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OCA National Center
1322 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1803
Telephone: (202) 223-5500 Fax: (202) 296-0540
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Executive Director, George C. Wu

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it joined OCA in March 2008 and became the Executive Director in 2009. George has eight years experience in the non-profit sector, specializing in the areas of immigration and immigrant rights, language access, civil rights and access to justice. Prior to joining OCA, George was a staff attorney in the Immigration & Immigrant Rights Program of the Asian American Justice Center and was the recipient of the 2006 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Partners Community Law Fellowship. George is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School, where he received the Justice Thurgood Marshall Civil Liberties Award for outstanding performance in the field of civil rights and civil liberties.

A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund and has served on the Boards of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, Equal Justice Works and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund.  George also serves as the Secretary of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans and co-chairs its Civil Rights Committee.  George teaches Asian American Immigration History and Introduction to Chinese American Studies in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Associate Director, Pei-Un Yee
Chapter Development & Member Engagement

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it joined OCA in 2007 as Program Manager. Prior to working at OCA, she was the program coordinator of the Association of Chinese Americans/OCA-Detroit Chinese Community Center, where she helped implement a newly created youth program. Pei-Un also worked as a program coordinator for the International Career Advancement Program at the University of Denver where she received her MA in International Studies. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Pei-Un enjoys traveling and will forever be a Wolverine fan.

Program Manager, Iimay Ho

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it joined OCA as Program Associate in October 2008. She graduated in 2008 with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) with a major in Sociology and minors in Chinese and Creative Writing. While attending UNC, she was involved with Students for the Advancement of Race Relations, served as the coordinator of UNITAS: Cultural Diversity Theme House, was a staff writer for East Wind, the Asian American student magazine, was on the steering committee for the 2007 Southeastern Regional Unity Conference, and was a student representative on the Sexuality Studies Advisory Board.

In the summer of 2007 she clerked for the Asian American Justice Center where she worked on the comprehensive immigration reform bill and completed an independent research project on gay and lesbian Asian Americans and the immigration system. Prior to joining OCA, she interned for Southerners on New Ground (SONG), a membership-based, Southern regional organization made up of working class, people of color, immigrants, and rural LGBTQ people.

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it joined OCA in March 2009 as the Development Manager. Victoria has worked in a wide range of fundraising fields, ranging from political fundraising to individual giving to corporate sponsorship. Before starting at OCA, she worked at a non-profit for child and adolescent psychiatry as their Development Manager where she worked on various funding opportunities in support of the mental health of children and adolescents.

During college she interned for a telecommunications trade association where she spent time writing for their newsletter. It was during that time she found her niche for fundraising. She was there for four years, where she spent her last two years working in the Government Affairs Department as their Political Action Committee/Grassroots Coordinator, planning fundraising events and getting the members more involved.

She graduated from George Mason University in 2002 where she majored in English with a concentration in nonfiction writing and editing and minored in African American Studies.

Administrator, Kelly Xu Tian

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it has been working at OCA for the last eight years as its Bookkeeper/Accountant. Born and raised in Beijing, China, she first came to the US in 1994 for a business trip. Two years later, she moved to Maryland with her husband and has two wonderful sons, one is a freshman at the University of Maryland College Park and the other is in 2^nd grade in Bryan Woods Elementary School in Columbia. Kelly’s daily job is to count OCA’s money plus take care of staff benefits. Kelly is very happy when people send in their money to OCA.

Program Associate, Lan Nguyen

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  joined OCA as a Program Associate in 2010. A transplant from Los Angeles, she graduated from Amherst College in 2008, where she received her B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience with a minor in Asian American Studies. During her time at Amherst, she was a founding member of the Five-College Pan Asian Network (5PAN), an intercollegiate APA organization that seeks to raise awareness and mobilize students around social issues affecting the APA student community.

Abroad, Lan worked at an orphanage for physically and mentally disabled children in Saigon, Viet Nam through the Tom Gerety Fellowship for Action, and studied in Denmark through the Minorities and Multiculturalism program. Prior to joining OCA, she was a 2009 New Leaders Fellow through the Center for Progressive Leadership and an Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Fellow. During her fellowship, Lan worked at the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and the Asian American Justice Center on immigrant rights and health care reform.

Program Assistant, Mary Kong

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it joined OCA in February 2010 as a Program Assistant. She is a recent graduate of the University of California, San Diego where she majored in Ethnic Studies. As an undergraduate she completed the Ethnic Studies Honors Program, where she focused her research on children of Southeast Asian refugee entrepreneurs.