Meet the Team

Staff & Interns • Board of Directors • National Advisory Committees

  • Bahia Simons-Lane Headshot

    Bahia Simons-Lane

    Executive Director

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  • Deborah Jeong Headshot

    Deborah Jeong

    Recruitment Coordinator

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  • Laurel Murphy Headshot

    Laurel Murphy

    Recruitment Coordinator

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  • Hudson Pitchford Headshot

    Hudson Pitchford

    JASC Advisor (Intern)

  • Nieves-Noel Headshot

    Kiran Nieves-Noël

    ChASC Advisor (Intern)

  • Isabella Infosino Headshot

    Isabella Infosino

    KASC Advisor (Intern)

  • Valerie Grau Headshot

    Valerie Grau

    KASC Advisor (Intern)

Board of Directors

  • Ambassador Kurt Tong Headshot

    Amb. Kurt Tong

    Board Chair

    JASC 1984 & 1985; Partner at The Asia Group; Retired, U.S. State Department

  • William Tully Breer Headshot

    William T. Breer

    Board Vice Chair

    Retired, U.S. State Department and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

  • Nancy Silverman Headshot

    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

  • Linda Butcher Headshot

    Linda Butcher

    Board Member

    Vice President, Council of Korean Americans

  • Gregory Caimi

    Board Member

    JASC 1996 & 1997; Partner, Bain & Company

  • Emma Chanlett-Avery Headshot

    Emma Chanlett-Avery

    Board Member

    JASC 1996 & 1997; Director for Political-Security Affairs and Deputy Director of Washington, DC Office, Asia Society Policy Institute

  • Chadwick Eason Headshot

    Chadwick Eason

    Board Member

    Founder & President, NABEA; Senior Consultant, Deloitte

  • Wright Hunter McDonald Headshot

    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; Global Head of Employee Relations, Managing Director, SMBC

  • Andrew Seaborg Headsot

    Andrew Seaborg

    Board Member

    JASC 2004 & 2005; Co-Founder and Partner at The Capital Group;
    Honorary Consul General of Japan in Wisconsin

  • Eboni Thamavong Headshot

    Eboni Thamavong

    Board Member

    Security Engineering Manager, Amazon

  • Elizabeth Gamarra Headshot

    Elizabeth Gamarra

    ChASC 2022

    Researcher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, University of Cambridge

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 Advisory Committee

  • Sean Connell

    U.S. Congress

  • Apichai W. Shipper

    Georgetown University

  • William M. Tsutsui

    Hendrix College

  • Patricia J. Wetzel

    Portland State University

  • Samuel Morse

    Amherst College

  • Laurie Dennis

    University of Wisconsin, Madison - Center for East Asian Studies

  • Trevor Dawes

    University of Deleware

  • Jessica Meagher

    American University

Korea-America Student Conference Advisory Committee

  • Amb. Thomas Hubbard

    McLarty & Associates

  • Hye-Sook Wang

    Brown University

  • Andrew Yeo

    Catholic University of America

  • Stephanie K. Kim

    Georgetown University

  • Sean Connell

    U.S. House of Representatives

China -America Student Conference Advisory Committee

  • Fred Teng

    America-China Public Affairs Insitute

  • Danny Evans

    Millenium Envoys

  • Dennis Wilder

    Georgetown University

  • Min Fan

     US Heartland China Association

  • Dan Choffnes

    ASIANetwork

  • Jennifer Neighbors

    University of Puget Sound