Sudha Kasamsetty Cupertino Art Commission Chair
Gopal Kumarappan Cupertino Parks & Rec Commissioner, former Library Commissioner & Chair, Head of Engineering@ Adobe.“
Rosalyn Moya Project Director, Bay Area Community Resources
Tanya Payyappilly Project Director, Tobacco Prevention Program, Breathe California
Ana Sucaldito Program Coordinator for Asian Festival Health and Wellness Internship, Founder of KindCarts Service Initiative
Don Tran County of Santa Clara Health
Dr. Albert Wang, MD Internist and Board of Directors at Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, Vice Chair of National Governing Board of Asian Pacific American Public Affairs Association (APAPA), Founder of Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN)
Hung Wei Cupertino City Council, former Board Member of Fremont Union High School District, Rotary District 5170 Membership Chair
Rene Williams Bay Area Clean Environment

Ro Khanna US Congressman
John Pimental Entrepreneur, Founder of Common Sense Party
Charles Liu President, Citizens for Better Community (CBC)
Cheryl Cook-Kallio National board member for the Center for Civic Education, Pleasanton formal mayor
Gilbert Wong Cupertino former mayor, Trustee Foothill-De Anza Community College
Jerry Liu Trustee of Cupertino School board
Nancy Smith Sunnyvale City Council
Michael Goldman Sunnyvale City Council
Peter Kuo Vice-Chair, CA Republican Party
Michael Tsai Trustee, Milpitas School board
Felix Wu Campaign strategist

Susan Landry Campbell Vice Mayor
Rahul Vasanth Cupertino Library Commissioner, delegate of Santa Clara County Democratic Party
Ava Chiao high school teacher, delegate in teacher’s union.
Ruhua You mechanical engineer manager, for renewable energy, Fremont High PTA, board of Silicon Valley Chinese Association
Eugene Bradley Founder, Silicon Valley Transit User Group
Liana Crabtree Chair, Cupertino Library Commission
Will Reusch HS teacher in Los Angeles, Moderator of Heterodox Academy K-12 Education Group