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Top Row, left to right: Michael Moon, Jenny Leung, Cynthia Tongson. Second Row, left to right: Gin Ho, Richard "Dick" Evans, Tatwina Chinn Lee. Third Row, left to right: Alfred Tom, Rebecca Lee, Wai Ling Eng. Bottom row, left to right: Sophia Xiao, Debbie Chinn.
Not pictured: Jon Moscone, George Mak
CCC Board of Directors
Chair, Tatwina Chinn Lee 李陳翠鳳
Tatwina Lee’s leadership in building Bay Area communities spans over 4 decades. The first Asian American Chair of the San Francisco Foundation’s Board of Trustees, she has also been involved with Berkeley public schools, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, East Bay Music Foundation, Library Foundation of San Francisco, and others. She has been active in CCC since 1989.
Photograph by Melvin Wong.
Vice Chair, Wai-ling Eng 伍慧鈴
Wai-Ling Eng brings a wealth of experience in business through ownership and operation of McDonald’s franchises. She chaired the Ronald McDonald House Charities’ Bay Area scholarship program, which in its 14th year will have given out a total of $2 million to Bay Area college-bound students. Her significant dedication to youth education and community service has been the community’s great assets.
Vice Chair, Alfred Tom 譚家興
Alfred Tom is co-founder and CEO of Wivity, an early-stage startup bringing cybersecurity to the Internet of Things. His 25-year career includes developing software for the Apple Newton and making early stage connected car investments for General Motors. He helped create three technology industry standards, the latest being MirrorLink. Alfred was born in San Francisco, Chinatown and his father, Stanley Tom, was one of the founders of the Chinese Culture Center.
Secretary, Cynthia Tongson 唐慧中
Cynthia is the guardian of and advocate for the legacy of her late brother, Hong Kong ink artist Wesley Tongson. Recent projects include “Wesley Tongson-The Journey” at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco and “Ink Explorations: A Wesley Tongson Retrospective” at Hong Kong Arts Centre in Hong Kong. She has placed Tongson’s work in public collections including Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+ Museum of Visual Culture & University Museum and Art Gallery (HKU) in Hong Kong, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Asian Art Museum & Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the United States. In her work, Cynthia has collaborated with Asia Society Hong Kong, Christie’s Hong Kong, Ink Asia, Fine Art Asia and others. She serves as a Trustee of Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. She is a retired marketing representative for her family’s business, Star Industrial Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong
Treasurer, George Mak 麥潤華
George Mak is currently a managing member at SGDM, LLC in San Francisco. SGDM, LLC is an All-in-One construction and construction management company focusing in seismic upgrades, as well as custom home building and remodeling throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to joining SGDM, LLC, George Mak possessed over two decades of investment management experience in the financial industry.
Debbie Chinn
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Debbie has established a distinguished 30-year career as an arts activist, a non-profit consultant, and CEO leading some of the country’s most renowned cultural institutions and their programs. She is currently the Executive Director of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
Debbie serves on the boards of Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco Community Music Center, and is on the Advisory Council/EDI Committee of West Edge Opera. Her book, “Dancing in Their Light”, (published in March 2022) chronicles her family’s historical connection to the missionaries of China and of the pioneering impact her family of immigrants have made to advance numerous fields and sectors in the United States.
Richard “Dick” Evans
Richard B. Evans is a senior international business advisor and director of companies. He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Constellium, a Paris, France-based world leader in advanced aluminum Engineered Products, and an independent director of CGI, one of North America’s leading IT consulting and outsourcing companies based in Montreal, Canada. He currently sits on the Deans Leadership Council for Engineering at Oregon State University, and has authored two documentary photography books about San Francisco: Haight Asbury, the Mission, and is completing Chinatown.
Gin Y. Ho 何宜君
Gin Y. Ho is dedicated to developing the understanding of Chinese art and education for future generations. As a young leader, she is Senior Business Relationship Manager at JP Morgan Chase and possesses over 20 years of banking and management experience. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Asian Business League of San Francisco.
Rebecca Lee
Rebecca is currently the Senior Manager of Governor Affairs at NRG Energy. She brings over sixteen years of experience in public affairs, energy and environmental sectors. Her proudest accomplishments include union organizing in 2017, as well as her leading efforts in advocating for the successful passage of AB 379 to ban shark fin sales in California in 2011. As a board member, she is excited to contribute to the power of creative storytelling in shaping current and future communities.
Michael Moon
Michael Moon has more than 25 years of experience with media marketing and business development for the Asian consumer market. He is an advocate for our immigrant communities and believes in giving them a voice. Moon sees himself serving as a bridge in providing information between English-speaking media to Filipino, Chinese, Indian, Cambodian, Koreans, and Chinese communities. He is also the past president of OCA East Bay, vice president of OCA San Francisco, and sits on the board of Asian American Advertising.
Jonathan Moscone
Born and bred in San Francisco, Jonathan is thrilled to be joining the Chinese Culture Center’s board. He currently serves as Chief Producer of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where he has shepherded civic engagement efforts and is proud of his work with other local leaders on the successful ballot measure to restore arts funding for San Francisco artists and arts and culture organizations. Prior to YBCA, Jonathan served for 15 years as artistic director of the California Shakespeare Theater and is the first recipient of the Zelda Fichandler Award, given by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation for “transforming the American theater through his unique and creative work". He also serves on the boards of Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard Project and is a member of the California Arts Council. Jonathan resides in San Francisco with his husband Darryl and their dog, Lucy and cat, Turtle.
Manni Liu
Manni is currently a Director of Fair and Responsible Banking for Marketing at First Republic Bank. She has over 20 years of marketing communication and regulatory compliance experience in the banking industry. However, her background is in art history and museum studies. Prior to working in the financial sector, Manni was the Executive Director and Curator of the Chinese Culture Foundation where she organized many cultural projects and art exhibitions. Growing up as Chinese in Ecuador and later moving to the U.S. to attend college, Manni has always been interested in cultural identity, learning from different cultures, and how art can truly speak to people of different backgrounds.
Sophia Xiao
Sophia is excited to join the board to tie closely with her heritage and appreciation for arts and culture. Born in Shanghai, and nurtured in San Francisco, her family immigrated to the Bay Area in the 1980s. With the recent attacks on Asian-Americans, Sophia feels deeply that Chinatown needs our support, and our Asian-American communities need uplifting, and is excited to elevate Asian-American voices through various formats of storytelling, She has 17+ years of experience in strategic business operations, product strategy, enterprise and consumer tech. She is currently the Partner and Chief of Staff of General Catalyst.
Advisory Council
Abby Chen
Irene Yee Riley
Sherman Tang
Norman Yee
XianRui Artists
Dora Hsiung
Summer Lee
Beili Liu
Cathy Lu
Adrian Wong
Stella Zhang
Chongbin Zheng