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Officers (and Board Members)

S.B. Woo (Delaware) - President

 

S B received his Ph D in physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1964. He was a Professor of Physics and a trustee of the University of Delaware. He was the founding president and chief negotiator of the Faculty Bargaining Unit at that University.

S B was elected Lt. Governor of Delaware in 1985, the highest elected state office in the continental USA held by an Asian American at the time. He later was an Institute Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and a life-size picture of him is on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D C.

S B was the national president of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) in 1991. He is a founding member and the Immediate Past President of 80-20 Initiative.



Jing-li Yu (New York and Delaware) - Treasurer

 
  • Practicing Lawyer
  • Special Assistant of the 80-20 Initiative (2002-2005)
  • Operations Director of the Initiative (2005-2006)
  • Delegate to 80-20’s 2004, 2012, and 2016 Presidential Candidate Endorsement Convention
  • Board Member of 80-20 PAC (2007-Present)
  • Treasurer (2007-2010)
  • Chair, Nominations Committee (2013-2016)
  • Advisor to the Interim Executive Committee (2013-2016)
  • Acting Secretary (2016)
  • Acting Treasurer (2017-Present)



Additional Board Members

Dr. Alice S. Huang (S. California)

 
  • Past President, Am. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Retired professor from Harvard Medical School
  • Retired Dean for Science at New York University
  • Member of the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology
  • Past board member of The Rockefeller Foundation, Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, Public Agenda, U. Mass, Johns Hopkins University, Health Effects Institute, and Keck Graduate Institute of the Claremont Colleges
  • Member of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan



Wei-Jing Zhu (N. California)

 

A first place winner of the 1986 Westinghouse (later Intel and now Regeneron) Science Talent Search, Wei-Jing received his A.B. from Harvard College and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University. While at IBM Watson Research, he co-authored the seminal BLEU metric for automatic evaluation of Statistical Machine Translation systems. He has been a quantitative researcher in finance for more than 10 years, including being the Vice President of Quantitative Core Team at Two Sigma Investments. Currently he is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cherith Analytics.

Wei-Jing has been actively involved in builiding community at local Chinese schools, Asian American churches, and company Asian American networks. He is an 80-20 Family Life Member and supporter for the last 15 years.




Staff

Stephen Lin (N. California)

 
  • Attorney at Law with 17 years of experience, including 5 years in corporate/international law and 12 years as a Civil Litigator in California
  • Member in good standing of the California Bar since 1999
  • Past President of the Chinese American Political Association ("CAPA") and Chairman of the Chinese American Public Affairs Community Education Fund ("CAPA-CEF")
  • 10 years of prior service on the Boards of CAPA and CAPA-CEF
  • 80-20 PAC member since 2011
  • Graduate of Yale University, magna cum laude, B.A. in East Asian Studies (1995)
  • Graduate of U.C. Berkeley Law School, J.D. (1998)