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INTERIM-CHAIR. Rowland (He/Him) has been on the board of GAPA for five years. He is passionate about uplifting the Queer Trans Asian & Pacific Islander community and enjoys producing events and creating safe spaces for folks to gather.
Professionally, Rowland is the Associate Director of Prevention Services at the San Francisco Community Center, of which he has seven years of experience working within the public health sector. He oversees various community programs, particularly the recently launched program, The Lotus Project, a health and social program, and the Stop the Hate program which serves the LGBTQ API community.
VICE CHAIR. Jethro (They/Them) is a Filipino non-binary documentary filmmaker, visual artist, and activist. They were the featured visual artist for the 2023 Oaklash Drag Festival in Oakland, California which featured their sculptural works “Disco Balling Heads”, “The Performer” and “Gabriela Rising”. Their works were also featured in the 2022 Trans Aware Art Exhibition in San Francisco. Jethro was a fellow for the 2022 Film Independent's CNN Docu-Series Intensive and DOCNY’s Storytelling Incubator.. Their first feature documentary film 50 Years of Fabulous was opening film at QDocs 2018 Film Festival and an official selection to Frameline42. Jethro was a fellow for BVAC’s National Media Maker 2016 for his documentary film #MyNameIs. Jethro is also known as the drag persona “Virginia Please” on TikTok and teaches indigenous, black and brown queer and trans representation. They serve as one of the Board of Directors for the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, Oaklash and EyeZen.
SECRETARY/INTERIM-TREASURER: Cameron (he/they) is a Bay Area native and 4th generation Japanese + Chinese American. Cameron is a community advocate and organizer, and has co-founded numerous organizations for the LGBTQ+ community including Stonewall Japan for the English speaking community in Japan and APIs@Pride, a social support group at Meta. When not organizing for the queer community, you can find Cameron rock climbing across California and traveling around the world (40 countries and counting)
BOARD MEMBER. Justin (he/him) is an IT executive and a board member of Asian American Millennials for American Advancement, the Ohlone College Foundation, the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Silicon Valley, and the South Alameda County Young Democrats. He holds a B.A., History from Dartmouth and J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law.
NEWS EDITOR/BOARD DIRECTOR. Dino (he/him) is a founding member of GAPA. In addition to ongoing participation with GAPA, he has also supported numerous community-based arts and cultural organizations as a grant writer. He holds a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley and a J.D. from New College of California School of Law.
BOARD DIRECTOR. Emmett (he/him) recently graduated from Yale, where he did a lot of theatre production and occasionally attended computer science classes. He currently spends his time scouting for bootleg Broadway recordings, trying new recipes exactly once, and taking care of his border collie puppy. Emmett also serves on the GAPA Advisory Board as GAPA's first trans board member.
BOARD DIRECTOR. Randy (he/him) has been the Musical Director for the GAPA Men’s Chorus since 1991. He has been a long-time advocate for GAPA and GLBTQ+ AAPI causes and has served on various nonprofit boards in the Bay Area through the years. He retired from UCSF in 2018, and is currently Managing Director and CFO of the Golden Gate Men's Chorus, and Board chair of our sister 501(c)(3) organization, GAPA Fund. Randy holds an AB in German Literature from Harvard and a MA in Historical Germanic Linguistics from UC Berkeley.