Treasurer: Samantha Guo serves as General Counsel for China Telecom Americas, where she leads the legal function for the Americas subsidiary of a Fortune 200 telecommunications leader, providing counsel on domestic and international transactions, international trade, general compliance, global data privacy issues, government affairs, and employment law matters. She has direct and extensive experience leading an in-house legal department and teams through organizational changes and major crises. Previously, Samantha served as the APABA-DC VP of Programs and Co-Chair of the Women’s Forum, respectively. She is also an active member of and sits on two Committees with the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Vice President for Communications: Alicia Loh is an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission in the Technology Enforcement Division. She was formerly an associate at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in the Internet, Telecom & Media group. Alicia earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.A. in Sociology and B.S. in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has previously served on APABA-DC’s Board of Directors as Assistant Vice President of Community Affairs. Alicia is serving in her personal capacity.

Vice President for Programs: Judy Bao is a trial attorney at the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. Prior to joining the Justice Department, she served as the visiting Election Protection Litigation Fellow at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Before that, she clerked for the Honorable Jane Kelly of the United States Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit and for the Honorable Ron Clark of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Judy was also formerly a litigation associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and her B.A. from Carleton College. Judy is serving in her personal capacity.

Vice President for Community Affairs: William Xu is a Judge Advocate (JAG) with the United States Navy, and recently returned from an 18-month tour in the Middle-East. He currently serves as a defense attorney before the Military Commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He also as an adjunct professor at the United States Naval Academy. Prior to commissioning with the Navy, Will served as a public defender in Brooklyn, and as a legal fellow with the international humanitarian law unit of the American Red Cross. Will graduated from American University Washington College of Law. Will has previously served on the boards of several non-profits, including the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership, and Odanadi US, which works with survivors of human trafficking in India. Will is serving in his personal capacity.

Vice President for Education: David Yin is a counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP. David represents leading technology, life sciences, and medical device companies in high stakes litigation matters. His practice focuses on complex patent and trade secret litigation in federal district courts, before administrative agencies, and at the appellate level. Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Timothy B. Dyk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He served on the board of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF) as the treasurer (2017-2018) and as a director (2018-2019). David received his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from NYU School of Law.

Vice President for Membership: Evelyn Riley is a partner at Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca LLC. Evelyn has expertise in multidistrict complex litigation and antitrust class actions. Evelyn was one of the principle female attorneys representing over forty commercial indirect purchasers in one of the largest antitrust class actions in U.S. history and obtained significant recovery in approved settlements for her clients. Before returning to her current firm as a partner, Evelyn also worked at a national law firm as counsel. There, she successfully represented clients in both state and federal courts throughout the U.S. in a broad range of areas, including privacy, product liability, contract, consumer protection, trade secrets, employment, and premises liability in high exposure matters.

Assistant Vice President for Communications: Daren Zhang is an associate at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, PLLC, where he represents clients on various litigation and regulatory matters in trial and appellate courts, as well as before federal agencies. Prior to joining the firm, Daren served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to the Honorable Howard C. Nielson, Jr., on the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Daren earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has previously served on APABA-DC’s Board of Directors as Assistant Vice President of Community Affairs.

Assistant Vice President for Programs: Young Choi is a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, which she joined through the Department's Honors Program. She primarily litigates employment discrimination cases under Title VII and USERRA. Previously, she clerked in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Young earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University. She previously served as President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF). Young is serving on the APABA Board in her personal capacity.

Assistant Vice President for Community Affairs: Boseul (Jenny) Jeong is an associate at Morris, Manning & Martin LLP. She received her JD at the George Washington University Law School where she served as an Online Editor of The George Washington Law Review. She has been serving on the APABA-DC Educational Fund (AEF) board in various capacities as well. She was also on the Board of Asian Pacific American Law Students Association at GW and National Asian Pacific American Law Students Association while she was in law school. She is from Seoul, South Korea and earned her bachelor's degree from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. 

Assistant Vice President for Education: Andrew Guiang is an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP.  His practice involves a broad range of litigation in trial courts, appellate courts, and federal agencies.  Before joining the firm, Andrew clerked for the Honorable James B. Loken of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Honorable Brian M. Cogan of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  Andrew earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School and his B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.  Before attending law school, Andrew worked as a teacher through Teach for America and Minneapolis Public Schools.

Assistant Vice President for Membership: Andrew Paik is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins LLP, where he serves on the Associates Committee. He was previously a member of the firm’s Recruiting Committee and a local leader of the Asian and Middle Eastern Lawyers Group. Mr. Paik’s practice focuses on antitrust review of mergers and acquisitions, antitrust investigations and enforcement matters, and antitrust litigation. Mr. Paik earned his JD at Harvard Law School, where he served as an Economics Teaching Fellow and was a student attorney in the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute.

Committee and Forum Chairs

Awards Committee Co-Chair: Jay Prabhu is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Reversal Therapeutics, Inc. Serving as a federal prosecutor for more than 20 years, Jay previously served as a Senior Trial Counsel in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, Virginia and for more than a decade as the Chief of EDVA’s Cybercrime Unit. He received DOJ’s highest award for lawyers, the John Marshall Award, in 2018. Prior to government service, he was an associate in the D.C. office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Mr. Prabhu has been admitted to the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia bars. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. from Boston College. Mr. Prabhu was named a Trailblazer in 2021 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Awards Committee Co-Chair: Sharon S. Yang is a financial policy leader with over 25 years' legal, strategy and policy experience across a broad range of prudential, fintech, markets and ESG issues.  Sharon served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Financial Markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she led Treasury's finreg policy engagement at the G20, G7 and Financial Stability Board, and was most recently the Global Head of Regulatory Affairs at JPMorgan Chase. Sharon started her legal career at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City.  She is a graduate of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania and received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Government Attorneys Forum Chair: Sanjeev Bhasker serves as Deputy General Counsel with the Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House. He is detailed from the US Department of Justice where he previously served as U.S. Digital Currency Counsel, a subject matter expert on digital asset and emerging technology investigations, as well as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Sanjeev is a member of the DOJ’s Diversity Committee and previously served on both the NAPABA and SABA Boards of Directors. Mr. Bhasker is serving in his personal capacity.

In-House Counsel Committee

In-House Counsel Committee Co-Chair: Tracey Fung is in-house counsel at Verizon, where she is responsible for high-risk investigations, including those that involve executive misconduct, potential reputational harm to Verizon, significant internal or external fraud, and Board-reportable matters across all business lines. Prior to joining Verizon, she was an associate for nearly eight years at Williams & Connolly LLP, where she represented clients in a broad range of litigation matters. Previously, Tracey served as a law clerk for a federal judge. Tracey earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She has been involved with the APABA-DC board in various capacities and served on the Board of Directors for the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF) from 2017-2019. Tracey is currently a participant in NAPABA's 2024-2025 Leadership Advancement Program (LAP) cohort. Tracey is serving in her personal capacity.

In-House Counsel Committee Co-Chair:  Kevin Gingras is Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Lockheed Martin.  He is the Corporation’s chief litigation and compliance counsel, chief privacy officer, and the general counsel for LM International.  Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Kevin served for 13 years in multiple roles as a federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice and as an official at the FBI.  Before joining DOJ, Kevin clerked for judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court.  He is a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School and Fort Lewis College. 

In-House Counsel Committee Co-Chair: Mary Kim is the General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Draper (The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.), a science and technology innovator in aerospace and defense.  Prior to becoming General Counsel of Draper, Mary was an Assistant General Counsel and Director at General Dynamics Corporation, a Fortune 100 company with operations in technologies, marine and combat systems, and aerospace and aviation. Prior to joining General Dynamics, Mary worked as an associate and then counsel at two large law firms in Washington, D.C.  She received her BA from Yale University and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the Notes Editor for the Georgetown Law Journal. Mary also serves as the In-House Counsel Committee liaison to the Practicing Attorney Resources Committee.

In-House Counsel Committee Co-Chair: Stefanie Shih is senior counsel at Google on the Regulatory Affairs team. She was formerly at Lyft, Inc. on the Regulatory Litigation team, where she advised on a variety of regulatory, policy, and litigation matters, with an emphasis on consumer protection, regulatory investigations and disputes, and discrimination and accessibility claims. Prior to going in-house, Ms. Shih served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dora L. Irizzary in the Eastern District of New York and was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School, M.Phil in Business Management from the University of Cambridge, and B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Nominations Committee Co-Chair: Erica Lai manages a full-range of high-stakes litigation matters for Northrop Grumman, including class action, complex commercial and government, employment, environmental, False Claims Act, and insurance disputes.  Erica has over a decade of private sector experience, previously working as antitrust and commercial litigation counsel at Cohen & Gresser LLP, and at Covington & Burling LLP.  Throughout her career, she has maintained an active pro bono practice, focusing on civil rights issues.  A past president for APABA-DC, she has also served on APABA-DC’s Nominations, Education, and Public Policy and Advocacy Committees, and currently serves on the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center’s (APALRC) Board of Directors. Previously, she clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. (2d Cir.)  and the Honorable Michael M. Baylson (E.D. Pa.).  Erica earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her B.A. in Public Policy Analysis from Pomona College.

Nominations Co-Chair: Jennifer Ngai Lavallee is an Assistant Director at Georgetown University Law Center's Office of Public Interest and Community Service, where she provides public interest career counseling, programming, and support to law students. She is also a facilitator for Georgetown Law's "Lawyers in Balance" Mindfulness and the Law program. Prior to joining Georgetown, Jen was a Supervising Attorney of the Consumer Law Unit at Legal Aid DC, where she provided direct representation and engaged in systemic advocacy on behalf of clients in foreclosure prevention and debt collection defense matters for more than twelve years. She was named Consumer Advocate of the Year by the National Association of Consumer Advocates in 2022. Jen worked as an associate at the law firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP before joining Legal Aid. She graduated from Penn State's Schreyer Honors College and the George Washington University Law School.

Partners & Senior Counsel Committee

Practicing Attorneys Resource Committee Co-Chair:  Lauren Azebu is a partner at Steptoe LLP and has over a decade of experience advising domestic and foreign clients on a broad spectrum of complex tax matters, including cross-border investments, business restructurings, pre-immigration and expatriation planning, digital asset issues, and information reporting and withholding obligations. Lauren is extensively involved in professional and community organizations. She is a Board Member and the former President of the DC Chapter of the Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law, as well as a founding member and former Vice-Chair of the ABA Women in Tax Forum.  At Steptoe, she is the chair of the Steptoe AAPI Lawyers Affinity Group and the former co-chair of the Women's Forum. Before joining Steptoe, Lauren worked as a tax accountant at one of the Big Four accounting firms. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.S. in Accounting and B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Partners & Senior Counsel Committee Co-Chair: James Billings-Kang is a partner at Cozen O'Connor. He handles all stages of complex civil litigation at both the state and federal levels throughout the country. His trial and appellate experience has spanned a broad spectrum of legal issues: health care, products liability, real estate, contract disputes, franchise, trade secrets and noncompete, securities, consumer finance, statutory rights, torts, and digital ledger technology. James takes great pride in his pro bono practice assisting immigrants and additionally serves the community by mentoring youth. He earned his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, in Classics and Greek from Hampden-Sydney College and then his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he served on the editorial boards of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law and the Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal. At UVA, James was also a member of UVA Law’s Center for the Study of Race and Law.

Partners & Senior Counsel Committee Co-Chair: Tony Chan is a partner in the M&A group at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP where he advises clients in the life science, healthcare, investment management and technology sectors on public and private company mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, growth equity and complex international and cross-border transactions, as well as on corporate governance and corporate finance. Tony serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School where he has taught Takeovers, Mergers and Acquisitions since 2015. He is also involved in the community, serving on the board of the Arlington Arts Center and as vice-president of the Harvard Law School Association of DC. Tony earned his JD from Harvard Law School and his BA in English from Tulane University.

Partners & Senior Counsel Committee Co-Chair: Lloyd Liu is a partner with Bennett LoCicero & Liu LLP, a litigation boutique in DC. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, government investigations, and complex civil litigation. Lloyd received his J.D. from Georgetown Law and his B.A. from Boston College. Aside from serving on the Education Committee, he also has served on APABA-DC’s Community Affairs Committee. In addition to APABA-DC, Lloyd serves on the Board of the William B. Bryant Inn of Court.  He is also an adjunct professor at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law where he teaches white collar crime.

Partners & Senior Counsel Committee Co-Chair:  Clinton Yuis a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. His practice focuses on international trade matters, including customs and import regulations, export controls (ITAR/EAR) and economic sanctions (OFAC), national security (CFIUS), and trade remedies. Clinton earned his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Clinton also serves as the Partners & Senior Counsel Committee liaison to the Practicing Attorney Resources Committee.

Practicing Attorneys Resource Committee Co-Chair: JiaZhen (Ivon) Guo is an associate at Morgan Lewis in its Telecommunication, Media and Technology group. Ivon frequently advises US and international technology companies  on a broad array of products encompassing diverse technologies, including computer software, electronics, integrated circuit, telecommunications, wireless communications, and semiconductor manufacturing. with regulatory matters before the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, state public utility commissions, among many other government agencies.  Additionally, Ivon has experience in all phases of patent litigation. Ivon has a M.S. in Computer Science from the George Washington University and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.

Practicing Attorneys Resource Committee Co-Chair: Deborah Wei is a senior associate in the international trade practice at Hogan Lovells. She helps clients comply with international trade laws, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the sanctions regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Deborah works with clients across various industries, with a special focus on the technology and telecommunications, management consulting, travel, and healthcare sectors. She regularly assists clients with submission of licensing, registration, and export classification filings to government agencies and has counseled clients on matters involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, anti-boycott, anti-money laundering, and immigration. Deborah is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Duke University.

Women's Forum

Women's Forum Co-Chair: Jasmine Lee is an attorney at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the Division of Market Oversight, which oversees markets that list and trade derivatives products and commodities.  As a specialist in markets, financial companies, energy, and regulation, she also formerly worked at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, in both the Market Regulation and Fraud Detection & Market Intelligence Departments, where she worked on matters involving potential stock market manipulation, insider trading, options trading and structured products, and public offerings made under the Federal Securities Laws.  She is also a member of the Women’s Bar Association of DC and Women In Derivatives.  Jasmine holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, JD from CUA Law, and a LL.M from the Georgetown University Law Center, in Securities and Financial Regulation. She is serving in her personal capacity.

Women's Forum Co-Chair: FeiFei (Andrea) Ren is Counsel at Miller & Chevalier and focuses her practice on government enforcement actions, internal investigations, white collar defense, economic sanctions and export controls, and international corporate compliance for a wide range of domestic and international clients.  Ms. Ren regularly conducts anti-corruption and anti-money laundering investigations, risk assessments, and due diligence in countries throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for multinational clients across different industries.  As a Mandarin speaker, Ms. Ren regularly advises on legal matters in both English and Chinese.

Working Parents Forum

Working Parents Forum Co-Chair: Mark Villapando is a government contracts associate at King & Spalding’s Special Matters and Government Investigations group.  He represents a broad range of government contractors particularly those in the defense, consulting, and information technology space.  Mark counsels contractors on a broad range of investigations and supports transactional matters, such as mergers and acquisitions involving government contractors.  Prior to his current role, Mark was a government contracts attorney in the Office of General Counsel at the Department of Veterans Affairs where he counseled contracting officers with solicitation and pre-award reviews as well as assisted with bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and defended claims before the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals.  Mark earned his J.D. from William & Mary School of Law.  He received his B.A. with a double major in Biology and Economics from University of Virginia. 

Working Parents Forum Co-Chair: Jessica Lee Young is an Associate General Counsel at Capgemini, a global leading partner in business transformation and technology. Jessica advises on immigration and compliance for Capgemini in the U.S. and Canada, including government audits, mergers & acquisitions, corporate compliance programs and immigration benefits policies. She has been a speaker for the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) at the national and local levels. Jessica is the immediate past Chair of AILA’s In-House Counsel group and is currently Co-Lead of ACC National Capital Region's Diversity Equity & Inclusion Advocates & Allies Sub-committee and Co-Lead of the ACC NCR AAPI Affinity Group.

Special Advisor for Leadership Deelopment: Cathryn Le Regulski is a partner with Sidley Austin LLP in their Labor, Employment, and Immigration practice group. She serves as a strategic advisor and counsel to publicly held and private companies on a wide array of employment law matters. She has significant experience with private equity and venture capital firms, emerging and venture capital-backed companies, global enterprises, and companies at various stages of their growth in a variety of sectors and industries. Cathryn’s practice has a particular emphasis on handling complex employee issues resulting from M&A (both buy-side and sell-side), financings, spinoffs and divestitures, and public offerings. In addition to providing strategic and corporate counseling, Cathryn’s practice encompasses executive transitions, investigations and training, compensation matters, workplace culture and policies, personnel management, strategic restructuring and reorganizations, and restrictive covenants.

Special Advisor for Partnerships Outreach: Suzy Takata is a Managing Director of Business Development in Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment of FTI Consulting. She specializes in client engagement, experience, operations and connecting prospective clients with appropriate FTI consulting resources. She brings more than 15 years of client engagement and business development expertise to her engagements with law firms and corporations to provide legal support services for regulatory and/or internal investigations, due diligence and complex litigation matters, as well as proactive business enhancement efforts. Suzy’s clients include AmLaw 250 law firms and Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries including but not limited to financial services, private equity, cannabis, telecommunications, energy, and consumer technologies. Suzy earned her law degree from Washington & Lee University and her undergraduate degree from The George Washington University.

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