Miriam W. Yeung

Miriam W. Yeung was born in Hong Kong and raised in the projects of Brooklyn. She spent a decade at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center working various positions within the youth program and the policy and government relations departments. Currently she is the Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, the nation’s only progressive, multi-issue organization dedicated to building a movement to advance social justice and human rights organization for Asian and Pacific Islander women and girls in the US. Miriam has served on the boards of Queers for Economic Justice and Generations Ahead, and is the co-producer of the documentary, I Look Up To The Sky Now. Miriam did her undergraduate studies at NYU and her Masters in Public Administration at Baruch College. She and her partner are trying to raise their two daughters to be fearless.