Gloria Chan
President & CEO: Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies
2006-2007: office of Rep. Mike Honda
Biography
Gloria Chan is the current President & CEO of APAICS. Prior to joining APAICS, Gloria Chan spent over four years working on Capitol Hill advocating on behalf of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Most recently, she served as the executive director of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), a caucus of 30 Members of Congress, then chaired by Rep. Michael Honda (CA-15). In this position, Ms. Chan worked regularly with congressional leaders, as well as Asian American and Pacific Islander national and local leaders around the country. Prior to this post, she served as legislative counsel to Rep. Honda, and CAPAC’s communications director. Her portfolio then included justice and commerce appropriations, census, voting, civil rights, and immigration. Ms. Chan came to Capitol Hill in 2006 as an APAICS Anheuser-Busch/Congressman Frank Horton Fellow.
Before moving to Washington DC, Ms. Chan clerked for US Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz in the Southern District of New York, and also was a judicial intern for New York State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan. In 1999, she founded Chinatown Youth Initiatives, a youth leadership nonprofit for high school students in New York City, the advisory council of which she currently chairs. She also served on the board of the Organization of Chinese Americans-NY Chapter.
Ms. Chan received her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and her law degree from Harvard Law School. She is a member of the New York State bar.
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