Current Board Members
Kuldip K. Ambastha (BA in Economics, '04, first term) is a finance and investments professional at Ambastha Financial LLC. He is serving in his first term as a SAPAAC board member and is a past president of the Stanford Peninsula Alumni Club. He is based in the Bay Area.
Kevin Fan Hsu (BS in Earth Systems, BA in International Relations, ’09, MS in Civil & Environmental Engineering, ’11 , second term) is a sustainability and planning professional specializing in energy and climate resilience. He has worked on infrastructure, urban planning, and cultural heritage projects on both sides of the Pacific. He is a past president of the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club and longtime member of the Advocacy and Education Committee.
Nelson Hsu (BS ‘91, MS '93 in Industrial Engineering, first term) has been very involved in the Stanford Asian and alumni community serving as President of UCAA and head of tea house at Stanford, the President of the Stanford Alumni Club of Dallas Fort Worth and serving on the Stanford alumni board. For the past 12 years, he has hosted a Lunar New Year dinner event with Harvard, Kellogg, and Yale, which regularly has more than 200 attendees. Professionally, Nelson specializes in launching new products and services in over 10 industries, including consumer electronics, software as a service, wireless, toys, high end spirits and for the last 10 years in education technology. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, eating good food, and most recently pickleball.
Josephine Lau (BA in International Relations and Modern Thought & Literature, MA in East Asian Studies, ’06, first term) leads a NYC-based philanthropic organization that advances US-China relations, AAPI leadership, and collaboration at the intersection of business and social impact. In her role, she has led AAPI partnerships including with The Asian American Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Committee of 100, and PBS. Born in London and raised in Asia, Josephine previously served on the Stanford Alumni Club of Beijing Board.
Caroline Lee (PhD in Educational Psychology, ’09, first term) is a second generation Taiwanese American and is serving her first term on the SAPAAC board. Caroline is a child, adolescent, and adult clinical psychologist in private practice in Newport Beach, CA. Caroline is passionate about community work and Asian American mental health advocacy. She is also a former public elementary school teacher and is a Stanford OVAL admissions interviewer.
Danielle Limcaoco (BS '19 in Product Design, first term) is a product designer at Robinhood. Previously, she was a designer at Nextdoor and a Kleiner Perkins design fellow. She's originally from the Philippines, but currently lives in London, where she's been connecting with UK Stanford alumni communities, volunteering at Oxfam, and drinking lots of tea in her free time. She plans to move back to the US by the end of the year but is torn between SF and NY. Danielle loves any opportunity to give back to Stanford, and also serves on the SAA Board and is an OVAL interviewer.
Evelyn Mei (MS in Management Science and Engineering, ’17, second term) is a Technology and Racial Equity Practitioner Fellow at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Her research team analyzed patterns in news coverage of anti-Asian racism and response. She participated as an organizer in the 2021 Stanford Asian Pacific Alumni Summit and received the "Award of Merit" by Stanford Associates.
Jin Park (BA in Economics, ’91, first term) is an adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law and UCLA School of law, where she teaches contract law. In her private practice, she has served as outside counsel to USC as well as internet start-ups. Jin serves as a mentor through the Stanford FLI program and is a member of various Stanford alumni groups in Southern California.
Katie Gee Salisbury (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, ’07, MA in Sociology, ’08, first term) is a writer and photographer whose work explores Asian American identity and history. She is the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, forthcoming from Dutton in March 2024. She is a member of SAPAAC’s Advocacy & Education committee, working on ways to hold the university accountable for acknowledging the historical contributions of Chinese laborers on campus. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.
Risa Shimoda (BS in Product Design Engineering, ’77, first term) has been a very active alumni volunteer, serving as president for five regional alumni clubs and as a member of the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors and Stanford Associates. She helped as one of the leaders for the inaugural Voices Rising 2017 Summit and hopes to continue to strengthen connectivity in our alumni and student community and become a recognized voice for AAPI issues to and among peer organizations around the world.
Tutti Taygerly (BS in Symbolic Systems / Human Computer Interaction, '97, first term) is a designer turned executive coach. She guides “others” who never felt like they belonged in a professional setting—women, people of color, immigrants—to confidently share their voices with the world. Tutti's first book Make Space to Lead shows high achievers how to reframe our relationship to work. She’s currently bewitched with her second book, Hardworking Rebels: How to Lead and Succeed as Asian American Women. Tutti is Thai-Chinese, grew up in seven countries on three continents, and is settled in San Francisco as her home base.
Connie Chan Wang (MA in Education, ’05, first term) is a marketing executive currently at mental health company Headspace. She is serving her first term as a SAPAAC board member, having led the membership committee and currently acting as liaison to A3C. Connie also served as a Stanford Alumni Association board member from 2017-2022. She is based in the Bay Area.
Jennifer Xiong (BA in Music, ’22, first term) is a Hmong American artist and musician and a passionate educator from Wisconsin, now living in Osaka, Japan. Jennifer is dedicated to serving and supporting underrepresented communities and was involved with the Hmong Student Union and the Leland Scholars Program during her undergraduate career.