Meet the Team
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Bahia Simons-Lane
Executive Director
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Deborah Jeong
Recruitment Coordinator
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Laurel Murphy
Recruitment Coordinator
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Hudson Pitchford
JASC Advisor (Intern)
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Nieves-Noel
ChASC Advisor (Intern)
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Isabella Infosino
KASC Advisor (Intern)
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Valerie Grau
KASC Advisor (Intern)
Board of Directors
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Amb. Kurt Tong
Board Chair
JASC 1984 & 1985; Partner at The Asia Group; Retired, U.S. State Department
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William T. Breer
Board Vice Chair
Retired, U.S. State Department and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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Nancy Silverman
Board Treasurer
JASC 1997 & 1998; Underwriting Manager, Houston Casualty Company
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Elizabeth W.C. Poon
Board Secretary
JASC 1992; Director, General Manager
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Linda Butcher
Board Member
Managing Director, Council of Korean Americans
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Gregory Caimi
Board Member
JASC 1996 & 1997; Partner, Bain & Company
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Emma Chanlett-Avery
Board Member
JASC 1996 & 1997; Director for Political-Security Affairs and Deputy Director of Washington, DC Office, Asia Society Policy Institute
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Chadwick Eason
Board Member
Founder & President, NABEA; Senior Consultant, Deloitte
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Wright Hunter McDonald
Board Member
JASC 2004 & 2005; Korea Country Manager & Investment Specialist, Shizen Energy
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Robbi L. Miller Marmur
Board Member
JASC 1995; Head of Employee Relations, SMBC
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Andrew Seaborg
Board Member
JASC 2004 & 2005; Co-Founder and Partner at The Capital Group;
Honorary Consul General of Japan in Wisconsin -
Eboni Thamavong
Board Member
Security Engineering Manager, Amazon
National Advisory Committees
The National Advisory Committees (NACs) actively support the conferences by recruiting students, helping secure scholarship funding, and advising Executive Committee members. NAC members also promote the programs within their networks and often host orientations or conference sites at their universities, expanding the reach and resources available to student delegates.
Japan-America Student Conference Advisors
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Nobuko Saito Cleary
Cross Cultural Communications
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Martin C. Collcutt
Princeton University
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Sean Connell
U.S. Congress
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Gary DeCoker
ASIANetwork
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Norma M. Field
University of Chicago
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William W. Kelly
Yale University
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Margaret A. McKean
Duke University
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Susan Napier
Tufts University
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Hiroshi Nara
University of Pittsburgh
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Joshua Schlachet
University of Arizona, JASC 2007 & 2008
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T.J. Pempel
University of California, Berkeley
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Kenneth B. Pyle
University of Washington
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Apichai W. Shipper
Georgetown University
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Mireya Solis
American University
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William M. Tsutsui
Hendrix College
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Patricia J. Wetzel
Portland State University
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John Whitman
Cornell University
Korea-America Student Conference Advisors
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Victor Cha
Georgetown University
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Bruce Cumings
University of Chicago
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Gordon Flake
Perth USAsia Centre
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Jenna Gibson
The University of Chicago
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Louis Goodman
American University
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Sarah Henriet
수 de Vie
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Amb. Thomas Hubbard
McLarty & Associates
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Kirk Larsen
Brigham Young University
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Gi-Wook Shin
Stanford University
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Scott Snyder
Council on Foreign Relations
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Troy Stangarone
Korea Economic Institute of America
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Hye-Sook Wang
Brown University
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Meredith Woo
University of Virginia
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Andrew Yeo
Catholic University of America
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Dafna Zur
Stanford University
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Stephanie K. Kim
Georgetown University