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Gail M. Kong
Executive Director & President

Gail Kong helped to establish the Asian Pacific Fund in 1993. Gail brings a wide range of public policy and nonprofit experience to the organization. She served as the head of New York City's foster care and child abuse agency and as executive director of the New York City national youth service demonstration program. While in New York City, she served as the first Asian Commissioner of the Voter Assistance Commission and as a board member of the Chinatown Planning Council, the Organization for Chinese Americans New York City Chapter and the Chinatown Voter Educational Alliance. Gail served on several national, state and local grants committees and as a board member of the Asian American Justice Center (formerly known as National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium) from October 2003 through July 2006. She has been a presenter for Compass Point, Northern California Planning Giving Council, and the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers.

Gail received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University and attended the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City and the John F. Kennedy Graduate School of Government Summer Institute at Harvard University. Gail is third-generation Chinese and was born and raised in Gilroy, Calif.


Alicia Yeh
Associate Director

Alicia Yeh comes from a management consulting background, having worked at Mercer Management Consulting, Edgar Dunn & Co. and KPMG Consulting in New York and San Francisco. Her projects focused on customer relationship management in financial institutions and process reengineering in consumer products companies.

Alicia has volunteered and been involved with the Asian Pacific Fund for the past six years and is passionate about community work for Asian Americans.

Alicia was born in Taiwan and raised in the Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and two children. She graduated from NYU with a bachelor's degree in management and statistics.

Francesca Dinglasan
Program & Scholarship Coordinator

Francesca Dinglasan has primary responsibility for all Fund scholarship programs. She also assists with grants administration, events and research.

Prior to joining the Asian Pacific Fund staff, Francesca worked in the neighborhood economic development department of the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, helping to oversee poverty-reduction programs targeting Oakland’s low-income communities. Before entering the nonprofit sector, she spent several years as an editor at a Hollywood-based trade journal, reporting on domestic, European, and Asian/Pacific Rim film markets.

Born in Chicago and raised in the Bay Area, Francesca earned her master’s degree in comparative literature at San Francisco State University. She also completed graduate work at the University of Paris VIII – St. Denis and Claremont Graduate University and holds bachelor’s degrees in English and French.



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