ADVOCACY & LOBBY TRAINING

All photos are courtesy of Boon Vong, www.b-vong.com; The Korea Daily Newspaper (Atlanta Edition), Reporter HB Cho; and Bonnie Youn

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Hon. Alvin T. Wong

Judge, State Court of DeKalb County

• Elected Judge of the State Court of DeKalb County, Georgia’s third largest county, in 1998.
• The first AAPI to run for public office in metro Atlanta
• The first AAPI elected judge in the Southeast United States.
• The first of only two elected AAPI Judges in Georgia.
  

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Glenn Magpantay

Director, Democracy Program,
Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (AALDEF)

• Oversees AALDEF's Asian American Election Protection Project
• In 2012, he coordinated the nation’s largest multilingual exit poll of Asian Americans surveying over 9,000 voters in 14 states and 37 cities
• A recognized authority on the federal Voting Rights Act and Asian American political participation

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Mike Vaquer

Principal, The Vaquer Firm & Lobbying Expert

• Former Regional Public Affairs Manager for International Paper and former Special Assistant to the Mayor of Savannah
• Over thirty years of experience in state and local governmental relations

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Farooq Mughal

Principal & Managing Partner, MS Global Partners, LLC

• Governmental & Public Affairs Advisory expert, implementing comprehensive political and legislative strategies
• First elected Chairman of the AAPI Caucus of the Georgia Democratic Party and is the highest ranking AAPI and Muslim American in Georgia Politics

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Bonnie Youn

MODERATOR
Principal, The Youn Law Group

• Has practiced complex immigration law since 1997
• Past President & Current Board Member of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Associatiom

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