80-20 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - Key Persons
David Lee is a 4th generation Asian American best known for his education advocacy for the Specialized High School Admission Test (SHSAT) in New York City. He is presently Chair of the League of Asian Americans of New York, which seeks greater representation of AAPI in government affairs and serves as the Commander of the Sons of the American Legion in New York ™s Chinatown. He has encouraged thousands to be civically active and founded many community organizations including the New York Chapter of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance which helped with the passage of the Congressional Gold Medal for Chinese American WW2 Veterans. He is a co-chair of NYC mayor elect Eric Adams transition team.
Professionally, David was Assistant to the Chair and CEO of Allied Stores, the predecessor of Macy ™s and is presently an asset manager. David is a graduate of the NYU Stern School of Business and received an MBA in finance from St John ™s University.
Dr. Huang attended Wellesley College and Johns Hopkins University where she received a Ph.D. in Microbiology. After further training at the Salk Institute and M.I.T. she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School where she received tenure. She directed the Infectious Disease Unit at the Boston Children ™s Hospital and subsequently became the Dean for Science at NYU. She has advised Minister K.T. Li in the establishment of the Science Council in Taiwan and was a founding advisor for the Institute for Molecular Cell Biology in Singapore. She is a past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as well as the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Huang first supported 80-20 in its early years and joined the Board in 2007. She is currently Senior Faculty Associate at the California Institute of Technology.
A first place winner of the 1986 Westinghouse (later Intel and now Regeneron) Science Talent Search, Wei-Jing received his A.B. from Harvard College and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University. While at IBM Watson Research, he co-authored the seminal BLEU metric for automatic evaluation of Statistical Machine Translation systems. He has been a quantitative researcher in finance for more than 10 years, including being the Vice President of Quantitative Core Team at Two Sigma Investments. Currently he is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cherith Analytics.
Wei-Jing has been actively involved in builiding community at local Chinese schools, Asian American churches, and company Asian American networks. He is an 80-20 Family Life Member and supporter since 2000.
Jing-Li Yu is a long-time Board member and former employee of 80-20. Between 2002-2006, Jing was the Special Assistant to the President, and then the Operations Director, for the 80-20 Initiative. From 2006 to the present, Jing has served as a volunteer director and officer of the 80-20 Boards. He is currently the Secretary of the 80-20 Educational Foundation and the Treasurer of the 80-20 AAEPAC.
Professionally, Jing has been a lawyer since 2010. In the first half of his legal career, he primarily represented companies defending against government investigations. In the second half of his legal career, he has primarily represented investors in lawsuits against company board directors and officers for breach of fiduciary duty.
Jing has been a resident of Queens, New York, since he was 9 years old. For most of his life, he has lived among New York City's largest Chinese and Korean American communities. He went to Hunter College High School in Manhattan. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in two years with a B.A. in economics. He also has an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
S B received his Ph D in physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1964. He was a Professor of Physics and a trustee of the University of Delaware. He was the founding president and chief negotiator of the Faculty Bargaining Unit at that University.
S B was elected Lt. Governor of Delaware in 1985, the highest elected state office in the continental USA held by an Asian American at the time. He later was an Institute Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is listed in Who's Who in America and a life-size picture of him is on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D C.
S B was the national president of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) in 1991. He is a founding member and the Immediate Past President of 80-20 Initiative.
Yueh-Ting (Y-T) Lee received his Ph.D. in social psychology from State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook (or Stony Brook University) and also completed his postdoctoral training and research at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is a Professor of Psychology at Southern Illinois University (SIU) at Carbondale where he also served as the Dean of the Graduate School (2015-2019). Before he came to SIU, Dr. Lee had served as an administrator in various capacities, including Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences both at Minot State University in North Dakota and at the University of Toledo, Ohio.
Dr. Y-T Lee has been strongly supportive of the 80-20 mission and its initiatives since 2000. In 2008-2012, he was actively engaged in Asian American communities via several grassroots initiatives in the Midwest areas (e.g., in NW Ohio, SW Ohio, NE Ohio, and SE Michigan) to strengthen 80-20 PAC. He had served on the 80-20 PAC Board for six years (2009-2015). Since December 2020, he has been serving on the Board of the 80-20 National Asian American Educational Foundation.