Getting To Know Debra Suh

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Saw this post up on Disgrasian about CPAF Executive Director Debra Suh and wanted to make sure and post up the link as it's a definite good read.

Name: Debra Suh

Hails from: Los Angeles

Occupation: Executive Director of the Center for the Pacific Asian Family, a non-profit organization recognized nationally for its pioneering work in domestic violence and sexual assault in the Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community.

Known for: Fighting violence with action and reprzentasian. In addition to her work with CPAF, Suh serves as the Board VP of the statewide coalition, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, and as a Speaker of the Assembly appointee to the California Emergency Management Agency’s Domestic Violence Advisory Council. She has won the Durfee Sabbatical Award and KCET/Union Bank Local Hero Award. Before joining CPAF in 1999, Debra worked as an attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles where she established the API Unit. She was a past president of the Korean American Bar Association and Women’s Organization Reaching Koreans.
Read it in full here.